The Wayside

Some people believe racism is not a problem anymore. This is not true. Despite a prevailing attitude that we live in a post-racial society in the United States, prejudice is pervasive and informs every aspect of our society. Racism, specifically anti-black sentiment, is not only alive in the present day, but heavily and disturbing prevalent. Post-racial societies don’t feature anti-blackness, deliberate appropriation of black culture, and rampant police brutality that is directed towards the…

I had kept him awake until five in the morning. Sitting opposite each other on metal chairs that squeaked whenever we moved. We had been talking for hours: about our families, about school, about anything that came to mind. Only two thin computer screens and the entire Atlantic Ocean in between us. Neal Collin Case was by far the most interesting person I had met- or at least that’s what I would have said five years ago. I was from a small city in Connecticut, while Neal was privileged to live…

Texting and Driving There are many problems with texting and driving. Many people have perished from texting while driving. For somebody who infers some portion of his living from expounding on cell phones, I 'm incomprehensibly something of a cellphone curmudgeon in fact, an out and out phone curmudgeon. I value the utilitarian estimation of communication and related advances, yet I strenuously oppose the start that being reachable by telephone day in and day out wherever one may happen to be…

Many events made Hitler very successful in exporting war and terror. With little to no resistance from major European power, and the United States, primarily staying out of the conflict the Nazi regime easily infiltrated much of Europe and the Soviet Union. Had the Ally forces stepped up early in the war, it may have saved millions of innocent lives and countries from German control. With the victory of Poland under Hitler’s belt, and many more able-bodied fighters for Nazi military, he was…

In our modern, interconnected world, creative destruction and globalization have transformed the labor force. Creative destruction, the replacement of jobs with newer ones as advancements in technology render the older ones obsolete, has combined with globalization to form an explosive molotov cocktail for the working class. Menial, but reliable jobs, particularly those found in the manufacturing sector, have been supplanted by both artificial intelligence and cheap foreign labor. These jobs…

This next section will present real-life application of some of the previously mentioned measurements and sonification techniques to present a performance in which brain activity is part of the piece. Though with some, their focus may have not been on expressing real-time emotional states, their experimentation with the medium provides some insight into the challenges of adopting these technologies. Alvin Lucier’s “Music for Solo Performer.” This piece has been regarded as the first of its…

Today, in Egypt, we are left with the ruins of art and architecture. The pyramids, sphinxes, and tombs were torn apart by the later Egyptian Dynasties and destroyed by looters. Some of the loss of artifacts this have to do with time, earthquakes, and past looters, but the biggest culprits, that many do not think of first, are the early Egyptologists. It was all about getting the biggest and most impressive objects and not really about the importance of the object in context to the area. Because…

The King of Trials: Historical Trials in Richard II William Shakespeare's Richard II acts as an amalgamation of three forms of trial: trial by ordeal, trial by combat, and trial by jury. Presenting the trial by ordeal in the spirit of its original Latin iudicium Dei, meaning "the truth of God", King Richard II offers himself an extension of God-ruling through divine right-therefore, creating a variant of an ordeal in his banishment of Henry Bolingbroke (Bartlett 5). Further, Richard II…

When thinking of the color red it may be seen in one of two ways. Positively red symbolizes warm feelings of passion, cheer and love. Red also has a dangerous negative side that symbolizes the expression of anger, aggression and power. Red can be used in many ways to call attention to either side of the intense emotions affiliated with the presentation of the color. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author of many accredited novels, uses color to give his work “life.” He uses color symbolism to show major…

Phonemic awareness and phonics are two components of a balanced literacy program in K – 3 classrooms. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made of sounds. Phonics builds on this awareness by teaching the relationships between sounds and letter-symbols. Research supports direct instruction of these components as a precursor to reading success. Commercially-published programs and books, software and apps, and numerous Internet sources can provide teachers with materials needed…