Journeyman

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” - Cormac McCarthy, American novelist While often deemed ugly and flawed, scars really are a testament to what one has been through and serve as proof to healing and growth. Only brought up nineteen books into Homer’s Odyssey, the scar on Odysseus’ leg is an extremely important factor that reveals many of the themes of the second half of the epic. Hoping to gather information about her lost husband, Penelope, Odysseus’ faithful…

Social stratification is everywhere, even in different forms of societies, such as capitalist, communist or mixed. Social stratification can be understood as a system that a society ranks categories of people in hierarchy. A person social class in based on births and achievements in life and an individual position within class structure shows social status. Social stratification is a society that ranks people and Marx and Weber both have different ways of how they view social stratification.…

Jessica Burge Dr. Rider LL 350 11/04/2014 Gender Roles in the Whilhelmine Period Germany was known as a country of many of things before world war one but many people remember the drastic change in gender roles pre-world war one and post-world war one. I have found multiple sources that have described the roles, which both men women and children followed. It might even surprise someone how different grown women and men's gender roles were different from the children gender roles. The…

the test as he trained in both extremely warm and cold temperatures. After receiving his basic training, he became a PFC. PFC stands for “Private First Class” and this rank is achieved when a junior enlisted soldier transition from apprentice to journeyman by developing technical and leadership skills. (Military.com) He was then transferred to Fort Polk Louisiana for advanced infantry training. Fort Polk Louisiana became a major infantry training center for the US Army in 1962, and sent more of…

apart from the earlier romanticized depictions of European colonization, as seen in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This romanticized view of colonization is prevalent throughout Conrad’s novella as “the other” is encountered in the eyes of the journeyman, Marlow. Within both representations, the atrocious acts against the other occur primarily without any sign…

Introduction to Where I Work I am currently employed in The Canadian Armed Forces which is the unified armed force of Canada. This unified group consists of air, land and sea forces referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), I am in the Canadian Army. Personnel may belong to either the Regular Force or the Reserve Force, I am a regular forces member, simply meaning I serve full time. Some reserve members may serve full time as well.…

Using various speeches and letters by famous activist movement leaders and the Divine-Breen text, I will compare the ideas, language, and common characteristics of two protest movements from the 1960’s by arguing that the Civil Rights Movement was more effective to bring forth change in USA. Tension filled the air between the protestors, while many citizens, white and black, stood with signs hanging around their neck to support the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling to…

Culture is what, how, and why we do the things we do. Culture is practices we do in our daily lives. It is the meanings that we create and materialities that mold our interactions. Culture is realized through our interactions and is self-governed, performed, and enacted. There are 6 building blocks that form what we know today as culture: 1. Norms, Values, and Beliefs 2. Frames and Symbolic Boundaries 3. Cultural Repertoires, Scripts, and Ideas/Knowledge 4. Discourses and Narratives 5.…

Flossie Fuller Carothers Branchcomb was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Benjamin and Susan Fuller. As a child she didn’t experience many effects of living in the Jim Crow south due to a very protective father who often shielded her and her sibling from that. It wasn’t until her adult years that she began to notice the magnitude of the Jim Crow south. This new revelation pushed her to join the movement of African American people fighting for equal rights and opportunities for the people of their…

Hard work and dedication In the TED talk video, “Danger of a single story” Adichie states “stories matter, many stories matter”. I also believe the stories matter; because your stories make up who you are. I also believe your stories can shape other people’s stories. When you are young your parents stories start to shape your story. The story of who I am began on March 27th 1971, I was born at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene, Oregon to my parents; Roy and Virginia. I have only one sibling, my…