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The United States Naval Academy established in October 10, 1845 known as the second oldest out of the five service academies. The purpose of the United States Naval Academy is to educate future officers that will soon in four years commission into the United States Navy or the United States Marine Corps. More than 4,000 men and women representing every state and other foreign countries making up the Brigade of Midshipmen learn from both civilian and military instructors in both academic and…

to organize his thoughts. Also, that same night before Stradlater left the house, he mentioned that he was going on a date with a girl named Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden was neighbors with and sincerely liked. When Stradlater came back to the dormitory, a fight emerges between the Holden and him leaving them both hurt. Holden is laying on the floor waiting for Stradlater to leave and states, “I got up. I couldn’t find my goddam hunting hat anywhere. Finally I found it. It was under the…

Article Analysis: Troubling the Path of Decolonization Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Legitimacy In the article Troubling the Path of Decolonization: Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Legitimacy the author, Leslie Thielen-Wilson, attempts to prove that the European settlers asserted their power over the Native people by treating them as subhuman and regarding them as settler property that had no control over their memories, thoughts, desires,…

I’m a tiger. I have known that since I was a little and I couldn’t read. I didn’t make it up, as many children do in the kindergarten. I was truly a tiger! I had overwhelming proof of it: before the sun disappeared through the window in his bedroom, dark stripes were drawn in his skin. They also reflected in the mornings, it depended on the sun and the place I was, because when I went to school, there we all were common kids. Mother got traces of the same stripes too. I suppose she was a…

1.2.2. The Santri Variant The term of “santri” has a broad and narrow meaning. In the narrow sense, it demonstrates “a student in a religious school which so-called as pondok or pesantren”, the latter name constructed as a root and place for santris. In the broad and more common sense, it denotes to a devout Muslim group of the Indonesia population who take their Islam seriously, praying, going to mosque on Friday, fasting in the Ramadhan month and so on (Geertz, 1960: 178). As the basic ritual…

I’M sat at a wooden desk answering multiple choice questions with a pencil, occasionally erasing my answers and colouring in a different circle. No, this isn’t a exam, although the rows of shiny books and touchscreen information movies might suggest we were in a particularly well-funded private school. “Is your life a constant struggle for survival?” the paper asks. “Do you get occasional twitches of your muscles, when there is no logical reason for it?” “Is your voice monotonous rather than…

A comparison between the 2005 novel ‘Uglies’ by Scott Westerfeld and the 1998 film ‘The Truman Show’ directed by Peter Weir, reveals the many similarities and differences between the protagonists who live in controlled, simulated worlds and their decision to face their fears. Truman is unaware that his life is only a television show where he is just the director's puppet. On the other hand, Tally knows about the surgery that artificially/synthetically makes people 'pretty' and look alike, as…

An intimate relationship shared between two college women was labeled as a “smash” or a “crush” up until in the late 19th Century. There was seemingly nothing deviant about the relationship and was defined as, “one girl, generally an underclassman, and usually a freshman, becomes much attached to another girl, ordinarily an upper-class girl. The young girl is ‘crushed’ and the other, sends her flowers and tries in various ways to give expression to her admiration.” Historian Lillian Faderman…

well, that operate as a family unit. Lewis Mumford illustrates the function of a medieval household through this quote “The members ate together at the same table, worked in the same rooms, slept in the same or common hall, converted at night into dormitories, joined in the family prayers, participated in the common amusements”. It is very common in a medieval household to find different classes of people intermingled because there is no separation of the work life and home life. Since…

In this chapter, I here analyze economic aspects of Lee Child’s novel Tripwire. Here, I analyze Jack Reacher and other major characters. This thesis deals with American lifestyle and culture which offers different perspective to the field of literature. The perspective of my analysis is economic contract theory or in another word “Behavioral Economics”. I also focus on exploring evils of capitalism by discussing the ideology of “Economic Man”. Behavior of an individual is always mapped through…