Bernard Madoff

Is Technology Interfering with Reading? Literacy begins at different levels. Some learn to read and write from their parents at a very young age, and some learn from TV shows or from hearing other kids speak at school. We all have our own story when it comes to how we adapted literacy as children. However, there could very well be a completely different story for today’s modern kids than kids in the past. With all of the distractions from the new waves of technology, they simply do not read…

Warren Tay (1843-1927) he was a british ophthalmologist who in 1881 described a patient with a cherry-red spot on the eye. The first name of the disease was the first man who discovered it then another man discovered it in New York, his name was Bernard Sachs, he was a neurologist whose work several years and later provided the first description of the cellular changes on Tay-Sachs disease. The disease was named after the two men who discovered this…

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Brontë’s choice to associate Jane Eyre or Edward Rochester with birds represents their dependency on one another. In the beginning of their relationship, Jane is dependent on Rochester for financial and social reasons. As their relationship develops, she becomes more dependent on his love than his money. In both of these cases, Rochester describes Jane as a bird. But when Jane asserts her independence, she realizes she cannot identify as a bird anymore because…

Imagine living in a society where the media skewed the accuracy of information only to manipulate the audience and boost ratings, now realize that the society described isn’t an imagination but rather a reality. Currently, the majority of individuals depend on news networks to further understand the happenings around the world. However, receiving news from one source feeds the viewer with biased ideas, intended to make the viewer think a certain way. The reason behind this lies on the ideologies…

Though there are countless interpretations of the short story “Rappaccini's Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the most predominant is the parallelism to the Garden of Eden found in the Old Testament of the Bible. For example, the main character, Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, tends a beautiful garden full of lustrous colorful plants, much like God is the creator of the Garden of Eden. Similar to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the center of the garden contains a magnificent plant covered…

Failed Redemption in The Natural Bernard Malamud’s The Natural is based on the true life of Eddie Waitkus, a Philadelphia Phillies first baseman whose career was nearly destroyed in an unexpected shooting incident. The kick-start to Malamud’s career, this roman a clef portrays Waitkus as Roy Hobbs, a young pitching prodigy who hopes to one day be the best player in league history. However, his aspirations soon go awry after he is shot by a mysterious woman whom he has fallen in love with.…

and in 1953 the College was named in honor of Bernard M. Baruch, benefactor, statesman, financier, and alumnus of the Free Academy. In 1968 Baruch College was established as an independent senior college of the City University of New York. US News & World Report, Forbes, and The Princeton Review, among others, rank Baruch College among the top colleges in the United States. Today, Baruch College enrolls more than 18,000 students representing over 168 countries; its student body continues to be…

St. Bernard of Clairvaux played a pivotal role in the preaching of the Second Crusade. Though the Second Crusade is generally regarded by historians as a massive failure, the opinion of Bernard of Clairvaux has not changed over time, nor has the way historians regard his influence on the Second Crusade. This is made apparent by the views portrayed by George Dickson Kerr in Bernard of Clairvaux and Christian Society in the Twelfth Century, published in 1966 and The Second Crusade: Scope and…

The movie, “Groundhog Day” is a successful 1993 American film that captures the interests, mind and heart of its viewers because of its astonishing, innovative, and unique storyline, and in which this requires clear mind when watching in order for it to decode and unfold its purpose and in order for it to discover how great it is. This was directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis himself and Danny Rubin, based on a story by Rubin .It was starring by Bill Murray, Andie Macdowell and Chris…

Bernard Malamud, the author, presents his readers with several minor characters, each contributes, in some form, towards Manischevitz’s self-discovery and help him gain a better understanding of what it entails to be Jewish. The first character that Malamud…