Cabinet of curiosities

Never Me Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro described the life of a group of clones. Hailsham was the school for Kathy, Tommy, Ruth and other, who did not have parents or other relatives; instead, guardians and friends were the only people they could relay to. Hailsham taught them knowledge and how to be creative, which was their home forever in their hearts. We can see Hailsham brought huge influence to the clones, which most readers don’t see; this is important because Hailsham changed how…

bent down from the fatigue of those fifty paces. The aged man looked up, smelling of sweat and shaving gel, with light blue eyes that showed nothing but mental energy. Large exposed arms grabbed both the girl’s, and my wrists, then guided us to the cabinet of dry rations. It was clear that the he had been awake for much longer than us; yet he still did not understand why we was here. After we devoured our first meal in what felt like centuries, a thought dawned on me. I assumed that if there was…

“Who said girls want to dress in pink and play with dolls?” (Miller, 2013). Girls aren’t given the option to choose what they want. For instance, girls are pushed into liking pink and playing with Barbie’s because “that’s what girls do”. When a girl is seen playing with boy toys, they are automatically thought as tomboyish or masculine. However, that is not the case. The toys that are created for girls to play with are very sexist. Most toys are like vacuums, kitchen toys, dolls while the on the…

Samantha thinks that she will never find love, that is until her sister, Diane, sends her on a vacation getaway to an exotic island, where she meets this hot stranger. Problem is, she discovers that Christian is a spoiled billionaire who is a super womanizer. At first Samantha tried to deny her feelings for Christian, but she discovered that she could not get him out of her mind. Christian knew he was head over heels in love with Samantha right from the moment that he first saw her, and he could…

1. Identify the key technical characteristics of the Daguerreotype and Calotype processes. Illustrate your answer with examples of images form each technology, and say how they reflect its characteristics. (25%) Before the invention of the wet collodion process, which produces an unlimited number of copies of finely detailed images on paper and to print, by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851, there were two photograph processes previously: the daguerreotype and the calotype. The…

The Ghost of Golden Pond We had waited all summer to move into our new home in the country. Mom and dad wanted to move us out to my grandfather’s land after he passed away last September. They thought the city was too hectic and crowded and felt the country would be the best place to raise their family. The sun shone through the car windows onto my cheeks creating a warm glow as we drove further into the countryside. Dust picked up in the air from the back of our family’s minivan as the…

right hemisphere did when it was unencumbered by the brain chatter her left hemisphere had always had until the day of her stroke. Jill even notes that one of the greatest gifts of her stroke was her ability to explore the world with a childlike curiosity and lust for life. This woman’s amazing ability to rise from the ashes of her condition were eloquently laid out in My Stroke of Insight, giving me an opportunity to explore a world where her brain was operating so differently than my…

On the morning of August 6, 1945, the people of Hiroshima watched as two B-29 planes flew over the city. Many continued on with their day, not giving the planes a second glance. Other spectators continued watching in curiosity as the sight of the planes diminished into the sky away from the city and parachutes came down from them. Within seconds and without a trace of sound, the city of Hiroshima was completely destroyed. The devastating effects of the bomb dropped by the American B-29 Bomber…

Vegetable Spirit: The “vegetable spirit” was a concept introduced by Isaac Newton who was an active physicist in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To Newton, the vegetable spirit was a vital alchemical principle that explained cohesion and surpassed the realm of vulgar mechanics. He thought the Light of Genesis could be explained by the vegetable spirit and its fermental virtues because it was the vital ether in the world and God’s agent on Earth. Newton’s vegetable spirit represents the…

Today, adolescents face a tremendous amount of challenges and stress on the road to adulthood. Studies have shown that puberty may start earlier. The media influence has a wider reach. Most U.S. homes have access to the internet (72% of children have access to a computer at home) (Conrad, B., 2016) and/or have some form of game system (67% of children own a game system and 24% own a portable video game system) (Conrad, B., 2016). Plus, youth are spending less time playing outside or exercising…