The Silver Lining

Many women are affected by breast cancer physically and psychologically. This study from Spain, illustrates the psychological aspects of coping with an illness like breast cancer. Utilizing positive psychology in those who are affected by breast cancer gives individuals the strength to persevere through this battle. Researchers of this study; M. Victoria Cerezo, Margarita Ortiz-Tallo, Violeta Cardenal, and Alejandro de la Torre-Luque had studied the work of Seligman, Csikszentmihalyi, and many…

Project Success: Facebook The website was born as a focused network in almost immature task of comparing the girls at Harvard University. Due to the success, part of the community became a yearning among students. First at Harvard, then at Stanford, Columbia, Yale and MIT. This was the driving force factor of the first moments of the network, in the United States and Britain. But what really catapulted the network, which has surpassed 500 million users, was the decision to maintain its API…

Most adults’ favorite memories are from their past years participating in sporting events throughout their high school careers. They may not have realized it at the time, but they created memories and friendships to last a lifetime. High school athletes of future generations could not have the opportunity to invent vivid, unforgettable memories and such close relationships as our older generations had the chance to do. Not only could our future students miss out on memories and fun, but they…

unattainable and that every person’s capabilities are limited. Following Gyan’s “sorry” (274), Sai develops a “demoness of rage” (274) inside of her. Sai is upset that it is “the unjust truth” (275) that Gyan doesn’t have to listen to her; however, the silver-lining of this moment is that she learns also doesn’t have to listen to others. She doesn’t have to adhere to the strict rules and norms of her culture. Moreover, Sai is learning that she can be independent; her actions do not have to…

In the preface, William Lloyd Garrison (a famous abolitionist) criticized the institution of slavery. He does this by including the anti-slavery words of separate parties involved in the controversy of slavery. For example, take the perspective of the audience at the talk. When Garrison speaks to them, he mentions the peril that Frederick Douglass, a man who has more than proven that he is of good nature, faced during his time as a slave, even in the North. He goes on to ask a simple question -…

It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.并非胡子使人成为哲学家。 Every cloud has a silver lining.黑夜漫漫,终有尽头。 We all know that western countries and eastern people have different beliefs. Most of us don’t believe in God, but we trust in Republican Party, so that our filial duty will follow the republican party. On the contrary, western people will follow what God ask them to do. They more pray before doing something. And most of the times they will obey the Bible. So we all have faith in our different…

Historical Appreciation Project: In the Heat of the Night Fifty years ago, as the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, activists protested across the deep South, and tensions rose between black demonstrators and the police. During this time, John Ball wrote his first book. It was a murder mystery set in a small Carolina town. The crime-solving detective of Ball’s novel was Virgil Tibbs, an famed homicide detective from Pasadena, California, who happened to be passing through the area on the…

Heroism The prince is a hero! He has rescued the princess, and now they are going to live happily ever after! In reality, that’s not exactly how heroism works. Heroism happens to be a lot more than saving the damsel in distress, slaying the dragon, and banishing the evil villain. As nice as that sounds, being a hero is about a person’s character. Often, heroes are determined by small acts, rather than large, headliners, such as “Save a Cat from a Burning Building” ones. A hero is someone that…

Militarization of US Police Force America, the country of the free, but is it actually free when the police are packing heat like never before? Recently the local police departments has been seen using excessive force and equipment necessary. Over the past few decades, the government have offered local police departments around five billion dollars’ worth of military-grade weapons and equipment intended for fighting major crimes, terrorism and response to disasters (Snowiss). Why would police…

mural, it depicts a terrifying war soldier holding a gun in one hand and a sword in the other, the sword is stabbing a dove. Next to the soldier, there is a line of children that appears to be sleeping, while other people looking distraught while lining up for their certain doom. At the bottom of this panel, there is a quote from a fourteen-year-old child who died at Auschwitz (Blaskiewicz). These murals are open to interpretation, but a quote from a child who died in a concentration camp seems…