Iteration

Hip-hop is a historically black genre of music, with different iterations almost everywhere in the world now. If you turn on your car radio on the way to work it’s likely that you’ll hear a popular hip-hop song. You may even come across street performers having a rap battle. Either way, it’s one of the most common genres today. Hip-hop is a genre dedicated to telling stories of hardship in a poetic form. Music has always been a form of expression, but hip-hop brought a new level of storytelling…

Justice as Human Flourishing If enlightenment values of the seventeenth century gave us progress and modernity gassed it away in Auschwitz and blew it up in Nagasaki, then the postmodern condition leaves us fractured at best, despairing at worst. The twentieth century is a fragmented painting of the center falling out with nothing holding it together. From cubism to impressionism objects lost their form, language and phenomenon were reduced to text; ideas were broken apart and heterogeneously…

Fatal transgression: Dorian Gray as a symbol of symbolic insupportability Presented with the task of understanding socially constructed self in The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is virtually impossible to evade the questions of gender and sexuality. In the years since its publication, Dorian Gray’s depictions of homoeroticism have garnered much speculation, controversy, and reinterpretation. The aim of this paper is to address commentary on constructions of normative gender behavior, and how…

from a political, rather than religious perspective, we begin to see parallels between this decade and the interwar period. Just as Hitler sought to expand the German State through the ideology of lebensraum; the Islamic State, and it previous iterations, seek to establish a global Islamic Caliphate. Hence, The Caliphate’s center of gravity is its ability to hold and expand terrain, enabling the spread of a political ideology known as “Islamism”, which has demonstrated an ability to influence…

In 1839, Breitkopf & Härtel published Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. Schumann conceived the piece in early 1836. The first iteration of Op. 17 was a one movement piece titled Ruines. Ruines was Schumann’s cathartic expression of the fatigue of separation from his love, Clara Wieck. After several alterations of the piece--in the effort to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven--Schumann expanded Ruines to three movements, mulled over a series of titles, and ultimately settled on…

The Entertainment Industry plays a huge role in our culture and society today. It is a tool that can be used to inform, voice opinions, and promote products using hidden advertising and product placement. The entertainment industry is very powerful and influential to its audiences. One obligation that the entertainment industry has failed to provide is the politically correct portrayal of minority actors. It is argued that the dominate race in the entertainment industry is white actors, which…

isodensity surface (IPCM) Less arbitrary than spheres on atoms. Cavity changes with electron density and environment. The default density value is 0.0004. occurred only by single point calculations. Self-Consistent Isodensity model (SCIPCM):in which iterations are folded in SCF issues regarding scaling of charges still remain[9]. Onsager Model: Spherical cavity dipolar reaction field, no constructing of the cavity surface elements, because the Poisson equation is solved analytically. Solute…

“applepicker” is the subject who is aggressively endeavoring to acquire the object, despite the physical impracticality. The incompleteness of the simile allows the readers to relate to the feelings the subject is experiencing, during this longing. The iteration of the word ‘high’ is used to emphasize how inferior the subject is to the desired object. The “highest branch” symbolizes someone of utmost power, importance or beauty, while also asserting a dominance over the other branches. In the…

Summarize the basic argument/idea you set forth in this project. In my “The Effects of Western Education” essay, I argued that Western education taught to a second generation unintentionally alienates those who have access to it and those who do not. I incorporated my own life experiences because my siblings and I are the first in my Chinese family to attend an American school. Throughout the essay, I utilize the “Achievement of Desire” essay to back up my ideas because I was able to connect…

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Problem Summary Angry Birds is a popular video game where the task is to shoot birds with different properties from a slingshot at a structure that houses pigs and to destroy the pigs. The structure can be very complicated and can involve a number of different object categories with different properties. The game and the structure largely observes the laws of physics and it is possible to infer how the structure will change when hit at a certain position. The…