In his article âThe Optimal Time to Dunk an Oreo, According to Scienceââ, Lucas Reilly brings us a roundup of scientific research of just how long our cookie/biscuit should remain in the milk, including an actual physics equation and a university-approved chart. This piece of writing explores Washburn’s/Fisher’s equation, how the equation works, and how it benefits us as readers. For most readers, they may think the writer’s purpose is to entertain us because of the purpose of the equation....
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Traumatic experiences are a terrible thing for anyone experience. But they do happen to people. When these events transpire, it is possible that the victim of the incident will start showing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The DSM-5 lets us know that some of the people who are most likely to be affected by PTSD are the âsurvivors of rape, military combat and captivity, and ethnically or politically motivated internment and genocideâ (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). We hope that...
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Benjamin Constant was a Swiss-French philosopher, one of the firsts to be called a liberal. This essay concerns with Constantâs classical text âThe Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Modernsâ, which he had addressed to the Athenee Royal de Paris in 1819. This essay-lecture, written in the wake of the French revolution, presents in an argumentative and a suggestive tone, comparison between the two kinds of liberties – one which was practiced by the ancients and the other which...
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This article essay reviews âWhen Markers Meet Marketing: Ethnicity, Race, Hybridity, and Kinship in Genetic Genealogy Television Advertisingâ (Scodari, December 2017). This review includes a summary, discussion, and critique about the article mentioned. It includes many topics including DNA analysis and its relationship with ethnicity, race, hybridity, and many more. This review manages to discuss each point and topic in fine detail and connect them all to each together, like pieces of a puzzle. Even though there might be questions...
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Linda Rodriguez McRobbie address in her article âShould We Stop Keeping Pets? Why More and More’s Ethicists Say Yesâ, right of animalâs self-determination. Dr. Hal Herzog, cited by McRobbie, claimed we give our pets the characteristics of a family but restrain them with our choices. McRobbie argues that keeping pets is unethical and people are taking away their freedom. Even though she also suggests how dog and cats are euthanized every year and leaving them alone is as good as...
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Chapter 3 of âAn American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tearsâ had many main thesis and ideas the author was trying to portray. One of them is who were really the real savages. In one part of the book, it mentions how there was 4 intoxicated Native Americans. They were all taken to the county jail. There was one, which was the most inebriate. He was brutally beaten with guns all over his body. As described by the...
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In âThe Caucasian Chalk Circleâ Brecht undertakes a redefinition of motherhood. The true mother is no longer she who has borne the child, but she who is most useful to it: âWhat there is shall go to those who are good for it, / Children to the motherly, that they prosperâ. Brechtâs notes to the play, which speak of âmotherly instinctsâ, show even more clearly the ânaturalâ alliance he believed existed between women and motherliness, which may, however, be thwarted...
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The story âThe Swimmerâ by John Cheever is described as the swimming journey of Neddy in the neighborhood, as an active and optimistic father and husband. âIt was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, âI drank too much last nightââ. Despite joining a cocktail party, he agreed that he would swim his way home through different swimming pools. Throughout his journey, it changes him from a young man to an aged, poor man whose life is...
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Composed as a literary novel that narrates through a legend of redemption and inscribed in the context of Ancient Troy is âRansomâ by David Malouf, which unravels how changes come to the reception of individuals in worlds. Such can also be said of the film âInvictusâ, the two texts applaud the power of a changed perception as well as its impact on an individual, an institution, and a country. In addition, Malouf and Eastwoodâs intention also coincides with the fact...
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Many characters in the historical fiction âRansomâ by David Malouf and the 2009 film âInvictusâ directed by Clint Eastwood portray forgiveness and reconciliation through their actions and attitude. âInvictusâ highlights the determination of wanting to unite a ârainbow nationâ whereas, âRansomâ shows how the act of reconciliation unites two long-time enemies. Through these acts of reconciliation both writer and director demonstrate the impact of forgiveness in bringing people closer together. Additionally, both texts illustrate the impact division has on an...
