The Missing

Munnecke’s article, “Nothing Is Missing” he goal is aimed to persuade people who would like to expand their knowledge on learning a difference language. People can sometimes feel confided into their own cocoon of their single language and may need that little push to persuade them to get out of their comfort zone. Munnecke wants to show these people that knowing a different language allows a person to see the world in a different way. In the article, “Nothing Is Missing” Munnecke speaks directly…

negatively by inequality between the sexes, loss of creativity and originality, and decreases trust in the media world. The world as we know it, is being influenced by pop culture and the media, and it is doing more harm than good. In the essay “Still Missing: Women in the Media”, by Megan Tady, she discusses the gender issues and inequality in the media news world. Tady talks about the way men have a greater voice and opinion in the media, and decide “how to represent and portray our population…

The case of John Hossak is incredibly mysterious and is a mystery that was never completely solved. Due to the inherent mystery of the case there were many different books, stories, and plays based of it. One of these is “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell. The plot of this play is essentially the same as the case; however, fundamental differences can be found within the two, as well as trivial details, such as names. Within this report you will find a comparative analysis between “Trifles” and the case…

Confidence: A Different Tool to Break Through the Glass Ceiling? Women’s rights has almost always been a theme in the history of our society for the past few centuries, but today it is important in the professional sense. As a society we have been slowly but steadily making progress in gender equality in a variety of forms, but as one of the most progressive countries in the world, why are only 4% of the Fortune 500 CEOs women? In “The Confidence Gap”, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman examine the…

In contemplating the different facets of occupation and the world of work, it is conceivable that one may overlook the significance of a person’s attitude on how a job is done or handled. This therefore, poses an interesting question, which is, in what way does a person’s attitude influence their working life? How can someone’s attitude towards their job have an impact on it, and in turn, on themselves? As defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, attitude is “a mental position or feeling/emotion…

Mrs. Barbara Allen Barrett, age 39, was previously married to Michael John Reed and has two kids, Catherine Reed,16, who attends Givenchy Academy and Todd Michael Reed,18, who attends Stanford. Barbara and John were married for 9 years before they decided to get a divorce. She met John Walker Barrett 2 years after her divorce at a functions for charity. When Barbara first met John she was immediately attracted to him because of his charm, manners, and intensity. They talked at the function…

Working Thesis: In the novel My Ántonia by Willa Cather, Cather portrays to the audience the American Dream for the Shimerda family, Jim Burden, Lena Lingard, Tiny Soderball, Peter and Pavel, as well as the sacrifices that they may have had to make to come to America and start a new life. Cather also uses a feminist approach in the novel because the novel is really Jim Burden’s story of Ántonia, Jim is the narrator of the novel, not Antonia. Although someone who is writing about the novel in…

Essay After reading “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant one can conclude that the two stories have similarities and difference. The short story “Catch the Moon” is about a disobedient teenager named Luis who works off community service hours at his dad’s Junkyard but when he was stalling to clean hubcaps that his father wanted him told him to do a girl named Naomi came to the Junkyard and asks Luis’s father to search for a specific hubcap for an old vintage car and when…

One day Mirna,Christy,and Amy were getting ready for the first day of school they were so nervous but at the same time they were excited to see how their first year at middle school would be.First,Mirna and Amy were done getting ready and they walk to the park to wait for the bus to come since that's where the bus usually come for the kids that leave a little far away from schools.Next,the bus came and Mirna,Amy and Christy were going inside the bus there was to many kids that they didn't know…

Mo's story began on a Friday afternoon a few weeks ago. Which of course at the time, Mo believed Friday to be the start of a normal weekend, but she was wrong. Now, I am not saying her weekend was awful, but it did run awry. The plan was to travel to her father's house in Dixon, which is about two hours away from Bloomington-Normal. She had already said goodbye to her mother and step-father, on the grounds of the fact that they had left to celebrate their anniversary. The couple planned on…