The Faceless

improving the world a better place. Every individual is created with unique gifts and abilities and it's a leader's responsibility to influence the individual qualities of their people. Treating your colleagues as people instead of anonymous and faceless workers creates a feeling of belonging that is amazingly intense. For example, on my previous job, we were assigned to work in groups rather than independently in light of the fact that our supervisor wanted to create an atmosphere where…

characters to challenge the political and religious establishments. Castillo’s powerful narrative encourages Sofi, who is portrayed as a powerless, faceless, and voiceless woman, to resist sexism. Castillo reignites Sofi’s ambitions to search for her true identity within a patriarchal society. In So Far From God, Ana Castillo empowers the powerless, depicts the faceless, and vocalizes the voiceless by using magical realism. Magical realism can be defined as a literary genre that…

When playing Trojan football you normally see juniors and seniors out on the field underneath all of the lights. But two years ago a sophomore had a chance to play varsity football due to a knee problem with the center. That problem moved the slow tackle to fill the centers spot opening a starting position for this new sophomore who's first game was against the Milbank Bulldogs. Well that sophomores was and still is me, I have a been a two way starter for three years now and throughout my…

As a pre-service teacher, while watching both of Alanis Obomsawin's documentaries, "Richard Cardinal: Cry from the Diary of a Métis Child" and "Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance," I imagined how I would integrate these visual texts into my own future classrooms. First, I considered the pedagogical implementations necessary to teach such grave and profound content. Second, I contemplated the documentaries as visual texts with structure and form, both elements of the films (the content and the…

“subversives”, atheist, anti-fatherland, and delinquents played a great role in the justification of the lexicon of terror in Argentina. It created confusion and distorted the truth from the Argentinian people where the enemy became somewhat of a faceless enemy. This meant that readily anybody could be a subversive and that the only way someone really knew if this person was a subversive or not was by reading or listening to the state controlled media. For example the junta with the aid of the…

should speak up for those who have no voice, comfort the hurting, heal the sick, defend the defenseless, and rescue the lost. There are very few groups of people out there with less of a voice than those caught in human trafficking. They are nameless, faceless individuals, who live and die in the shadows. We have to be their…

1. and 2. Throughout a four part series, “Money, Power and Wall Street” explores in great detail the irresponsible behavior of financial institutions before, during and after the Great Recession. This insightful series explains the pitfalls of the credit default swap scheme and the ethically dubious actions of risk trading taken by bankers. Chapter one of the textbook parallels and fully contextualizes the ethical dilemmas addressed in “Money, Power and Wall Street”. Week two’s material has…

when it came to my education I abandoned my usual work ethic; this coping mechanism ultimately didn’t work and as shown in the dream only created dissonance. In the dream the line that forms behind me as spectators is a form of displacement. These faceless people represent my family. My family is very tight knit and is always in everyone else’s business which breads gossip and becomes added pressure to excel in everything I do. The last thing I want to do is become a disappointment, this dream…

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sympathizer challenges many constructs of modern society through a narrator who is “… a man of two minds” (Nguyen 1). The half French, half Vietnamese narrator operates as a communist spy among the Southern Vietnamese troops. The narrator chronicles his life in the form of a confession to another communist within a reeducation camp. This unique stylistic technique allows Nguyen to delve into and dissect issues that remain culturally relevant, including…

geographical names. Therefore, the reader is unable to identify the actual location of the battle on a map. Moreover, the book offers no distinct dates thus making it impossible to link with any historical occurrence. Furthermore, the enemy remains faceless for most parts of the book, making the experience derived by the reader more surreal. The reader is, therefore, able to picture the day to day uncertainty of war and the resulting chaos as told through Henry’s experiences. Unlike other…