Urban Dictionary

The word inflammable is a word commonly used wrong in society, since it has been confusing for years. Inflammable has been dated back to 1652, being used in Medieval Latin. The word comes from the latin word inflammare (www.dictionary.com). Merriam-Webster says that the word inflammable means easily inflamed, excited or angered. Inflammable should mean to easily catch fire, or become angered. Inflammable can be used for a product that can easily catch fire, even though it is most often put on…

things. I felt that I could better myself through education and most importantly help others along with my family. My way of doing this was by majoring in biology and becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon. Biology according to the Merriam Webster dictionary is a science that deals with things that are alive; such as plants, animals and humans. While majoring in biology there are subjects that are necessary to understand throughout the undergraduate process. These subjects and highly required…

Curiosity and imagination are wonderful things, especially when combined and questions arise. I wonder what the dead do when they die? What does a person feel when they lose something that was hard earned? What do those questions look like when they’re answered in a poem? What do those poems look like when they are brought to life in animation? All good questions that Billy Collins and a couple of talented artists have attempted to answer. Their products are then put out for the world to see and…

First, we must understand how we create and how we can be creative. To do that we must know how we find inspiration. Inspiration is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as, “something that makes someone want to do something or that gives someone an idea about what to do or create : a force or influence that inspires someone.” This definition itself explains so much about how we find our inspiration. Thinking…

Participation Trophies Hinder Kids "If I play a whole game I get a whole snow cone, but if I play a half a game I still get a whole snow cone. It's a whole snow cone either way. I'd rather play half a game." This quote is from one of Brian Regan's performances, "Lousy in Little League", where he talks about the new social norm of rewarding children for participating. While Brian Regan is a comedian, and this was meant to be funny, it does have some truth. Just as Brian Regan said, children…

A novel is “an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events”, according the Merriam Webster Dictionary. In the novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett portrays human experience by exploring the concept of isolating people from their normal lives and the world they know, to comprehend how this effects their perception of the world. Bel Canto revolves around the lives of a group of terrorists and their…

that utopia, and can it even exist. Omelas is not a utopia because it is not a perfect city because a child is suffering. A utopia is defined as “an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). A perfect civilization would entail happiness for everyone. The stipulation that keeps the child from being happy. Neither is Omelas a dystopia, the majority of citizens are happy. Omelas teeter in between which makes it all the more…

increases, it causes the urban Americans to face many issues. Tenement housing is created to house the populated cities. Many people are squeezed into these small apartments. Disease spreads quickly due to these living conditions. Not only do these urban Americans have to face these harsh living conditions and disease issues, but they also got to face dangerous working conditions and crimes that are being committed. America's new look as an urban nation. The United…

implications of the individual’s urban experience, representing the Canadian city center as a place of isolating corruption that maps an unchanging Toronto. Drawing on the modernist impulse to criticize the industrialization of society, Souster moves away from the Canadian tradition of writing naturalistic visions into the sphere of the cityscape. In his poems, “Robinson Street”, and “The Coldest Winter”, Souster uses images of isolated anguish set against the backdrop of an urban setting in…

The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines sprawl as “to spread or develop irregularly or without restraint” . This describes the problematic and reckless nature of urban sprawl. Uncontrolled urban growth increases pollution on the environment for a number of reasons. Due to a greater percentage of the workforce commuting from the outskirts of an urban center to their work, there is an increase in the volume of vehicles on the road, resulting in greater air pollution. Also, the amount of asphalt…