End zone

In VITA: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, João Biehl investigates life within Vita, an alternative community Porto Alegre, a region of southern Brazil where unwanted people find residence. Vita’s residents have typically been abandoned by their families due to poverty, mental illness, addiction, or physical disabilities. While Vita’s makeshift community seems to provide a solution for people who have nowhere else to turn, it lacks the necessary government funding and medical personnel to be…

learning and teaching process. Vygotsky’s theory advocates that learning is a process where participation in socially mediated activities is essential. This theory argues that social interaction precedes development, consciousness and cognition are the end product of socialization and social behavior. Vygotsky’s theory is one of the foundations of constructivism. (Vygotsky, 1978) According to Vygotsky (1978 cited Lantolf 2000) the sociocultural environment presents the child with a variety of…

to college was tough, being alone was even tougher. Leaving my comfort zone and meeting new people, I managed to move past the transitioning state and build a future for myself. It wasn’t until my second year, that I started enjoying my major classes and became involved in extracurricular activities. I’ve realized the only way to become successful and accomplish the ambitious goals I had in mind, was to move past my comfort zone. I joined Muslim Student Association, an organization on campus…

garbage to be present. Another use of pathos evident in the article is the use of vivid descriptions which help enhance the visualization and emotion of certain arguments. For example, instead saying that water ends up back in the ocean, Jamail integrates a quote: “Every tear you cry … ends up back in the ocean system,” which increases the emotion and reality of the situation. Jamail also appeals to the reader’s humanity when he mentions that “Probably every sea turtle on the planet interacts…

She also wants to provide safe zones so that Syrians don’t go flooding out of Syria like some have already. She also thinks that the US should make it very clear that to Putin to be in Syria wreaking havoc. She also believed that the US was not the lead in the war in Benghazi but provided…

States and about 11,961 or 73% were committed with firearms. Regarding the San Bernardino terrorist attack, nothing has been done to try and prevent an attack like that from happening again, even though more areas have been appointed as “gun-free” zones. Our state Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a broad package of nearly a dozen gun control measures, according to The Sun Newspaper. The Sun Newspaper also reported that in 2016, the voters of California passed Proposition…

Based on the understanding that self-awareness is increased by positive change experienced through participation, adventure-based learning (ABL) is about building interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship skills (IIRS) (Sutherland, Ressler, & Stuhr, 2011). Several integral themes including, but not limited to, mindfulness, cooperation, trust and risk-taking have emerged from ABL. With positive emotion at the core of the ABL experience, mindfulness is essential to the success of the program.…

television, and even in our real lives we see the age-old trope of blaming someone else for everyone else's problems. Some of the more famous examples lie in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the Red Scare fueled by Joseph McCarthy, and the Twilight Zone episode The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. Those who are scapegoated usually don’t fit into society’s conforming ways, which makes it believable that they have truly done something wrong. Scapegoating has always existed- mostly to ease…

If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien If I Die In A Combat Zone is a memoir that depicts the horrors of Vietnam through the eyes of Tim O’Brien. Tim’s story is not told in chronological order, but his life before, during, and after the war are all depicted by the end of the book. Although the book is brief, it shows the development of Tim as he is forced to participate in a war that he disagrees with in its entirety. Although he originally plots to abandon the Army, he believes that doing…

of loss and pain. A “dark room” is where a photographer develops his photographs but in this case it could take on another meaning and could have connotations of death. In particular, the death of a man who was murdered in front of his eyes in a war zone. This man is revealed from the “spools of suffering” as a “half-formed ghost”. This metaphor has connotations of a haunting and the photographer is haunted by the terrible image of death and suffering where he still remembers “the cries of this…