Pseudonym

characters to assign themselves their own name, their own conception of their identity. These screen names initially seem random, even inconsequential; however, they reveal the personal struggles of each of the addicts. Clayton Wilkie selects the pseudonym “CHUTES&LADDERS”. The game Chutes and Ladders involves maze of chutes and ladders in which characters try to climb to the top on the ladders but often fall back down through the chutes. This name evokes the cycle of addiction--relapse and…

peoples. Samuel Adams in particular showed much apprehension to that perceived inevitability when considering the adoption of the new constitution (Dolbeare & Cummings, 2010, p. 124). An excerpt from Anti-Federalist No. 48 written by Leonidas (a pseudonym), used incendiary language to drive this point. “This being the beginning of American freedom, it is very clear the ending will be slavery, for it cannot be denied that this constitution is, in its first principles, highly and dangerously…

in 1842. Soon after, Harriet Jacobs decided to share her experiences in the early to mid-1800’s with people around the country. As a result, Harriet Jacobs published “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as her personal memoir in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Since Harriet Jacobs wrote and published her experiences in the period in which they occurred, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” is considered a primary source. In the source, Harriet Jacobs…

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India on July 18, 1811. His father, Richmond Thackeray, was an officer for the East India Company and also a collector of the twenty-four Parganas in Bengal. As a young boy, he lived with his Aunt in England and attended school there. After high school, he attended Trinity College for two years before leaving it since he wasn’t much of a student. After leaving Trinity College, Thackeray left England for Germany but later returned and attended…

Research ethics consists of the input of crucial ethical doctrines to a multitude of fields involving research, plus scientific research. These include the structure and application of research involving human testing, animal testing, different aspects of scholarly crime, including scientific transgression, whistleblowing; control of research, etc. Research ethics is mostly created as a notion in medical research. An infamous agreeement…

Methodology: In this qualitative study we, further our understanding of how teachers perceive mindfulness practices to affect their students by conducting a modified case study. Traditionally case study involves gathering an assortment of forms of information and using these to triangulate theme (Creswell, 2015). However, our access was limited, causing us to modify the case study design to use only phone conversations with our teachers. As these educators were from the same elementary school,…

In their recent work, Sherman Alexie and Jonathan Lethem have offered harsh critiques of the literary communities for their efforts to hinder the progress of art. The authors, however, address the issues from different perspectives: While Alexie in The Introduction I Meant to Write attacks nepotism in poetical circles, Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence argues against the appropriation of the culture by artists and corporations. An Alexie claim that “Nepotism is as common as oxygen” rests upon…

One of the key players in The Coffee-Mans Grenado Discharged Upon the Maidens Complaint Against Coffee is a writer called Democritus. During the 1600s there was an author named John Crouch who used the pseudonym Mercurius Democritus to write under and just a short time prior to the publishing of The Coffee-Mans Grenado wrote a piece titled The Maidens Complaint. (Ellis, 2006) Considering this and the fact the dialogue's Democritus also had just published…

converged additional research. The author specifically states that “There are no composite characters in this book; I reject that device absolutely. Every person is real. Where someone has asked to not be named, I have used a first name alone, placed a pseudonym in quotation marks upon first references, or used a randomly chosen first initial.” It makes the author…

At the beginning of reading this book, I believed that Billy Pilgrim was a pseudonym for Kurt Vonnegut, and that this story was told so well because he wrote about his own experiences in life and as a prisoner of war. I learned later on that this was not the case; that Billy Pilgrim had been based off of a man that Kurt Vonnegut…