Essays

Dystopia. The idea is explored in a now, quite saturated, genre of novels, many of which predict propaganda integrated into daily life, “controlling” the minds of the masses. 1984 is no longer the future, and neither is the twenty-first century. Many would believe that we still have yet to live in such conditions, but the … Read more

McCulture has extended and has changed many traditions and cultures around the world. McCulture is a form of globalization that has entered societies life. Foreigners believe that McCulture is an American formed tradition; therefore, it should remain in America. Many Countries embrace their unique cultures and show disturbance when McGlobalization interferes, Tyler Cowen argues, “nothing … Read more

Long Term Lessons Crack! “Owww! “, I screamed. My mom, no stranger to my clumsy habits, started frantically asking questions. “Are you okay? What happened? “. Then, she started worrying, I had broken my right elbow in the past and it took a toll on my parents, so they did not want to go through … Read more

Humans seem to be an entity made up by a combination of both physical properties and mental properties. Folk psychology of soul proposed by Bering (2006) suggested “common-sense mind-body dualism” is a cognitive adaptation that evolved through natural selection. According to this quote, it is believed that individual is fundamentally constituted of body, mind and … Read more

China colonized Vietnam around 200 BCE. Vietnam the gained its independence in 950 CE and remained independent until Vietnam the French began colonization in 1874. The French were eager to claim the area formally due to Britain’s rapid colonization of the Asia. The area became known as French Indochina. The main commodity or benefit the … Read more

Within the last several years, security checks, especially in the United States, have become more advanced along with rules and regulations of security being enforced. This is due to the increasing amount of threats, attacks, and use of illegal substances or items throughout the world. Authorities have increased security in the school system, national borders, … Read more

_”There’s a lot of that going around, Sarah. If you’re down to arguing about capitalization, you’re down to your ride. ”_ Tam pleased to hear that, I do hope I have contributed to some of that, oh and don’t try to make out its simply nothing more than forgetting to press the shift key, it’s … Read more

Advertisements have set a bar to how the male body should look. In today’s culture, the male body is defined as fit, tone, and lean in order to gather peoples attention, which is most often seen in advertisements making people change their lifestyle to be part of their culture. The description mentioned above will keep … Read more

The Progressive Era was one of the most important years in United States History because of the amount of reforms passed. Muckrakers exposed the corruption and the conditions consumer goods were produced, also since the working Working Class and the Rich Class were drifting away in the standard of living, it was clearly noticeable that … Read more

Across the globe, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is becoming a phenomenon that teenage girls enjoy immensely. The contemporary young-adult novel is about two teenagers who have cancer and fall deeply in love. Fighting their battles, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters share their interests and go through heartbreak, love, and explore … Read more

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is known as one of the best novels of the 20th century. This world renown book follows the of a tale of adversity an abnormal friendship endures which, includes, the small, quick witted man affiliated with the name George Milton and the simple minded naive lunk known as … Read more

“All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is making the connections.” Three connections I made while reading Fredrick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write,” text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text, helped me understand the main idea, which is learning to read and write was key in Douglass’s journey to freedom. One connection, I read, … Read more

The soccer goalkeeper is one of the most forgotten and unappreciated positions in the sport. The majority of people are afraid to play it or watch their kids play it; the few who do decide it is their spot, are marked off and placed in the goal. With youth players, it is usually the one … Read more

Impressed by Emily Dickinson’s erudite and complex manner of writing, T. W. Higginson suggested his scholar leave her father’s home to reach out and interact with others; her ruminations seemed to him to be worthy of great discussion. Because Dickinson shot out astounding “thoughts of such a quality” in her letters and poems, Higginson could … Read more

Everyone lost their minds when they thought all the computers would crash in 2000 because of the “turn of the century” or whatever. It is probable that a lot of people do not know why everyone thought everything would crash simply because of the transition from the year 1999 to 2000, but they did. It … Read more

How possible is it that a fourteen-year old will act out violence against someone because of a game the kid played? Is there a possibility that someone will cause harm to others when they murder fake characters in a fake reality? If someone kills twohundred thirty one zombies on Call of Duty, will they go … Read more

