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In the passage “ On Computers in Classrooms: Please Proceed with Caution!” The author’s claim is you should be very careful on deciding whether you really want to get a laptop for students, even though there is many good things about it, you should still be aware of the possible disadvantages of giving these students laptops. I strongly disagree with this author, and believe that students should be given laptops for school. The Internet is one of the biggest things trending world wide, Most…

“Cat Pictures Please,” is a short story by Naomi Kritzer about an A.I. that has one want in life: cat pictures. The unnamed A.I. narrates the story of its quest to find a moral code to live by, and later details its attempts to help three humans lead better lives. The original intended use for this A.I. is a search engine and because of that the A.I. knows almost everything about everyone. Thankfully for the humans, it decides to use this power for good by trying to help people. The A.I. is…

While we often read, watch, or hear about immigration from the perspective of immigrants themselves, the story does not start or stop with them. This paper uses José Martí's "Our America", Ernesto Galarza's Barrio Boy, and Jesús Colón's "Grandma, Please Don't Come!" to examine how the experience of immigration shapes the perspectives of those both inside and outside of the experience itself, and how these perspectives shape their responses to the immigration process. The first piece, José…

that establish children’s sense of identity. Relationships with adults, children, friends, and family, plays a key role in building their identities. In the stories “Children of the Corn”, “Fair Trade”, “She Will Make Music Where-ever She Goes”and “Please Don’t Pass Me By” Shell’s observations of others around her leads her to imitate their lifestyle in order to develop her own identity, thus challenging the ideas of Bildungsroman. One of the stories that we see Shell imitating other people…

After watching Please Don’t Bury Me Alive, Zoot Suit, Real Women Have Curves, … and the earth did not swallow him, Bless Me Ultima and Walkout my perspectives on Chicano Cinema entirely became different from the impression I had before, on the subject. I had heard of the word Chicano before and knew that it is associated with being Mexican-American but I had no extensive knowledge of all that applies to being a Chicano, Chicano history, culture, heritage and what is considered a Chicano film. I…

Carole S. Vance, who wrote the Please and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality in 1984, provides a historical account of the issues surrounding societies perceptions, beliefs, and expectations of women sexuality. Vance explores several factors that bring light to the ways in which women’s sexual non-conformist behaviour remained invisible. Vance begins her paper stating, “the tension between sexual danger and sexual pleasure is a powerful one is women’s lives” (Vance, 1). This statement reinforces…

A father’s job is to care for his children, to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way as is made clear in two Jess Walter’s stories, “Please” and “We Live in Water” from a book of the same name We Live in Water. In “Please” the son in the story lives with his mom, Carla, and her druggie boyfriend, Jeff in an environment where drugs come first. Tommy, the absentee father, has little control regarding the safety of his child. In “We Live in Water”, it is…

Will the True Monster Please Stand How can a monster be recognized? Many describe such a creature by appearance; a monster is “typically large, ugly, and frightening” (Merriam-Webster). But what if the evidence is not physically apparent? In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who is determined to cheat death. His ego fuels his ambition to create a “creature” that would admire him like a god. However, when that creature falls short of meeting Victor’s…

Helicopter Parents: Please Fly Away Everyone knows a Helicopter parent when he sees one. Helicopter parenting became very popular in the 1980’s, as parents began to shift their outlook and became more overprotective in child rearing. Parents struggled with how to raise children on top of balancing work and household duties. Helicopter parenting allowed nervous parents to be hands-on in every detail of raising their children, while protecting the children from an unsafe world. This obsession to…

“God Please Protect America” was written by Jimmie Osborne on July 26,1950. The song was recorded the day after the Korean war began on July 25,1950. The war took place right after all of the distress of both World Wars and the Civil War. “God Please Protect America” was written as a depthful plea during this difficult time for all. On the morning of June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded the South with “advanced units of the 135,00 soldiers of the North Korean army” (McGowen,10). The South was…