Complexity

Metaphors can make you view a topic in positive or negative manners, depending on how we use and interpret them. It is up to us to determine metaphors and examine their complexities. Postman’s fifth pillar is the power of naming known as “reification”. His concept represents the idea that names have meanings, and affect our perception. A name has immense power and directs our thoughts and ideas on a specific topic. Depending…

Lastly, the memoir of Catalina de Erauso titled Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World brings to light the concept of subjective identity in regards to gender. The book also largely focuses on a colonialist narrative due to Catalina’s travels from Spain to Latin America. Catalina played with different gender roles through the gendered performance of masculinity and honor, along with what is deemed as cross-dressing. However, one can learn a lot from Catalina’s life in regards to their…

The relationship between poverty and education is not linear, but a web of interwoven domains. These domains may include social stereotypes, individual psychological issues, and conditions of daily life that create cases that can no longer be explained or analyzed as simple. Not only will the information collected strengthen the argument that education and poverty share a complex connection, it also suggests what actions need to be taken in the realm of education in order to improve the…

language, and we shift between those levels, depending on who we perceive our audience to be at any given time. Tan tells us to be more conscious of our different uses of English throughout our lives, in order to focus ourselves on intent instead of complexity. She warns us through events of…

almost all literature to film adaptations, such as the Harry Potter films or Pride and Prejudice (“The 300 Controversy: A Case Study in the Politics of Adaptation”). However, in the case of Watchmen, these cut scenes unfortunately took away from the complexity of the story. For example, the character of Dr. Malcom Long, who was assigned to be Rorschach’s psychologist while he was in prison, had an entire story and backstory of his own in the graphic novel. He was brought back in the second-last…

Many millennials find it hard to navigate the complexities of relationships and feel it is a problem unique to their generation; however, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale addresses these complexities. Shakespeare uses the friendship of Leontes and Polixenes to examine the concept of loyalty. Through examination of their own friendship, it is discovered that loyalty can have many dimensions and is closely linked to jealousy and betrayal. This pattern is also repeated in the other relationships…

together to produce a beautiful melody. The main instrumental accompaniment is a piano. This does not possess a catchy melody, but one that has a jagged contour and great complexity, skipping up and down the piano. The voices of the characters, likewise, are required to produce many different tones in order to give more complexity to this melody. I believe the intent of this piece was communicated very well, giving the readers a story of true love and how powerful it can be. Even though the…

Globalization, that is, the socioeconomic and technological unification of the globe is promoting the world that is increasing in diversity and complexity. Local problems in the 21st century, due to the ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependency of the world, are no longer isolated ones, but they are global issues, therefore, they need global solutions. For instance, migration is a global issue but affects locally the United States. The U.S land inhabits a multitude of cultures and…

Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have made an incredible evolutionary discovery that links sexual selection and placentation (Science Daily, 2014). The study of 150 species of Poeciliidae (Figure 1), describes the morphologies of males in species with placentas. Sexual selection- “special case” of natural selection, which acts on an organism’s ability to obtain, or successfully copulate with a mate, is not exceedingly important in species with placentas (Science Daily, 2014)…

national grounds of federalism encased by the influence of the Founding Fathers of America. In fact, each branch within the federal government is designed to have a definitive form of representation under the law of constitutionality. Nevertheless, complexity is highly evident between the executive and the legislative bodies due to a clash of different ideologies within the federal infrastructure (Sidlow and Henschen 268) yet; the congressional and the presidential bodies serve to be the…