Penguins

In the article Reality is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How They Can Change the World written by Jane Mcgonial. The author talks a lot about how video games are taking over the world. Video games are a huge part of this society and its affecting us in different ways; it affects us by changing how we socialize, our obesity rate going up, affecting us in the way we think, but not many pay attention to that and they believe it is helping more but is it really? Video game is destroying our…

Freedom of speech is the right to communicate and express one 's opinions and ideas freely. Freedom of expression can at times apply as an inclusive way of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas by through media. Limitations on speech include slander, obscenity, pornography inclusive of child pornography, sedition, incitement, release classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, and right to privacy. The first amendment of…

The reminiscing downfall of the insecure salesman and his misguided perception of success leads him to fail within the success driven environment that he is to be surrounded in. Within the play of “ death of a salesman” written by Arthur Miller the author asserts the main character Willy Loman main flaw being insecurity demonstrated in his boastful behavior claiming he is rather a “vital” necessity in New England. As well as he self praises himself in boasting that he indeed has expanded the…

For my transformative work, I took a poem and created a parody of it. The poem I chose to create a parody of was “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss. This original poem is for little kids, to educate and entertain them; what little kid doesn’t love a rhyming poem that makes them giggle a little? The original piece talks about green eggs and ham while my poem talks about Trump and Pence. With this as well, my character is Hence-I-Tense where the original character is Sam-I-Am. This being said, my…

Amy Chow Ms.Varone ENG3U1-03 16 Nov 2016 Close Reading: Disgrace “Lucy knows some of the women. She commences introductions. Then Petrus appears at their side. He does not play the eager host, does not offer them a drink, but does say, ‘No more dogs. I am not anymore the dog-man,’ which Lucy chooses to accept as a joke; so all, it appears, is well.” (129) This passage happens during the party Petrus holds for the land transfer, Lucy and David attend and are out of place, being the only white…

Tacitus View on The German Character The author of Germany, more specifically, The German Character, was the Roman orator, Tacitus, also known as Publius Cornelius Tacitus, or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus. This great historian and prose stylist was born in ad 56 and died in c.120. Germany was written as a descriptive piece to explain the Germanic tribes on the Roman frontier of the Rhine. Tacitus uses this writing to historically introduce the Germans, and to show appreciation for the German…

The Contracts Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Charles W. Mills have identified parts of our society that have formed sorts of informal contracts about how society sees the world. In Rousseau’s The Social Contract, the first societies are discussed with the colonization of the new world. The differences in the civilization of the people and their subsequent treatment is examined. In Mills’ The Racial Contract, the treatment of different races is examined and historical reason for it is given. Rousseau…

mother. Leaving the occasional clamor of the sea waves hitting the beaches, there was a dead silence all around. I used to know from my childhood days that Antarctica is full of life full of creatures, from, the lazy seals, the human like walking penguins, the huge albatrosses bird, the whales curving over water surface to the numerous screaming birds, nothing used to be so silent so dead there. what had happened? where they gone? I was confused and disturbed. I went to the edge, looked around…

The women’s movement in Australia did have been gradually improved from W1 to current in recent society. Under the old regime women’s roles were questioned and most of people would have never heard that gender equality and women’s empowerment. Women are less capable than men and this is what they thought. Additionally, it is a common statement of the masses of their conformity in that time. However, Australian women showed their possibility and had did a great effort on society during WW2 that…

Born April 2nd 1902, Tschichold was the son of a signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy. He was different from almost all other noted typographers of the time as a result of his training, since they had trained in architecture or the fine arts. His parents who feared that he didn’t want to be an artist concluded that being an illustration teacher would be better than him being an unfruitful artist. Though this job only lasted 3 years. In March 1933, Tschichold and his wife were arrested.…