A Room of One's Own

neighborhood is dull, uninteresting, and monotonous. All the houses are just clones of each other, and there is no basketball court, nor a playground. Neighborhoods should be a sacred place where one should grow up in, or raise one's children at. Not some place where one, or one's children cannot have an enjoyable time at. That is why, if I had to design a neighborhood of the future mine would be spectacular. For example, mine would have a basketball court, a park, a pool, and plenty more. Also,…

leave him to feel as if he only has himself to trust. “Ay, so, God, be wi’ ye! Now I am alone. O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I: It is not monstrous that this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit that from her working all his visage wann’d tears in his eyes, distraction in ‘s aspect, a broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What’s Hecuba…

Interpreter of Maladies: Lahiri’s Guide to Forging One’s Identity In her collection of short stories entitled “Interpreter of Maladies,” Jhumpa Lahiri illustrates the difficulties that immigrants face when displaced and distanced from their culture. Each story serves as a different viewpoint on cultural experience, which allows Lahiri to bring together a detailed image of cultural displacement and the challenges it poses when forging one’s identity. The importance of cultural ties is emphasized…

hosts his party in his isolated abbey to try and protect himself and his rich friends. Eventually a character known as the Red Death shows up and kills everyone. Within Prospero’s abbey there are seven colored rooms which are blue, purple, red, green, orange. white, and finally the black room representing death. The colors of the room’s represent the different stages of life. The hidden message in Edgar Allen Poe’s allegory “Masque of the Red Death” is that death is inevitable. The clock…

Within the ethical branch of philosophy there are several theories on how one should leave their life but, most do not provide a sufficient answer, but there is one theory that has provided an answer; and that is Utilitarianism a subset of consequentialism. This theory is defined by its core idea of maximizing overall happiness of everyone, and has been used to shape some of the fundamental ideas governments use to govern their various countries; this is due to Utilitarianism providing a logical…

through several challenges in our lives, where we have to choose either to yield to other's values or to value our own principles. A Gothic novel Jane Eyre explores the epitome of a young yet prideful girl, Jane, who chooses to retain her principles. Since childhood, Jane has experienced a set of injustice and oppositions, and those hardships have influenced her to develop her own way to confront the inequitable world. Indeed, the principles that Jane valued ultimately lead her to be an…

Explain at least five elements of critical thinking that you found in the reading material The first article I read was “Recognizing and Understanding Stereotypes and Bias,” and based on this article, to be a critical thinker one must have the ability to do the following. 1. Classify, construct and evaluate different arguments. 2. Distinguish discrepancies and errors in reasoning. 3. Resolve issues thoroughly. 4. Recognize logical connections between ideas. 5. Make determinations…

threat also made the point that places like classrooms, university campuses, testing rooms or competitive running tracks, though seemingly the same for everybody, are, in fact, different places for different people,” (Steele 60). For example the treat may not be there if you are just hanging out with your friends but when you step into a new class room you feel like “all eyes are on you.” Steel previously writes, “One’s own stereotype threat can analogize one into understanding the other guy’s…

Immediately Sartre has characterized Cradeau as a coward through his use of a frantic and hesitant tone when describing Cradeau’s actions as the boy begins to leave the room. For although having been already assured that there would be no hellish tortures awaiting him Cradeau still fears being left alone in a seemingly harmless place. And as Sartre’s play progresses, it becomes clear that this cowardice is Cradeau’s driving…

Barilla magazine advertisement features a young father and daughter sitting in a living room enjoying a bowl of Barilla’s Angel Hair pasta. The ad illustrates simpleness and individuality wrapping it in with the idea of family, which exorbitantly plays upon the emotions of the reader. Creating the simpleness, the ad’s setting is in the living room of a home. Calm and neutral colors fill the atmosphere of the room. The overall setting delivers the reader with a cozy, homey feeling. In the…