Explicit

“We are all rewriting our pasts.” (Hank Green, Remembering and Forgetting). While people argue that they have a perfect memory, it’s most likely a false memory, which is a side effect of the brain performing its duties. Memory is the reconstruction and reproduction of past events. Every time we tell or retell a story, some details are changed. We are constantly influenced by the situations around us, determining what emphasis we put in our stories and how much we exaggerate or tell minute…

The purpose of my speech was to inform my audience of the importance of discipline in African American culture. I believe I achieved this purpose in my speech. Although, I could have went into more explicit details about how it ties into African American culture. I could have gone into how discipline ties into African American culture. I was very nervous, but as the speech went on I began to feel a lot more comfortable. I believe I had good projection. The tone in my voice was pretty even and…

When looking at the past, rock and roll music played a very significant roll in popular culture. Rock influenced daily lives, attitude, and fashion throughout most of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty first century, rock music is getting pushed out of the mainstream norm and we are switching to hip hop/rap music, especially among today’s youth. This brings a twist in our culture and we can see it by the way it affects the younger people. Rap music, most of the time, features lyrics…

The article Sex and Violence in Slasher Films: Re-examining the Assumption written by Barry S. Sapolsky, Fred Molitor, and Sarah Luque observes a research on cruel, violent and sexual images in horror movies from the 1980s to 1990s. The main point of the article is researching on victims' gender and connection between sex and murders in slashers. Horror movies of the 1960s-1970s were thrillers featuring awful bloodbath. Blood and violent picture attracted audience of young movie fans. Such…

Fish’s purpose is to communicate to readers that when you are getting a cup of coffee, you are paying for the opportunity to do the work that should be done by those that receive your money. The essay’s thesis is stated in the third paragraph as an explicit thesis statement, “And these days, you will face a coordination problem if you want to get a…

Deception is used in Milgram experiment which raises the question of validity and reliability. Connolly, (2011), infers that deception was used to safeguard the true nature of the study. Clearly we know that deception was used in the expense of getting results. For example, the participants were led to believe that they are administering real electric shock and were unaware that the learner was a confederate of Milgram. However, Milgram (1974) insisted that the deception was absolutely…

The story of Jack the Ripper was always piqued the interest due to the ambiguous personality and the unsolved case. Jack the ripper had committed five murders, all of women between 25 and 40 years old, but the most horrifying thing was the mean by which he killed his victims, as he used to remove their organs. As a result people were panicked ending in attacking on everyone matched the description, especially of someone who carried a bag. Soon enough the police accused two person for being Jack…

Integral to modern day society, social contracts are agreements, be it explicit or implicit, between two or more persons, parties, states or entities, that create rules, regulations, liberties, morals or even change the difference between what is right and what is wrong. These contracts create unique environments for those involved as well as those that are excluded from the contract. Social contracts can be shown to create instances of moral relativism through blindness to reality and the…

and the Clerk wants to refute her point by offering an example of a perfectly submissive wife. However, due to their awareness of their audience, they both end their tales with clarifications, as though they are nervous that their points were not explicit enough. This nervousness is attributable to difficult quandaries that both tales leave in the wake of their endings,…

Throughout “To Kill a Mockingbird” a strong recurring theme is Justice and judgment. To illustrate this, when Atticus is telling scout why he is defending the negro man scout asks him “You mean if you didn't defend that man, Jem and me wouldn't have to mind you anymore” (Lee,86). This illustrates Atticus teachings on Justice and Judgement to scout because if you believe in something even if others do not you wouldn’t be true to yourself, Atticus's point is that if he did not do the right thing…