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Human experiences can be fraught with danger and trauma, however, can still lead to self-growth and understanding. Human experiences are deeply embedded throughout texts to display and to emphasize how characters interact with each other. In âThe Boy in the Striped Pajamasâ, the director describes the three human experiences shown in the three characters: Bruno, Shmuel and Brunoâs father. The director challenges world views by incorporating the following human experiences in the characters and how characters interact with each other....
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The main character of the short story ‘The Sniper’ was calm and brave, he stayed really calm when he was hiding on the roof, and he was brave, because when his arm was hit by the bullet, he tried to overcome his pain, and he wrapped the wound himself. He is smart and resourceful, he tricked another sniper which was from the enemy side, and he killed him successfully. He was also petty because the dead sniper he killed was...
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Kwame Nkrumah in his essay âNeo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialismâ unleashes two different dimensions where in theory a neo-colonial state seems independent and sovereign but in reality, that stateâs economic system, political policy, cultural practices are influenced/controlled by external powers. In the documentary âLife and Debtâ, directed by Stephanie Black, the director has carefully presented how external power such as the IMF entered Jamaica to save its economy from the financial crisis, but in reality, it was just exploitation...
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The article I chose to write about is a brief insight to how âgoodâ differentiates from âevilâ. âDifference Between Good and Evilâ was written by Manisha Kumar. She starts the article by explaining it from philosophersâ point of view which to sum up is that good cannot exist without bad and the same is true for the other way round. She then continues by shifting to show society perceives the difference. According to Manisha (2009), from a societyâs point of...
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The main arguments of John Mearsheimer relied on the development, nature and fate of liberal hegemonic order. He is a well-known âoffensive realistâ and his central argument relied mainly on the long-standing intention of creating the world in the American image through liberal thoughts and institutional arrangements. The concept of liberal democracy started with two fundamental assumptions about human nature, care about the social nature of individuality. It stands with the solution of individual rights, norms of tolerance and having...
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In recent years, open-plan offices have been the subject of considerable controversy. This journal argues that the benefits of open-plan offices which can be defined as the interior office space without the partition of wall or door are less than the disadvantages of it and the main reason for the dissatisfaction with the open-plan offices is the lack of privacy (especially in acoustics). The purpose of this journal is to evaluate the impact of conflict between advantages and disadvantages of...
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This article is about the impact of TV violence on children and adolescents by Barbara Frazier. The first section of this article informs about how TV violence can influence and change childrenâs values, behaviors, attitudes, and ways of thinking. Barbara Frazier wrote about how the regular offering of TV in todayâs media is characterized by a lot of violence. Many of the most popular TV shows show scenes with murders, fights, around the world wars, kidnappings, traffic accidents, wrestling, and...
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This critical review will be analyzing the article âThe Self in a Consumer Societyâ by Zygmunt Bauman (1999). The article is concerned with consumer culture, the economic differences it produces in a postmodern era, and the confines it creates primarily for the working class. To review the article, I aim to summarize and review these points through evaluations and judgements. I chose this article as I believe it is relevant in our current environment as we are constantly consuming not...
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Difficulty pertaining to the acceptance of cultural differences is a prevalent motif throughout âPoisonwood Bible,â and is an idea that Kingsolver routinely reinforces through the implementation of allusion. The Price family, though having left Georgia to complete a religious mission in the Congo, attempted to maintain the cultural practices of a modern society, which eventually proved to be unsuccessful. While attempting to plant a garden upon his arrival in Kalinga, Nathan proceeded in using Western planting techniques, despite having been...
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Proclivity for violent outbursts. The proud and inflexible Coriolanus cries out in a key scene in the play, surrounded by his enemies, I banish you There is a world elsewhere (act 3, scene 3). But there can be no other world for a Roman-like Coriolanus, who was raised on the ideal of serving the commonwealth and striking blows ‘for Rome’: he brings Rome with him everywhere he goes. They see him as implacable, a machine bent on destruction when his...
