Humanities

Without delay, Francine Prose’s Hansel and Gretel adaptation caught me off-guard and drew me with an extraordinary introduction sentence. Many questions popped into my head as I finished reading that line and I had to go online to find the answers, dealing if having sex with an animal is illegal. I need a stronger word to describe how I felt about the information I uncovered about Beastiality/Zoophilia because disturbed doesn’t cut it. After reading the information, I sat there with my jaw…

“...You can jump between worlds with the same ease that you slide on your nightgown every evening.” (Hyppolite 102-103) There are many ways for someone to be from two cultures. Your environment and the people you surround yourself with can influence and shape you, and you may learn new things and adopt a different culture over time. After seeing the movie Somewhere Between and reading over the essay “Dyaspora”, we discussed the issues of heritage and culture in class, and it further broadened my…

Satire has always been a challenging subject for me ever since I can remember. I could never figure out what was too far and what was too little, my writing was all together just terrible. As I person I have always been serious, so no one would ever know if I was joking or serious. This was challenging obviously. But overcoming it was the best part. When we were presented with the original satire project I was filled with dread. The thought of having to be intentionally funny was extremely…

History is historian’s story and or perspective on history. Personal interpretation of history is dependent on life involvements and knowledge. This understanding may contradict with factual events however experienced events, results of past events that directly or indirectly affects a person’s life, and acquired knowledge affects the interpretation and accounts for the manner history is written by historians. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and A Different Mirror: A History…

Patrick Mirasol Ms. Kairis English 101 16 October 2015 Coates’ Use of Multimedia and its Function “We cannot escape our history” (Coates). Throughout history, groups of individuals have been persecuted for their beliefs, Interactive maps, images, and text formatting are all aspects of the visual aid that is seen in the article. … Coates uses multiple forms of multimedia and formatting in order to successfully support his argument for reparations. From the beginning of the article, Coates…

Aging through the decades of entertainment, music has always been a worldwide sensation that has evolved as a fascinating feature that appeals to most. Essentially, music has set its own trends as to why people listen to music. Some people are awakened through music by dancing, singing, relaxing, or just soaking in the melody of the songs. The music that people listen to has a meaning far beyond what the lyrics in a song are saying because it is the way a person is trying to interpret the lyrics…

The Cost of Freedom Imagine a world where you are suddenly an alien. Your life is ripped away, and everyone looks at you differently. Within the novel When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, Japanese-American people are segregated and incarcerated in camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The family that is described within this book is one of the unfortunate families that was ripped away from their home because of their heritage. To analyze their situation, Julie Otsuka uses many…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary desensitization is known as an act or process of desensitizing and has become a huge issue in our society. There are certain emotions that are triggered to react to certain events, but desensitization disrupts these healthy emotions and people become emotionless. After thinking about the process of desensitization, I realized how it is very prevalent in my life and in the lives of those around me. In many way desensitization through the media and…

African Aesthetics in America’s Finest City I travel with my mother across town to explore and expand our dancing horizons. Several dances are performed throughout the beautiful city of San Diego. We trek across a long road to a red tent, pick up our passes and join the other spectators at our first stop of the day. The seventeenth annual Trolley Dances brings people of all ages, ethnicities, and dance knowledge to one place to experience “America’s Finest City” and some of the city’s most…

In the article, "Henry Rodriguez: Preserving the Luiseño Tradition," Rodriguez talks about how oral tradition keep stories "alive and changing over time." Just for example, Rodriguez mentions a story about a "powerful song given" to him by an old man, and it was later on collected as "sets," as more elderly men are willing to share their songs. As a result, it created a bigger content of songs, having a far more interpretation of a subject. Just like in oral tradition, stories accumulate, it…