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DIFERENCIAL “Nadie es capaz de señalar el lugar del cerebro dónde se desarrollan las buenas ideas.” This quote extracted from Miguel Delibes’ novel, from the fifties, ‘El Camino’, reflects how the brain has long-time been known to be the organ where intelligence inhabits, though no one has ever been able to precisely allocate where those ‘good ideas’ come from. The uncertainty surrounding this brain-intelligence dimension will consequently be exposed and discussed. Professor Hunt probably makes…

Memoirs of a Geisha This report is about the film “Memoirs of a Geisha” which portrays the life of Chiyo, a young Japanese girl, who was sold to a geisha house, in Kyoto in the 1930s because of her family’s financial difficulties. Her geisha training is almost near to the life of slavery. Chiyo finds herself working as a maid to a despiteful geisha naming Hatsumomo. Chiyo’s unique beauty attracted Hatsumomo’s jealousy. Hatsumomo then made little Chiyo’s life miserable. One day, as Chiyo weeps by…

In The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald depicts the struggle and the desire for wealth of those who want to reach the high social status, as well as the excessiveness of the wealthy class. In the novel, the temptation of money is the basis of the immoral lives that the majority of the characters lead. The lust for wealth leads to the corruption of fundamental ideals as equality and freedom. Money and material goods determine success in society, creating division and iniquity among people.…

Innovative and Iconic Cipe Pineles During the worst depression this country has ever known, a 20-year- artist named Cipe Pineles walked around New York trying to sell her paintings of sandwiches and Coca-Cola bottles. Little did Cipe know that this adventurous year would get her a job with Contempora and she would become the first art director of a mass-market American publication. These accomplishments did not come easy for Cipe and here is how it all began. Austrian-born Cipe Pineles…

Americans are unaware that the first beauty pageant in America originated in 1854, 66 years before women could even vote. Since then, beauty pageants have been extremely detrimental to our society in many ways, although they may seem like nothing but glitter and glam. I believe that beauty pageants are exploitive because they promote the idea that women are just bodies that can be rated on a scale from 1 to 10, which causes society to believe women are nothing more than their appearance, it also…

An idea of 'Do what you love’ which is working on a job that a man really has a passion in is now being on spotlight. There are many books, TV shows, and Facebook pages with thousands of likes which tell the readers and audiences of how good and happy they would feel when they are working on a job they love and also encourage them to find and work in what they really love. Nevertheless, the idea of ‘Do what you love’ is not all new. It was introduced in 19th century by an American philosopher…

Introduction Manju Kapur is one of the most distinguished Indian English writers of the contemporary times. She has been able to make a mark with her five novels written in the last two decades. Her stories mostly hover over frustrations, refusals, retaliations and breach of conventional expectation. The Immigrant, published in 2008, is her fourth novel. With her profound understanding of human nature, Kapur discusses a wide range of issues in this work of hers. Commenting on the themes of…

The Stereotypical Infamy of Sexual Expression in Belly Dancing “Danse du ventre” translating specifically to belly dance, dates back to 25,000 B.C. In ancient Egypt and India, the paintings of pregnant women found on stone walls and terracotta statuettes of people in poses that portrayed dancing were the first archeological facts to be coined as connected to belly dancing. “Middle Eastern dance (aka belly dance) is an ancient and expressive form of movement, associated with feminine and…

“Je t’aime ma princesse Sierra” As a little girl, I always smiled when reading these words when opening a birthday card or christmas card from my grandmother. The cards were always beautifully decorated with glitter and artwork of princesses in tall castles on big hills. My grandmother loved tales of knights and princesses, and would always read me the French translations of many common stories. She was always so wild and energetic, always wanting to go out and do something. My mother would…

In the movie "The Bad Seed" Rhoda began the movie as portraying a perfect little girl that really loved her family. But as they say, everything that glitters isn 't gold; which was absolute true for the beginning of this storyline. Rhoda wasted no time in showing her split personality as soon as her family was not looking. She made sure to belittle Leroy and be mean to him when ever they were alone. The little girl admitted to killing people multiple times throughout the movie because they would…