is far more interesting than anyone might expect it to be. This novel was about a mentally unstable man, Dr. William C. Minor, who was an army surgeon from the United States but at the time, he was in Britain. Well, late one night Dr. Minor was…
little words. In about the second grade I started reading The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne up until halfway through the fourth grade. The next series of books I fell in love with was R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, which lasted throughout the sixth grade. In middle school, I started to read J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. My favorite types of books are book series. I do enjoy books that don’t have another to follow every now and then as well. Throughout high school I…
Once upon a time, in the year 2013, on the island of Oahu, there was a student who was going to start the beginning of 7th grade in Waipahu Intermediate School. That student was a boy named Jarren Calizo. In Elementary, Jarren was a very determined academic student who always strived for ME (meets exceeds) grades, the elementary version of an A, and ended up achieving perfect grades every time. He worked independently a lot of times and helped confused classmates. During the summer of 2013,…
Lumumba, is director Raoul Peck’s fast paced biographical thriller about the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first prime minster, the film’s namesake Patrice Lumumba. The film is accurate in its portrayal of the time but suffers from its lack of true exposition — those unfamiliar with Congolese history may have a hard time following the narrative. Peck does not over glorify Lumumba and paints a fairly human portrait of the man sometimes revered as the martyred saint of Congolese independence.…
Being a young adult, constantly concerned about how you are perceived and attempting to fit it, is one of the most critically important and talked about moments in a person’s life. Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower is a extremely significant bildungsroman novel that explores the coming-of-age narrative. It fundamentally explores the realities of high school, friendships, and the issues of self-discovery and acceptance through its narrator who refers to himself as ‘Charlie’. Within…
place spot to the rising video sharing site, YouTube, but now amasses over one billion users logging on every day. Who would have thought a Mark Zuckerberg, nineteen-year-old college student, would be able to create the company that it is today? David Kirkpatrick had an interest in the young entrepreneur, and wrote about Facebook for the popular magazine Fortune. His pieces caught Zuckerberg’s eye, and eventually he agreed to give Kirkpatrick an interview. This gave him insight of what…
"Texas Borderland Community Colleges And Views Regarding Undocumented Students: A Qualitative Study" csr.sagepub.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/content/11/2/183.full.pdf+html. SageJournals. Journal. 19 Oct 2016 Nguyen and Hoy, David and Zelideh. ""Jim Corwing"Plyler V. Doe: The resegregation of undocumented students in American Higher education through discriminatory state tuition and fee legislation."" Journal. Nov 2016 JP. "What Are the Odds of Succeeding with a College Degree." US News. U.S.News &…
early 1900’s. Wallace Nutting was chiefly interested in the commercialization of photography. Nutting saw that photography was geared to an upper class set due to the expense of the equipment and services. His attention to the medium stemmed from a personal enjoyment of photography. Nutting started as a hobbyist and eventually became an accomplished photographer. As a salesman, he sought to widen the appeal and availability of photography to middle class America. He promoted photography as a…
For my particular project, I will rely heavily on peer-reviewed secondary research by scholars in the field of anthropology / sociology who have undertaken similar studies across the nation, but also my own gathered data from on-site personal interviews. My secondary research strategy is comprised of searching through academic publisher sites for relevant, peer-reviewed, and valid scholarly articles. My methodological approach will begin by addressing secondary research on topics of ethnic…
Throughout the course of my middle school, high school, and now college career, I have learned numerous techniques and strategies in regard to writing. Some techniques I have found helpful to my writing and others that have pushed me to do things I would not ordinarily do. With this process, I had the pleasure of succeeding with flying colors. I have come leaps in bounds from an innocent and inexperienced adolescent in grade six, to a mature, well-equipped writer in grade eleven. Therefore, from…