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You probably heard India has multiple languages, and its culture is really important to it. India is also known for their many festivals. India is the land of many festivals, they used to have 365 festivals in a year. India used to have a festival for everyday to bring life and enthusiasm to people. Nowadays, only important festivals are celebrated and during the festival people gather around and, have many activities. An Indian festival means bring culture back and teach the next generation…

The Pragmatic Programmer Ethan Rhodes CS-221-1: Book Report October 3, 2017 Body A Pragmatic Philosophy The Cat Ate My Source Code A Pragmatic Programmer is distinguished among their peers by attitude, style, and the philosophy of approaching problems and their solution. The Pragmatic Programmer takes responsibility for their work, and isn’t afraid to admit ignorance or error. When they take responsibility for an outcome, they’re willing to be held accountable for it. “The Cat…

The need for power and control, something that someone would die for. Throughout life people have a certain amount of power and control, some more than others. Some people would go great lengths to keep, or get more of, the power and control they posses. There are many different forms of power and control, it may be a dynamic, the law, or anything in between. The author of Montana 1948, explores the need and want of power through wildly different characters who each have their own personality…

President Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States, who served from March 1861, to his untimely death in April 1865. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. He was born to Nancy and Tom Lincoln. He had one sister, Sarah, who was more commonly known as Sally. The family had a very successful farm in Kentucky, but as the years went by, the Lincoln family discovered the law did nothing to protect them and their family’s farm from poachers. Tom had no choice but to…

Food is what we all need to sustain life on this planet. The major question is what foods are good and how much do we need to eat. Michael Pollan hits on major issues about the american diet over the last one-hundred years. He talks about how the industry has changed and the effects on society today. The times in life where america was feeling great and times like today where we could use a little help. Food is made up of all different types of things. Do you have any idea what you are eating?…

Media controls the way a society thinks. It controls what people see or don’t see, what people know and don’t know about any and all topics. All of it depends on the media consumption and what the media decides to release. It can be twisted to fit anyone’s personal opinion or point of view and can make whoever reads it, think in a guided way. It creates ideas, opinions, presumptions and judgments. Media is such an important source of information that often times does not get looked into any…

After the Vietnam War many former-soldiers came back from combat with stories that would bewilder the psyche of any common citizen. These stories highlight the extreme difference between the lives of a soldier both at home, and in the horrific situations of a field of combat. In Tim O’ Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried accurately conveys the removal that former soldiers felt by being ripped away from home by explaining with exquisite word choice and diction, the fear and horror that young…

He still rode Rosco around the farm to supervise workers. It was imperative that the workers pick and husk the required quota of coconuts for export and have ready, three hundred gallons of milk for sale each day. The viability of the farm depended on the sale of those commodities. Workers reaped from the mango, banana, avocado and other fruit trees on…

Victor Frankenstein and Zeena Frome both had needs, wants, and dreams. The two are almost total opposites when coping with their desires and wants, and have different outcomes based off their decisions. Victor’s balancing of his innermost desires, or ID, his dreams and needs grew into a festering wound in his soul that could be cured with only one purpose: destroy the evil that he created. Zeena, on the other hand, seemed fixated on regression, and depended on others to do everyday living for…

The state of Zacatecas, located in the north-central portion of the Mexican Republic, is a land rich in cultural, religious, and historical significance. With a total of 75,040 square kilometers, Zacatecas is Mexico's eighth largest state and occupies 3% of the total surface of the country. With a population of 1,441,734 inhabitants, Zacatecas depends upon cattle raising, agriculture, mining, communications, food processing, tourism, and transportation for its livelihood. Although much of…