Your eyes are the door to your soul”, there many poems with these phrase, many believe that to trust someone you just must look into their eyes, and maybe that is truth. But to know from where someone came from, how they live and how they died, their eyes will not help because when we died they close forever, and in that moment when not even our faces are recognizable the truth about ourselves lies in our bones. People often think that our bones are not more than a part of our bodies that help…
Racial Profiling is where law enforcement uses a person race as the main factor in deciding rather or not to arrest them, pull them over, detain them, etc. (Regoli, R., Hewitt, J., & Delisi, M., 2014). In the recent past there have been several instances where possible racial profiling took a bad turn and ended in death a public uproar. On Saturday August 11th, Michael Brown a black teen was killed by a police officer (Chuck, 2014). Brown had no gun, was not violating any major laws (except…
Man is least himself when he talks, in his own person, Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth“ Oscar Wilde In San Diego, whenever there is trouble on the streets the public would know that there will be bright lycra rushing down to save the day. Mr. Xtreme will help if a party person gets lost, Vigilante spider will handle a large group that has gotten out of control, and Grimm will handle a citizen’s arrest. These real life super heroes are members of an elite and secretive group…
Prince of Persia (2010) perfectly demonstrates the use of the white race being seen as beyond ethnicity. It dehumanises the Persian people to a mere stereotype through the use of cinematic techniques and racial casting. The film is another example of white actors playing a role of a character they have no association with. In other words it is perceived as white washing. Unfortunately, this is a system that has been in place for many years thus making it impossible to pull apart. The casting of…
In New Orleans the origin of black population was diverse, being most of the time the western part of Africa or the Caribbean. It is in this diverse cultural context in which originated the appearance of musical styles as diverse as Jazz, Cajun music, Zydeco and blues. In many areas of the South of America the drumbeat was prohibited by law, in places like Georgia and it was forbidden the use of any musical instrument for part of the slaves. However in the early 19th century music festivals…
Music in film is something that everyone recognizes, be it the music of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones or “Eye of The Tiger” in Rocky 3. We recognize these musical pieces because they are in simple terms, remember able. But what about the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho? Originally this music, which is voted as one of the scariest movie theme tunes ever, wasn’t going to be in the film. The differences that the tune makes in the film are immense, as it draws a new picture into…
the water’, as the existence of water allows for life to grow, and more importantly, exist. This is reiterated in Rothschild and Mancinelli’s “observation that all terrestrial life requires liquid water during some phase of its life cycle (cited in Jones and Lineweaver 2010, p.349). NASA followed this observation, with Ed Weiler, NASA’s then Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate (NASA 2010), stating, “if you want to look for life, either fossilized life or existing life,…
and plot. Many of those shows have a male as the main character while the women are noted to be minor, yet important characters to the plot. That is not the case for the popular series Parks and Recreation (2009 - 2015). Based in small town Pawnee, Indiana the show centers around the life of government workers in the parks department. The series presents issues of feminism, and patriarchy. Parks and Recreation is unique in its category because of the cinematic way she show was filmed, the…
Bast (“The Kingkiller Chronicles”) Not taking part in the main story, Bast serves as a character of relative importance in the present day part of the story in Kingkiller Chronicles. He serves as a side character, an apprentice of the true protagonist relaying the tale of his life throughout the books. However, even while not being part of the main story, there are hints showing that Bast forwards the plot along, setting events in motion that would not have happened had he not been there. I…
Many people commonly associate archaeology with Indiana Jones, a risk taking adventurer who seeks distant lands to gather treasure. Booby traps and aggressive natives also concord with this instinctive fantasy. This is often not at all the case. Archaeologists are attributed to have curiosity, passion, determination and critical thinking skills. They take an unknown area of history and think to ask questions that no one has ever attempted to answer. How an archaeologist excavates an…