Douglas Hofstadter

has 9% of the students ' who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The minority enrollment is 23% of the student body with the majority of the minorities Hispanic, in addition, this is less than the state average of 45% ("Douglas County Government ," 2016). The Douglas County School District is predominately Caucasian, leaving the students underexposed…

In the film, Imitation of Life, director Douglas Sirk utilizes the visual elements of mise-en-scene to affect viewers emotionally when presenting them with life’s limits of race. Throughout the film Sirk provides the viewer with a particular perspective of American life during the 1950’s. There are specific conventions and mise-en-scene devices that Sirk employs which are conducive to displaying the limitations of race. An example being, the scene where Annie and Sarah-Jane first arrive at…

1. McGregor published Theory X and Theory Y over 30 years ago. Do we still have Theory X managers? Why? There is no doubt in my mind that today, 30 years later, we still have Theory X managers. According with McGregor Theory X, managers tend to have a negative, pessimistic view of employees and display more coercive, autocratic leadership styles using external means of controls, such as threats and punishment. Additionally, their attitudes hold that employees dislike work and must be closely…

A Melodramatic Varnish in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Germany emerging through the 1970s was imbued in polemic discourse concerned with the issues surrounding German identity politics. The issues around American influences within Germany’s social and political spheres proved more convoluted igniting these discourses that would be thoroughly engaged with and explored by the New German Cinema movement. This engagement proved the enigmatic approach encompassing American influences, one that Germüden…

2001:Space Odyssey and Stranger Days. Putting all the beautiful visual effects and futuristic graphics aside, movies is the best way to travel in time because they show us a visual representation of an upcoming future. Directors like Stanly Kubrick, Douglas Trumbull, Spike Jonez and Katryn Bigelow have used movies as a tool to represent topic such as the future of artificial intelligence, nature, singularity and mind alterations. Loved by sci-fi fanatics and respect by philosophers, a Sci-Fi…

became apparent with the introduction of the Truman Doctrine. In presenting the doctrine, the President emphatically asked Americans to commit to a world-wide anti-communist movement that continues to guide foreign policy to this day. The firing of Douglas MacArthur, an influential and popular General due to his accomplishments of World War II, is arguably a contradiction of the fight against communism, as MacArthur was a proven opponent (LaFeber, 2008). So why was he dismissed? The controversy…

General Douglas MacArthur Born January 26, 1880, Douglas MacArthur grew to be one of the nation’s finest Military leaders of all time. His military career began in West Point on June 13, 1899-June 13, 1819. He later helped lead the 42nd Division in France during World War I for four years. After WWI, he took on positions of high authority and responsibility. From being the superintendent of West Point on June 1, 1919; Chief of Staff; Field Marshall of the Philippines; Supreme Commander of the…

Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880 at a military base in Little Rock, Arkansas. His dad, Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, was a war hero. His mother was Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, and her brothers had fought during the civil war. Douglas MacArthur was born into a military family and was expected to be great. He had two brothers, both of whom died when he was fairly young. As a child, Douglas and his family moved around to different army stations very often. MacArthur said,…

The beautiful film All That Heaven Allows directed by Douglas Sirk shows the struggles women faced in the 1950’s and how gender norms limited women from having an independent and safe surrounding, all through the story of a rich widowed woman who falls for a young man. Sirk uses the set of the film to its maximum potential with his experience with mise-en-scène. With mise-en-scène Sirk can place any visual object in order gain emotion from his audience and in the film All That Heaven Allows he…

The day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, the Japanese began invading Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Within a month, Manila was captured and the U.S. - Filipino Army quickly started to run out of necessary supplies needed for survival. People who are educated enough to know what the Japanese did back in the 1940’s have the mindset of them being cruel and vicious people. However, the Japanese are not as violent and brutal as they were in the Philippine Bataan Death…