Essay on Summer Holidays

Weeping that her baby is a girl, Daisy is dependent on men to make her key decisions for her (133, 151): secure in and yet remote from male ownership and ardor, "making only a polite, pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained" (12-13), she radiates a carefully girlish charm of irrationality and whimsy: "Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" (14). Woman, it appears, is presented only as romance, in the restless world of glamour where there are only the pursued and the pursuing. As…

The Corporate Veil In the Law and Order episode “The Corporate Veil” the standard of morality is cheapened by the insatiable need for easy money. Many characters throughout the episode displayed that behavior in varying degrees. In addition, we also see how laws not being in place allow such activities to go on. In the episode we meet a young boy named Roberto Martinez, who two years ago had an operation for the installation of a pacemaker. Tragically Roberto dies and the police are called…

Since the assimilation of the native American tribes into white culture, there has been many cultures that have disappeared. Some cultures have been lost forever, but fortunately there has been an awakening and a willingness to preserve certain cultures and languages. One specific example is the Chickasaw culture. One way to reclaim their history and heritage is through the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The cultural center is located on 109 acres of land and includes a museum,…

months of receipt of funds, please provide a brief written progress report in the interim. 1. What were your original goals and objectives for this project and to what extent were they achieved? The goal of the project was to hire an intern for the summer of 2016, a student with an environmental focus, to assist with monitoring conservation lands owned by the Town of Hampton. The Town has approximately 150 parcels that are either owned outright by the Town or have Town owned conservation…

I have been looking into getting into criminology here at UNI for my major. I always thought it would be a cool fun job to be a police officer. If I did become a police officer I would want to do it at a bigger city. This is why I choose to do my job shadow at the Waterloo Police Department. Waterloo is the biggest city with the most crime, that is closest to cedar falls. I want a job that you will always live on the end and that will be different from day to day. So, I called down the the…

Camp Widjiwagan (Rough Draft) Albus Dumbledore once said, “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Often, when summer comes around, many kids begin to dream about summer camp. Some of those kids actually get to live those dreams like I did, at Camp Widjiwagan, this summer. It was one week of a Harry Potter themed, outdoors day camp. Camp Widjiwagan was one of the best camps I’ve been to complete with fun and new learning experiences from the new and different people, to all the…

Josh Way Professor Jo-Ann Campell GRA-K131 - Digital Photography 12 May 2016 Peter Lik “Panoramic Landscape Master” I found it quite a difficult task to find a photographer that would inspire me, beyond just one photograph, but with an entire portfolio. Since I’ve taken photographs, on and off, with varying degrees of amateur equipment for the past ten years, time and time again, I’ve always been drawn to bright colors, landscapes, and water. So with this project, I wanted to find a…

Ever since he was a child, Milo Thatch believed in Atlantis. He dedicates his life to the study and discovery of it, no matter who tells him it’s just a legend. When presented the Shepard’s Journal: a book of Atlantean history, language, and culture, Milo is ecstatic. The man who gives it to him, Preston Whitmore, says the book is gibberish and is most likely worthless. Milo responds with, “I've spent my whole life studying dead languages. It's not gibberish to me. If this were a fake, I…

Excited to make my first visit to Poplar Hill Farm, in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Little did I know that I would fall in love with this rural community and many years later be asked to do research work with some of the most wonderful people, that became friends. Armed with hundreds of questions, anticipation and youthful curiosity. Open and receptive to all the stories, they were willing to share, trying to understand their life and the lives of their ancestors, what I did not know…

The article made mention that the sexism of Harvard President Lawrence Summers, was his downfall after he suggested that men have biological traits that make them superior in the scientific community over women, this is a huge controversial issue for women in science. A group of mostly female scientists called the NAS committee…