Wuthering Heights

“All the Syrian people are living a nightmare, they can’t escape it. They had lives before and now they don’t.” – Maher, a Syrian refugee in Europe (Yassin-Kassab & Al-Shami, 2016, p. 147) This quote hit home with me while I was reading Chapter 7 “Dispossession and Exile” and Chapter 8 “Culture Revolutionized” in Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami. Both chapters focused on the Syrian refugee crisis emerging from the constant protests and feuding stemming from the Syrian…

11.3 million people have been displaced by the civil war in Syria and, despite a lack of coverage recently in the media, the number is only growing (World Vision). When asked, people guessed the number of refugees to be in the thousands and one even responded “is that still going on?” (Mason). We, as people of the world, should help out the refugees by all able-countries working together to assist diplomatically, socially, and economically. In addition, informing the masses about this ongoing…

Crown Heights, located in Brooklyn, is known to be a diverse neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most…

independence from the Soviet Union. Futhermore, Assad was becoming to be well liked after Syria’s Arab oil boom. Syria grew very rich very fast during the boom of oil in the middle east. Hafez again gained support when he attacked Israel in the Golan Heights in October 1973, which started the Yom Kippur War ("Hafez Al-Assad”). The…

Today’s writing day. Great! Let’s begin, but wait, is your work area set up properly? I think so, but how can I know? To find out, Sit. Sit? Yes, sitting is something as a writer, you’ll be doing frequently. Sitting properly can reduce injury therefore increase productivity and allow creative ideas to flow. When you’re able to focus on ideas over how much pain there is you become more creative and therefore a better writer. If your workspace is set properly you will be able to use appropriate…

For hundreds of years dwarfism has been a fascination of society. Historically people with dwarfism were used in circuses and sideshows because people were in awe of their stature and proportions. Dwarfism is most commonly caused by the genetic condition Achondroplasia, which accounts for 70% of all dwarfism cases and occurs in one out of every 25,000 live births (Pauli, 1998). Achondroplasia (ACH) is one of many genetic anomalies which causes the condition dwarfism it is an autosomal dominant…

As a child I was unimaginably self conscious about my height. Looking back on it I think it might have been because people would always tell me I was blocking their view, and making me sound like a nuisance. I had pretty much always felt this way until 8th grade when my P.E. coach asked me if I had ever run track. As I walked into the echo filled gym that smelled of socks, and sweat I passed my 5ft tall P.E. teacher, Coach Atkinson, she unexpectedly took me aside and said what every person…

would tease me and had PREJUDICE against me because I was taller than most girls my age. I believe that if my class would have gone through a workshop such as this one that maybe their attitude towards my height would not have been what it was. To this day I have issues what it comes to my height and I am not that tall I am 5 feet 10 inches tall; I also ironically married a man that is 5 feet 8 inches tall. I still slouch down around people shorter than me especially if I am in a group and I am…

something some people have only dreamed about, but now, it has become a reality. Scientist have discovered a way to alter human genetic traits and produce the perfect offspring. Some traits scientists have tried to alter include sex, eye color, and height, but it is still in the experimenting stage and should be possible within the next few years. Add more. Creating genetically altered babies should be prohibited. Genetically altering babies is still in the testing phase. The testes…

The Struggle of Today’s Arab Youth At a time when the western world and all the freedoms enjoyed in it are a tap or click away; the struggle for Arab youth is an entirely foreign one to previous generations. Arab youth are struggling with a crisis of their learned identity clashing severely with the world they see in mass culture, a free world they desperately want to live in and be a part of. Access to the Internet, technology and the resultant rapidly amplified globalization has made their…