Nomenclature

and Northeast Asia. Cross-Border Perspectives, focuses on how China was shaped by its relations with other East-Asian countries. I was particularly interested in how Rawski describes the way relations between China, Japan and Korea influenced the nomenclature these countries used to refer to each other and how it incorporated the Hua-Yi discourse deeply rooted in Confucian culture. The relations between these countries were undoubtedly influenced by the distinction between the civilized…

The Parthenon of Athens is over five hundred years older than the Pantheon of Rome. The Romans admired the ancient Greeks, who were as far removed from them across time as we are from Renaissance Italy. Although Greece and Rome were, and are different cultures, our concept of ‘progress’ is also relevant. The Romans were more modern, more globalized and more technologically advanced. This shows in their art, but not as much as in the architectural techniques and materials available to them.…

the humans bring with them wherever they go. His entire reason for being in the Moors is because he was trying to steal a jewel. He is entirely focused on himself and his success. Interestingly enough, with the change of Maleficent from a villain to an antihero, we see the change of Stefan from a hero to a villain. This is something that I am going to affectionately call “filling the villain gap.” What this means is that every story has to have a villain, in one form or another. After all, what…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde did not equally inhabit their host body. Jekyll mentions how the frequency of his metamorphosis increased involuntarily, without the potion. The contents within the potion brought forth Mr. Hyde. Eventually Mr. Hyde gains dominance over his host. Dr. Jekyll finds a bit of pleasure in the immoral actions of Mr. Hyde and is enticed to drink the potion more often. If they were separate streams of consciousness, then one should not overlap the other. Duality represents polar…

1. When defining psychological disorder we have to question what exactly do we mean by psychological disorder. I considered the definition presented in an article by Psychology Today. They say the definition was released by DSM-5 it states, “A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbances in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental…

Colorism Cause and Effect “…I instantly knew that Miss Miller did not like me because of the color of my skin. I was too dark and I was a nappy-headed colored child,…Pat was five years younger that me and she was light-skinned…And I was put out on the porch to sleep…I wasn’t even allowed to sleep in the house..” -Oprah Winfrey Colorism is a form of bias in the United States prominent among the black community that is primarily based upon skin tone and hair type, afflicting relationships…

Sometimes less is more. This mantra is exhibited in Raymond Carver’s “Everything Stuck To Him”. Carver chronically uses a minimalistic approach in his stories; this one is no exception. His lack of embellishment actually adds to his works because it acts as symbolism for accessibility. This story is laden with important word choices, making every sentence meaningful to the central ideals. The reader is found looking for more after reading this short story, only to find symbols for the permanency…

Students have been learning by leaps and bounds throughout February. Time flies when you’re having fun, and in a leap year! Whether its heart-pumping excitement at the fire department, investigating beyond your average brainteaser, rocking out in geology, or commemorating America by learning from its’ history, students are challenging their academic achievements. This month has been absolutely extraordinary, and we are happy to share with you a little about the wonderful activities your…

grape-like clusters that they form. After Ogston’s discovery, Friedrich Rosenbach differentiated between two staphylococci bacteria, which were isolated from humans (Thomer et al., 2015). These bacteria were named S. aureus and S. albus. This nomenclature was proposed because S. aureus forms yellow colonies while S. albus forms white colonies. S. albus was later renamed, S. epidermis (Thomer et al., 2015). The yellow color associated with the S. aureus colonies is produced by the membrane-bound…

HISTORY OF PREVELANCE: It is not clear when gas gangrene was officially discovered, although records from the Civil War indicate it was known at the time (Gillett, 1987, p. 280). Hospital gangrene was much more common than Gas Gangrene during the Civil War because it spread through direct contact (Gillett, 1987, p. 280). Gas gangrene was relatively uncommon during the Civil War, but became much more common in later wars such as World War I and World War II. In World War I, gas gangrene was the…