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Both Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens and Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill use various techniques in their texts to explore the existential experience of individuals. Kew Gardens is centered around a series of small but significant moments in the magnificent botanical London garden called Kew Gardens. Woolf explores the themes of passion, desire, love, and regret by introducing the reader to four...
CharacterCritical ReflectionLoneliness
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The true story of an unwanted daughter Chinese Cinderella is the personal novel of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline Yen Mah’s life was full of family rejection, poor relationships, abandonment, loneliness, low self-esteem, no identity, sorrow, disappointment, and resilience. The hopeless diary of Adeline Yen Mah's childhood encountering youth and entering her fight for affirmation from the time she was bound...
ChineseCinderellaCritical Reflection
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The document under study is an excerpt from Brave New World, a book penned by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. It is a portentous novel that foresees the future. My essay will fall into two parts. I will first focus on the themes present in the excerpt. I will then show how technology illustrates these themes. First of all,...
Brave New WorldConsumerismCritical Reflection
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I am comparing the works of Frida Kahlo and Ben Quilty to my pieces when investigating how their culture influences their artworks. How does their cultural background, whether the culture of their country or their people, affect the art that is produced and how people view that art from their point of view and reference? My art piece draws from...
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My biography and critical reflection indicated a personal experience of discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization as a queer person of color in a gay dating mobile application called Grindr. Particularly, I was faced with the issue of toxic gay masculinity and subordination at the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. This experience of ‘othering’ reflects the dominant gendered stereotypes and...
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“Look inside yourself! You are more than what you have become. Remember who you are!” - Moana Amid the cacophony of orders and opinions - “Stay on the island”; your dream “is just not meant to be”; “I’m not killing myself so you can prove you’re something you're not” - Moana overcomes fear and doubt, she stays true to herself...
Critical ReflectionDisneyPersonality
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As a student, I have read lots of stories and articles about the use of illegal drugs and drug addiction. I, too, have seen and heard various news about this topic on national television. But I would say that the video presentations I’ve just watched are collectively comprehensive and all-inclusive. The presentation has a strong and clear message to everyone....
Critical ReflectionDrug AddictionDrugs
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Good morning, senior students and teachers, I hope you are all doing well today. It is a pleasure to be educating you today about how literature is a vital tool for social critique and transformation. I would love to be here with you all day discussing how many different themes Huxley has decided to put into his novel Brave New...
Brave New WorldCritical ReflectionEugenics
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Aldous Huxley uses perversion in his book Brave New World to successfully admonish present society about its growing interest in technology and stability. The setting takes place in a futuristic society, The World State, that worships Henry Ford because of the assembly line. Mustapha Mond is the controller who executes all rules and regulations for the people. He creates a...
Brave New WorldCritical ReflectionHenry Ford
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In his book, on becoming human, Vanier mentions the concept of loneliness. He went to different communities and various psychiatric hospitals to look at different cases that would help him understand the true meaning of loneliness. One of these cases is of a child named Eric. Vanier met him in a mental hospital, which was about forty kilometers away from...
Critical ReflectionHospitalLoneliness
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Introduction Leadership is the ability of a personal or a gaggle of people to effect and lead supporters or alternative members of a corporation. Leaders are needed in most areas, such as business, politics, regions, and community organizations. This report will talk about my best leadership experience, an inspirational leader for me, two group activities this semester, values, beliefs, and...
Critical ReflectionLeadershipPersonal Experience
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For my essay, I'm going to focus on comparing both of the villains from, The Dark Knight (2008) and The Shining (1980). Both villains are driven crazy by the events of the film but the ways they both handle it create compelling characters. The performance from Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson builds the character and pushes the narrative forward and...
Critical ReflectionFilm AnalysisMovie Review
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Outliers Reflection Paper “…Outlier organizations are outliers precisely because they are unique and different.” (p. 5) In the first chapter, the authors elaborate on how the Boilerplate strategy is questioned due to the obstruction of momentary competitive advantage theories. They are caused by shifts in the industry and outlier organizations. The author explains how deviant case analysis is utilized. It...
Critical ReflectionOutliers
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Human beings have throughout the years been able to produce identity and character by association and attachment, where belonging to a certain aggregate or collective gives one a sense of security that all is well and good. As social animals, we comprehend our general surroundings by taking a gander at others and emulating conduct that we esteem as the correct...
