Merriam-Webster

According to Merriam Webster Online, a statue is “a figure usually of a person or animal that is made from stone, metal, etc.; a full three dimensional representations of usually of a person, animal, or mythical being that is produced by sculpting, modeling, or casting.” (Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary, n.d.) Statues help to tell the history of how people thought and the practices they conducted. This way of expressing oneself was more important in ancient times as oppose to current/recent…

truly capturing setting. Nearly every work of fiction and nonfiction rely on some form of setting. According to the ever-reliable Mirriam-Webster dictionary, setting is defined as "the place and conditions in which something happens or exists," or more specifically, "the time, place, and conditions in which the action of a book, movie, etc., take place," (merriam-webster.com). Essentially, setting is the world in which your writing lives. It 's the universe your characters inhabit and the…

misconceptions about the operations of jails and prisons. Some people use the terms "jails and prisons" in an incorrect way. Both have a degree of differences that should be understood among our society. A simple definition of jail from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is: a place of confinement for persons held in lawful…

community to convince a jury that the battered woman felt that her life, not just at that moment necessarily, but the rest of her and her children’s lives were in imminent danger. In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, defines imminent as “ready to take place” and “hanging threateningly over one’s head” (Meriam-Webster, 2017). Unfortunately, most women that use the batter woman syndrome as a defense end up losing their case (Greene, 2007, p. 130). It is of my opinion that the battered woman…

“Love”, as defined by Webster Dictionary is a “strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties” (Merriam-Webster). By this definition, one would expect that a person who feels this type of affection towards another would do anything to keep that person out of harms way; however, this is not always the case. Due to societal and religious norms, which date back hundreds of years, the practice of discipline by force has turned “love” into an overly selective term. Domestic…

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do… According to Merriam-Webster, feminism is “the belief that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities” (Merriam-Webster). The definition was the same for feminist. The modern-day population see both words completely different; feminism being soft and with grace versus feminist wanting to be just like or better than men. In Claire Miye Stanford’s “You’ve Got The Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism” tells readers just how distinct these…

what is rape culture? In order to understand it we first have to define it. When you think of culture, what do you picture in your mind? For most of us it is a group of people or a society. That is not what a culture is. Culture is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “The act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.” That means that culture is a learned set of behaviors. When you pair the word “culture” with another word like “rape”, the connotations are…

The definition of a parable is a short story that teaches a moral and spiritual lesson; one of the stories told by Jesus Christ and recorded in the bible (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). A teacher is a role model instilling disciplines, moral and ethical values, knowledge and wisdom to their students. Jesus is all these above. In other words, the Sermon on the Mount gave the law of the Ten Command into detailed emphasis…

School, and Command School are being deprived of a childhood, owned by the I.F., and manipulated to be used to someone else’s advantage. That makes them slaves because the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines slavery as “someone who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for that person without pay” (Merriam-Webster). According to the UN Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor that occurred in 1999, “The Convention defines these worst forms, to be prohibited to all persons…

bit about this activity, and let’s see if fishing becomes our new preferred activity to do on weekends. First of all, what is fishing? Fishing refers to catching fishes, of course, in a variety of ways. Or, if we want to be more technical, Merriam Webster dictionary says it is “the sport or business of catching fish”. It exist…