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also exhilarating to live in the midst of the region’s natural beauty. With stunning mountain ranges, freshwater lakes and evergreen forests, Seattle puts every community within minutes of every kind of ecology. For outsiders, Seattle often evokes images of rainy days, fleece jackets and streets lined with coffee houses. While Seattleites certainly enjoy their lattes, the city actually gets less annual precipitation than New York and Boston. Even during overcast days, Seattle remains one of the…

enlighten, and to defy logic and reason. Photography can be both intellectual and innovative concurrently. Throughout history the use of photography can be seen for both purposes. Unintentionally or deliberately photography can frequently be seen using images to depict certain aspects about the society, culture, era, or decade in which it is created. This includes the attitudes towards gender roles throughout time and whether or not they are correct. Some of the photographers who have used the…

INTRODUCTION The tobacco industry contributes a large number of taxes to the federal government, and the tobacco firms offer many job opportunities to the entire society. The total ban movement of the tobacco consuming faces strong resistance from many political groups. The community, tobacco manufacturers, federal government, consumers, and the employees of the tobacco firms are different stakeholders. The tobacco is harmful to human health. These stakeholders create an interest entity…

Louise’s reason to want freedom. For example, the image of her heart physically and mentally demeans her freedom because it troubles her life. (Jamil 216) Her heart exemplifies the desire to find freedom; yet, her heart symbolizes her love for her husband, who demeans her freedom because he traps her in their relationship. Moreover, her heart physically represents her heart disease because she suffers from her relationship and her health. Additionally, the image of nature symbolizes her actions…

exact same scenario but with two white New Orleans residents instead, it said: “Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans…” (AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen). Based on this, it demonstrated how journalists used stereotypes about blacks. When journalists saw the white residents with food, they didn’t think of them as looters, but rather that they found the food, while in the…

There are concerning effects debating to legalize marijuana as the government leads marijuana in a positive or negative way, but benefits states that have legalized it and why it is legalized before any other drugs. The pros of legalizing marijuana gives an effect to citizens in America because it benefits those who are sick with cancer and get seizures. It has been proven to help individuals who have depression. The American Cancer Society states that study shows smoking marijuana helps…

are in a higher social class because they had earlier royalty in their family, and they are a wealthier family. However, throughout Persepolis, social classes change because of the new change in government (Fundamentalism). The photo at left by Getty Images portray the social classes in Iran. Like the picture shows there is a lot of people at the bottom of the classes, and with the new change in government to and Islamic regime, the people at the bottom of the pyramid are the people who are…

Ever since the beginning, certain people feel like they are more deserving / have more power over others. In particular, white people have been seen as most guilty for this. Although African Americans have come a long way from being slaves, they still face discrimination every day. White people often believe that they are not being racist when in fact they are. It is the ways that white people are unaware of being racist and the use “white talk” and micro aggressions as well as being…

Beneath a rocky slope in central Jordan lie the remains of a 10,000-year-old village called Ain Ghazal, whose inhabitants lived in stone houses with timber roof beams, the walls and floors gleaming with white plaster. Hundreds of people living there worshiped in circular shrines and made haunting, wide-eyed sculptures that stood three feet high. They buried their cherished dead under the floors of their houses, decapitating the bodies in order to decorate the skulls. But as fascinating as this…

Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. London: Reaktion, 2006. This book helped know more about Japanese cuisine. "Flags of Japan and Germany Overprinted the Two Hands." Getty Images. Accessed May 03, 2016. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/handshake-between-japan-and-germany-royalty-free-image/504599899. This picture helps me visually explain the relationship/Cultural blending between Japan and Germany. "Japan and Germany: Worlds Apart and Yet so…