Half & Half

3 Reasons and a Half Why NYU and I are Perfect for Each Other 1: The Path to Physician-ship Volunteering for the past four years at my local hospital, my experience aiding the residents consolidated my dream of becoming a doctor. Acceptance into the Robert and Ellen Salant Pre-Health Program at NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences is an unparalleled opportunity for me to jump-start my path to becoming a physician. I know that NYU’s pre-professional medical…

Is the Glass Actually Half-Full? Is the glass half-empty or half-full? An age old question that reveals how one views the world. Everyone faces conflict, and can approach it in many different ways. Some methods work better than others, but one way proves to have the most beneficial results. “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” and “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” are two great selections that prove that conflict is best faced with a positive attitude. Facing conflict with optimism inspires…

portrayed as an emotional man when working to obtain Daisy Buchanan despite his tendency to objectify and degrade women. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald depicts Gatsby as more emotional and sensitive than some of the other characters. Kerr, in "Feeling ‘Half Feminine’: Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in The Great Gatsby" examines the effects of being a more feminine man in the 1920’s. “Gatsby's splendid dreams, like Daisy's tentative attempt to create a new and independent self, are no…

Half Caste child (1957) This artwork depicts a young white girl in clinging to an older black man while a black woman is crying in the background. This painting has a historical theme because it shows a child of mixed decent during a time when this was a bad thing. The lack of care she seems to get from the older man helps show this. This painting was painted after the Australian assimilation project when aboriginal people of mixed decent were to be assimilated into white society wether they…

The Film, Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age is written and directed by Dennis OʻRourke. The film was released in 1986 and won the Peace Film Award in Berlin later that year. The film gives a well-balanced insight on the impacts on the indigenous communities from the Castle Bravo nuclear testing of 1954, in the Marshal Islands. The film shows multiple perspectives of the event from personal accounts of the indigenous people, to military personal, and even US political leaders. Declassified…

Half The Sky I found this quote when i was reasearching more about genial cuting in cultures. “Are women human yet? If women were human would be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in countaniers into New York Brothel 's ? Would our genitals be sliced out to cleanse us?. When will women be human? When ?{- Catherine A. Mackinnon, Are Women Human? }. I felt like this was powerful quote with this book. It make a powerful statement with human trafficking and it made clear how women in other counties…

I just got done with my shift to protect Camp Half-Blood feeling very tired and stressed. With the camp’s protection being down and most of the campers going back to their families for the summer, this meant that there were very few of us to guard our safe haven. Not to mention I was still recovering from my broken ankle. I decided to take a walk down to the beach near the camp. Lately, I’ve found the sound of crashing waves, wind brushing through my hair, and the slight smell of salt hitting my…

could store electric energy to run an electric engine that could control the vehicles. The greatest point of interest with half breed autos is that they can produce power with the dynamic vitality it will generally squander amid applying brakes and when the vehicle is going downhill. In spite of the fact that an ordinary car will smolder fuel to control the breaks the half breeds…

to be both entertaining and informative. A book that is required to be read in high school should be written at a challenging reading level, possess a unique and intelligent main idea, and be entertaining to a high school audience. Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk by Ben Fountain not only is a perfect read for…

starting running! From August 29th through August 31st, Disney will be hosting the huge Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend. Everyone is invited to take part in the variety of events and even those who are not actively participating this weekend can cheer the participants on! This is a popular event as according to Karla Bruning of the webiste runkarlarun, "Last year, 15,872 runners finished the Disneyland Half Marathon and another 7,839 finished the Disneyland 10k." With a large amount of…