Periodization

As always the people of Earth enjoy disobeying the government and as more laws are passed the people will always attempt to find a loophole or simply disregard it to go have fun in creating chaos doing, according to most rebels “Fun things.” Obviously during this huge time lapse Americans did have a good time being themselves and getting drunk in their secret speakeasies; also considering the fact that these people had to keep it on the down low, being careful with the people they consider…

Blazing Saddles is a comical film directed by Mel Brooks in 1974. Mel Brooks was a well known and loved actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Brooks, in the process of making this film was faced with many obstacles that he had to overcome in order to make this film a success. In the process of making this film Warner Bros executives had many dislikes about the film. According to The Daily Beast, Bart explained that they wanted him to “Lose the fart scene, cut out any racial and ethnic jokes, edit…

Have you ever read a story blindly and just couldn’t understand it so you made assumptions about it? That is what happened to me. I recently read Tartuffe by Moliere, after my first read of the story, I thought it was not relatable, virtually impossible to ever happen, and just not funny. However, after understanding the cultural background, the life experiences of the author, and the author’s purpose for writing these stories, I now see this literary work as a strong satire that is relatable…

In Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel, Kindred, the protagonist, Dana, is involuntarily wrestling with the urge to not conform to the ways of the antebellum Southern culture she has been forced into due to a time traveling sensation. Her psychology unknowingly embraces her ancestor’s patterns of behavior in this time instead of maintaining a surface-level imitation she intended to keep since her first encounter with this phenomenon. This uncontrollable submersion into slave-holding Maryland…

The mixed scanning decision making framework was chosen for guiding the development of this policy. The mixed scanning framework provided the opportunity to isolate the necessary information thru filters that would allow for different views; narrow in scope for fundamental alternatives, but broad for incremental decisions. Because the information-gathering for this issue would uncover abundant information when searching for a particular scenario - but also reveal the need for more unique…

Planning is a process, and humans have been planning for as long as they have been living in communities. This process has been refined and altered over multiple centuries and even today the planning process is evolving. However planning has mostly only occurred when big technological advancements and opportunities came about, the biggest advancements or rather the rapid changes and the time period when planners were most needed occurred when people changed their thinking. Known as the paradigm…

Rumors, a farce by Neil Simon, was directed by Carol Sutton and costumed by Will Lowry at Furman University. The farce featured outlandish characters with costumes that were crisp and sparkling that joined the characters’ social statuses and the anniversary they were supposed to celebrate. Lowry stated that with the costumes, he tried “reinforcing characters and playing with relationships.” The costumes represented each character and relationship well, but lacked success in conjunction with the…

As I was reading “Heroism and the Harem” for the first time, I caught myself getting caught up in the elegant writing style Jowitt used to describe the nineteenth century ballerina. On page 49 of the text, we are introduced to “she”. The woman she described was “Persian, Indian or Moorish”. She was also described as provocatively beautiful”, a woman who danced on her toes. She was a ballerina of the nineteenth century. This introduction stuck out to me because of the fairytale like way the…

Holden Caulfield is the main character of the book Catcher in the Ray, the book set the time to 1950s. Holden is sixteen years old and he thinks different from other kids who are at that age, which means he is a problem youth. He smoke and talk dirty, did badly at school, he had been kicked out by four schools and he lies all the time. He hates the adult world and in his mind everyone is acting fake, he thinks they are phony. He is afraid of growing up, he don’t want to become what he hate which…

In “Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark ages”, by Maggie Jackson, it addresses the problem of technology and how technology is keeping us from attaining knowledge. This paper also talks about how we are approaching a new dark ages. Maggie Jackson believes that we are too controlled by our phones and the internet and we are only able to get a surface level of information without ever actually attaining knowledge. She believes that because of this we are approaching a period…