Imaginary unit

C. Wright Mills in The Real World points out that “the sociological imagination is a quality of the mind that allows us to understand the relationship between our individual circumstances and larger social forces” (12). For instance, in 2008, in China, one of my friends could not find a job. She thought that she did not have the right skills, education background, and good experience. Then she used the sociological imagination to analyze this situation; according to the larger social and…

Ride Along During and after my experience, I realized how similar and accurate the material learned in class was to what police officer experience in a typical day. I was able to participate in the Fullerton police ride along program, on April 8th from 10am-6pm, under Officer Lopez’s shift. Before arriving for the scheduled ride along, one needs to submit a waiver form. The form was not available online or the community service bureau not opened 24 hours, this created a delay in setting up the…

rebellious ideas. Responses to the square root of minus one represent responses to imagination and individuality. The number disgusts D-503 as a child. “I don’t want √-1! Take √-1 out of me!” he cries (Zamyatin 39). Mathematically, √-1 is “i”, the imaginary unit. It is not…

schoolmates, his obsession with Charlie Brown, and the history of the comic series Peanuts. The four pages I will focus on are 628-631. The purpose of each paragraph was to introduce each character, the pivotal situation that affected his family unit, and how the day after the fight between his parents and brother Tom, played out. Jonathan’s father is a stern man with his own plans for his children. He likes things his way and it doesn’t matter…

apparent power. 1.1.1 Active Power “Power is a measure of energy per unit time. Power therefore gives the rate of energy consumption or production. The units for power are generally watts (W). For example, the watt rating of an appliance gives the rate at which it uses energy. The total amount of energy consumed by this appliance is the wattage multiplied by the amount of time during which it was used, this energy can be expressed in units of watt-hours (or kilowatt-hours). …

In the book Debt, by David Graeber, Graeber provides an alternative to the narratives economist want society to believe. One being the idea that money, a unit for measure, was established after the barter system is a view that Graeber characterizes as a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is terribly incorrect. (21) The idea that individual traded item for item runs into a few conflicts which explains the creation of money. For instance, say one neighbor has cows, and the other…

diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Nash has a hard time juggling his schizophrenic delusions and his studies. A couple of medical treatments were used to help. Additionally, Princeton University, Alicia and Nash’s friends, work together as a support unit to help Nash with his mental illness. They provide a loving and familiar environment to help his recovery. The movie depicts mental illness as terrifying, confusing, and threatening. The audience is shown what hallucinations are and how…

Jewish ancestry and sojourn in three countries – Europe, Asia and North America got her the much theorized label “diasporic” to her subjectivity and oeuvre. Unlike many diasporic writers Jhabvala does not reconstruct a Europe she had lived in as an imaginary homeland or a delineation of the community of her ethnic origin (Jewish) in her adopted homeland, India. Indeed it is India which primarily occupies the writer’s imagination. Viewing the country from the standpoint of an outsider among…

During the Vietnam War, an unfortunate 58,220 American casualties were reported by the U.S. government (Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal chart 1). In The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien weaves a tale about a unit of men who hope to avoid becoming just another one of the numbers. The story, which is centered around First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, takes place near the village of Than Khe during the Vietnam War. At this time in life, Jimmy is struggling with what he interprets as affection to and from…

Today the stories of slavery is a subject of immense scholarly and popular inquisitive on both side of the Atlantic, causing an astonishing abundant worth of print and media surveillance. The gradual progressions of the Slave system flourish across the Atlantic were made feasible by the administered transportation. The institution of the Royal African Company of London played a dominant impact in establishing the trans-Atlantic Slave trade. To understand the phenomenal surrounding slaves we most…