Surfacing

Have you ever experienced someone tell you only girls cry or how about that’s not lady like behavior? If you have you are not alone. From the moment you are born your parents begin to decide what color to paint your room or what clothes you should wear based on your sex. So if you are a girl they go buy pink color clothes and if you are a boy they buy blue color clothes and from that moment on you are entitled to a certain role, but you might ask who gets to decide what you can and can’t do…

David Ives’ off-beat comedy Venus in Fur is not so much a theatrical production as a crafty mind game in which the intrigued audience is presented with a relationship in constant flux, drifting seamlessly in and out of serial hypotheses. (Continuous change; instability/ a flow or discharge {Farlex} fluidity/ mutability/ fluctuation/ change/ instability/ unrest/ unpredictability/ variability/ uncertainty/ unsteadiness/ volatility/ shakiness/ wavering) -The universe is change; life is what…

The Creeper: No Remorse In today’s society, monsters are often associated with fear, the heart pounding, hair raising, gut wrenching fear that makes the stomach turn with terror in every way possible. Most people when asked what they thought to be an accurate description of what a monster’s appearance was, they almost all gave the same answer. Monsters tended to be described as much larger than the average human, grotesque smelling, and being covered in fur, preferably matted, which sounds a…

it confines digital filters that users can apply to their pictures before sharing them on the platform. Like tweets, Instagram pictures are indexed by both @persons and #subject matter. By April 2012, Instagram has accumulated 100 million users, surfacing any social media platform. I downloaded Instagram two years ago, when I purchased the iPhone 4s. Instagram is a free app available in the Apple App store and Android Play store for Samsung, HTC, etc. I access my Instagram app minimum three…

Ethos, the appeal to credibility, helps to establish a writer and give their audience a sense of security in what they are about to engage themselves in. In the article, Moody uses ethos to appeal to his audience and prove that he is worthy of making the claims set forth regarding his position on gay marriage. He states, “Having been nurtured in the Christian faith from childhood and having served a lifetime as an ordained Baptist minister, I feel obligated first to address the religious…

What is a knowledgeable employee, and what logical steps can one take while approaching a possible solution to any situation in the work place; while using verbal and non-verbal communication while helping access the problem. As we all know people work for many different reasons, most of them will tell you they work to earn a living through that of earning a paycheck, however, this isn’t necessarily true; for there’s many other reasons why people chose to work. One example, “All the reasons…

When it comes to war, armies must sometimes introduce an alternative plan in order to gain the upper hand over the enemy. When the Americans were at war with the Vietnamese decades ago, they planned to use herbicides as a new strategic asset against their adversaries. By spraying defoliating agents over the forests of Vietnam, hidden enemies would be exposed, and the crops that they harvested as food would also be destroyed. In 1962, defoliation missions ordered by the U.S. military commenced,…

Dan-el Padilla Peralta graduated Princeton University in 2006, and to further impress, he topped all of his classmates by earning the Latin Salutatorian title. Eight years later he got his Ph.D. at Stanford in Classics (Robbins). Both of his alumni are something most people could only dream of, but with extreme dedication and will-power Padilla possessed, he managed to rise to the top. It is easy to see he is an incredible man with great intellect, however, what sets him apart even further from…

What do 85 percent of Fortune 500 executives, the first female astronaut, and the first female senator all have in common? All of these people were members of a Greek organization during their time in college. As the fall semester at American University enters the home stretch with finals looming and new schedules being created, students are preparing for a new start when the spring semester rolls around. Unlike most colleges and universities, American University enforces a rule that only allows…

conclusion, the boy finally thought “the old couple were birds, or rather they had become birds,” demonstrating that he explored boundaries outside of his comfort zone (Diaz 195). Even with this grand conclusion, we can see the boy’s genuine mindset surfacing as he begins to develop his own conclusion. He assumed the reincarnation of birds, and not a disturbing collusion of human bodies on the ground. In his cave otherwise known as underneath his bed, he begins to grow independent from his…