The evolution of Russian Ballet Marilyn Monroe once said, “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world” and I believe she was right and referring to ballet slippers when she said this. The Russian Ballet has been around for ages now and it has had quite a delightful evolution within. Ballet … Read more

Tam hardworking, have good sense of humour, excellent computer skills, mathematical skills, great verbal and non-verbal skills, conscientious, patient, trustworthy, dependable, reliable, committed, has the fear of God, empathetic, caring, a determined person who get things done when needed, helpful, an excellent motivator, a teacher and the best mother in the whole wide world says, … Read more

John Bowlby was a mid-twentieth-century English psychologist who was known all over the world for putting a scientific label to motherly love and its importance to a child. He called his evidences Attachment Theory. Bowlby’s thesis was that the success of all relationships in life is dependent on the success of the first one, specifically … Read more

Courage in Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl: Fall to Rise Ambrose Redmoon once said, ” Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear”. In Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel, The Windup Girl, this particular quote is pertinent as the symbols, conflicts, and characters in the novel indicate … Read more

Gender is the basis for defining norms within men and women. Society expects each sex to follow their respective stereotypes. However, when these gender expectations are unsatisfactory, people face shame and rejection for deviating from the norm. This becomes further apparent in literature, where the authors use their platform to introduce abnormal versions of gender, … Read more

This pedagogical model comparison project will center round elementary literacy, which includes pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Pedagogy, as defined by Watson and Wildy (2014), is the “set of instructional techniques and strategies which enable learning to take place and provide opportunities for the acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and dispositions” (p. 83). It is important … Read more

Tam analyzing the musical Legally Blonde that has music and lyrics written by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin, and Heather Hach who wrote the libretto. The musical is based on the novel Legally Blonde written by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film version of the same name that tells a story of a UCLA sorority girl … Read more

Ancient Egypt was a society that thrived for many years. This civilization ended up devolping techniques that would be passed down many generations and even be used today. In the book, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries, Kenneth Feder states, “Technological skills that should have taken hundreds or even thousands of years to evolve were brought into … Read more

Night by Elie Wiesel provided the world with a deep and painful insight to the horrors within the German lines. Throughout the novel, many lines tugged at the heart strings of audience members because they depicted true thoughts of Jewish captives during this time period. Though most of the novel described life in concentration camps, … Read more

In the fourteen century, men were always the superior, head of the household, the breadwinner, but women were always inferior, they would stay at home, do the house work, cook, and never would have a job. Well, times have changed. Women are reaching an equal status to men in political, social and economic matters, it’s … Read more

Reflecting back on the two main books we have read, Aya and Wild Swans, a connection can be main between the main characters of these stories. Aya, De-Hong, and Jung have very similar character traits even though they are from different times and cultures. A parallel seen between these characters is their independence, studious nature, … Read more

How Languages Shape Lives Learning new languages may shape our ways of talking and thinking. Also every language to another has many different ways in how we communicate with other people who speak the language we have learned. In “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?” Lera Boroditsky explains how a new language … Read more

Malala is a young lady who became known to the world after the Taliban shot her in her head for speaking out. She is a girl who decided to make a difference in her country and as a result made a difference in the world. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “We must become the … Read more

Fascism is defined as “A political ideology that asserts the superiority and inferiority of different groups of people and stresses a low degree of both freedom and equality in order to achieve a powerful state (O’Neil A-17). ” The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns takes place in Afghanistan at a time in its history where … Read more

Introduction: What is a learning journal? A learning journal is a narrow-scope of information focusing on the creating of a compilation of my notes from both my lectures and tutorials, detailing certain aspects of topics that have been interesting to me. The learning journal will help me further understand what I’ve learned in the term … Read more

The dictator Napoleon in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell resembles the current Sudanese Dictator Omar al-Bashir. Napoleon is a pig on Animal Farm who, from the time Mr. Jones was kicked out of the farm, assumed power and took as much control as he could over the farm. Omar al-Bashir has been president … Read more