Catch-22

Although the iPhone showed a 57% revenue increase from the first quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter of 2014, the iPad’s revenue dropped 22% during the same reporting period (Moskowitz, 2015). Furthermore, Apple only controls about 10% of the mobile phone market compared to 30% that Samsung controls (Marketline, 2014). Google is also emerging into the mobile phone market and is sure to…

The systematic exploitation of workers is something that should never be justified, and that needs to be addressed in some manner. In texts dealing with the exploitation, there is often a call for revolution. Though over the course of history, there has been a great number of revolutions or uprising that have occurred. Nowhere in the world is immune to experiencing them, nowhere in the world has there never been a need. Unfortunately though, looking through a historical lens, those revolutions…

In lines 22-23 he states "Fuck an apology, girl you 're a part of me, The Biggest part of me I would say." At this point of the lyrics, it appears that he has reached emotional agitation. The tone at this point of the lyrics presents discomposure and distress.…

and was prevented from overpopulating the area by the introduction of the fox. On the other hand, the fox population was also dependent on the rabbit population because the foxes relied on the rabbits for food. Therefore, if the fox was unable to catch a rabbit then it would starve to death. The scarcity of rabbits would soon decrease the fox population due to the lack of food. The relationship between predator and prey was found to be relatively linear. The data that was recorded throughout the…

Kurt Vonnegut had delivered quite a few commencement speeches during his time. One in particular, at Rice University, contains a multitude of rhetorical strategies that exemplified the quintessential speech genre. Vonnegut used this genre’s conventions in order to convey his overarching message to the new graduates, as they leave the university. His message to the new generation was to reflect back on their own lives, pause, and consider, “If this isn’t nice, what is?” In other words,…

The book I chose to read and write a report on was the novel The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin. The nonfiction story documents how fear has caused a panic among parents specifically of autistic children. Looking for an explanation, sometimes parents take correlation of some two events and assume causation. Mnookin takes a look at how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all and how illogical fear is the driving force behind it. The story all begins in…

The musical I went to was “Heathers; The Musical”, lyrics and music by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe. Which is about a high school girl named Veronica Sawyer who was nobody until one day, three of the popular girls at her high school decided to she would fit perfect with them. Funny thing was that they were all named Heather. After being whisked away from her boring life and put into the Heather click, she meets a boy named JD who she falls in love with. Veronica, later in the year,…

Consumer preference for low-density urban development has taken a toll on the quintessential American city. In a “Decomposing urban sprawl,” Peiser identifies “…that consumer preference and technological innovations help explain suburbanization and decentralization.” By the same report, these factors are further augmented by …”market failures caused by all manners of subsidies…and that public goods such as open space tend to be under-supplied by the private market” (Peiser, 2001). This…

Imagine finally getting married and starting a family. One may imagine having a son and he is a football player and a daughter and she is a cheerleader. Sharing the best eighteen years with them and now they are off to college. Now imagine having two toddlers to feed, change diapers, and keep track of all day with no help from a nanny, friends or a spouse. Now that motherhood has taken over there is no room for personal time or for friends because motherhood says that there are greater…

listeners or readers interested to continue. The easiness of the rhyming flow in the poem makes the difficult information easier to swallow for the readers than if it was more serious because when something is written playfully they do not always catch the deeper meaning at first. The childishness of a nursery rhyme can easily be seen as irony considering that the topic of the poem is quite serious as a relevant event in history. The rhyming does an exceptional job at making it where anyone can…