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Location Within the walls of a prestigous institute resides Sylver, allong with her room mates. Having been given one of the larger dorms, she and seven other people call it home. Around 900 square feet, the dorm is cut in half vertically, and then the left portion cut in half once again horizontally. The two rooms against the inital seperating wall are seperated into a hallway, wih the doors to the two rooms parallel to each other. A table sits at the end of the corridor underneath a bullitin…

Task 1A Screen to screen or face to face Social media takes up so much time of our life. Some people can’t even go 5 minutes without checking their phone. Are we choosing to talk to each other on the phone rather than face to face? Maybe we need to find something in-between. The way we communicate have changed a lot over the past years. When you talk on social media you never know how the person you talk to will react, but face to face you can look the person in their eyes. It`s important to…

It is not without significance that Henrik Ibsen chose to name his socio-critical play A Doll’s House, and not The Doll’s House, nor Doll’s House. Indeed, removing the indefinite article would defeat the purpose of exposing the triviality of this situation and attributing it a universal value. Such is the case for Nora: a young girl living her life as ‘a doll’ in a society fixated on superficial appearances over truth and integrity. However, as the play progresses, such appearances prove to be…

Robert Wittenberg sat at the kitchen table in his lakeside condominium apartment, sorting through his mail which had accumulated over the last seven days while he was in Las Vegas. Aside from the standard bills that came every month, there was an assortment of junk mail which he culled from the pile and deposited in the wastepaper basket. He almost threw it away along with the rest of his junk mail,, but on closer examination, he decided that the letter didn't look like most junk mail that…

Anne Frank Remembered was one book I was sure to never forget. It was an overwhelming story filled with sadness and injustice that had led to death of Anne Frank , and the existence of her diary. For the first time I really understood the power selfless acts could have on lives. In Anne Frank's diary one person stood out that was Hermine “Miep” Gies. Anne Franks Dairy not being lost can be contributed to Miep, a very brave woman who helped the Frank family hide from the Nazis. Gies risked…

field possesses, but my passions tend to fall more along the lines of science fiction as opposed to fact. My brothers and I all have supernatural thrillers, scifi adventures, and comic books about aliens and mutants stacked up on the shelves of our bookcases. That’s why, when I was telling my family about how I needed a topic relating to my field of study for English class, my 15 year older brother gave me an idea. He brought up the concept of de-extinction, or bringing back animals from the…

The Holocaust was an event of sadness and cruelty, as the Nazis invaded several areas of Western Europe. The Holocaust, furthermore, began on January 30,1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The start of the unfair treatment towards the Jews began in January, as President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany. “Combining his talents for speaking with his drive and motivation, Hitler began to scale the political ladders, eventually taking over the whole German government and…

All children have an inbuilt mathematical knowledge of some sorts in which it is possible for them to build on. Emergent mathematics is how we use to describe how children construct their maths knowledge. The principle of emergent mathematics is that children should be exposed to maths from the day they are born despite their age. Children are taught to use their previous knowledge to solve a maths problem. This helps children to understand how the problem has been solved and not given the…

The gleaming sun caressed my squinting face as I glanced up at the magnificent blue sky decorated with white, fluffy clouds that resembled cotton candy. I was outside exploring the vast backyard while barefoot. It was my first morning in the United States. My stepfather, my siblings, and I had arrived seven hours ago from the Philippines to our new home in Rhode Island from the T. F. Green Airport at around midnight. Last night was my first time seeing my mother in a year. I was furious,…

FINDING MEANING IN MY FAVOURITE TEXT Margaret Atwood engages readers in her enthralling literary masterpiece entitled “The Handmaid’s Tale”, set against the backdrop of a gloomy dystopic future which explores women subjugation in a male-privileging society. Breaking out of the habit of reading via the ‘Leavis method’, to read and interpret from different perspectives can, in Robert Eaglestone’s perspective, “[..] change your ideas about the text and even about your place in the world”.…