Liberal International

Humans love adventures, sports and many varieties of working out and competition. For example, hiking is one of the most painful exercises that men and women can practice. However, hiking provides an incredible joy and appreciation at the end of the effort. So as hiking, many challenges that humans faced seem to be difficult and request a lot effort and sacrifices. One of those challenges is going to college. Different people, with different nature and different ideas lead to multiple choice and…

Despite Hugh Hefner’s belief and early support of equality for women, Playboy has been constantly denounced as exploitive of women and their bodies. Are the centerfolds exploitive? Do they lead to casual misogyny? A 1993 study by researchers at The University of Western Ontario examined centerfold models in four hundred thirty issues of Playboy from 1953 to 1990. How explicit are the centerfolds? Playmates were only photographed with genitalia partially visible in six percent of all centerfold…

Dr. Q Honors English 17/3/23 The Fundamental Actress of The Importance of Being Earnest- Dame Judi Dench “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a British comedy written by Oscar Wilde, which was transposed into a movie by the director Oliver Parker in 2002. Lady Augusta Bracknell is a dominant character which has a profound impact in both play and movie; her role is essential. She symbolizes the stereotypical upper-class woman during the Victorian Age. She is the tool through which Oscar…

Nearly 70 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt begged the question: “How well prepared are we to live in a world that has constantly grown smaller and where we must rub shoulders with people of different cultures, of completely different customs and habits and religions, who live under different legal systems, whose languages are different?” (qtd. In Christ). The world students live in today is more globalized than ever, and it is only becoming more so. Students are offered hundreds of exchange programs…

The Earthly Use and Liberal Education Per Giamatti in the short story, “The Early use of Liberal Education”, Liberal Arts has nothing to do with the pollical definition of liberal and is not an education in preparation for a profession. Throughout the short story the author makes arguments as to why Liberal Arts is practical. The author states that one should “free the mind”. I implored my own personal goals along with Giamatti’s definition of education to discover new educational studies.…

A One-Sided Commentary on the Benefits of Liberal Arts The Washington Post published an article on September 2, 2016 entitled, “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature,” written by Steven Pearlstein. This article talks about how parents guide their children from the liberal arts to pre-professional majors, such as engineering, business, or science. To better understand Pearlstein’s article, readers can view the essay, “Writing Projects: Summary and Analysis,” by Dr. Celena…

held responsible for wrongdoing against society. In a democracy, free and fair elections are essential to maintain stability within democracy because the process allows society to weed out political elite corrupt the system. Plattner argues that liberal democracy limits popular…

Lives can be divided in to two parts in multiple ways. For Eva Hoffman in her book Lost in Translation: A Life in A New Language her life becomes one of these cases. Her migration from Poland to Canada she describes as a literal split in her life. Going form old too new. Familiar too unknown. In the book she describes this in quite a good way. She rides on a train as a young girl that takes her to Canada and as she is being taken to her new life she says, “From now on, my life will be divided…

In America, a liberal arts degree seems to be such a demand. High schoolers are pressured to apply to many different colleges and pick a high paying/achieving degree that takes at least four years to achieve. But if you dig a little deeper into why college seems to be so important, is it really necessary to go to college for four years? Will a liberal arts degree actually benefit you and worth the years it takes it attain one? The articles “The New Liberal Arts” by Sanford J. Ungar and “Are Too…

Out of the democratic transition mechanisms we studied in class, I would argue that the best way to move out of an authoritarian regime is an actor-centered pacted transition. During this essay, I will first discuss three reasons why an actor-centered pacted transition is the best transition to democracy. I will then conclude with how these three reasons combined make this type of transition the best. The first reason why an actor-centered pacted transition is the best way to move from…