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many ways, culture makes up every part of a human, it makes them unique and at the same time culture is capable of uniting people. Culture defines how people identify themselves, how people act, and it even defines how people think. People view the world and the things that compose it in different ways, these ways are composed of a variety of factors, and those factors compose one’s culture, factors such as, how one was raised, the environment that said person was raised in, and societal stigmas…

for we are now all connected throughout the world in one way or another. An individual can pick up this small 6.7 square inch piece of plastic, place their thumb on a button to unlock it, tap digit buttons displayed on the screen, and talk to someone on the other side of the globe. This level of communication is not just restricted to phones, but can also be done through computers, iPods, and tablets, and not just audio, but visual as well. The world is now connected communicably through the…

In terms of the events of my childhood, I can honestly say I had it pretty easy. I was never worried about the fundamental imperatives of surviving, but was more concerned with normal problems and challenges of a typical middle class American child. Like the majority of the youth of this country, my early the experiences of my early childhood were devoid of real danger and conflict. Given my upbringing as comparison, it was a largely eye opening experience reading and experiencing the harrowing…

questions wrong. Question 2: From this quiz I learned that though there are issues in the world, it is not as bad as it is conveyed through the news and numerous studies that caused me to have a preconceived notion that the rest of the world is struggling and their living conditions are getting worse. For example, in the question where they ask you how old you think the average life expectancy is in the world, I knew that in countries like America it must be high, but I ignorantly believed that…

describing the different steps and processes that take place at the border, Walia is also able to shed some light onto the underlying problems that our world has created. A quote in the text that touched me was from Liz Fekete where she states “ This isn’t a separate world. Globalization isn’t a separate world. I’m using words like ‘First world’ [and] ‘Third world’ as easy ways into this argument, but they’re a lie- this is…

entered the end of the postmodern age where truth is replaced with emotion. If something so small as a criticism of one’s hands or fingers can send Trump into a never-ending obsessive tirade, what would happen if genuine Christians throughout the world went on a relentless campaign targeting Donald Trump as Satan incarnate? Again, consider his past reactions to trivial comments while imagining his response an international group of thousands, even millions, of people calling him, The Antichrist…

A religious worldview, in laymen’s terms, is the perspective by which an individual or group views the world in which we live. The religious worldview may be shaped by one’s understanding or belief of any one or combination of cultural, behavioral, social, or religious understanding or belief (Tackett). Worldviews, for some, are like birthrights. Meaning, that some who are born into families or cultures with absolute beliefs are expected, or required in certain cases, to share the same…

Earth, a world that houses a collection of many diverse nations, individually connected and powered by the personal connections with one another. These continents that make up the earth all possess something special to offer up to all other nations. Africa is one such continent that offers a great deal of prosperous goods to this world. Some things that Africa offers include a wide collection of religions, languages, animals, and environmental resources that are readily available for the world…

Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach, an insightful poem, warns its readers about the dangers of the world in an attempt to make them feel better. The poem compares the harsh reality of its readers’ isolation in the world to various images of oceanic scenes. In his first stanza, Arnold emphasizes the importance of distinguishing the difference between illusion and reality through his constant change from a beautiful to disheartening tone. Arnold’s “Sea of Faith” metaphorically attributes the decline of…

The Importance of Sacrifice in The Road Cormac McCarthy’s The Road portrays a post-apocalyptic world containing nothing but the distinct loss of morality and desperate attempts to survive. In this cruel world, while most become bestial and corrupt, a father and his son struggle to find ways to stay alive while simultaneously keeping hope alive and staying humane in their ways. The sacrifices made by the man strengthen his relationship with his son and help maintain the only thing they have…