Being and Time

Interchangeability is the idea of being able to communicate back and forth, like Marco, polo. Cultural transmission is when a language is learned by being surrounded by other fluent users of the language. Arbitrariness is when a signal has no logic or relationship to the meaning, or a word that means something else in another language. Discreteness…

From becoming an outsider to being an insider was a change for sure. As S.E. Hinton has once wrote, “Nothing sparkly can stay.”, is a quote I strongly agree with. Having the experience of being on both sides, I can tell that people do change; but I can also tell that being in isn’t always fun. Life has been quite a ride. I have had plenty ups and downs. The school year started out strong and exciting, I wanted to go to school because of my friends. As school went on, life did as well. I made new…

them. Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have become a very popular substitution for television with children due to smartphones and tablets being portable and convenient. Much of these streaming services provide a variety of television shows ranging from educational, cartoon, and adult rated shows. Most of the times…

Imagine being immortal for the rest of your life. In a second, you have the power of living forever imposed on you without your consent. Would that be amazing or tragic? That is the life of the Tucks. In Tuck Everlasting, the main characters; Angus, Mae, Miles and Jesse Tuck, experience what it is like to be immortal and Winnie Foster, a normal girl, and her experience with this family. Immortality, death and greed are key themes that make Tuck Everlasting a lesson to be learned about the value…

decades. Everything has been changed, from the look of women in the commercial to the daily activities shown in the commercials. Women went from being bound to their households to being sex objects in various type of media. Although it has changed women are still being objectified today as they were in the beginning of women image advertising. As the time changes, styles and looks may change, but one thing hasn’t changed in advertising yet, and that is the degrading of women. Society’s…

to their lives somehow. My favorite people have always bounced around, whether they’re real or fictional. I play numerous of video games, listen to almost every genre of music, and read several different types of books, so I change my mind all the time. As of recently, one of my favorite figures has been Max from a game called Life is Strange. The game itself is beautifully designed graphically and plotline wise, and it really makes you think. To sum it up, the plot is that Max is a senior at an…

career path they have chosen? I have always believed that nursing is a career choice that fits exactly who I am. Nursing aligns with my beliefs as to who I am as a person and what I find to be rewarding. This career path plays off of my strengths, being that I am understanding, assertive, detail oriented, and most importantly a hardworking individual. I still have a lot to do to get to where I am going and have various short term and long term goals to help me along my path to be a successful…

experiment - Grace Thompson Introduction: It is well debated that adding pressure to students improves the time taken and quality to do a task. But long term consequences of this includes students being highly stressed and unable to to the task without anxiety or lack of sleep. Problem: The purpose of this experiment is to find out if adding pressure to an individual decreases their time to write ’The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. I wonder if having verbal pressure will make a…

Time and Space in Novel and Cinema In his 1957 academic work, Novels into Film, George Bluestone breaks down differences between literature and cinema. He goes on to analyze the process of adaptation and the ways in which time and space are used differently in the two mediums. Film and literature essentially share many characteristics, such as plot development and characters. But, unavoidable changes will happen through the process of adaptation. Bluestone argues that cinema relies on the…

make you look like the bad person. Some people are more open with being able to complain about something they don’t like while others will wait until someone else takes care of it for them. It can be hard for some people to be comfortable to speak their minds because they are afraid that they will be wrong. What some people don’t understand is the difference between being respectable about giving your ideas or opinions and being an ignorant person about their own views. This point goes along to…