Amy and Isaac Post

Post encouraged Jacobs to write her autobiography because Post believed that Jacobs’ story was necessary to share the horrors of enslavement. In addition, it is clear that Jacobs is writing are directed for free people who lived in the North this is evident in this passage: “Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never know what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another….” (Jacobs…

popular culture is not new” (Newport, 2009) “Over a dozen books have been published in the past five years alone” (Newport, 2009). The influence that 9/11 had on the people was tremendous, the influence 9/11 had on the film industry and primarily the apocalyptic films was and still is huge. In the majority of the films made after 9/11 the government and the people are powerless against these apocalyptic forces. Wallis says “Indeed, the post-9/11 movies deposit scenarios where science,…

Browning discusses the monitoring of social media when it comes to students and athletes. Again, different types of social media “platforms have forever changed the landscape of communications and information sharing”. Student athletes in this essay are required to install specific software that notifies a coach or official in the athletic department. If they were to post something that doesn’t fit a certain standard of content, then they could be put on restriction, kicked off a team, punished…

In the New York Times article titled “About Men: Male Humor,” Isaac Asimov shares what he has taken from the multiple conversations he has had with different men on the topics of women and humor. Asimov believes that most men only feel comfortable making jokes about females in the presence of other males when making jokes about females. From his own personal experience, though, Asimov has witnessed women “laugh as hard at dirty jokes as men do.” Though tThe main reason that Asimov thinks men…