The case of mixing languages can be seen in a lot of bilingual speakers. Take myself for example, I was born in Taiwan and I started learning English in a very young age. I found myself mixing my languages since I was really little. For me personally, I think the reason I mix my languages is because I think the language I choose to use can best serve me needs. Sometimes I cannot find a word or even a saying in Mandarin that has the accurate meaning of what I am trying to say in English and vice…
While working as the Artistic Director of La Boite Theatre Company Sean Mee made the very bold and daring decision that of all the works that the company would produce in each season must be entirely Australian plays. During the ‘In conversation’ Mee reflects on his decision while working as the Artistic Director, “If I’m going to be [working for] an Australian company, then we are going to produce Australian work”. In the 2007 La Boite Theatre Company Annual Report the objectives of the…
Tim O’Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1st, 1946. His mother was an elementary school teacher, his father an insurance salesman, and he had a younger sister and brother. His mother taught his the mechanics of writing while his father encouraged reading. His father was an alcoholic, and mercilessly teased young O’Brien. O’Brien found comfort in baseball and in performing magic. In the article “Tim Obrien (1946 - )” it states, “O’Brien… moved at the age of ten with his family to…
One professor of law at the University of California, Eugene Volokh, was quoting Justice Hugo Black when he said that “First Amendment protection ‘must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish.’” Nevertheless, the previous statement is true. Millennials…
Eugene Onegin, a work by the hand of perhaps one of Russia’s most prolific writers, and arguably comparable to Shakespeare in many aspects, is a fictional tale satirizing the roles of gender in society and the constraints women must adhere to, as is expected in this time period. To stray from society’s moral path, in Russia, is to demean and tarnish one’s own name, as well as one’s family’s master status as perceived through the looking glass of society. Tatyana Lerin, initially the European…
Eugene T. Gendlin born in1926 in Vienna. His family emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazis when he was a child. During the 1950s, He studied under Carl Rogers, the founder of client-centered therapy. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he became an Associate Professor. Gendlin believes the discovery of meaning is not in the conscious, or, the unconscious as suggested by Freud, not even the congruence between feeling, concept, and expression…
is to “[articulate] ambiguous distinctions between human and divine realities, with the final goal being in the development of ‘civilized’ codes of morality, values, and ideology” (30). Any culture is influenced by the trickster and the narrator in Eugene Onegin, written by Alexander Pushkin…
Displaying the artwork appropriately is also of utmost importance when planning a museum. The order in which pieces are displayed affects the flow of the visitor’s experience. Appropriate height for each piece requires consideration. Additionally, the ambiance and size of the room also hold specific requirements in a museum setting. The Louvre established standards in all of the above mentioned areas. When designing the Met, architects took these aspects into consideration in attempts to…
opposing their violence or monopolistic nature. With this perspective, Bellamy suggested that all in the nation to contribute actively to the society’s welfare and economy as the soul of America perhaps influencing future Socialist Party members such as Eugene V.…
explaining that a citizen’s civil liberties cease to exist once if they themselves are found to be a “clear and present danger” to society. Another significant case in which the Espionage Act was used was that of Debs v. United States in 1918, in which Eugene V. Debs, a well-known socialist and head of the American Railway Union, was imprisoned for anti-war speech. Meanwhile, the fear of subversive violence strengthened already present xenophobic sentiments in the nation, specifically…