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1,186. 1,186 is the number of people killed by police in 2015 (Petrohilos, 2015). In 1991, Rodney King could’ve been one of those numbers, with the perpetrators getting off scot-free. The acquittal of the four officers who brutally attacked Rodney King was an outrage to the American people as well as being the catalyst for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Rodney King was driving one night when he was pulled over and beaten by police. Upwards of one-hundred miles per hour, Rodney King’s car was…

reasonable stories. The writers of this period replaced the boring static universal types of literature with more complex and unique characters. The authors that represented this movement the most including Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving, and Walt Whitman. Each of them showed why emotion, intuition, and imagination inhabits a more empowering importance than listening to reason, logic, and even science. Emily Dickenson only shared seven poems in her life, all of which got released with no…

Anthropologists proposed two definitions for culture. These two definitions are polar opposites from each other. According to the article “The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans” by Andrew Whitman, one defines culture as a solid blockade among human beings and creatures. (Whitman, 2005). According to the “ Culture a Golden Barrier Between Human and Chimpanzee?” by Christophe Boesch, the second defines culture as a creatures living in the community emasculating actions. My…

or act unlike their usual selves. In these cases, their strange behavior was the result of a tumor in their brain. After Charles Whitman opened fire at the University of Texas, the medical examiner discovered a tumor in his thalamus, a region of the brain that regulates emotion. The damage to his brain caused emotional and social disturbances, and explains why Whitman, a seemingly normal man, did what he did. In a second example, a forty year old man named Alex one day experienced a change in…

Transcendentalism was a religious, philosophical, and literary movement that began to express itself in the early 1800s. Transcendentalism is the belief that man, by observing nature and examining self, can better his humanity and become one with God (Goodman). Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two strongly influential transcendentalists whose philosophies continue to provide significant message and meaning. Emerson, as a notorious writer, lecturer, and editor of the…

being spiritually united, a deep faith in human potential, and a deep reverence of nature. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and his poem When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer is a great example of Transcendentalist writing. The poem takes place in a classroom, where Whitman becomes bored quite quickly with the lecture. The main message of this poem is to go out and experience nature, just as Whitman wanted to do during the lecture. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer shows a deep reverence…

How many people have used or been around firearms? Everyone has seen firearms on television or in a movie here or there but how many of you have actually been around them and know anything about them? The answer is only about 4 in 10 people in America actually claim to own a gun. So there is a good chance that people have been around a firearm or at least know someone who has one. That being established how many of them actually have some form of training with said firearm. The answer is…

Introduction The general idea of this work is to explore the role of dubbing as a method of the audiovisual translation and how it is performed in superhero movies produced by Marvel Studios. Dubbed movies have become popular among young audiences, for example, the ‘Shrek’ series, as well as in many European countries where movies or TV series are dubbed even for an older audience. The superhero genre has joined this trend, for example, in Poland every superhero movie has its dubbed version…

how Western history is primarily a perpetual competition for legitimacy, as shown by cultural dominance, shifts property ownerships, and the rest of the nation’s economic dependence on the West’s existence. She first introduces Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, a white woman who was killed while she attempted to teach Native Americans about Christianity in Oregon. When posing a rhetorical question on who…

Rags to riches, power, voyage, and tragedy are common themes in The Great Gatsby, O Captain, My Captain!, and The Open Boat. In The Great Gatsby, death represents unfulfilled goals, while for both O Captain, My Captain! and The Open Boat represents that a sacrifice must be made. In all three pieces of literature involved the theme of herculean effort, which represents that giving your all does not guarantee accomplishing your goal. Lastly, the three text utilized the theme, dynamics of social…