Discovery

The Campus Discovery Reflective Responses required students to go out of their comfort zone to explore various aspects and tools on campus that are beneficial socially or academically. This exposure followed by reflection, assisted students in acquiring knowledge that will help them reach their goals. This process allowed students to realize that they aren’t just in it on their own, but actually have a variety of tools that if used, can make your time in college flow more smoothly. In particular…

has a way of making that burden worse on women. Undergoing a journey of discovery seems like the obvious solution, but with the lack of female role models doing so, young girls find themselves lost. Through the semester, scientific journeys of discovery such as Charles Darwin’s and even journeys of discovery in film have been covered, but only highlight the absence of female protagonists. This implies that journeys of discoveries are male centric, and displays that the possibility for women to…

3rd Body: Self discovery Intro: The theme of self discovery is extremely present throughout the whole book. By the end of the book, almost every character has figured something out about themselves because of the experiences they have been through. Point: Miles had a joy for remembering people's last words before they died, Francois last words were the ones that made him begin his journey to self discovery and the Great Perhaps. Miles says Proof: "Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his…

Discovery Park Challenge The Discovery Park Challenge was a very intriguing and difficult challenge. The purpose of the challenge was to make a traveling exhibit for Discovery Park of America. We only had a given amount of time to make it. We had to be very thorough with our description of the project and make a good design with good information in it. Since it was FFA’s 100 year anniversary, we decided that the exhibit should be about pig farming. I learned a lot in the project and it was a…

Discovery can embody the experience of discovering something new, or rediscovering something that is known that may have been lost or forgotten. Ang Lee’s film ‘Life of Pi’ and Constantine P. Cavafy’s poem ‘Ithaka’ both incorporate this perspective through emotional, intellectual and transformative breakthroughs. Each may be sudden or unexpected, however result in new understandings, values, ideas and perceptions. The process of discovery throughout these texts, illustrate that discoveries can…

“Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes”. Although discoveries themselves may vary, they usually all bring about a changed perspective. The novel ‘The book thief’ by Markus Zusak, which is written in a non-linear way, significantly portrays the phenomena of the discovery. The book thief is about Liesel, a young girl who is taken in by a German family during the Nazi regime. Through a close analysis of ‘The book, thief contains insights on discovery arise. Firstly…

The complex nature of discovery is best explored both in and through a text in order to receive a more sustained understanding of the concept. The two approaches are closely linked and, as a result, complement each other to quite a large extent. James Bradley’s novel Wrack and Raymond Carver’s short story So Much Water So Close to Home (So Much Water) contrast the effects of the process of deliberate discoveries evoked by necessity with sudden physical discoveries on an individual’s…

and exploration and discovery is not always clear. This is because typically discovery and exploration is thought to be a Portuguese and Spanish affair and England had not been concerned with exploration and expansion outside of Europe, until they were kicked out of mainland Europe, which changed their priorities. In this essay, I aim to outline three ways exploration and discovery affected British expansion and how sometimes British expansion affected exploration and discovery. First, I will…

the Europeans. The primary player in the Age of Discovery and exploration was Portugal. They took the major role in the fifteenth century to search for a route to Asia and acquire wealth and knowledge about navigation and mapping out the Atlantic Ocean. Overall Portugal had a huge role in the Age of Discovery and starting it. They also had a significant role in the African Slave Trade. Portugal made an enormous contribution to the Age of Discovery. It started with the Prince Henry the…

Columbus, Was it Worth It? “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand” -Frank Herbert. Before the Age of Discovery, many people were too afraid of exploring the oceans. At the time, they believed that the world was flat and there were many formidable tales about stupefying sea monsters. Sailors were afraid of falling off the edge of the world or being attacked by an ominous creature. These fears and false beliefs of the world kept many people from pursuing a…