The Hills Have Eyes

Kyle Hill, a science writer and communicator, observes that “We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.” Confirmation bias, can affect the way that we interpret information, and the opinions we make based on the way we interpret information. In Malcom X’s “Learning to Read”, he examines the importance of his self-education, and…

Nuna. Sookan being so small in size, Sookan's mother was able to keep her from attending school for a couple years. Mother didn't want her to go because of the school being run by Japanese with beliefs that harshly differ with hers. Sookan did have to attend at some point and on her first day she realized what Mother didn't want to expose to her, what risks followed her convictions and what the…

he know that Macduff was the one that was not born by woman. Macduff said, “ I have no words. My voice is in my sword” (Mac.5.8.6-7). Then he killed Macbeth and the war was over. Lady Macbeth had more of the free will then Macbeth because she died at her own risk and everything thing she did was at her own risk. But when it came to Macbeth everything was planned or someone planned it for him. As you can see women have more free will then men. Women can hold everything down when it gets crazy but…

Jonas values life , but probably doesn’t know the reason of life yet, until he gets the memories. Additionally,”Sideways, spinning, the sled hit a bump in the hill and Jonas was jarred loose and thrown violently into the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him, and could hear the crack of bone. His face scraped along jagged edges of ice and when he came, at last, to a stop, he lay shocked and still, feeling nothing at first but fear.” He finally had fun doing something that wasn’t in his…

As a child, your days are long and your adventures seem nearly endless, and yet, as you age your days instead become long, grueling sessions while life becomes a dreary pattern. However, this does not necessarily have to be, if you simply see through the child in your mind’s eye, life can still be just as exciting as it once was. When I was young, my mother sent me off to lessons each day at a small school nearby; there I was smothered into stillness and sentenced to silence. It seemed as if…

appearance is evident in the apparel and attitude towards image, “Only thing was that as I stood up, the crack in my chair clamped shut on my tracksuit bottoms and it pulled them halfway down my arse before I could yank them out again, and I could have done without it to be honest” (131). N’s original appearance is noticeably lenient perceived through the attire of tracksuit bottoms, which is intended for comfort as the protagonist is not athletic, proving the informal a presentation. N is also…

muscular arms and legs. Nomm tied back his dirty, black hair as he guarded the king’s cattle. The tired, young man’s eyes were as blue as the clear, desert sky but no longer shone with happiness. The tall, strong slave wished to be free so he could return home to his parents. Lonely and dreaming of home, he pulled out the broach his mother gave him as he left for the war. Caub’s grey eyes danced resembling clouds across the sky as he urged his horse to run even faster. The excited, young bandit…

and Engles believe that human history can be arranged into three crucial periods. The first being the ancient societies such as the Greeks or Romans, the second is called the feudal societies or the European middle ages, then lastly, as a society we have entered the Capitalist society. The Communist Manifesto is an argument against Capitalism as well as a philosophy on how humans should live their lives and the part government should play in people’s lives. The basic premise Mark and Engles…

ferns and wildflowers, {is a delight to} the traveler's eye through much of the year"(367). Without much warning, the vegetation took a drastic downfall. At the end of Rachel's fable she says, "The roadsides, once so attractive, {are} now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire." The humans completely destroyed the vegetation, but that was only one of the many things destroyed.…

“The poverty line, we not above /So out come the mask and glove cause we ain’t feelin’ the love/ We ain’t doing crime for the sake of doing crime/ We movin’ dimes cause we ain’t doin’ fine” - Jay Z, Say Hello. These four lines are the embodiment of the relationship between hip hop and what happens in the less glamorous parts of the nation’s star city, New York. For decades New York has been the hip hop headquarters, to a point where the goal was and is still to be named “King of New York.” Hip…