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result, they do not express their true feelings and opinion, since it can be treated as an action against society. Furthermore, the black box appears in the story as a second main symbol. “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one…

culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New Yorker. Shortly after being hired, Kincaid published her first piece, “Girl,” in which a girl is given advice about how to act, dress, and work to ensure the girl is not viewed as a poor mother and husband. The topics addressed in this short…

food. The significance of these food culture that brings out the unity and a moment of happiness to share within families is forgotten. Inspite of following these famous food festivals people are now attracted towards the different alcohol served in new Orleans on this day. Alcohol comsumption is encouraged from…

Paul’s final call of the church in Colossians 3:1-15 is witnessed in Colossians 3:14-15 which reads, “And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.” Both love and thankfulness, but especially love, are some of Christ’s most prominent characteristics. 1 John 4:19 states, “We love because he first loved us.” (ESV 1 John 4:19) Again, we are taught to…

Billy Graham was involved in the Fourth Great Awakening, which mainly took place through the years of 1960 and 1980 (press.uchicago.edu). Some still believe that we are currently living in the Fourth Awakening but, the bulk of the Christian challenging of social norms was solely between those 20 years. Some people have a tough time accepting the ideas of the Fourth Great Awakening as a true “awakening.” This is because the changes and outcomes of the awakening and the actions of the concerning…

Thank you Dimitri, Ben, Viktoriia, and Vladimir for your thoughtful take on whether or not the media should have a responsibility to cover climate change related issues and if they adequately raise awareness and concern among the population. Your points of unquantifiable predictions, using an alternative organization for reporting purposes, and educating the people in power not the masses are very valid arguments for reporting climate change differently. However as a team we still feel that mass…

population fail to notice how the media is manipulating their way of thinking. The news misinforms and less inform an individual due to the coverage of unimportant stories round celebrities and the majority of the time overlook issues that American deemed important or related to the war, education, poverty and diseases. All over the world, people consult their television sets, their radio, social media or the internet for the news. The media itself play a vial role within the American society…

The study Vicarious play: Engaging the viewer in Let’s Play videos by René Glas is about the recent success of Let’s Play game content on popular websites such as YouTube (2015). Let’s Play videos and their success have caught many in traditional media off guard. Glas dedicates some of the study to explaining how Let’s Play videos work, and how they differ from other styles of video content on the internet. In addition, the study discusses how this success has begun to gain the attention of…

Set in 1948 and published in The New Yorker, the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes an annual ritual, in a small village that leads to death for an unlucky winner. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” follows the genre conventions of a classic dystopian short story through the use of symbolism and connection between specific themes from the story to many common, yet profound and complex characteristics of dystopian literature in order to implicitly and thoughtfully convince the…

five tells us that in the early stages of his ministry, Jesus prepared for a Sermon on the Mount. His disciples traveled alongside him as he healed and preached and healed more and more. People would flock to him, out of both curiosity and loyalty, as news of his healing spread. As amazing as that was, physical healing was not the only reason Jesus came. He knew people needed a cure from sin that reached deep into their soul and that kind of freedom began with him. And so he climbed to Mount…