World of Wonders

and directed by Juan Solana’s. Juan Solana dose an outstanding job at telling a classic love story between two lovers from opposite worlds while giving it a strange yet appealing twist. This PG-13 dramatic romance was released in 2012 and was viewed and loved by many. Actors Kristen Dunset (Playing Eden) and Jim Sturgess (Playing Adam) come from very different worlds in the movie yet somehow are able to fall in love and connect despite where they come from and their differences. Just as Romeo…

What SF does for us SF functions both as a distortion of the present and as a teacher that can evoke social change by critiquing human(oid) behaviors and their institutions. Samuel Delany and Joanna Russ must be thanked equally for their contribution to the function of SF as Delany’s argument that SF is a significant distortion of the present cannot be brought to justice unless it is combined with Russ’s argument that SF serves a didactic function. Without understanding that SF is a distortion…

During this semester, English 101 elaborated on multiple skills that may have not been touched on in high school or other colleges. Coming from high school, in my four years of English classes, I never had to write or discuss summarizing articles, papers, and other writings. After learning a few tips and tricks on how to summarize a piece of text, it became easier to summarize the texts and also improved my ability to tell others summaries of data or information. After the few assignments we…

gloves cost. As perceived in each of these stories, children see the world as so small and accordingly little things are a big deal. As people age the world becomes bigger so little things are not a big deal, and there are bigger matters to worry about. In both Jinx and The Yellow Glove, the reader can see that control is a major part in all of the…

throughout the book. McCarthy first presents this question through the mother of the boy in a flashback. This is where she decides to kill herself after giving birth. This triggers the man to thus be questioning life in this new post-apocalyptic world. The man claims that his boy “carries the fire” and is a sign of god 's’ existence, this view pushes the man to continue his journey, but as demonstrated on page 12 by this quote “ You forget what you want to remember, and remember what you want…

In the book, Introducing Comparative Politics by Steven Orvis and Carol Ann Drogue, the content containing Middle East, Asia and Africa is infrequent whereas information on the Americas and European is numerous. There is evidence the authors wrote the textbook in a Eurocentric tone. Honestly, the authors were very far from avoiding Eurocentrism and there are ways to avoid the ironic misfortune. Firstly, the case studies are imbalanced amongst the eleven countries. Secondly, Eurocentric based…

Information Box or Idiot Box How television was used, and its purpose for the world? Having probably surpassed the hopes and dreams of its creators, the television has made a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. The “boob tube” or “idiot box” was initially used to help advertisers sell their products; however, it has become a means of rapidly informing the world of current events and other forms of entertainment. Widespread panic that took place in 2009 as the June 12th switch from…

environmental problems in the world today are a result of individuals abusing what the world has to offer. Many of the natural disasters we face are a result of the earth fighting back to what we as humans are doing. I thought that this film was very resourceful. I never took the time to think about the harm I am bringing to the environment around me, even if it is the smallest thing. I learned that our culture is not taking the time to realize where the world is going. The world is not self…

Eurocentric view of why the native people were not advancing. He said “they [Indians] were blessed by nature, but dwarfed by it,” most scholars believe that the Indians were “lazy,” thus making their civilization backwards compared to the rest of the world. However, that was not the case, the native people demonstrated extraordinary abilities in, agriculture, architecture, mathematics, sculpting, and astronomy. Fuentes explained that the native people believed in divinities that represents…

Transcendentalism In Today's Pop Culture “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great transcendentalist who shared many of his beliefs in his writings. Transcendentalism is the philosophy that promotes the understanding that there is goodness in nature and in people, and it is supported in…