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In the United States, there are many unjust laws that lead to social inequality. In today's world, wage inequality has grown over the past 30 years, which creates many problems for people. Currently, minimum wage workers don’t make enough money to sustain a comfortable life. In the article ‘Serving in Florida’, the author Barbara Ehrenreich decided to do a research...
Critical ReflectionLiterature ReviewMinimum Wage
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The argument about the existence of a sexual double standard among adolescent teens, both sexually permissive and not, is a widely studied topic in psychology. First, on the side supporting the existence of a double standard, their study used both ethnographic research and survey methods. Using a sample group of teens across the nation, they measured sexual behavior and its...
AdolescenceCritical ReflectionHuman Behavior
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The Personal and Professional Skills module is based on skills we have already learned and ones that we can develop in the future. The module has encouraged me to explore and reflect on my own skills and attributes and understand the skills and attributes needed to work in early years setting. There are many aspects of learning that I have...
Critical ReflectionGrowth MindsetSkills
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J.D. Vance was born in Jackson, KY, the county seat of Breathitt County. His family had to make the choice of whether to stay in the hills and try to make a living or to move north to find work. Vance’s mother, Bev, was in and out of many relationships, and marriages which all crumbled due to her personal instability....
Book ReviewCritical Reflection
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When it comes to comparing and contrasting the Greek and Christian views of the artist, it is understood that they are on different sides of the spectrum. Although there are some similarities between the two, Greek art holds a humanistic view while art from a Christian standpoint showcases man’s expression of God’s beauty. Biblical scripture clearly states the responsibility of...
AestheticCritical ReflectionGreece
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For this assignment, there are three articles that need to be reviewed no matter what field it is. So, the first article that I chose is Effectiveness of Google Classroom as a Digital Tool in Teaching and Learning: Students’ Perceptions. This article is written by Iliyasu Hussaini, Sawida Ibrahim, Bashir Wali, Ibrahim Libata, and Usman Musa who are from the...
Critical ReflectionCritical Thinking
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In the previous eras of football, talent, and physicality were the only criteria used to rate a player. But in this current football era, to be an outstanding footballer one requires more than just talent and physicality to flourish. For a footballer to be outstanding in this football era, he or she is required to be good on and off...
Critical ReflectionFamous Person
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The story enacts the theme of bondage and freedom at its best. Physical bondage is represented through Philip's club foot, economic bondage through his dependence on his uncle, and religious bondage is presented through religious restrictions and compulsions at the vicarage and in the church at Blackstable. Philip's love affair with Mildred represents the bondage of sexual passion. Philip has...
Critical ReflectionFreedomLiterary Criticism
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“Is the manufacture of products that contain micro-beads ethical?” My understanding of ethics after going through my lecture notes and the lecture slides, is that ethics is what’s good for businesses, individuals, society, and the environment. Based on this understanding as well as my own beliefs of pollution, I believe that the production of products that contain microbeads is not...
Critical ReflectionPollution
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The impulse towards realism is generally seen as a dominant feature of Victorian fiction as it was a movement that deviated from idealistic romantic fiction and portrayed real-life events and situations accurately. In this essay, I will analyze how realism is a dominant feature to a certain extent in Charles Dicken's “Great Expectations” and compare it to the minor realism...
Critical ReflectionRealism
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Before this class, my personal views of literature consisted of my entire school life. Growing up and having the privilege of being able to attend school to obtain an education, I was introduced to the different types of literature at a young age. However, I was not able to fully appreciate it, seeing as how I did not have the...
Critical ReflectionShort Story
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In the film Into The Wild, Sean Penn alters a variety of aspects originally found in the book which removes emphasis on Chris, but at the same time, preserves the crucial components of the story, making the movie seem less biased, and straightforward. Throughout the book, Krakauer mentions and thoroughly describes stories of other individuals which he ultimately uses to...
Critical ReflectionInto The WildRomanticism
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This fall, I am taking English 200. An assignment for a portion of the class grade is to go see a theatre performance in Bowling Green. I chose to see “Medea” by Euripides. Medea was written in 431 BC. The version of Medea that I saw was translated by Carol Jordan. I saw the performance on Thursday, November 7, 2019,...
Critical ReflectionLiterary CriticismMedea
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Violence changes your social power in society. Once Coretta Scott King said that ‘Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear, and violence.’ It wrecks and shortens lives, causes suffering and pain, and it’s often part of rapid social change. Some people use violence for revenge, and some (as a way to release their pain) achieve what they...
Critical ReflectionCritical ThinkingMovie Analysis
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After watching the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” directed by Jon M. Chu, it changed what I thought about my social identity. The movie is about the story of Nick, a guy from a wealthy Singapore family, and his girlfriend, Rachel who is an American-born Chinese and has never been to Asia. They travel to Singapore for the wedding of his...
