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Freshman Students and Their Experience of Stress Attending a university after transitioning out of high school can be a stressful and challenging experience. Adapting to the new lifestyle change and structure of college can take time. For first year students, it is the time for them to get connected to the university, make new friends, and get involved on campus. Overall, the challenges of new coursework, combined with the associated new lifestyle that college brings, can be overwhelming for…

Bigger Than I Really Am It was a normal summer afternoon when my mom called me into her bedroom. I had no ideas what to do for my 15th birthday on July 16th. I figured I would just see a movie, just like everyone normally does. I recently picked up an interest in Marvel movies and characters and my mom had actually taken notice. “Why don’t you go to this Wizard World thing? That Stan Lee guy you talk about is going to be there, and some Walking Dead characters.” Stan Lee is one of the original…

church. Churches became full of people looking for some type of shelter. Exactly what the director of the movie portrayed in several scenes where many were being baptized and most added a new necklace of the cross to their neck along with the hammer of Thor. Beowulf say's it for himself "They do it out of fear." not for the true faith of Christianity but for safety. Comparing this to the poem, there was no conversion of religion between the people or between anybody. Although the word, “God” is…

deity, was the rain god, worshiped for his connection to fertility, wealth and food, among other things. And Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent who was the god of wind among other things. For the Norse that meant Odin, the all-father and the sky, Thor, the god of thunder, Frigg, the goddess of rain and fertility, and Tyr, the sky god, and god of…

American Abduction Epidemic? Are missing children an American epidemic? While many parents fear that it is, I disagree. In fact, I believe there is an irrational fear surrounding child abductions and “stranger danger” in The United States. This is evident when examining the actual statistics as opposed to listening to the media’s portrayal of these incidents. Throughout this essay, you will read some of the statistics of fear, the media’s role in causing this fear, and why parents are…

The Important of Laws In our society, unexpected things happen every day. It is not easy to know about what people are thinking, what they want to do that is right or wrong. That 's why the law exists, to help guide us to do the right thing, let us know what is right and what is wrong. In order for this beautiful civil society to remain that way is for everyone to accept and for the law. People sometimes behave in such horrible ways when there is no law to follow, no legal or illegal,…

Laura Mulvey, in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), reveals how traditional cinema is imbued with an active male gaze that communicates dominant and sexist ideologies. She argues that classical Hollywood movies reflect the patriarchal system in which they are produced, with women being “looked at and displayed” for the (assumed) male spectator’s pleasure. While the success of several recent female-led blockbusters seem to indicate a shift toward greater female representation, I…

categories: rags to riches, gangsta and hood life, and segregation. When African American actors are portrayed in different roles, they seem to receive many negative reviews. In recent years, actor Kenneth Branagh was cast as a Idris Elba, a Nordic god, in Thor. There was debate about whether or not a man of color should play the character, but Branagh defends himself by saying that Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra and other white actors played people of color, yet he gets hate for being a man…

Anglo-Saxon vs. Modern Era: A Contrast of Religion Now and Then The cultural values of the Anglo-Saxons from the early Middle Ages reflect a somewhat different mindset than those we possess today. We tend to see more mockery towards religion and beliefs now, as opposed to how they portrayed such perspectives in the Middle Ages. The Danes and Geats in the epic Beowulf, considered God as an Almighty Lord worthy of man’s respect and worship. However, in the movie Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson…

was imprisoned and then rescued by King Arthur's men. Because of his imprisonment, Mabon is the God of Freedom. He frees animals and other from their imprisonments who have done no harm doing and sets them free. Other Gods at Mabon include Dionysus, Thor and…