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Throughout our lives, we make many mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes end up hurting our loved ones. But from those mistakes, we learn lessons on how we can grow and develop into better human beings. Similarly, characters in the book A Raisin in the Sun also make mistakes and learn important lessons. Each character goes through their struggles, but eventually, they learn how to overcome them and grow from them. Likewise, Walter Lee also goes through his struggle, in which he wants money more…

It seems as if from the moment that our parents are told our gender they begin to purchase things that “corresponded” to our gender, each the stereotypical. Though there are those few exceptions were the parents decide to purchase gender neutral items, but they eventually begin to do the same as other parents do. In our everyday lives many of the spaces that we go to are gender spaced, from the stores that we enter to our own homes. The Space Project gave me a perfect opportunity to explore some…

in from traditional print media to online social media. However, the internet makes it easy to "borrow" content, especially images. Giving a photo credit is unquestionably imperative when using photos for personal use. This article shares Grand Lens Photography's 3 alternatives on how to properly credit a photographer. 1) Giving credit in print media It is important for photographers to get their names out there, but we have yet to develop the technology to click hyperlinks within a piece…

Both novels The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros can be examined using a psychoanalytic lens. Cisneros & Hosseini uses the psychoanalytic theory to show the various personalities of each character, id, ego, and superego. In the novel The Kite Runner, Amir recalls events that took place twenty-six years ago. The novel is written in Amir perspective and it shows how Amir became the man he is today. Meanwhile in the novel The House on Mango Street…

A book is a dream that you hold in you hands. Many people love books and read all the time. Many do not understand the real meaning of books. Three stories have the most meaning by far: "Through the Tunnel", "The Bridge", and "The Scarlet Ibis". The story, "Through the Tunnel", is about a boy named Jerry who is eleven years old. He decided one day he would leave his mother and go off on an adventure, to the rocky beach. While on the rocky beach, Jerry meets a group of big boys. Jerry tries to…

An intervention can be defined as a unique or novel device, composition, or process. Have you ever considered what your life would be like had there been a single invention? throughout our daily lives we could counter countless inventions, however, some inventions have influenced our lives so greatly that we can hardly imagine life without them. one such action is the contact lenses has influenced my life in many ways; some of these are being able to see, don't like the way I look in glasses…

In most of photographs Sebald includes in his memoir, there are net patterns such as on windows and fences. The first example of net is right after his experience of trauma and moved to the hospital. The narrator is lying down on a hospital bed still immobilized and sees the window near his bed. The narrator was afraid that that his experience of walking the town of Suffolk become a forgotten past and states that “Several times during the day [he] felt a desire to assure [himself] of a reality…

Cultural identity is a powerful force with the ability to preserve history, create a sense of belonging, and provide a reference point for an individual's identity. Reflections on the importance of cultural identity can be found within the two essays, “Memories of Montreal - And Richness,” and “Lend Me Your Light,” authored by Moses Milstein and Rohinton Mistry respectively. Milstein’s story, describing his vibrant journey to school on the busy streets of nineteen-fifties Montreal, is bookended…

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), an English novelist, once said that “it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view”. People who are narrow minded see things in one way and one way only, they are not open to new ideas and therefore are stuck in one place in society and are unable to progress any further. Without an open mind one is subject to causing those that they interact with to have a hard life. Just as shown through characters’ in Hugo’s book Les Misérables.…

Third, because there has been a significant temperature increase from the past ice age, we know that there has been a significant increase carbon dioxide. For example, when Crowley attempts to identify the correlation between temperature and inter-solar system phenomena, he emphasizes that "There is an unprecedented residual warming in the late 20th century that matches the warming predicted by GHG forcing. The temperature estimates for 2100 also exceed the most comprehensive estimates (50) of…