Ellen

I decided to pick Ellen Prager’s book, Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Under the Sea with Ocean Experts, off of your list of books you recommended mostly because the title seemed really intriguing and especially enticing. It definitely caught my attention. The mere title of the book, of course, piqued my interest and left me feeling inquisitive so I ordered the chapter book looking forward to some hefty reading. A short week and a half later I had received…

have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit 's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson 's eyes and ask him if it hurts,” said comedian Ellen DeGeneres in My Point... And I Do Have One, her humorous reflection on her life. Though Ellen DeGeneres makes a hyperbolic point, she questions the ethicality of animal testing. The practice of animal testing mutilates the physical appearance of traditional house pets, corrupting their gene…

The decades following the Civil War were a time of explosive growth for the United States, by the end of the Nineteenth century American economic wealth dwarfed that of its former colonial overseers. With this growth came challenges, the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor led to deplorable and unsafe working conditions as the demand for production and more wealth for business owners became a more powerful motivator than human life and safety. This increase in economic success had…

bit of a negative connotation to it. So why would anyone be a communist? And looking past the mass hysteria and fear, what did it really mean to be a communist in the 1950s? Looking through different first hand accounts of The Age of McCarthyism by Ellen Schrecker, it can be agreed upon universally that actual members of the communist joined because they thought their party would act for the betterment of society. They wanted to raise wages, decrease racial tension and in general make the US a…

What was really mind boggling is that Animal Abuse Advocates were fighting for animal rights long before there were human rights advocates, however the case that acknowledged there was problem with neglect & child or human abuse was the case of Mary Ellen Wilson in 1864 a very compassionate animal rights advocate and president of the American Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…

people interact with each other in a group, they might sometimes feel alienated from the topic of discussion. Therefore, famous presenters can’t avoid these situations, either did Ellen Degeneres during her commencement speech in 2009. She couldn’t help but fail to appeal to everybody sitting in Tulane’s hall at the time. Ellen Degeneres’s message had directly alienated a social group of LGBT people who didn’t want to come out and have their sexuality define their identity. She had created…

The extraordinary details of Mary Shelley’s life have informed many critical responses to her work; perhaps most significantly in the case of Ellen Moer’s seminal essay ‘Female Gothic’ (1985) which argues that Frankenstein is a ‘birth myth’ by a woman suffering neonatal depression (79). Although Shelley’s personal life does resonate with her text, in treating her work as a kind of unconscious therapy, as Schechet does in Narrative Fissures, or a direct representation of her familial…

If I had the opportunity to invite three other people over to a dinner, I would invite, Ellen Degeneres, Walt Disney, and Atticus Finch. I would make sure that I had the time set aside to talk to each one individually, so I could ask questions and congratulate them for a job well done. If I could sit down right now and have a conversation with Atticus Finch, I would, without a doubt, ask him how hard it was to defend a person of color, during the time of segregation. I would also ask him how he…

After the success of Finding Nemo, thirteen years later, fans will get to see their favorite blue fish take on the lead this tim in Finding Dory. But what many do not know is that Finding Dory star Ellen Degeneres drew on her own experiences to make the animated movie a reality. It is a story about the blue tang fish with the short term memory loss who journeys in search of her long lost family. DeGeneres hoped that everybody was inspired by the movie and to “just keep swimming.” However, the…

In Programming The Post-Human: Computer science redefines “life,” Ellen Ullman uses captivating, argumentative, and reflective language in order to convey the complications of making an intellectual, sentient machine and explores the unanswered, unconventional questions about humans themselves to computer enthusiasts and thinkers. Her use of questions to captivate and engage readers is noteworthy. Likewise, observations, comparisons, contrasts, and analogies support to make her argument. Careful…