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Communication styles are often categorized on the basis of masculine and feminine differences. Within inter-gender communication these masculine and feminine communication styles interact; eliciting either positive or negative reactions dependent on the transmission. Masculine and feminine communicators value differing aspects of communication while trying to achieve differing end goals. Although communication styles are said to remain constant, it appears that within conflict communicators may…

Locke’s central thesis was that personal identity consists, not in sameness of substance, but in ‘sameness of consciousness’(Shoemaker on the Memory Theory). When something psychological like soul, memory and something immaterial etc. are assumed to account for persistence through time, which is the numerical identity between objects at different times(Seymour, Lecture 4/4), they are categorized as the non-physical accounts. In Locke’s view, consciousness was used as a synonym of memory…

James Alex Plunk February 23, 2017 FWS Literary Journalism Kindley Utilizing Narration Narration is the way in which writers communicate with the audience. Authors have multiple options when deciding how to narrate their stories. The way that they employ narration can affect how the writing comes across and can result in different responses from readers. An author’s choice in how he or she narrates their writing is directly correlated with their objective for the piece. This can be…

Within the play Julius Caesar, as an audience, we are asked to question every character’s virtue. As the play progresses these lines between good and bad men become increasingly blurred, making it harder for the audience to distinguish the wrong from the right. Ultimately it would appear that every character is filled with both evil and good and it seems as though throughout this play Shakespeare is trying to highlight the unrealism attached to such simplistic ideas. Within Medieval England…

In the world today there is police brutality, gang violence, and gun violence. People react to violence differently, some want to use guns as a way of protection while others hate guns and think that they are the problem with society. In the article “An Experiment in Empathy” by Lisa Miller the purpose of writing this article was to bring forth a very difficult topic, whether guns should be used or not. The people in the article talk about their personal experiences they have had with guns to…

The Way a Story is told: Surprising Points of Views in Sandra Scofield’s Swim Sandra Scofield’s new collection, Swim, contains three linked stories about a young, free-spirited woman who hitchhikes across the country. The main character is mostly nameless, but is referred to as Baby a few times. As we learn more and more about Baby throughout the stories, she remains both mysterious and captivating. What is peculiar about Scofield’s collection that I am interested in and will examine in this…

George Boiardi was the unsung hero of every team that he graced with his athletic ability. George was a Cornell lacrosse player up until 2004 when he lost his life mid game from a shot that hit him square in the chest. It wasn’t necessarily his statistics that impressed everyone George encountered, but rather his work ethic and the way that he held himself stood out to everyone. George was truly an inspiration to everyone on his team. A selfless, driven, class act that wanted nothing but…

Do I Die Die or Hypothetically Die? The central idea of Tim O 'Brien 's "The Things They Carried" is that it 's not always the physical baggage that 's bothersome, it could be the emotional baggage. The story was about U.S. troops in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers had to carry tangible and intangible objects. One of them died. After putting the blame on himself, the lieutenant tried to change his ways to prevent the deaths of his other troops. The lieutenant was Jimmy Cross and…

While nostalgic memory undoubtedly serves benefits humans, allowing for a nearness to times long gone, the point at which it interrupts daily life is its healthy limit. Regardless of the number of Polaroid pictures we dutifully take and save as reminders of our “glory days,” E. B. White reminds us that the chill of death comes suddenly and unapologetically, so it is better to have lived in the present than lingered in the…

We all know someone who 's had a child before they turned twenty one. Over two hundred thousand babies are born to mothers under the age of 20 in the U.S. The Mother Who Never Was by Lisa K. Buchanan is a story of a mother 's feelings years after surrendering her daughter only to find out she can no longer have children. Anna the protagonist can’t speak to her daughter and wants to know how she 's doing and who she is becoming as a person. The first person perspective allows the reader to fully…