Battlefront” and “Greg Hastings’ tournament paintball Max’d”. I was better at Battlefront while he was better at Paintball. When we played Battlefront, we always chose to play for the rebels because we liked playing on the good guys team. The red fuzzy chair; I always sat in…
My life experiences and sociological training shaped my mission as a scholar and as a mentor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). At UCSB and UCI, I research the power and politics of marginalized people. In particular, I focus my research on social mobilization, economic and political development, and the state. My sociological training forged my theoretical and methodological approaches to understand how economic and social…
Chapter3. Development of Lean Indicator 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Existing Inventory leanness Measure 3.2.1. Absolute measures 3.2.2. Standardized measures 3.2.3. Complex measures 3.2.4. Limitations of existing Inventory leanness Measure 3.3. Development of Leanness Indicator 3.4. Implementation of proposed Model 3.4.1. Inventory split between two locations 3.4.2. Policy change…
to talk to Joan. However at the end of the story everyone becomes nicer Joan and it’s revealed that she was popular along. Throughout the story the author uses different techniques to hint at the ending. By using techniques such as dialogue the to set up a problem and raise the stakes. It’s possible John Updike wrote this story to show how stuff…
(Advameg, Inc. © 2013). In their beliefs all of creation is divided between what they call “Holy People” and “Earth Surface People”. It sounds just about exactly how it’s meant to be. When we think of “holy” we think of supernatural, those that have set a path that should be followed. Earth surface people are those that reside, as it seems, on the Earth. After going through a process of passing through succession of underworlds, the Holy people made it to the present world. They created the…
The power to change a person’s memory, decision making, or behavior can break many different rules that have been set to protect the wellbeing of people all around the world. False memory can be abused to produce horrible memories in unsuspecting subjects. There have been many cases in which patients, seeking therapy for problems such as depression or stress, have…
DNA, it makes everyone special and unique. Throughout time, scientists have discovered many things about DNA. One such discovery the pairing of adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine, but what about the structure? Watson and Crick are acknowledged the most for discovering and contributing the most to the structure of DNA in eighteen months; but what about Franklin? Though Watson and Crick are known for discovering DNA’s structure, Rosalind Franklin contributed the most to finding the structure of…
On a snowy night in 1892, The Nutcracker (originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Balletmaster Lev Ivanov) made its first appearance at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. With a dazzling original score by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and classical ballet choreography, The Nutcracker became a holiday tradition in the United States a few years after its first full-length American production by dancer/choreographer Willam Christensen for the San Francisco Ballet on December…
Computer Vision is commonly studied in three categories according to the degree of abstraction from the image: low-level, mid-level, and high-level. Low-level vision focuses on mapping pixel to pixel, which is best for detecting edges and features. Mid-level vision maps pixels to regions, which is used to detect three dimensional structures from motion. High-level vision maps pixels and regions to abstract categories (Huttenlocher, n.d.). In regards to human vision, images travel to the lateral…
Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014) is a 75-foot tall artwork that was exhibited in an uninhabited Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY (Larson 2014: 505). The female sphinx inspired artwork was made of sugar, polystyrene, plastic and molasses (Lewis 2017: 12). Walker addresses how the black female body has been represented through stereotyping practices for years. Essentialism, reductionism and naturalization are used in A Subtlety. Essentialising is when a race’s intrinsic nature is…