The Goldbergs

Imagine living in a society where the media skewed the accuracy of information only to manipulate the audience and boost ratings, now realize that the society described isn’t an imagination but rather a reality. Currently, the majority of individuals depend on news networks to further understand the happenings around the world. However, receiving news from one source feeds the viewer with biased ideas, intended to make the viewer think a certain way. The reason behind this lies on the ideologies…

Edith Goldberg: An Unforgettable Journey “Edith Goldberg is one of 10,000 mainly Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution on the Kindertransport scheme,” (The Yorkshire Post: Edith Goldberg). She went through watching her father and uncle being taken away by police. They eventually returning home, but soon after she lost her mother and father when they were deported. Lastly, when she was split up between her sister when they were put with foster families. Edith was only 11 years old…

by contributing primarily their advanced technology. Many of their advanced technology consisted of simple machines such as the lever, screw, cranes, and gears. These simple machines allowed the performance of work be held effortlessly. In my Rube Goldberg Machine we demonstrated the key aspects, of the ancient Greeks society by focusing on the five different components and representing their advanced technological accomplishments. Ancient Greece the native home of western civilization…

1. Why was the article by Michael Buckland, “Histories, heritages, and the past: The case of Emanuel Goldberg” was given as the first reading for the course? The case of Emmanuel Goldberg illustrates the convoluted path back to the origin of an idea as well as the factors that contributed to its blurred out past. His work shows the intricacies of social memory, as the ‘erasure’ of Emmanuel Goldberg and his life’s work was so multifaceted—confounded by politics, war, nationalism, physical…

RGM Reflection My Rube Goldberg Machine is the PROTOTYPE-SR213. It accomplishes the simple task of lifting a cup. When I started brainstorming about the project, I wondered what I could do and how I could do it. When I finally came up with one idea, it was already time to make up two more ideas to pass the EDP. In the building stage, after I already chose what design I wanted to build, I made a bunch of changes. For one, I got rid of the part in the middle where a toy car rolled down a…

The self-operating napkin is a famous cartoon that sums up what Rube Goldberg machines are all about: creating a machine(or contraption or invention or device or apparatus) that uses a chain reaction to accomplish a very simple task in a very complicated manner. For example, the self-operating napkin accomplishes the simple task of wiping the chin through this convoluted series of events: lifting a soup spoon (A) pulls a string (B) that jerks a ladle (C) that then throws a cracker (D) past a…

Concurrences and Dissents: Concurrence: Justice Goldberg begins by contradicting Justice Stewart’s argument that there is no right to privacy written in the Bill of Rights or established by previous cases, stating that the Court has “never held that the Bill of Rights of the Fourteenth Amendment protects only those rights that the Constitution specifically mentions by name.” In fact, the equal protection clause was not explicitly stated the Constitution, but was derived from the Due Process…

Students have been learning by leaps and bounds throughout February. Time flies when you’re having fun, and in a leap year! Whether its heart-pumping excitement at the fire department, investigating beyond your average brainteaser, rocking out in geology, or commemorating America by learning from its’ history, students are challenging their academic achievements. This month has been absolutely extraordinary, and we are happy to share with you a little about the wonderful activities your…

Be Specific by Natalie Goldberg and Killing the Written Word by Snippets by Naomi S. Baron. The list of things that Goldberg uses in her writing has a purpose to show the reader the many names objects have, and to give the reader a better understanding why it is so important to call things by their real names. Baron argues that when students rely on sound bites instead of full articles and books in their research, they lose the ability to analyze. In “Be specific” Goldberg writes about how…

Body Next, I will be discussing the three types of power along with the definition of power, from the communication concepts found in Superbad. “What is the definition of power?” Power Definition: (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) the ability or right to control people or things; political control of a country or area; a person or organization that has a lot of control and influence over other people or organizations. According to the textbook, “Understanding human communication”, power is group…