Novelty

It is true that Juan Pablo’s stint on the eighteenth season of “The Bachelor” did not go well with the larger part of the audience. According to reports, his remarks on gays as being perverts and not proposing to Nikki Ferrell and later starting a relationship did make him unpopular. But the soccer player stole hearts and also made history as the first man from the ethnic minority to star on the show. And if rumors are to be believed the hot Latino hunk could come up as a contender on the…

Toys R Us?? Toys R Us still carries the same old games I used to play with. They also market in the same old way. Boys are supposed to like trucks, manly “action figures,” (not dolls!), and gross-out novelties like slime, eyeballs and oozing blood. This has been the case ever since I can remember. It might even be more extreme now. Girls still get the pink offerings of all kinds, Barbie & Pony-like characters, and a few “tough chick” action figures, but they are still very “girly.”…

How does an African-American male from the suburbs of the North Carolina south, plagued with financial struggles at home and faced with an inadequate education system find himself falling in love with lacrosse, discovering the value of a liberal arts education at Bowdoin College and reveling at the opportunity to improve his coding skills in his spare time? I believe that the individuals that I have encountered over the course of my life should be credited for developing the person I am today.…

Ludwig Van Beethoven is one of the most recognizable names the music world has ever had. For centuries, Beethoven’s music has stood the test of time; often being looked to as a default for instrumental pieces of its time. A composer in both the classical and romantic eras, his period during this growth period of music shows how he was constantly evolving with the musical landscape that he was thrust into. Beethoven’s influence can still be felt today. No other piece represents the genius of…

fun the people I've grown so close to were having, I realized I didn’t care about the results. Having fun with people I genuinely love is worth spending hours on a Saturday in a gym. Regardless, my team won multiple awards, including first place novelty and second place in…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…

This chapter examines the role that choice has in addictive behaviours. Assuming that as human beings we always have a certain choice concerning our behaviours, this should also be present when it comes to addiction. There are multiple theories looking at the role of choice and what affects humans ability to make such as choice. One's ability to exert self-control is such a factor that affects choice. The energy model of self-regulation claims that one's ability to self-regulate is a form of…

1. Introduction 1.1. Definition of paranormal tourism Paranormal tourism is apart of a dark tourism, which falls under the category of alternative tourism; paranormal tourists are individuals who travel with an interest or belief in the supernatural phenomena and inexplicable events (Haynes, 2016, p.1). These eccentric individuals travel to places that claim to have this unusual occurrences happening within. Dark tourists are travellers who visit sights associated with death and suffering…

In the 1400s-1500s, Europeans wanted to find new paths to the Orient for two reasons. One of the reasons is to find closer routes to trade with, at the time, Europe had little gold throughout their whole country. They had decided that gold and other goods were a necessity rather than a delicacy. With this bad judgment, Europe traded away most of the country's gold just for spices and other unnecessary goods, and Europe went into a depression. The other reason for trying to find a new path to the…

1970 a patent must satisfy two basic requirements: the creation must be novel or original and it can not have been previously patented US or any country, it also cannot appear in prior art, all public information that might germane to the applicants novelty (Morgan). Based on these requirements I do think that business can patent their property rights to modified organisms (GMOs). In the case Diamond v. Chakrabarty the court ultimately had to decide if biotech subject matter was…