New Horizons

Throughout the years, America has gone through a great revolution involving technology. With the technological revolution taking off news outlets have increased the various means by which they distribute information to the people. Increasingly a few media corporations took charge of a majority of the news the general public can access. As a result they controlled most of one’s ideas and imagination about the world. This control allows these conglomerates to influence the media they want the…

digital age, we are constantly exposed to news stories in a variety of different ways through digital media channels. Due to the vast amount of information available, different media channels are able to convey the same story in many different ways. Depending on the platform, consumers are exposed to a certain story, that may encourage different behaviors and highlight different information based on where they are viewing the story. Snapchat (Daily Mail), ABC News, and Hollywood Life, all…

Polynesia triangle, little is known about their navigation skills (Evans 22). They are believed to have navigated through the deep, dangerous, and open waters of the Pacific before discovering and settling in the modern-day Hawaii, Marquesas Islands, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Eastern Australia. Technically, the Polynesia navigation is the navigation system that was used by the Polynesians in making their…

no one should possess. It would change the course of Kino and his family's life, and their future indefinitely. It had all started when Kino had awoken to the little crashes of the waves on the beach. He got up to watch the sunrise over the horizon, with his blanket covering his head and shoulders. His wife Juana had also woken up a little bit after Kino did, Juana prepared their breakfast for the eventful day that would occur just a couple hours later. Before he would find the pearl…

possible to see beyond the horizon. When, followed by her young daughter Flora, Ada McGrath, a strong-willed and self-sufficient Scottish widow, mute for having willed herself not to speak, arrives in New Zealand as an imported bride for an arranged marriage to a land-grabber named Alisdair Stewart; she certainly could never have imagined what the final outcome would be. However, just as the uncertainty that envelopes us when staring at the distant, indistinguishable horizon is not an obstacle…

The Columbian Exchange was one of the first encounters in which continents from both sides of the Atlantic were exposed to each other. This experience brought about new trade, but it also wrought havoc on the Native population of the Americas. The Columbian Exchange is named so because the leader of the expedition during which this event occurred was an Italian named Christopher Columbus. Columbus’ men landed and immediately saw the Natives, according to Columbus’ journal. In his journal, he…

a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village, to shock the story’s readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.” She wanted to open the mind of the world to new horizons and a completely unspeakable topic...Gruesome Unseen Brutality. Shirley Jackson uses prolonged suspense to elude the reader into the mindset that the story will be one of innocence, and with the closure of the story leaves the reader with a…

attracted to the romance of it, and in my studies I learned of New Orleans. At first, I presumed that, today, most of the inhabitants spoke the language but after some research I realized I was wrong. Still, the more I read the more intrigued I became. It was just last July that I took a trip unlike any others I had taken before. My boyfriend of one year took me to Louisiana to discover the historic French Quarter in the famous city of New Orleans, and I was not disappointed. The farthest I…

The Search for Order, 1877-1920, by Robert H. Wiebe takes place at the end of the reconstruction period post-Civil War and continues all the way through the end of World War 1 and a little more. The book’s thesis is about how America came to be from the end of the Reconstruction Period to the end of the First World War and the trouble that it faced trying to gain an identity in the world. Few got rich, while the rest were poor and did not trust the government. Wiebe does a great job of painting…

could’ve earned me a one hundred. Lastly, I advise you to be prepared to put forth hard work, because it truly does pay off at the end. In relation to McCandless quote, this class is just one of the many “horizons” you will face in your college career, with new ones to uncover throughout your lifetime. The new learning experiences you face are a chance express yourself and find yourself…