International Mother Language Day

“Con trai, chúng tôi đang ở đây.” Those are the first few words my father spoke to gain consciousness upon landing in my parent’s holy majestic birthplace, Vietnam. Exhausted and excited, I replied back in a tiring voice to my father, telling him how I’m glad to be back in this glorious country in my native tongue, “Cuối cùng, tôi không thể tin rằng chúng tôi đang ở đây.” My father alongside with my mother gave a heartwarming smile towards me and I knew, this was going to be the greatest…

Confidently, I write to you in an effort to bring to your attention a novel that I believe will, in its reprint, aid a great number of students in their efforts to better understand the history of World War I. Erich Maria Remarque expertly wrote The Road Back and originally had it published in 1931 by Random House Trade Paperbacks in New York. Despite the success of the novel, its prequel All Quiet on the Western Front unintentionally dimmed it spotlight. I believe The Road Back can draw…

Critically examine the nature of sexual violence in contemporary conflict. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case study. Contemporary conflict can be viewed as a social process where two or more people seek to either threaten or destroy the opponent’s purpose, land, money or community. Despite progress in the modern world to defeat 'conflict ' and 'understand ' why it occurs, regression of particular states are still taking place. "20th century technology and bureaucratic…

Chinese - American Immigrants There are two topics I would like to talk about: education and immigration. Education played a crucial role in my life. Education is important to improve the level of national knowledge, update the living standards, get a decent work, gain a comfortable life, and help others. When I came to the United States, as a new immigrant I encountered many problems. For example, nobody could tell me how to do paper work, how to look for a good college and how to find a good…

others, Americans often believe that their culture is somehow richer than of those on the other side of the World – regardless of how advanced a nation is in the first place. But “exceptionalism” – as it has come to be known – does not appear in a day to night fashion. As a very contentious theme, exceptionalism needs to be explored and have its origins analyzed in order to further understand the conception of “cultural superiority” amongst Americans. In The Myth American Exceptionalism, Stephan…

an isolated event either. Huangdi, on many occasions had people killed just for being in association with a person who was against him. This stemmed from the intense paranoia he had, which many believe to have stemmed from the time when his own mother and Lu Buwei tried to take his power (Szczepanski). Because of this paranoia, Huangdi not only punished people who acted against him, but even just criticized him. Many scholars of the time, like Confucius, believed that Huangdi was a bad ruler…

“He sees people with curiosity, compassion, grace, and excitement; hears the voices of teenagers…” These are the words of Shailene Woodley, a well known actress who starred in many movies, including “The Fault In Our Stars”, a movie based on John Green’s number one New York Best seller’s book, The Fault In our Stars. John Green was born on August 24, 1977 and is still alive today at age 39. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the son of Mike and Sydney Green. Soon after he was born,…

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” was written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1968. There are a few different ways of analyzing a story I will be using three different styles to get a better understanding of the story and what I think the author meant the true meaning to be. First by looking into the life of the writer and the time period in which the story is written one can see the influences they had on the story, the second is to analyze the short story critically, and lastly is to look at…

Chapter 3: Pinter’s Political Activism and Political Plays Can art be separated from politics is a question which has been debated upon by many critics. Personally, I feel that since art is a representation of life, and politics in life begins when at least two individuals are involved, it can never be separated from politics. However hard an artist tries to separate his work from the tricky games of politics, his efforts turn out to be futile as the artist’s own idea in his work is a political…

She was an instant disappointment to her parents as they expected and hoped for a baby boy to help carry on the family name. Elizabeth tragically lost her mother at the young age of two, due to speculation of adultery, which led to a beheading of her, ordered by King Henry. This instruction from King Henry had a more detailed background; Henry needed a new wife to bear him a son, which was a task Anne could…