The Usual Suspects

Why so Cirrus? In the year 2050 the earth was becoming uninhabitable. Gradually, issues of the past that remained unresolved thrived until the world was plagued with pollution and climate change. Fortunately, scientists uncovered a way to alter materials and later people’s genetic makeup, thus they were lighter and more resistant to heat. Consequently, they could reside in the clouds, which served as a barrier from the decaying world below. Regardless of their class, individuals underwent this…

2.2.1 Power Distance (PDI): Hofstede (1983) explained how a society handles the inequality among people within a group. According to a recent study of Sian et al (2010), In a high Power Distance index society, people accept their social hierarchical position and accept that those with high power have the right to dispense authority, while on the other hand, for low Power Distance, people stress on equality of opportunity and rights, they are independent and do not rely on each other much. These…

There were certain behaviors that Toren exhibited that I did not find to be very unusually in a campus culture. The main one being underage drinking, it is an unspoken rule that it is okay to drink before we are twenty-on. A lot of Toren’s drinking occurred in his dorm room, on the rule that what happens behind closed-door stays behind closed doors. “I drank throughout the next two days until I had return from Brazil back to my site and we parted ways (pg. 177).” He had frequently black outs,…

Growth and Change There are numerous major trends characterizing US population growth and change. Some of the trends include population and migration due to the housing crisis. Race and ethnicity play a large role, especially if an immigrant. Most immigrants tend to move in with friends or relatives of the same culture and background. Unfortunately this particularly occurs in major urban areas around US boarders. Age is another trend that contributes to the US population and…

The community center totaled nearly 30 buildings. Since the colony was literally being built in the middle of nowhere with no existing land owners or township and time was of the essence; Williams was both the architect and planner in one. The usual problems involving zoning and eminent domain did not exist. While the rest of the country had begun to decentralize, thanks mostly to the automobile. The Matanuska colony had no such luxury. This was made worse by the fact that the homes were on…

the press to the police or written by the police to the press, showing their constant interaction throughout the case. The most prevelant interaction between these two groups was the press’ criticism of the police. The police were dealing with the usual string of criminal activity in Whitechapel, and they had no leads in Tabram’s case, so once again the murder was thought to be the work of one of the area 's gangs. Dew reflects that once…

Cruel and unusual punishment is, by definition, “such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment … any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community” (Cruel and Unusual Punishment). The number of prisoners in the United States has climbed in 2016 to a staggering 2.2 million, up from 200,000 in 1972. A full 36 percent of those incarcerated are behind bars for nonviolent…

It’s holocaust remembrance day and my best friends and I are burning flowers to honor the people who died in the concentration camps. One of my friends tells me that she brought extra flowers than the usual four to commemorate the ones who have died in the east from genocide too. I feel so bad for the families that have lost their loved ones to genocide that it makes me realize that genocide is the worst outcome of the war. This is because of the destruction it causes and the mental toll that it…

healing: “first, conjure accounts laid out a conflict, identifying a soured relationship with a well-known neighbor or family member as the source of the conjure spell. Next... often the suddenness or particular nature of physical symptoms... to suspect an ‘‘unnatural illness.’’ Third, the afflicted person searched for a healer with ‘‘second sight’’ into the workings of the spiritual world. Fourth, the narrator recounted the steps taken by the conjurer to bring about a cure." (Fett, p. 86) Also,…

It was always my goal. Ever since I went to a debate camp there over the summer, I knew I wanted to go to Stanford. The worst part of it all was that I actually, genuinely, wholeheartedly believed that I could. I believed that I was different. Although statistics might have suggested otherwise, I thought that the acceptance rates of nearly four percent didn’t apply to me, the academic prodigy from downtown Detroit. It was toward this goal of mine, that I invested countless hours of studying.…