Garry Wills

The Bay of Pigs invasion is one of the largest foreign policy blunders in United States history, but did this event help shape the great legacy of President John F. Kennedy? The disaster which toke place on the Cuban shore in 1961 helped change JFK’s approach to foreign policy and ultimately helped shape the world existing today. President John F. Kennedy began his presidential regime with a very strong stance on foreign policy. In his inaugural address, JFK proclaims, “Let every nation know,…

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and Garry Marshall’s film Pretty Woman both thoroughly explore values of society, each expressed through their unique contexts, language features and mediums. The central social values explored by these two texts are patriarchy, capitalism, and social class structure and hierarchy. Both texts utilise a combination of varying discourses, and language and film features in order to establish these central values. First performed in 1913, Pygmalion was written…

War and conflict have been a part of the human experience for most of recorded history, and many scholars use the concept of just war to analyse wars in their own time and in the past, and to consider how to create long lasting peace. Just war theory forms the basis of much of international law today, and still can be used to analyse modern day conflict, such as the Russian Federation’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Just war theory in its most coherent form was first discussed by Saint Thomas…

would like to address in the following paragraphs. Right away Thompson asks a question, the question of whether humans or computers are better at chess. He goes on to describe how in the late nineties a computer finally beat the chess world champion, Garry Kasparov, in a complete game of chess. But instead of giving up completely after being terribly beaten by a…

According to John F. Kennedy, “The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” This saying tells us that no matter what happens, the American people will never give up and will always have the willpower to fight for their freedom. Everyone is entitled to his or her own individual God given or natural rights like life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The American Revolution or The…

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is about making an assessment based on future outcomes. Prediction is indispensable to our everyday lives. The biggest problem with predicting about the future is even though you are forecasting the future the data it is based off is usually from the past. Just because you are able predict the past doesn’t mean you are able to predict the future. Silver demonstrates in this book how many prediction practices have been flawed and suggest ways that might…

To many people in Canada, particularly to the Metis of the Prairies, Louis Riel was undoubtedly a hero. Being of Metis heritage himself, Louis Riel stood up for his Metis people during some of their greatest hardships. In November of 1869, Riel composed the List of Rights for the Metis of the Red River territory to present to the federal government. The goal of the List of Rights was to establish the Red River area into confederation as the province of Manitoba, while guaranteeing the rights of…

Truancy is a problem that can have negative effects on people’s futures. It is known to be drawn to behaviours such as drugs, alcohol and violence (Garry, 1996). The behaviour chosen to conduct is Truancy or skipping class. The operational definition being used is absences where the student themselves indicated would be unacceptable and have no legitimate reason to be absent (Reid, 2015). Absences…

We all know that memory can be a very confusing topic to understand. Nevertheless, it is a very interesting topic. In certain studies that will be discussed further ahead, they talk about how memories are always disrupted when it comes to thinking or remembering certain things. These studies have been tested over many years but, the results may not always be certain. My group and I plan to reenter the topic of memory to find out how false memories come to be. It is important that we be able to…

This can be true to some extent. Mau (2015) writes about the experiences of now Elizabeth, then Garry, the first New Zealander to undergo full sex-change surgery from a man to a woman. The book states the experienced struggles lived on a daily basis by Elizabeth and the need for her voice to be heard over the discrimination she had felt by her family…