Asian American CultureChineseCritical Reflection
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In ‘The Things They Carried’, Tim O’Brien underlines the devastating effects of war and the lasting damage of death that a soldier may witness or experience. O’Brien employs a fragmentary and metafictional form of storytelling to highlight the theme of death and morality and explore the different perceptions of the actions of the war. O’Brien informs us that war isn’t...
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An impressive, moving, and breathtaking film is a sophisticated but largely sinusistic philosophy that is not covered by unfair belief, grumpiness, or cynicism. In Godard's ongoing editing system, a series of fictional films based on the cause-effect relationship of the psychologically consistent characters of the film never ceased to be directed, but that doesn't mean that Godard established these contracts...
Critical ReflectionFilm AnalysisMovie Review
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The author Sayles who directed the film Lone Star is a movie based in Texas that touches on aspects in critical areas such as the history and boundaries of the borders between Mexico and Texas. In the 1800’s Texas fought Mexico to gain independence which is how the name Lone Star came about. Sayles tells a story that unfolds the...
Critical ReflectionFilm AnalysisMovie Review
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Living in a world where the battle for supremacy has been a pressing matter for centuries, with the constant change in the world's economy as well as changes within individual nations' governments except a very few, there is bound to be some debate as what is considered to be right and what is considered to be wrong form of government....
Critical ReflectionFilm AnalysisMovie Review
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The chosen extract is taken from Barry Jenkin’s second feature film Moonlight, which he directed and co-wrote. The film follows the life and struggles of Chiron, a young and poor black boy, growing up and coming to terms with his sexuality, a life not often portrayed in commercial films. This analysis focuses on the economic and social context of the...
Critical ReflectionFilm AnalysisMovie Review
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The Revenant is directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. It is the true story of a fur trapper named Hugh Glass played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who in the 1820s is left for dead in the wilderness and sets out on a path of revenge to find those responsible for leaving him in that position. I'm just going to say this right...
Critical ReflectionFilm AnalysisMovie Review
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Technology is changing the way we work, and even the work we do. Adaptability has always been a key ingredient to workplace success and even more so with increased automation, AI, and globalization. Companies that focus on growing and evolving will always have an edge in this competitive environment. Remember the days when you wind up the dial on a...
Critical ReflectionGrowth MindsetMind
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Andy Lee’s “Life of Pi”, is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and animated magic realism. Inspired by Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, it is a visual masterpiece that encapsulates the human ability to overcome hardship through faith and resilience. Audiences feel like active participants in the plot through powerful cinematic techniques and rich motifs. Life of Pi is a story about...
Critical ReflectionLife of PiLiterary Criticism
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“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.” (Augusto Boa, 1992). The Greek Theater is a theatrical tradition that flourished in ancient Greece between the years 600 and 200 B.C. The idea of acting and singing on a...
ChristmasCritical ReflectionMovie Analysis
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Most critical incidents in the classroom (Tripp, 1993) are not at all striking or tragic but are very much ordinary and prevalent events that occur frequently in the practice of teaching. What makes them 'critical' is the fact that they have prompted us to think and reflect at that given moment. In the context of teacher education, 'critical incident analysis'...
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The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman, shows different ethnicities and nationalities utilizing animals as allegorical symbols or categories. The creatures in Maus are useful for two main purposes for us as readers: showing us the racist themes in the book in a humorous way and still maintaining the seriousness that it deserves. The frog is extremely symbolic of France and...
AnimalsCritical ReflectionMaus
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The other major factor in this story is when the prisoner is released from the shackles and can venture out. The prisoners are “set free from their chains and cured of their lack of insight” (Plato). This line also entails that releasing the prisoner is like a teacher teaching. They must push a vast amount of information out, for the...
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A common tactic that authors use in their novels, plays, and short stories is the use of contrast. More specifically, authors often use contrasting settings in their works that represent different ideas or different types of people to contribute to the overall meaning of their work. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is no different. The main story of Brave New...
Brave New WorldCharacterCritical Reflection
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The first reason is because when Mary arrived she was clueless as to what she was gonna find in Vietnam. She was a reminder, for the soldiers, of the comfort back home and the innocence they too had before the war. War can cause anyone to lose themselves and who they were because they are losing their innocence. For example,...
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In Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley’s use of character descriptions and dialogue emphasizes his foiling of Lenina to Linda. He does this foiling not only to show differences between the characters but also to give insight into the society outside of New London. Other than coming from the same society, Linda and Lenina also correspond in their similar ways...
Brave New WorldCharacterCritical Reflection
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