Gilroy

My grandfather was born in Gilroy, California, in 1939. At the age of eight, my grandfather moved to a ranch near the outskirts of Gilroy, where he lived in a one room shack with his mother, brother, and step-father. For seven years, my grandfather lived in that poor shack, where he had to cover the holes in the walls with newspaper or cardboard just to keep warm during the cold winters. Years later, my grandfather decided to make something out of his life, and enrolled at San Jose City college in 1972, and graduated in 1975 with an Associate degree. While enrolled in San Jose City college, my grandfather was offered an internship to work for the Santa Clara county in the investigation program unit. At first, it was very stressful for my grandfather,…

The Black Atlantic is an area commonly known for its history of exploitation. The Black Atlantic “represents the history of the movements of people of African descent from Africa to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas and provides a lens through which to view the ways that ideas about nationality and identity were formed” (The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy). The black Atlantic was a culture born out of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonization. In the book becoming African in America,…

University, describes the psychological pain of living through a paradigm change of his own. Gilroy described the dissonance produced from his acceptance of the academic contradictions between his teaching, writing and his experience in the department of teacher education (Edwards et al., 2002). The experiences described above created an environment that allowed my understanding of education to change, not as accretion, but through a revolution. In the following pages, I will describe further…

Paul Gilroy introduced the concept of the ‘Black Atlantic’ in his 1993 novel The Black Atlantic:Modernity and Double Consciousness as he describes a counterculture to European modernity and modernism. Gilroy’s thesis argues against essentialist versions of racial identities and nationalisms and rather emphasizes the concept of a shared culture, relatable to a majority of diverse communities around the world. He proposes the idea of the Atlantic to be treated as “one single, complex unit of…

Plot Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) is a thieving loner who roams the streets Los Angeles in search of a job. After witnessing cameraman, Joe Loder (Paxton) recording police officers saving a woman from a car wreck and selling the video to a local news company, Lou realises the potential job opportunity as a ‘Nightcrawler’. Review Similar to De Niro’s portrayals of Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) and Rupert Pupkin (The King of Comedy), Lou is an ambitious individual who is prepared to go to sickening…

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia as PJP first came into attention Central and Eastern Europe during WWII as malnourished and premature infants began to suffer from a case of interstitial pneumonia (Bennett and Gilroy, 2016). The disease then came into the forefront in the medical world with the outbreak of malnourishment of Iranian children in the 1950s (Stringer et al, 2002). In 1981, there were 5 reported cases of homosexual men suffering with PJP as well (Bennett and…

He 's better this time ... (Gilroy,24). Although the scene in the movie is humorous and a bit sarcastic, the point of the scene is to address the stereotypes concluded about Native Americans; as well as, feature the perception Native American have on white people. The audience can also see the “Humor, social commentary, and the powerful relationship between filmic representation and American Indian identity” (Gilroy, 24-25). The scene drastically draws the distinction between the two…

The coronary veins are responsible for collecting the oxygen-depleted blood which is a result of the exchanging of oxygen-rich blood within the capillary beds of the myocardium. The three major coronary arteries associated with coronary circulation are the small cardiac vein, the middle cardiac vein, and the great cardiac vein. These three coronary veins ultimately join to form the coronary sinus which is essentially an enlarged vessel that allows for venous blood to be emptied into the right…

Death and Revenge: A Comparison Death, revenge, “accidents”… What causes silent insanity? “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about Montresor and Fortunado. Montresor and Fortunado are acquaintances, but one night Montresor asks Fortunado to sample his new cask of Amontillado. This leads them both down into Montresor’s catacombs, which leads to Fortunado’s demise by Montresor. The modern story, Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy, spotlights a struggling Lou Bloom who decides to start…

for their entire working lives, earning pensions and raising families without the need for large raises or the need to seek employment elsewhere. They learned most of their knowledge at work and were largely blue-collar in nature. Manufacturing and agriculture dominated the landscape during these years, times when learning on the job meant having a skillset to operate a specific piece of machinery or follow company procedures to produce a product. However, as the manufacturing economy has…