Cabinet of curiosities

For example, as a first generation Mexican American, I struggled to learn Spanish. When I encountered Spanish, it had been beaten out of my mother and filed in the “did not use” cabinet. As a result, she did not speak nor encourage me to learn the language. Moreover, I viewed Spanish as a liability and weakness because it made me feel un-American. Not to mention, Spanish separated me from my Mexican culture, at times acting as a…

enthusiastic learners. Creating a learning environment is of utmost importance. With collaborative efforts from parents, teachers, students, and administrators schools will be a place of knowledge transmission. I believe children have a natural curiosity to learn. Parents are the child’s first teachers therefore they are responsible for shaping the child’s belief system. The schools come in with their own set of pre-determined values. Though pre-determined, these…

they have to treat the specimens a specific way to gain information from them and their narratives. For example, in “The Muskrats,” there is only one perspective in which the observer can observe the specimens because the diorama has the form of a cabinet. In addition, because the observer can only see through one perspective through the display, there is not a 360-degree observation of these animals, giving them more of a 2D perspective than “The Kitten…

"Good morning boss", Andy said to Jack as Jack walked into the building. Jack put a fake smile on his face and greeted Andy a good morning as well. Jack walked into his office and looked out the window. He thought to himself "Will life ever change?" Jack from the outside didn 't look like he had much to complain about. He owned a business at age twenty-seven. He was very successful in this business as well. Money wasn 't the issue. His personal life was where he did. Jack married the love of his…

was 12 years old when she arrived at Saint Peter Orphanarium without memories of the previous life she was taken from, or so she believed. Unlike her name she is blonde, eyes the color of storm gray clouds. Her height is equal to the size of a file cabinet ,but those files hold the answer to the most asked question in the universe “Are we alone?”. Waking up on a early,bright sunday morning Ember stretches and yawns.”Only 1 more day till I'm free” she mutters to herself as she walks…

The television reality show “Small People, Big World” records the daily life of the Roloffs’s family, of which being dwarfs, Matt and Amy have three children: Jeremy, Molly and Zach whom is a dwarf. Differing from the usual broadcasts, in Season 3 of “Small People, Big World” Episode 13, the show displayed an interview the family had with the TLC crew (Tyler Griffith, 2016). With several snatches of their past events, every one of them expressed their feelings about their show up on the…

other people had already made. I learned from their mistakes. I also got ideas about different ways I could build my Pyro board and what materials I would need. When I began to build my Pyro board I thought I could save time by using an old medicine cabinet as it was the right dimensions I was planning to use for my Pyro board and would only need a top added to it. After I removed the mirror and shelfs I sanded off all the paint. At this time I noticed there were a lot of holes I would need to…

One of the original movies of this genre to start this trend was “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” directed by Robert Wiene. The film is a mystery horror film about a man named Dr. Caligari who comes to town along with his partner Cesare; it is full of unexpected plot twists like the main character Francis’ friend Alan being murdered and Cesare being a patient in a mental hospital at the end (Doll, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”). The inclusion of such abrupt twists in the story creates an…

Relationships can be difficult to both initiate and maintain, as demonstrated by the characters of Junot Diaz’s “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies.” In each story, the characters find that there are multiple struggles to overcome in order to begin and preserve a well functioning relationship. However, the obstacles that hinder the success of these relationships differ for each character. In Diaz’s “How to Date a Browngirl,…

theorized that she was the offspring of a human and an ape, a bear or a baboon, which led to her nicknames, ‘The Bear Woman,’ ‘The Baboon Lady’ and ‘The Ape Woman.’ Author Jan Bondeson Recounts Pastrana’s Early Life In Jan Bondeson’s book, “A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities,”, he writes that, "According to the exaggerated accounts in the contemporary exhibition pamphlets, an Indian woman named Espinosa had become separated from her tribe in 1830, and was believed to have drowned. Six years…