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âLife of Piâ and âFrankensteinâ are disclosures that perfectly challenge the boundary of ethics thus morality is a vital theme in both the novel and movie as both contexts have parallel implications primarily through Pi and Frankensteinâs peril. Mary Shelley reverses the role of man and monster whereas Ang Lee blurs the line of morality by presenting two stories, one which reveals the extreme cruelty of mankind and one which offers Pi as a resilient hero. Following the storm, Pi...
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Hamlet includes many references to performances of all kinds â both theatrical performances and the way people perform in daily life. In his first appearance, Hamlet draws a distinction between outward behaviorâ âactions that a man might playââ and real feelings: âthat within which passeth showâ (I.ii.). However, the more time we spend with Hamlet the harder it becomes to tell what he is really feeling and what he is performing. He announces in Act One scene five that he...
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The environment of an individualâs identity shapes the communityâs identity due to isolation. When coming together everyone has so much to express and share as everyone has missed out on so much due to being Australian bush men or women. âOur Pipesâ and âThe Droverâs Wifeâ explore the culture, identity, and language on both an individual and community aspect. The individual identity explored by Lawson through both texts is the characters and in which they affirm, ignore, challenge, reveal or...
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Guy de Maupassant wrote his story âThe Jewelryâ in 1887. This discusses the social aspect of the society. It explains how people find happiness and love in different situations of life, along with different roles played by the society. The story is simple and has more societal message. The psychological character is also here in the story it is a realistic story. The reality of Lantin’s wife is not well understandable in this, just because as the Lantin and her...
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âThe Moment Before the Gun Went Offâ is a story written by Nadine Gordimer. It is a narrative of a white farmer named Marais Van der Vyver, whose gun accidentally shoots and kills his young black man farmer, Lucas. The story’s plot is strongly influenced by the apartheid policy, the segregation of whites and non-whites and the white supremacy for 50 years in South Africa. The story is about how people perceive the issue regarding the death of a young...
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By simply reading the titles of Mary Oliverâs poems you can see how she connects with nature, not only nature its self but with the characteristics of nature such as animals and seasons. Mary Oliverâs poems are titled after an animal with a characteristic of nature for instance âTurtleâ, âBlack Snakeâ, âThe Snow Cricketâ and so on. Her main focus is nature and everything involved with nature. She portrays natureâs characteristics with personification, metaphors, similes, and symbols to describe the...
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In a general sense, women are supposed to share the same rights as men; however, throughout the centuries, women have suffered under menâs control. Men have been viewing women as their personal property in varying degrees, using their power to create a pattern that shapes womenââs characters in our society and to create rules for women to follow. Under such a societal structure, there is a dominant power in the male social class that has caused womenâs rights to be...
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Have you ever had an impression of an individual to have it then proven wrong? In the short story, âThe Tell-Tale Heartâ, by Edgar Allan Poe, we respond to the narrative of the protagonist with a variety of emotions. As he begins his narrative, we feel alienated from him because we cannot identify with him or his concerns. As the story develops and we understand his predicament more we begin to sympathize with him because we realize he is ill....
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Despite the fact that The Stranger is an anecdotal work, it contains a solid reverberation of the philosophical idea of silliness of Camus. In his compositions, Camus contends that there is no coherent reason or request in singular lives and human presence specifically. Also, on the grounds that it is hard for individuals to grasp this idea, they are constantly attempting to distinguish and build a sensible structure or importance in their lives. The expression ‘craziness’ depicts the worthless endeavor...
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Brought forth for one reason and one reason just, to secure both home and mother, regardless of whether it implies your life is lost all the while. This is a honey bee’s world; serious, organized, and perhaps a bit of discouraging. Honey bees are utilized all through Sue Monk Kidd’s tale ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ as imagery for how Lily associates with society, her family/companions, and herself. As Lily, the storyteller/hero develops and develops into a lady, there are...
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