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What comes to mind when you think of cyberbullying? Thoughts running through your mind wondering how many people have been bullied through the internet or social media? Looking back at the past in middle school there was one girl in particular, no one knew her well because it was her first year there. She was the main target of being cyberbullied. No one knew if she was going to pay attention but little did they know she would. She was picked on for not being as cool as the other girls. Her face…

Bond was born on May 19, 1934 at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh. He is the eldest son of late Aubrey Alexander Bond, a British officer in Royal Air Force in India. His sister Ellen was a little handicapped child with defective vision and initial signs of epilepsy. Ellen lived with Granny (Grandmother) and brother William at Calcutta, but Bond grew-up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun and Simla. He is the most popular and sensitive contemporary short story writer of our times. He wrote his first short…

Living with the Enemy Every human being since the fall of man lives with an enemy that wants to control us, his enemy can make the nicest person misbehave and do things they should do. In the Movie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson uses biblical elements such as the sinful nature that is in every human heart because of sin to reveal what it look like to want to do right but evil is seems to always be present and more fun. This picture of sinful man and what sin will make you do is…

During the Medieval time period, it is evident that women were customarily discriminated against as well as, oppressed by and sanctioned by a certain role within every society. However, the Medieval time period comes with it’s very own historical female figures that set out to renounce and bend these gender roles and social norms regardless of the consequences and social scrutiny that was laid out by the men of their time. It is palpable that religion played a major role in the development of…

"Americanah" is a fiction written by the popular Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Ifemelu is a young, educated Nigerian woman who satisfies her yearning to travel, abandons her childhood sweetheart Obinze and goes to America without a Green Card to attend college. The story skips between her point of view and Obinze's, yet we are mostly with Ifemelu as she explores her new life in the States. In Nigeria, everybody is dark. There is no separation over race. What she encounters in the US…

I, Wan Aida Deliana will be focusing on Richard Dawkins atheistic view as I believe that his statements are the things that I question in life. The strength of Richard Dawkins is that he is able to relate to his audience with science as his religion. Dawkins explained his several point of views by applying scientific concepts and the concept of Darwinism. He grew up in an Anglicanism Christian upbringing. He mentions that in his biographical introduction, he realized that there are…

The year 1954 until the year of 2016 has been 62 since the start of the civil right movement. Those 62 years has made various strides and advancements in society including: politics, technology, and economics. The dynamics of the United States has changed tremendously since 1954. A major stepping stone in the whole movement was Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement until his tragic death, April 4, 1968 . African Americans has increased their numbers in polling…

I lean forward trying to combat the incline as I pass a few men sitting on the stoop of a tiny grocery store. “Nice hair, girl” they yell at me as I pass. Now I am actually a bit scared. Sure, catcalling happens a lot more than it should, but this was Harlem. I duck my head and walk faster. Just keep going, I tell myself. I weave through…

Richard T. Wright and Scott Decker attempt to explain the motivations and decision-making processes of residential burglars. Their research is focused on current burglars in the St. Louis area. This study attempted to do what had not been done before, which is to study the criminal in his/her own environment. By using a snowball sampling method they were able to gather 105 residential burglars (henceforth referred to as “hustlers” as they preferred to be called) that encompassed different races,…

Mexican workers had reduced the cost of labor for the agriculture business, working at stoop labor which few Anglo-Americans, even the poorest, would perform. White trade unions inevitably blamed the Mexican immigrants for taking their jobs. As the depression worsened, so did anti-Mexican feelings. People were poor and that meant hard times…