The World Is Flat

Want that perfect “Kobe” jump shot? All the great shooters around the world have extremely good form. To have good form, you need a technique or steps to follow in order to keep your jump shot consistent. The perfect jump shot requires bending of the knees, flicking of the wrist, and following through. The first step, bending of the knees, is very important and results in how the ball approaches the rim. When bending the knees within a shot, the shooter creates a stability stance for the ball to…

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Omission William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the reason for the consequences that have arisen from his inability to act upon his wishes. Hamlet himself has repeated on numerous occasions that, upon hearing of the vile deed Claudius has done in murdering his father, he wishes to take revenge and murder Claudius. However, Hamlet failed to complete his task because of his morality, his uncertainty, and his intelligence. Throughout the play, it is pretty clear and evident that Hamlet is a devoted…

Fiero mentions, “this painting… shows how far toward abstraction Picasso had moved … Knit by a lively arrangement of flat shaded planes, monochromatic in color, figure and ground are almost indistinguishable (Fiero).” Here Fiero emphasizes Picasso’s continuous progression toward the Cubist’s affinity of abstraction. She also focuses on the Cubist’s tenet of undermining…

Why is English Language continuously changing? English language is a language spoken throughout the world and its changing for several reasons. It changes because the needs of its speakers change, it could be as a result of the introduction of new words, swearing words, slangs, pronunciation, and technology for clear and efficient communication. New words like “Twerk” and “selfie” have been introduced and even added to Oxford Online Dictionary, English is becoming shorter…

The film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty follows an unimpressive white-collar man as he finds his life thrown into scenarios he would otherwise only have imagined. Walter Mitty goes from working as a negative assets manager in a crowded workplace to swimming in shark infested waters and climbing the Himalayas. Undergoing such a drastic change, over the course of the film, Ben Stiller employs a variety of directorial choices to further enhance how Walter Mitty had to isolate not only his mind,…

agricultural revolution and populations grew in mass density, completion and subordination (“Ways of the World” PowerPoint, Chapter 2). When it comes two of the major civilizations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, there were many similarities but also many distinctive differences in the geography as well as the environment., the world views each developed, and their political organizations (“Ways of the World,” 80). These differences ultimately led them both to develop differently as history progressed…

least carries a bit of sense. However, the idea of right or wrong is far more complicated and broader than what the average person might think. For example, it was wrong back in the dark ages to deny that the world is flat. If someone was to claim the earth is round or anything else but flat was punished by death, because that would be against what the church believed, thus against the common beliefs of the people. Even though no one was harmed. If we were to take that to our time, it would seem…

There are many artists well recognized around the world for the marvelous works they have done as individuals. The two artists that caught my eye in the early stages of the course were Tom Otterness and Magdalena Abakanowicz. Their artwork just stood out the most among their colleagues to me. In this essay, I shall speak about their backgrounds and some of their artworks that they have produced throughout the years. Tom Otterness was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1952. He moved to New York City in…

grabbed his shirt and ran for our lives. There were four of us running down the sideline passing the ball between us we could see the try line just inches in front of us. As I was tackled I felt my teammate behind me quickly grab the ball, as I looked up flat on my back all I could see was his number and his cleats passing the try…