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Leave it to writer/director Park Chan-wook to not leave any stone unturned in his erotically-charged and stylish drama The Handmaiden. We have mystery, betrayal, an explicit love affair, and a healthy dose of cringe-worthy violence and unreliable narrators all conveniently tucked inside a beautifully composed costume drama set in 1930s Korea, where a manipulative con man sets in motion his most complicated ruse to date. Told as a triptych, where three segments are referenced as "books", The…

Government surveillance programs, Muslim registries, and deportation squads have one essential thing in common; they are the products of xenophobic fear. Although they seem like totalitarian tactics from an Orwellian novel, they are actually inching their way in to the United States’ political discussion. The President Elect Donald Trump used xenophobia to gain support for his presidential campaign. This tactic is not new, in fact, the utilization of the narrative of foreign subversive is an…

Strikes by industrial workers and unions were increasing rapidly in the United States during the 1880s. This was a time when working conditions often were dangerous and physically exhausting while wages were extremely low. The American labor movement during the industrial age included a mixture of socialists, communists and anarchists who believed the capitalist system should be changed. The capitalist society oppressed and exploited the working class, which had essentially built America. Since…

May 1 as May Day. There are some very arguable points to the side that the Haymarket Affair only hindered the labor rights…

position: I am interested in the Student Intervention graduate assistantship because my career aspiration and path in Higher Education includes Student Conduct/Student Intervention. While deciding if student affairs was the right career path for me, my mentor, the director of student conduct at Robert Morris University, urged me to research a position and goal that would help me choose what my focus in higher education would be. While I knew I wanted to work in the student life office, because…

strengthen his argument. Pathos can be found throughout Fridman's argument. Fridman uses experiences pf students - college, high school, elementary - to display different moments a "nerd" or "geek" can feel isolated. For example, in paragraph three Fridman tells the reader that even Harvard students are "ashamed to admit, even to their friends, how much they study." this is pathos because college students reading that section that are also considered nerds, can sympathize with others who cannot…

Panchito enrolled in Barrio Logan College Institute (BLCI), a nonprofit that helps students become the first in their family to attend and succeed in college. BLCI teaches students that a college education not only sets one up for economic opportunities, but can provide skills to improve communities. This concept captured Panchito’s imagination as the son of a well-respected community activist.…

an influx of international students in the U.S. have caused many colleges to face new challenges in terms of accommodating the new breeds of student. Devon Haynie (2014) claims that according to the 2014 Open Doors Report on International Educational, U.S. accommodates more of the world’s 4.5 million students from overseas than any other places around the world. Also, around 4 percent of the total college students in the United States consists of international students. Since then, universities…

Bob is having with students, he always appears to make them feel at ease and important. While I’m looking forward to observing more helping interactions with Bob this semester I feel as if I’ve already learned some important lessons. Bob has been working as an academic advisor at Appalachian for almost fifteen…

assassination of Martin Luther King, she asked her 9-year-old students whether they wanted to participate in an exercise where they would judge each other by their eye colour and they consented. The brown eyed students were told that they were better and smarter than their blue eyed counterparts. Jane Elliott supported her pitch by explaining that melanin, the pigment in their eyes, corresponds to their intelligence. The brown eyed students were praised. As for the ones with blue eyes, they…