Lecture hall

Our adaptation is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) which follows the story of clones living in a dystopian society where their only purpose is to be donor’s givers. The aim was to delve deeper into clone’s perspective. At this moment, clones already had a clear awareness of what would happen to them, however resistance amongst clones is rising for the first time. Nevertheless, their key arguments are that clones deserve to share the same platform as humans. Furthermore, the…

Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, and Frances Perkins were three of the many women who helped evolve equal work rights for all. Without them women might not have the opportunities in the works force that they do today. Before the women if the 1800’s tried to change the ways of society gender discrimination had a negative effect that impacted many lives throughout the nation. Emma Goldman was born in June of 1869 to an Orthodox Jewish family, her family lived in the Russian Empire. Because of where…

John Mauchly pioneered the field of computer science and built the foundation for all modern computing with the creation of the world 's first fully functional digital computer, the ENIAC. The ENIAC, completed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, occupied 1800 square feet, weighed 30 tons, had 18000 vacuum tubes, and cost about $5,000,000 in modern dollars (ENIAC Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia). John Mauchly originally conceived the ENIAC as a tool for statistical weather…

A History of Music in Western Culture: Volume 2. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010. • Copland, Aaron, and Aaron Copland. Copland on Music. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960. • Copland, Aaron. "Forward by Alan Rich." In What to Listen for in Music. New York: Penguin Group, 2009. • Copland, Aaron. Music and Imagination. Cambridge:…

Do relationships, money, possessions, and religion make a person happy? According to the dictionary, happy is a state of being delighted, pleased, or glad, over a particular thing. Many would disagree with this statement. Outside features or aspects cannot make a person happy, because happiness comes from within. It only matters what is going on inside of a person 's body. Everyone searches for happiness in life, even college students. College students have a great amount of issues to balance…

I sat there at my desk wondering why in the world I chose this career. Why psychology? I always knew I wouldn’t be happy doing this, but here I am doing the same old boring thing as always. I could have fulfilled my dreams but I was too busy pleasing everyone else. I wanted to be a high school band director. Sure, it wouldn’t pay much but I would be doing something I love. I would be making music and making an impact on kids lives. According to my dad, though, that wasn’t a “practical…

Charles Pierce author of Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free, graduated in 1975 from Marquette University with a degree in journalism. Pierce is currently a senior journalist and on-line political blogger at Esquire Magazine. His writing has been published with the New York Times Magazine and LA Times Magazine along with Sports Illustrated and the Chicago Tribune. While searching the provided list of books to choose for this review, I chose Idiot America: How…

George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984), an American paleontologist who moved often from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where he was curator, to lecture halls and also to visit far away fossil fields that weren't open to the public. His total understanding and grasp of the fossil record allowed for significant advances in theoretical evolution and taxonomy. To further explain the previous paragraph the reader must understand a few terms. A curator is in charge of keeping up with…

headwear. It is not as apparent in today’s culture that the teacher is “above” the pupils like sitting above them all. It is shown in a more subliminal way with condescending rules such as dictating when one can use the bathroom. Also, the actual lecture hall seems to be full leaving out room for actual connection between each student and the teacher, creating an even bleaker learning experience. It is clearly depicted that both the teacher and the students are disengaged with actual learning.…

stands just in front of door. He gestures to to the to the room and explains to us that it used to be a classroom. Ancients used to sit at the tables in the room called “desks”. The sharer or knowledge would stand at the front of the classroom and lecture. Yet again I wait for feelings of depression to wash over me, but still I feel nothing. We move a little further down the hallway we are in and yet again we stop. “This is a bulletin board. People used to stick pieces of paper on this to…