Nick Bottom

Relationships What does your dog and boyfriend have in common? Both pets and romance contribute a lot to the happiness of 40% of respondents. Interestingly, in the ‘somewhat contribute’ responses, romance ranked higher than pets, 44% and 33% respectively. So while dogs may be man’s best friend, our furry friends have less of an impact on the level of our happiness. The Pew Research Center has determined that “[pet] owners are no happier than those without pets.” Sorry crazy cat ladies, you might…

The Symbols of Oppression in The Handmaid’s Tale Imagine living in a world where a free society is forced to undergo a radical change towards an unequal treatment of the sexes and an adoption of a radical religion. The transition of this change would be nearly flawless, it would lead to the resocialization of the social classes and enforce new gender roles, but it would also infringe on the natural rights of women. For some, this would be hard to imagine, but in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale it…

Ladies and gentlemen, Edith, or, Edith Chappell to give her her Sunday name. Although her family called her Edith, her friends all called her Penny, and her grandsons, Nana Penny. We’ll come to why she got Penny in a few minutes. Edith was a product of tough love you could say, and she passed it down because she wanted her family to be tough too, and she would always be there for friends, or family, if they were in need, especially with practical help, or words of advice, even if you didn’t…

to take what it needs to survive or improve would be the values it was designed with. Not saying that machines are evil, but more so that they are currently programmed by humans who are flawed and always experience biases (Havens, 2013). Philosopher Nick Bostrom feels that having a control system in place for artificial intelligence is something we should figure out before we proceed with giving machines intelligence (Bostrom, 2003). Without clearly defined goals, it may well prove an…

series of defining off-seasons is now upon us as general manger Garth Snow gets another chance to remake the Islanders roster into one that fans hope will take another step up the ladder to the upper floors. For years, New York had resided near the bottom floor of the league’s 30 member teams, torn apart by horrible management decisions and even worse player personnel moves. Lately, fortunes have turned, with playoff appearances in three of the last four seasons, and following two first round…

There has been many historical figures in American history that has helped shape the slowly changes in America. America struggled with racial segregation where African Americans were at the bottom of the social class. During the Civil Rights Movement there were many important figures that help lead to desegregation, and two of them were Jackie Robinson and Wilma Rudolph. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson made baseball history and became part of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Wilma Rudolph also was an…

How is beauty represented in the media today with specific reference to black women? The Medias views of black beauty standards today are very euro-centric; they have been for decades, since slavery. Black women have conformed to societies dominate ideology that having silky straight hair , being lighter in complexion and this has lead to the epidemic of black women feeling as if they are not beautiful in their own skin. As a result of the medias portrayal of black women not being deemed as…

Currently in China, for example, minimum wage should be no lower than 40% of the average wage for any particular area. In Guangzou and Shenzhen, the first cities that were legally allowed to approach foreign big businesses for investment, the minimum wage to average wage percentage is the lowest in the country. While this may reflect the prosperity of the rest of China, this is unlikely, as it is estimated that 200 million people across China live in poverty. Instead, this is likely to be…

What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet? Supplies! Being a janitor is back breaking work. Trust me, I am one at River Heights Elementary School. I use urine remover on a daily basis. I also sweep up hairs from the teacher bathroom floor. Although my job is difficult and somewhat gruesome, there’s one magnificent part. I get a master key to the entire school. It opens everything! All of us have keys to something. I bet you could pull them out of your pockets or purses right now.…

The film Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs is a good film to show how the definition of disaster films needs to be altered. The majority of the definition of disaster films can be used to fit all audiences of disaster films. The reason the definition of disaster films needs to be changed is the definition needs to encompass the younger audience of disaster films. Most conventions of disaster films fit well in children’s disaster movies. The narrative shape and the genre’s function are also two…