CommunityCritical ReflectionPersonal Identity
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THUG LIFE, Tupac Shakur’s famous acronym serves as inspiration for The Hate U Give. “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody,” is a statement that creates the foundation for the Black Lives Matter movement and the story of Starr Carter, a 16-year-old girl who decided to accept a ride home from a childhood friend, only to watch him shot...
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While the theme of the quest for identity is woven into the heart of both George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), it is also clear that loss and destruction have significant roles to play in the texts. The characters are hit with the loss of their homes, their identities, their relationships, and their wealth,...
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What causes isolation? While there are many reasons as to why someone would choose to isolate themselves, Into the Wild analyzes the meaning of life over the form of isolation. Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, tells the story of a boy named Chris McCandless, who runs away from home and decides to go to Alaska, but...
Critical ReflectionInto The WildNovel
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a turning multi-measurement story. It is generally a journey trail. Assuming the single instance of a Spanish shepherd kid, it extrapolates and expands upon the mind-boggling endeavors of life, decisions and outcomes, bargaining, change, predetermination, and the makings of an amazing plan of things. This book is about a youngster from Spain named Santiago,...
Critical ReflectionPerspectiveThe Alchemist
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The title of the book is, The Alchemist and it is a novel type of book. It is a fiction and it was published in the year 1992. This novel, The Alchemist was written by Paulo Coelho. “Paulo grew up with his family in the town, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His dad is an engineer and wanted Paulo to...
Critical ReflectionReading BooksThe Alchemist
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Introduction When the topic of literacy occurs, literacy is commonly associated with the learning of reading and writing. But within Early Childhood, literacy can be seen in more than just reading and writing. Early Literacy consists of children gaining knowledge about reading and writing before they achieve these milestones. Literacy can be developed in more ways than one, which could...
Child ObservationCritical ReflectionResearch
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In the beginning, when the quite famous Elsie and Donald utilized the term 'vegan' to describe the nondairy vegetarians, the lifestyle and the diet were considered to be 'uncool'. Many vegetarians also refused to associate themselves with this radical movement. The practice of veganism started a health-crazed and clubby reputation. Their diet eventually became truly admired and popular with countercultural...
Critical ReflectionVeganWorldview
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According to Kotler in 1988, advertising is one of the four major tools companies use to direct persuasive communications to target buyers. Advertising is thus used in the retail industry and has impacted this industry positively from the use of online marketing techniques to advertise such as using ‘networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)’ as it has been defined as ‘the...
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'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' is an inspirational movie based on true events. Seeing the poverty and struggles that the people from Malawi, Africa live in is very heartbreaking and humbling, but these conditions cannot hold back 14-year-old William Kamkwamba who is smart, dedicated, and driven. William fights all obstacles to educate himself and to find a way to...
Critical ReflectionMovie AnalysisMovie Review
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Several photographers have photographed home and family life. Their styles range from the cinematic, staged, conceptual views of home, like Gregory Crewdson's 'Cathedral of the Pines' (2014) and Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Brian in the Kitchen' (1988), Tina Barney's family snapshots 'Theatre of Manners' (1997), showing the life of wealthy Americans, in an intimate, informal way, through to Richard Billingham's 'Ray's a...
Critical ReflectionPerspectivePhotography
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Before this class, I believed that the 'real world' meant the real experiences that people of color face in the United States. I think the 'real world' that I see is that many Americans are fighting for freedom, racism is still going on, and inequality between genders. I also think America allows citizens to have the opportunity to find their...
Critical ReflectionKnowledgeStudy
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After completing the Wellness Inventory and going over my results for each of the seven dimensions of wellness, I was a mix of surprised and shocked. Some results I received were what I was anticipating, others not so much. As a first-year university student and a teenager, sometimes it’s difficult to keep your overall wellness in check. This semester I...
About MyselfCritical ReflectionPersonal Experience
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From a very young age, both boys and girls are taught certain mannerisms that will shape the way they approach life and interact with others. They are taught by parents, siblings, family members, friends, as well as teachers. This lends varied sources of input on what qualifies as social standards for a person in their formative years and throughout adult...
Critical ReflectionMasculinityPerspective
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Gurinder Chadha’s bold 2004 film Bride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813). The film serves as a clever, contemporary take on the classic novel. Chadha introduces the themes of cultural diversity in the romantic comedy. Kenyan-born and raised in England, Chadha aims to make non-westerners visible in the film as well as discuss...
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Introduction Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is present almost everywhere and helps us daily, for example in self-driving cars, in virtual assistants such as the well-known Siri or Google Home, or even in the film industry. However, when asking some of my close friends, family, and IB students from around the world if they trusted AI, the most common answer was...
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