Standing wave

women deserve to be treated equally. There are three recognized waves of feminism, all with their own focusses. Feminism is a fairly heavy and highly contested topic, with a lot of critics eager to “expose” authors who do not portray female characters as feminists, especially J.K. Rowling’s Hermione Granger. However, it is important to remember that Hermione Granger is an eleven-year-old…

Despite the startlingly high number of drown victims each year, it was viewed as a futile effort to rescue the victims due to the overwhelming currents and massive waves. Waimea Bay needed a lifeguard but no one was willing to accept that job. To do so was certain death. Nobody except Eddie. It was Eddie’s destiny. Two hundred years ago, King Kamehameha entrusted Waimea Bay, Waimea Beach, and Waimea Valley to…

There is a current sociological event happening right now, where thousands of people have passed or are passing through the camp of Standing Rock calling themselves water protectors. A 1,200-mile-long pipeline is being constructed by a Texas based energy company called Energy Transfer. The pipeline also known as the Dakota Access Pipeline, is designed to transport 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois. The Pipeline project originally proposed to go over the…

Again, the Tribal Chairman refused and expressed that he believes that “it has become clear that the Corps is attempting to circumvent the Section 106 process." The US Army Corps of Engineers then produced an assessment of the area stating "the Standing Rock THPO had indicated to DAPL that the Lake Oahu site avoided impacts to tribally significant sites." Their assessment received critical feedback from the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Interior, the American Council on…

Do you ever worry if your family will have access to clean drinking water tomorrow? If your mother or father’s final resting place will be bulldozed, excavated, and defiled? These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile…

In Psycho he appears when he was viewed through Marion’s office window, standing on the sidewalk. In The Birds, he appeared on the camera, right at the beginning of the film while he was walking out from the San Francisco’s Davidson’s pet shop with his two white dogs. Another similarity has to do with the psychological part of…

innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart the traditional conventions of…

questioning gender roles, romantic notions of marriage and the most prime being the lost idealism of the Second Wave Feminism. Although these issues were dealt candidly in the play, when enquired about the background for the genesis of the play, Wendy remarked that the play was an output of her strong feminist sentiments. She further observed: “I wrote this play because I had this image of a woman standing up at a women’s meeting saying, ‘I’ve never been so unhappy in my life …’” (qtd. in…

Miles of the Dakota Access Pipeline.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/23/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-map.html?_r=0. Accessed 27 Apr. 2017. Cohn, Michael Bennett. "Dakota Access Pipeline Standing Rock Standoff: Behind the Front Lines; Thousands of people have rearranged their lives to protect water rights." Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2016. Science In Context,…

national issue occurred in a remote corner of North Dakota over the construction of a new 1,200-mile pipeline across Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It is a great fear to the tribe in the Standing Rock Reservation that if the pipeline is to be built in this location near Missouri river a leak is probable. If an oil spill were to happen, it will not only destroy the water supply for Standing Rock Reservation but it would also destroy 50% of South Dakota's potable water supply. The risk is too…