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businessman Donald Trump. He has changed the way politics are looked at for a generation. One of his main issues that he brought up in his campaign was that of trade. Throughout the election he talked about the United States was getting “screwed” while everyone else gets rich off of America. The keys things he wanted to do was do away with or renegotiate America’s involvement with international trades. Trump wants to renegotiate NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.…

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad he focuses specifically on “the peoples who claim the heritage of the continents of Asia and Africa” (Prashad, x). When he dissects the past struggles of these people and the evolution of white privilege throughout the book he discusses the antiracist framework of multiculturalism. However, Prashad is quick to dismiss multiculturalism, as he believes it replaces the biological hierarchy of racism with…

love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons (Confucius, The Analects, c.479-221 B.C.E, pg. 137). Confucius also describes how laws and how people should be conformed to them. He describes that if they are punished, people will try to avoid the punishment with no regrets. He believes that to make citizens conform to laws, the empire must not give punishment. The empire must be less strict to give a sense of guilt among the people, thus making them want to obey the rules…

logical thought as bad or evil. Shelley represents this in Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the monster and the initial fear the monster inspires. Victor himself realizes the dangers of science after he makes the monster, when he is almost forced to make another, and when the monster kills everyone he loves. Which brings us to the next themes, emotions and irrationality. The novel is practically oozing with these two themes at all times. Irrationality when Victor is deliriously building his…

Freedman, a famous author, wrote the book Who was First? Discovering the Americas . In the year 2007 Freedman wrote the book Who was First? Discovering the Americas. Still Freedman prevailed to be a magnificent author and with his marvelous talents, he would take you back in time and put you, “face to face with Abraham Lincoln, dancer Martha Graham, or Chinese philosopher Confucious” (Library Point, n. d.). Many generations of people grew up learning that Columbus was the first in the…

At the beginning of time there was an egg shaped cloud. Cradling inside was the universe suspended in a chaotic state. Located deep in the unease, growing off of the anarchy lived a giant names Pan Gu. For eighteen agonizing years he slept before waking up. Upon awaking he stretched, which therefor shattered the egg releasing the cosmos. Following the explosion…

Lily Zheng Mr. Bowne AP English 3 Period 6-8 19 October 2015 “J. D. Salinger.” Newsmakers. Vol 1. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Biography in Context. Web. 18 October 2015. J. D. Salinger was the author of The Catcher in the Rye, which had impressive success in the early 1950s. Born on January 1st, 1919 in New York City, Salinger attended both public and prestigious private schools and was described as his school officials as intelligent but lacking in motivation. These qualities and schools…

flips through the channels he also sees titles such as “Terror, Recession, Climate Change, and Swine Flu.” The boy then turns off the TV to and heads to his computer to play a video game. But only then does the boy’s father yell at him for viewing…

theft send a clear message from Washington D.C. that these actions will not be tolerated or taken lightly (Nakashima & Wan, 2014). In the case of the Westinghouse data breach, the economic and technological gain was the clear motive. According the Zheng Mingguang, the chief nuclear designer at China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Company, China had plans to build 60 new nuclear power plants including 10 based off the design of the Westinghouse AP1000 which was the target of the hack (Clercq,…

Sex differences are a controversial topic, and over time, they (and the studies on them) have become embedded in pop culture so much that it is difficult to separate fact from fiction. Most importantly, these studies, if done incorrectly, can contribute – and often cater – to the prevalent stereotypes about men and women. Helgeson cites several cognitive abilities in her assessment: spatial, mathematical, and verbal. She notes that spatial ability (the method of using mental images rather than…