Glenn Close

In this digital age, all aspects of life have become more high-tech, especially the journalism industry. Multimodal articles, text articles heavily incorporated with various modes of communication such as pictures, videos, audio clips, and graphs, have greatly increased in popularity in recent years. Multimodal articles enhance the reading experience for a variety of topics, however crime stories are an area where multimodal articles can truly improve the reader’s experience while reading the…

I come from a relatively normal Swiss family. I was born and raised in the southern part of Switzerland, right in between of the Swiss Alps. My dad was married a first time when he was twenty years old and got two children. When he was forty-four, he met my mother who was “only” twenty-five years old. They had me about a year after their wedding and my brother arrived six years later. They had a happy marriage but after fifteen years, I guess the age difference was too big for both of them and…

Social Justice is the equality of the people in relation to their society, the way human rights are practiced and perceptible at every level of society. A social injustice, is when those rights, are taken away, questioned or neglected. One social injustice frequently overlooked, is the stigmatization of mental illness. One in four people, in the world, will be diagnosed with a mental illness, and 450 million people, worldwide, presently suffer from a mental illness, these numbers by themselves…

were politically and economically aligned with the Soviet Union. This allowed Soviet aligned countries to stop relying on American aid and reorganize their trade to go the USSR instead. In mid-2009 foreignpolicy.com published an article written by Glenn Hubbard entitled, Think Again: A Marshall Plan for Africa, in this article Hubbard states the great benefits of what America did at the end of World War II, using the Marshall Plan. He then goes on to explain the benefits of creating a second…

the use of their customs or culture by…others who do not belong to those groups”. I believe that what Lionel said about cultural appropriation came from a place of privilege and ignorance, because she has never experienced it before. 7. Meet New Glenn, the Blue Origin Rocket That May Someday Take You to Space Daniel Victor, Sept 12th, 2016 The prospect of space travel has always excited me and I found this article very intriguing. Although regular space travel will not be immediately…

The seasons of playing sports as a child and young adult are limited but the impact on one's self and the memories will last forever. Each child between the ages of 4-16 should play sports while growing up. By playing sports throughout the early years of life, it allows children to be physically active, as well as be educated on their decisions related to health. Unfortunately, there are many people who believe sports cost too much money. However there are more positive impacts than negative…

You see your friend at the grocery store, baby in tow. You know it is a boy because of the blue clothing. Perhaps this goes unquestioned, a preconceived idea that is drilled into our heads throughout our lives, baby boys wear blue and baby girls wear pink. Gender roles are heavily influential in modern society, to the point where they are often simply taken in stride. Our gender influences everything we do in some form or another. As an ever-developing population, humans are beginning to…

Fairy tales have changed dramatically throughout the years. Think of a well-known fairy tale that you grew up with… Now think about how many different versions of that fairy tale you have seen or heard over the years… One of the first fairy tales that I remember is Little Red Riding Hood. The first version of this fairy tale was written in 1697… however since then the story has been retold many times with each author using different plots, settings, themes, characters and techniques to retell…

Unit 6 Writing Celibacy by definition is the state of not being married; abstention from sexual intercourse; abstention by vow from marriage. The practice of celibacy has been directly linked to many religions throughout history. Because, celibacy is a series of actions undertaken to discipline and control the body, many religions felt like it was a way to become one step closer to purity. Let’s place the microscope on the long shared history of celibacy in Christian practice. The practice of…

complex systems running near-realistic graphics. Many of these changes only became possible as the hardware they ran on became more powerful. As time progressed, processors became able to handle demands whereas earlier processors couldn’t even come close. It would seem that hardware limitations ultimately had held back video games, and only now are we beginning to see their true potential. However, I would argue that it’s not that simple. Sometimes limitation can be helpful. As I will show…