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persuasive in our arguments against Trump. Specifically, Levinovitz lambasts “cultural relativism,” which he loosely defines as “reluctance to take one culture’s norms as authoritative”. He then states that such a relativism requires a belief that pointing out falsehoods is “disrespectful” of those who believe them. But this isn’t what multiculturalists necessarily believe. Rather, they would typically…

The Comedy Illuminating Florence is a oil on canvas painting by Domenico di Michelino created in 1456. The painting depicts Dante Alighieri along the city of Florence, Mount Purgatory, the Earthly Paradise and the Celestial Spheres. Domenico di Michelino, an Italian painter, born in Florence, primarily depicted scenes from the Bible. It is not surprising then that like many other artist, Dante's Divine Comedy called to him and like many other artists, he attempted to paint Dante's words on…

about the way that I interact with people in my day to day life. I have people in my family with similar problems to the ones that he described, they don’t lick mushrooms or shake their head back and forth repeatedly, but the lights have to be all pointing in a certain direction and household objects have to be in their specific places, among other minor things. I’ve known that it’s not particularly helpful to tell someone to “just get over it”, but Sedaris helped to show me why. By recounting…

In 1812, Napoleon attempted to invade Russia, but failed due to the harsh winter. Over 100 hundred years later, Hitler attempted to invade Russia again during the winter, illustrating how history tends to repeat itself. When pointing to the Holocaust, a commonly held belief is the Holocaust will never repeat itself, however, certain aspects of the Holocaust continue to repeat over human history. In the United States after 9/11, racial targeting, profiling, and discrimination turned toward people…

yelled, "DON'T WORRY HARUHI I WON'T LET THEM TAKE YOUR VIRGINITY!" I pulled her into a neck hug as I took out some pepper spray. "BACK THE FUCK UP!" Haruhi was blushing like mad, "Y-y/n it wasn't like that." One of the twins then said, "Um..your pointing it at no one...." I smacked myself. "Haruhi, can you be ever so kind and move my arm to where they are standing?" Haruhi sighed as she got away from my hug. "You really need to cut your bangs." "No way in hell." I said, until I saw the twins…

movies and the novel of Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simpson. One of the major corresponding events, or situations, I encountered in the movie and the book was the conversation between Grandma, Eddie, Jay, and Arty in the beginning. Grandma starts off with pointing her cane at Eddie, questioning him which one from his sons was the smarter one, in her German accent. Arty points to Jay, telling her he is the astute brother, while he is more interested in sports, like baseball, basketball, and football.…

zero it on the scale and mass about 3 grams of the hydrate. Record the data for the beaker and hydrate. Turn on the burner and but a test tube holder on the test tube. Then heat the test tube over the burner back and forth and make sure it is not pointing at anyone. Warm the beaker and observe the color. Let the test tube cool down. Get the hydrate out into the beaker and mass it. Do this a couple times and record the data.…

**Short disclaimer: I am not a writer, I don't claim to be. Rather then critique my message, just hear me out.** It's exhausting, Who would have thought this country would be in the state of mind that it is? I mean it's heartbreaking. Living in a world that is suffocating itself from all the negativity and appalling behavior. I don't even feel sorry for myself anymore. Ive almost grown numb to it. No, I feel sorry for my children, their children and so on. To see how fast this world is…

In A.O Scott’s article “Facing a Pitiless Void”, he makes a strong argument on why Americans enjoy the films that are being produced today. Speaking to the average American that has seen all the block buster movies, and trying to convey to them the reasons why they have such a pull to movies that all follow the same archetype. Three major movies were repeatedly mentioned through out this article, those being “All is Lost”, “Gravity”, and “Captain Phillips”, all which have the same undertones.…

Growth Statement Growing is a process that impacts one greatly what you learn as a result of growing becomes very insightful. Upon taking classes as a new member I can say that the growth I experienced was not an after fact of becoming a member of this church. My growth is an extension of my past and present relationship with God. My goal is to live my life one day at a time because tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone. It is extremely important for me to live my life as an exemplar,…