The World State

In life, there are few places where we go and feel completely at comfort. A place where our guards are down and we can take a break from the chaotic world outside. Where you can rip off the mask of yourself that you show strangers and be truly yourself with no fear of being ridiculed. This place, for me, is Clark University. It is hard to describe in words why, but as soon as I stepped onto the grounds of the university I knew that it was where I was meant to belong. Even before visiting the…

accepts that there is no trust however for an arrangement of stringent control. Specifically, a World Food Bank is an awful thought, he accepts. The slightest of the reasons he gives is that it will likely profit certain affluent partnerships while raising costs for whatever is left of us. Still, if the plan were successful, we should seriously mull over this expense advantageous. The issue is that the World Food Bank would be a lodge in mask. It would do nothing to constrain poor nations to…

technology too quickly. So, before you suffer the same fate as them, analyze some key reasons why block chain may not be for you. It’s easy to pack your bags and book a one-way ticket on the Blockchain hype train. Venture capitalists all over the world are pouring millions into startups focusing on the technology, and news outlets are claiming it to be the harbinger of a new technological revolution. But before you put your chips all in on this fascinating trend, take some time and hear the…

play an important role. Adolescents, who often go through a period of uncertainty and ambiguity as they transition from childhood to adulthood, count on the symbolic property of consumer products to help them transition from the state of being a child to their new state as an adult (Piacentini and Mailer, 2004). Propose the “How To” Series…

During the Simon Winchester: When the World Goes Mad talk, he started his talk by telling a story of how a man whom influenced him to become a writer for a newspaper so he would have the chance to travel the world and experience all the good and bad the world held. Simon took the man’s advice and quit his job. Assuming that as soon as he applied for a job for a newspaper company he would be hired, he was met with disappointment. During his wait to be hired for a newspaper company he assumed a…

Living in the digital revolution has given first world society many benefits as new interpersonal communication devices has given individuals the opportunity to connect in a way that is unique to the later half of the 20th century and the 21st century. The luxury of having everything available on a cell phone such as the ability to watch movies, tv shows, make phone and video calls, set reminders, and an endless variety of social media, cell phones may seem like the solution to every human need…

example, Junior is a cartoonist, and one of the reason he draws is because it keeps him afloat in the despairs of life: “So [Junior] [draws] because [he] [feels] like it might be [his] only real chance to escape the reservation. [He] [thinks] the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and [his] cartoons are tiny little lifeboats… And [he] [thinks] [he is] pretty good at it too,” (Alexie, 6-7). Junior is aware of the harsh reality, through the metaphors of the ‘floods’ and ‘lifeboats’. He…

was 6 the movie Wall-E came out. I was fascinated by the thought of the world piling up with trash and humans moving to another planet. Much to my relief, my mom reassured me that it was just a movie. It looks like the world that Wall-E lived in could be a global reality, until Dutch aerospace engineer and inventor Boyan Slat raised over 2 million dollars to fund his new invention, The Ocean Vacuum. Since we live in a world where over 5 trillion pounds of plastic litter the ocean this is vital…

I began this revision by making a few small changes. First changing “go on” to “went” so that the past tense I chose to use would remain consistent. This made a bigger difference than I though it would; it makes it seem like there was more of a separation between the speaker and what was going on around her than I though tit would. I then changed “cold” to “small,” which flows much more smoothly into “shy.” “Cold” has a harder, more unforgiving connotation, when I wanted it to come across that…

With globalization there are pros which include but not limited to, communicating better, developing allies for international security, and helping developing countries increase economic power. There are also cons, which may include producing more people that are poor, power (depending on how it is used), spreading/ exposure of disease, sharing of ideas creates violence/ crimes. When it comes to the Ebola crisis this reflects globalization because of the spreading of the disease and exposure to…