The World State

The world is full of diverse cultures. They used to be separated in a world without the ability to quickly travel vast distances. With the creation of more and more advanced technologies, the airplane opened the doors for fairly convenient world exploration. Now cultures weave in and out of each other, delicately or violently mixing. Bruce Knauft shares his discoveries and challenges with the Gebusi culture in his book, The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World. One intriguing…

no car, and no place to lay your head at night. Your being released with only what you had in your pockets when you were arrested. There isn’t even a program out there to help reaccumulate you back to life in the free world. Scott Bransford touches on a huge problem in the world in his story about “Camping for Their Lives”. He begins with a young couple who is newly married, and can’t afford a mortgage or a lease, they were in a crowded shelter for a while, but were unable to share the same…

age in the year 2015 than it has ever before. Looking back twenty years ago, classrooms (especially elementary school classrooms) were lucky if they had two or more desktop computers within the confines of their classroom. In today’s society and the world of education, it is uncommon to see less than four desktop computers per classroom at the complete bare minimum. An increasingly large number of classroom spaces now are the…

you the world will end on a certain date? There have been numerous times when that statement that was being made turned out to be imprecise. No one can really tell when the end of the world will ever take place. Nobody should be relying on one single news source for this type of information. First of all, according to a 2012 Timeanddate.com news article, many researchers had published articles regarding doomsday on the 21st of December in 2012; everyone was so sure that was the day the world…

Do you remember a time of being a child and having that innocence of not knowing the world around you; then life throws a wave of commotion at you and then that innocence you once had is now gone. It happens to all of us, life will break us and it will make us. All kids will lose their innocence, but sometimes others lose theirs younger than others. Experience is the cause of losing your innocence. Freedom is what allows humans to live life; when a child has no freedom they have to grow up…

schools that were built under his name (Mortenson 270). Throughout the novel, the hard process of building schools and making a name for oneself was happening quicker than one would expect. Unfortunately, the lies continue with the novel, Mortenson states he was kidnapped for eight days by the Taliban. There were pictures included in the book of the “Taliban group” of eight men with an addition of Mortenson holding an AK47 in the middle of the group. Significantly, Greg Mortenson was seen as one…

Ophelia Syndrome is the example of not believing in yourself and trusting someone else opinion. The Allegory of the Cave is more of a naïve embark of slaves being held against their will. One slave becomes free and escapes and learns that there is a world outside of the cave. Both of the readings have similarities and differences. The both give in to the fact that it is better to rely on yourself, and not be dependent on anyone. Another similarity is that…

Living in a small world negatively influenced information seeking for everyday life purpose. A small world is a world where language and customs bind its participants to one worldview. Resources (both intellectual and material) are known and easily accessible. It is a world in which there is a collective awareness about who is important and who is not; which ideas are relevant and which are trivial; whom to trust and whom to be avoided (Chatman, 1999). Chatman built Theory of Life in the Round…

The world looks different to me; flowers lack detail, all trees appear to be identical, and the fish in the sea are blurry to me. I was born with a rare eye disorder called Peters’ anomaly. Due to my visual impairment my view of the world, in actuality, is diverse. I might not have excellent vision with my eyes, but I have a different type of vision. I have a vision for innovation and creativity. The simplicity of everyday tasks for the average person is an obstacle for me that I have no option…

everywhere, especially in technology. This can be seen in social media, electronic bill boards, televisions, radios, and websites. It has got way out of hand because advertisers put them anywhere, and on anything. According to an article, by Paul Bach he states, “our expert tells us that a fraying economy and fractured media has forced marketers to work much harder to get our attention,…