Knives

“The Atomic Bomb” Have you ever heard about photography? Photography is considered as one more art in our world, therefore you must treat and talk about it with respect. It basically consists on capture a unique moment and unrepeatable in time. Photography is too important for humanity because it has allowed us to know the past and learn about monstrous event of history. For example, in the book “Photography: A Cultural History” there is a photograph of the atomic bomb that only by seeing it…

Gangs and gang behaviour has become a general debate. However, when asked to describe a “gang” and its characteristic, most people would struggle to give an agreed definition on what constitutes a gang. In spite of this, the beginning of this book gave us a history of the “new” gangs of London. This book refers to them as the “New” gangs because as we have seen gangs are not a new phenomenon, but are deep rooted in our history. In establishing a definition, of who should be referred to…

Location Within the walls of a prestigous institute resides Sylver, allong with her room mates. Having been given one of the larger dorms, she and seven other people call it home. Around 900 square feet, the dorm is cut in half vertically, and then the left portion cut in half once again horizontally. The two rooms against the inital seperating wall are seperated into a hallway, wih the doors to the two rooms parallel to each other. A table sits at the end of the corridor underneath a bullitin…

The treatment of people with mental illnesses and handicaps has been a long lasting problem because of the misunderstandings of police, mental hospitals, and society. Many documentaries and movies have been made to show the lives lead in mental hospitals and institutions. News reports have talked about police shooting suspects who have been mentally ill. Most of these events could have been avoided if people could try and learn about mental illnesses, instead of hiding them away from the rest of…

Some critics argue that Conrad is exposing colonialism in his novel, one of those critics is H. S. Zins who claims that:" when Conrad was writing his anti–colonial and anti–imperial Heart of Darkness. In that African novella he described imperialism as robbery with violence" (1). This is true when he describes the Belgian colonization of Africa, but when he describes the British colonization he praises it and celebrating imperialism. Said in his book Culture and Imperialism states that: "Yet…

us to understand the situation before and during the First World War. Hermann Scheer’s work are mostly woodcuts, due to being prior to the invention of lino, and the sharp lines and ‘unclean’ texture are due to the sharp lines created by the crude knives and carving tools used to cut the woodblock. The monotone effect is also largely due to black being the cheapest ink available, and the social instability and uncertainty of threatened war largely impacted the economy of Germany at the time. The…

excerpt expresses a soldier’s thoughts it shows the reader how war affects a soldier mentally. Structure is also used to protest war in The Things They Carried which states, “Among the necessities or near-necessities were P-38 can openers, pocket knives…”(O’Brien). The use of lists shows a different perspective of the war. The lists of equipment and resources show how the soldiers were prepared for the grueling conditions, however, despite having large amounts of equipment and resources it was…

Opening the door to enter Sushi-Jin, you can feel the Japanese culture embracing the community. In this one floor, rectangular shape restaurant, one can see the end of the hallway to the cloth door that leads to the kitchen. With many low lights illuminating the hallway, it amazing to see a place that contains so much energy in a small place. A row of brown wooden seats with tables is aligned on the left side while there are single stool seats, in front of the chefs, on the right side. With the…

civilians were killed as a result of the Westminster terror attack. The perpetrator drove a car into members of the public who were walking along Westminster Bridge, before crashing into the railings in front of Parliament. The perpetrator was armed with knives and attempted to run through the gate to the Palace of Westminster where he stabbed PC Keith Palmer who was unarmed and was trying to stop the attacker from entering the premises. Sadly PC Palmer later died from his stab wounds. Armed…

The quiet hum of the gospel music lulled me as I rode to church in the backseat of my mother's van, just like every other Wednesday night. The soft chords of the hymn blended with the sound of the van so well that it seemed manufactured with the motor itself and as we neared the church I had no idea that this would be no ordinary night. It was a night that would change my perspective completely and little did I know that after tonight, even dull ordinary moments like these would, in my eyes, be…