Periodicals

digging through all sorts of news websites, I finally found an interesting article from The New York Times. The title was “Why Halloween at College Is So Frightening” and was written by a man named Mark Bauerlein who teaches at Emory University. The periodical starts off by explaining the scary effects that Halloween can induce on the students and administration across many of today’s college campuses. This is particularly because…

Worldview and Philosophy When determining my worldview as an educator, I have to take several things into account, the responsibility of the teacher, parents and the community. Through life, I have learned to adequately support the holistic person, it requires a community effort. As educators we are accountable for sufficiently conveying information to the student to guarantee academic achievement. The philosophy that comes to mind when I consider the responsibility of the educator today is…

In 1984 the lowest class named the Proles believe they live in a utopia because in their society and class in the hierarchy they are constantly satisfied with their lives. The leader of Oceania continues to make the Proles content with their lives by giving them things that satisfy them in their lives.“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds” (Orwell 71). Orwell is…

De Stijl’s most outstanding painter was Mondrian, whose art was rooted in the mystical ideas of Theosophy. Although influenced by his contact with Analytical Cubism in Paris before 1914, Mondrian thought that it had fallen short of its goal by not having developed toward pure abstraction, or, as he put it, “the expression of pure plastics” (which he later called Neoplasticism). In his search for an art of clarity and order that would also express his religious and philosophical beliefs, Mondrian…

citations, the mechanics of style and grammar usage easy to comprehend even though I made an error of the question regarding quotes on the quiz. I was confused with APA standard 4:07 that states to “to set off the title of an article or chapter in a periodical or book when the title is mentioned in the text,” (APA, 2010. P.91). The rules for the mechanics of stlye are aligned to what I learned in my high school English classes, although APA rule 4.19 Names of Conditions or Groups in an…

Serf farmers were held accountable for many jobs that had to be done around the farm, and they weren’t repaid fairly. Serf farmers had many responsibilities and had to cater to the lord’s needs. The lord of the manor controlled the work performed by the farmers. The farmers had to be able to work for hours on end every single day, do most of the lord’s work for them (such as weeding their land and selling their grain), and they were also expected to give the lord 40 eggs on easter (Howarth 9).…

Before I can begin the examination of the three handbooks, however, I need to provide an historical context in which the books were written, and it is to this that I now turn. HISTORICAL CONTEXT The nineteenth century saw many changes to daily American life with an increase in population, improved methods of transportation, developments in technology, and the rise in the importance of science. These events impacted all aspects of nineteenth century American life, most significantly those…

According to Karl Marx, class struggle is the concept of ‘(in Marxist ideology) the conflict of interests between the workers and the ruling class in a capitalist society, regarded as inevitably violent’ (Marx n.d.). There are two classes that are referred to in the class struggle theory, bourgeoisie and proletariat. The bourgeoisie are considered the higher class as the owners of means of production. The proletariat are considered the workers who do the labour. In The Communist Manifesto it is…

divinity of Jesus. Emerson along with Frederic Henry Hedge, George Putnam and George Ripley planned intellectual meeting which later would be called the Transcendent club, a focal point of the movement. He also served as the editor of transcendentalist periodical Dial from 1842 to 1844. His writings and lectures were primarily based on the notion of individuality, freedom and capability of a person to understand almost everything. His notable work includes Nature, an essay formulating and…

to purchase and revive dying publications under his company Amalgamated Press. Alfred brought in Harold to the newspaper business for his aptitude for business matters. A relationship was formed that would prove to create the largest publication periodical empire in the world. He had 14 siblings, 5 of whom would come to some degree of notoriety as well: Cecil Harmsworth who would become the 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth who would be 1st Baronet, Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth who…