Vagueness

planner can work on the surround environment on it, building some welcoming trees and man-made little rivers, etc. to make it more of a tangible experience for the outsiders who are not familiar with the local culture. Grey space emphasizes on the vagueness of boundary, the ambiguity of functionality as well as the duality of sensualisation (Newton, 1971). As a matter of fact, building a grey space has been a very common method to ease the alienation on emotions caused by that fact that modern…

The most complex, and perhaps the most well-known myth in Christianity and Judaism is the fall of Adam and Eve. Created by ancient Hebrew nomads and recorded by Yahwhist (J) as Genisis 3:1-24, this narrative provides religious truth answering fundamental questions regarding the origin of sin. An artistic illustration of this story is Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Adam and Eve (1526), which depicts the moment of the First Sin. The Yahwhist text of Genesis 3:1-26 reflects the social-historical context…

Many people try to better themselves, whether it may be through scoring better on an English paper or through better understanding the idea of quantum physics. However, people also try to better their character, as Benjamin Franklin explains in his book The Autobiography. Although people most commonly know Benjamin Franklin as an inventor and a founding father, few know him as a writer. In The Autobiography, Franklin discusses prominent events in his life through a comedic tone, but more…

When discussing the family and the dynamics involved therein, there seems to be a lack of literature relevant to the relationships of siblings. This is to say, when speaking about the family, it would appear that the way in which siblings interact with one another is of no consequence to understanding the family. In lieu of discussing siblings’ relationships as it pertains to one sibling to the other, the discourse of the family revolves around the “powerful parent-child dyad” (Pfouts 1972, 200)…

Translators are literary ambassadors. They bring foreign works to the audience of the target language. During the past semester, I have been working to translate part one of His Excellency, The Ambassador, by Ghazzi AlQussaibi, for its popularity among Arab readers around the world. Some critics claim that the novel is actually a true story of an Arab politician. This is because the author was a renowned political figure for most of his life, where it would be within reason to assume he had a…

Afterlife in the eyes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet One of the most well know piece of work that Shakespeare’s has authored is his drama Hamlet, in this play we get a glimpse into the genius that is Shakespearian writing and how he is able to bring certain topics into discussion without really realizing it. One of these topics concerns the afterlife, specifically concerning the ghost of the late King Hamlet and whether or not he is in fact purgatory or some evil spirit come to mess with Hamlets mind.…

Conservative ideas of the beginning of a romantic relationship hinged upon a person’s accidental meetings with additional single adults in his/her physical nearness (e.g., meeting somebody at work, a communal appointment, or grocery store), or being introduced by associates of his/her communal network (e.g., being set up by a family member or friend). Online dating websites and applications are different from these conservative ideas by providing persons with “increased information about a wider…

Federal agencies are the part of government that is not congress, the president, or the military during wartime. If the president or Congress decides to build a bridge, they won’t oversee any of the work themselves, not even hiring of the staff. Instead, an agency is created to carry out their goal. Examples of agencies in the United States include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, and Federal Communications Commission. Agencies are formed by an act of Congress,…

Obviously there is another side to Thoreau with which "Birches" does not strife. A Thoreau more suitable to Frost shows up in a Journal passage six months before the striking ice tempest of December 31, 1852. He expresses: "Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place, for instance. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no…

they make in response to other issues. In the prologue, “A Tale of Two Farms”, Diamond presents his definition of a collapse, his framework for analyzing a collapse, and how he compares the stories of societies against each other. Despite Diamond’s vagueness when he discusses his methods, he does have a solid foundation that can be used to interpret collapses and attempt to use them to prevent such events in the future. Diamond literally defines collapse as the “drastic decrease in human…