Gauntlet

not know is how heavily involved he is. Jose is a member of the Beta Beta Phi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, the media chair for Collegiate 100, the Vice President of the Haitian Student Organization, and is going be a facilitator for the Leadership Gauntlet this upcoming spring semester. However, Jose’s biggest focus right now is March of Dimes, as he serves as the president for the UWF chapter this year. March of Dimes is here on campus to help raise awareness for premature babies. Jose explained…

This paper sets out to analyze, through André Brink’s The Rights of Desire, white South Africans’ resentment over the new dispensation in South Africa. Even though the race-based ideology of apartheid was devisedand implemented by people of Afrikaner extraction, there were many amongst white South Africans who were relentless in their scathing condemnation of the immorality of institutionalized racism. André Philipus Brink, Nadine Gordimer, J.M.Coetzee and BreytenBreyten Bach, to name but a few,…

gamer most of my life, from the PS1 to the Xbox 360. I enjoy a wide variety of games which I play depending on the mood I am in. The sort of games I play are psychological games such as Alice: Madness Returns; 80s arcade games such as Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, and Defender; and Sandbox games such as Minecraft. I like some of these games because they are unique, like Alice: Madness Returns, and others because of how retro they are, like the 80s…

In the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” It has been proven time and time again that humans are social creatures at heart; without meaningful connections to others, they will wither and perish. Despite this, many are unable to forge such connections, and instead place boundaries around themselves, like many characters do in…

In the books, The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction and The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction, both authors provide their readers with the significant characteristics of the Aztec and Roman empires and also the untold stories of how powerful these civilizations stood. The Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly, informs his readers of the Roman Empire. He emphasizes the challenges and achievements that this civilization has made. The Aztecs by David Carrasco, points out the wins of the Aztec…

by James Joyce, resides not in a fantasy world full of dragons and wizards, but in a fantasy-like state of mind that is set on the theme of escape. Joyce describes North Richmond Street as, “... dark muddy lanes behind the houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits…”(3); there is a reoccurring theme of darkness. The young narrator lives in this dark society, but he cannot face…

needs men that are. willing to make the hard call…I make sure that they don’t make it out on the street again.” The affirmation that he does indeed have a moral code comes with his commitment to only malicious criminals, unless climbing through a gauntlet of criminals is needed to get the top of the hierarchy. Criminals who are getting away because of loopholes or the endless exchanging of hands. This has driven him to his endless pursuit to bring down major criminals. The Punisher is very…

In Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, Edna Pontellier experiences a revelation about the lack of freedom she experiences as a woman in the 1890’s. The book covers her progression of thought and her transformation from repressed but yearning for freedom to her attempts at full freedom from society’s dictations, building up to her suicide. Chopin fills the book with underlying motifs that symbolize Edna’s gradual change, one of these being clothing. Edna’s awakening mirrors an alteration in…

A man of great height in leather and green cloth was brought into the throne room, oddly there was no struggle he just let him drag him across, the only people awaiting the man were 2 guards and the king, then the man was Thrown onto the ground, no grunt of pain from the impact however in front of the king then king saying "tis thou again". The man said"aye, this thou again 'my lord'" "Might I ask what hooligan thing was done this time" "I can not come to visit, can I" "Nay!" "Spoken like…

Every day the same propaganda is spewed out from the Government and schools, that “academic success” is the key to being successful in life. I want you to ask yourself if you truly believe that everything that you are doing to conform to this cookie cutter program, will give you want you later in life, not some preconceived idea of success that is defined by some larger organization with no investment into you as a person. German school systems have began to realize and take action upon a…