A Room of One's Own

and it continues to be central to its identity today”. John Holland theorized a concept which would be used to help people find their own career interests, make their own career decisions, find how to obtain information about the career and how to structure their career education (Schreuder & Coetzee, 2016). “Holland’s theory was so predictive that there was little room for anything else after it. He speculated correctly about the “taxonomy” (classification domains) of work environments, which…

The United States of America looks like an ideal home for freedom and individuality. Citizens are free and able to make their own decisions and choose their own paths without the interference of a more powerful body like the government. While it appears that one can do as one pleases, the government has different opinions in mind and enforcing them. After 9/11, the United States Congress passed the Patriot Act in an endeavor to detect signs of terrorism before it can strike American soil.…

To Be One’s Own Self There have been many moments in my life where the forces of good and evil played a role in prompting action. One of the most common times resembles closely to what one may call an addiction, although I have never taken it to be one. Like many other students, I was drawn to video games at an early age. There is something within a child that bonds with the idea of a virtual reality. This realm behind the computer screen offers a scene that is oftentimes beyond what we…

Beauty Standards: An Examination of Ji Yeo’s Beauty Recovery Room Beauty standards have long been perpetuated starting from Grecian times till now. It creates societal pressure to everyone and encourages them to change their looks to fit in the standard. Due to the societal pressure, both men and women undergoes drastic measure just to be fit in the concept of beauty. Ji Yeo’s Beauty Recovery Room talks about that. Ji Yeo’s photography collection is about the plastic surgery phenomenon in…

Confronting Life Finding fulfillment in life requires people to truly understand their reality and is only achieved through an effort to grow out of one’s comfort zone. This idea is explored in the film Sing Street, directed by Jim Carney. The film follows the journey of Conor Lawlor, a shy boy who gets moved into a strict Irish Catholic school due to his parent’s financial situation. At Syng Street, he is bullied by another student and his principle. A turning point occurs when falls in…

someone for money or other valuable things. Although there are many different forms of prostitution, the two main categories are indoor and street prostitution. An indoor prostitution includes, conducting sexual activity at the client’s house, hotel room, or any other indoor places. Where the other form of prostitution is called street prostitution, where customers are solicited on the streets or park or any other public places for that matter. In the case of street prostitution, it includes…

and have the ability to be happy in their own way, shows that everyone has an equal opportunity to ultimately be happy. However, happiness is a choice. If one chooses a life driven towards happiness, or Salvation, they can hope to be rewarded after death. Not all people choose this path, which supports the idea that life cannot be a journey simply used to appreciate the significance of happiness and Salvation after death. If life is just a waiting room full of suffering, then it would have to…

to understand the significance of Leonardo’s work, there must first be an understanding of the context; both the physical context of the painting, and the historical context of the event. Although, the painting can be admired and appreciated on its own, the place where this work is located brings about an importance greater than some may initially realize. The life-sized painting takes up an entire wall in a monk’s refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. As…

Jack’s not so friendly friend, Room The brain is such a vital, and complex part of the human body. The stages of development that the brain has to go through are incredibly important to making the brain everything that it needs to be. In Emma Donoghue’s Room, the main character/narrator Jack, will have to deal with a major setback to his brain’s development. Jack and his mother, Ma, are imprisoned in Old Nick’s shed located in his backyard until shortly after Jack turns five years old. That is…

In E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View, a social commentary piece on British society of the 20th century, two distinct settings of the story are contrasted to represent two significant opposed thematic ideas with which the protagonist Lucy Honeychurch has a major internal conflict that affects the sheer dynamic of her overall disposition throughout the story. In his mission to vividly portray the meaning of the satirical work as a whole, which essentially revolves around the important life…