Joseph Severn

the definition and concept of citizenship within our class and other Social Studies Education classes here at Teacher College. The common discussion in all of these classes has been, what kind of citizen are we trying to prepare. Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne in What Kind of Citizen?, discuss three types of citizenship that come out of social studies instruction, those are personally responsible, participatory and justice oriented. According to Westheimer and Kahne these are the types of…

By definition, entrepreneurship is the activity of setting up a business or businesses, in response to a need or opportunity seen in society. Now, some people view a small business and entrepreneurial venture as the same thing, however they are completely different. A small business by definition is an independent business having fewer than 500 employees that do not engage in any new or innovative practices and has a low impact on its industry. Then, an entrepreneurial venture is when an…

Everyone in life has their own purpose. That purpose is in the form of a career. My purpose is entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a person who organizes and manages any enterprise. Pertaining to entrepreneurship, I chose this career for many reasons. The biggest reason is that I have always enjoyed business related classes. Classes such as accounting, economics, and business and management. Another reason is because being an entrepreneur means you’re a leader. I want be a role model for the…

1940’s until the early 1950’s America was run by fear. The second Red Scare was running through the streets of America, an effect of the Cold War. A person could be found a Communist with little more than hearsay against them. A senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, and the head of the FBI at the time, J. Edgar Hoover, would become infamous for many questionable treason trials and guilty verdicts. The 1957 movie 12 Angry Men focuses on the Judicial System of the United States and reassures…

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, is about Marlow, a European going to the Congo to work for an ivory company to find one man, Kurtz; he has been out of sight for a while when the reader first hears about him. This book expresses views on both imperialism and racism. Although there is not a lot of substance to the book does not mean it is not worth anything. Heart of Darkness shows the reader events and facts about the Congo one should know to really understand it. Shows how bad the…

Howard W. Campbell Jr. How does someone distinguish a person’s real identity from the person they are pretending to be? In the novel Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut creates Howard W. Campbell Jr. who is a Nazi and an American Spy. In the introduction of the book Campbell states, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be” (Vonnegut v). Campbell pretends to be a Nazi and his propaganda become well known around the world. He sits in an Israeli prison awaiting his…

Research on in the field of entrepreneurship has been enduring for decades. Richard Cantillon was the first scholar who defined the word entrepreneur in an economic subject, in the 18th century. The men, who are the risk-taker, act as arbitrageurs and utilize resources to establish new businesses is called entrepreneur (Cantillon, 1952). Fred Wilson stated that entrepreneurship is the art or specialty of turning ideas into a business organisation (Barringer &Ireland, 2010). Entrepreneurship is a…

The calling for gold is actually the hidden calling for Milkman’s hero’s journey “Road of Trial” (Campbell). Milkman’s hero journey started out as a quest looking for gold, but instead he encounters trials that ultimately brought him to a higher stage of mind. On his trip to the Deep South, Milkman encounters “a series of tests, tasks, or ordeal that the person [hero] must undergo to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests” (Campbell). Furthermore, the…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness works as a frame story for the main character: Marlow. Unbound from the world and tightly knotted into his own thoughts, Marlow struggles to grip onto anything that is reality. He and his team nearly approach the Inner Station as he aimlessly scans his surroundings. Irked by the lack of civilization, Marlow finds it hard to understand why he sees “neatly stacked wood-pile” (37). He is often vague and confused in his storytelling. Therefore, it is of no surprise…

What are the characteristics of a hero? Does a hero have to have a power, great looks, and are privileged? Does every hero have to be a hyper masculine male who go to a far off land to battle monsters? In movies and novels, heroes are depicted as a perfect hyper masculine male who is considerably perfect in all aspects from the moment of their birth. Going beyond the movie and novel realm, in the modern world most people’s concept of a hero is fairly narrow. Rarely do most people concern…