The Equalizer

For many, questioning their place and value in the natural world is a common thought. Today, we attribute that that philosophic endeavor to environmental theory. This branch of philosophy is centered on defining the true value and aesthetic significance of earthly nature. Beginning in the Romantic era of the early 19th century, this movement developed as a result of environmental concerns of the industrial revolution. This inspired poetically personal contemplations on the human environmental…

American Women One Hundred Years Ago and American Women Today Women one hundred years ago and women today have many interesting differences and similarities. Differences between them include lifestyle, relationships, and the increase of freedoms, and rights. Similarities about women then and now is their beautiful tenacity and determination to fight and strive for equality between themselves and men. Women are still struggling and pushing for certain rights and freedoms. Evidence of past…

Video games have a special place in our lives. What were once flickering black and white blocked images on a television screen are now detailed beings with actions we experience on an emotional level. Some games now tell stories and evoke emotional responses similar to the finest literature or theater. For instance, Mass Effect 3, one of my favorite third person RPG game series. Towards the end of the game, as the emotional tugging piano music played, faces of the main character's friends…

the workouts continue, our emphasis is now on sharpening weapons skills. Weapons are my forte, and I was in my element. I love the utility of a sabre, I am fair with archery and as for guns, well, let 's just say I 'm in favor of them. Guns are equalizers. Gun Control means having one in your hands when needed and hitting what you intend. I am not a weak person, but I am small. I refuse to be a victim, whether the threat is a dangerous animal, or a dangerous human. Weapons are not dangerous. I…

Intro: « The intent of your music, or knowing what you want to say, is crucial. » (Davis, p. 133). Through music, a multitude of feelings and emotions can be expressed. Because of that, you have to know what do you want to say, which emotion do you want to convey as « starting without knowing what you want is like trying to swim without knowing the strokes. ». All three scenes in this portfolio has been watched muted first to see what the image wanted to say and what feelings would describes…

A dominant part of the understudies announced having no past connections with Deaf culture and had insignificant to no ASL aptitudes. This finding is reliable with those of past investigations of medicinal understudy members who had little involvement with restorative gesture based communication and were not all around educated regarding the matters of ASL and Deaf culture (Lock, 2003; Thew et al., 2012). These discoveries highlight that a huge subset of restorative understudies need not just…

must be rendered accessible. This can start with extending federal benefits to students whose parents pay into America’s tax system or with charging long-term residents of a state in-state tuition. Education has a unique capacity to serve as an equalizer between people of disparate backgrounds, races, or levels of affluence. However, America must take steps toward providing educational equity to undocumented immigrants before it will see the gates of the national schoolhouse truly…

were shot twice and bayonetted also.” He went on to say that their men, “threw away their guns and cried out that they surrendered; but the rebels kept on shooting them down until they had shot all but a few.” For African-Americans the great equalizer known as the battlefield presented equal…

A student goes to his room to complete a homework assignment assigned by his math teacher. But when he begins to dig through his backpack to find this homework assignment, he finds the other assignment from his math teacher and the other four assignments he had also forgotten about. The student is immediately overcome with a surge of anger due to stress and never seeing an ending to the long tunnel of homework. Just then his father walks in and the child snaps at him. Excessive amounts of…

The Image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara The image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara is dramatically transformed in the two part biographical film “Che” directed by Steven Soderbergh. In the first part of the film, (during the revolutionary campaign of Cuba) Che is heavily romanticized to the mythological and iconic figure many are familiar with today. This more “mature” Che is very different than the younger Guevara we see in Motorcycle Diaries. In Motorcycle Diaries, Guevara is portrayed as a young and…