James Hurst

Brandon Garcia Professor Preston English 1302.43480 02 February 2016 The Unknown World: A Parallel World Mirrors have always fascinated man. Without mirrors or any reflective surface man would never see how they look like. Mirrors have been thought to contain a separate world behind the reflection. Hand with Reflecting Sphere is a lithograph made by Mauritis Cornelis Escher in the year 1935. Hands with Reflecting Sphere basically shows a hand holding a sphere with a reflective surface against…

Basketball was created by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was created to condition young athletes during cold months.It consisted of a peach basket and a type of soccer ball,but when he made it he only had 13 rules for it.The NBA started on this day in 1949, after a damaging three-year battle to win both players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association…

1. participatory democracy Process that gives importance to the large participation of voters. 2. constituencies an assortment of voters in a specific location who choose a delegate to a legislative branch 3. Federalists One of the first political parties to come into being (for America). From the mid 1790s to 1816, Federalist held the majority, and the party itself would endure until the 1820s. The Federalists controlled the central government until 1801…

Amid the lapse of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, he blurs the lines between androids and humans by enunciating humanities lack of its defining characteristics- love and compassion. Throughout the progression of the novel Philip K. Dick asserts that as technology ameliorates, humanity degresses to become as apathetic as the androids themselves. Having no trouble retiring (or killing) an android at the beginning of the novel, Rick Deckard's orientation transformed to…

Bringing the fiction characters to real-life is the power that every book, novel, comic fans definitely want to have. If I have that such kind of power, the character I want to bring to real-life is Batman, because he is the symbol of justice, a very smart person and dare to break the law and fight the bad guy even they are the government. Every comic and superhero movie fans in general and DC fans, in particular, know that Batman is the symbol of justice. He fights the bad guy who commits…

Problem In the Taoist religion, a central problem is from the three “worms” or “corpses” that reside within the body of every person. These worms are malevolent spirits who “long for the body to die and therefore perform mischief to try to hasten the adept's demise" (Eskildsen 1998: 49). To achieve this goal, the Worms perform all manner of evil to try to shorten the lifespan of the host. They invite sickness into the body, and cause many ailments to the body of their host. The worms also report…

Michel Bay’s film, The Island, is unique in the sense that movies aren’t similar in any genre. The characters Lincoln six echo and Jordan two delta are considered average citizens living in a very controlled environment. They are told what to eat, what to drink, when to wake up, and what to do for a living. The hardest thing to believe is that they are not allowed to ask questions. The Island, directed by Michael Bay tells a story about two characters that dare to question the world around…

main purpose of the art piece is to show that you can make an art project with things in your house. The court is a box of shoes, the hoop is a part of a water bottle, the ball is a rubber band one, and the person doing the “slam dunk” or ,Lebron James, is made up of styrofoam balls and a adjustable curly thing. The style that I chose you could say is more of a visual art piece. It is not something on a canvas, is something visual. There is no…

My Internship Since the beginning of the semester, I have intern at the YMCA. I was able to accomplish numerous of tasks while interning at the YMCA. For instance, the tasks were guest satisfaction, guest data management, score keeper for basketball and supervising/ working with children. The first task that I performed was by interacting with the customers. Being able to interact with them has helped me personally to grow as a human. For instance, being a shy person it really hard for me to…

I have chosen Scorpius as my favorite constellation as it is the constellation I was born under. Scorpius, Also known as "The Scorpion" Is one of the brightest constellations in our night sky. People born under this constellation from October 24th and November 22nd are known as Scorpio's. Scorpius neighbors include Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. One star that makes up Scorpius is the bright red star Antares which is one of the brightest stars in our night sky is also called the…