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The Gates to Women’s Country

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"The Gates To Women's Country" by Sheri S. Tepper was assigned to me to read. Little did I know how many relevant topics were brought up in this book that pertain to today's society. This book, much like others, includes political and social issues. "The Gates To Women's Country" is set in the future, where women live inside the country wall and men in the garrisons outside the wall's gate. Stavia, the main character, has her story told through flashbacks […]

The Necessity of Profiling in FBI

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Profiling is the idea of examining and analyzing offenders who are not known in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Howard D. Teten and Patrick J. Mullany first put it to use in 1972 on one of the unsolved cases that had been assigned to them. Profiling became a useful investigative tool to all law enforcement; with its effectiveness they adopted it and it became known as the Criminal Investigative Analysis Program (CIAP). Many agree with the idea of CIAP […]

Reactions to the Hunted and the Hated

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The idea that New York City police officers are forced to comprehend with this "Stop-and-Frisk" policy is a hugely controversial topic. The police are supposed to protect the community, but now they are targeted by society. Therefore, when citizens are walking in the streets, they are always going to be afraid that police are going to stop them, for no apprehension. The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy shows an abnormal state of contamination […]

What is Brexit?

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In late June 2016, Ms. May announced her intent to lead the Conservative Party replacing David Cameron. Cameron resigned after a majority of voters to leave the EU. May stressed the importance of unity within the party despite feelings on Brexit, saying she could bring "strong leadership" and a "positive vision" for the country's future. May, who previously opposed Brexit, insisted that there would be no second referendum, saying: "The campaign was fought... and the public gave their verdict. There […]

Hiding from Truth in Plato’s Cave

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"In Plato’s most famous book, The Republic; we have to read and present an original argument on a meaningful way for us from: The allegory of the Cave reading. Socrates established a conversation with a young follower called Glaucon, Plato’s brother. As a famous philosopher, he presents a correlation between perception and reality. As a symbolic representation, Socrates told Glaucon to imagine a figure of humans being living inside a cave since their childhood. Nowadays, this illustration could have a relation with […]

“Young Goodman Brown” Conflict

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown”, Hawthorne presents a series of events to show how falling into temptation can change someone’s life forever. From Goodman Brown being a loving person to not caring about anyone including his own wife. Young Goodman Brown assumes nothing bad will happen which leads to his downfall. Hawthorne uses Young Goodman Brown to explain how temptation and curiosity can lead to consequences. Young Goodman Brown makes a life altering decision and struggles to keep […]

Exposition of the Road not Taken

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In the classroom and in literary circles, the interpretation of Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is widely accepted as a mantra for individuality; shedding light on the origins of the poem conveys a different meaning. Looking more closely at the poem reveals there is a much deeper story. A story of loss of what might have been, and resolving that one can never know what would have resulted had another choice been made. In order to fully grasp the complexity […]

Netflix Released an Animated Sitcom

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In 2017, Netflix released an animated sitcom that has aggressively walked the line of controversial topics. Big Mouth, directed by Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flacket, addresses puberty in a raunchy yet comical way. The show is based off of Kroll and Goldberg's youth and journey through h the awkward years of puberty through their own animated characters and "hormone monsters". The show Big Mouth addresses identity and representation while looking through an intersectional lens in an […]

A Question Arises, “What am I?”

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Descartes expands on this idea in Meditation II. A question arises, "What am I?" One option he considers in order to solve his question is Common Sense. He claims that he is a physical body, which he understands to be true through his senses, and has been made or animated by some fiery breath. The problem then occurs that if he already doubts his senses and the external world, then his prior analysis is incorrect, thus the fiery breath is […]

LZ Granderson and Issues LGBT Community

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I already knew the LGBT were discriminated against. What was startling to me were the maps Granderson pulled up, giving visual to the states that have laws protecting LGBT people, more importantly, that most states do not. I guess I never thought about the fact that without specific laws protecting LGBT American's, there is no protection against being fired, evicted from housing, and being disqualified to adopt. I think I based LGBT issues on what is reported in media, which […]

Pope Urban II to the Roman Catholic People

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As people constantly struggled to reconcile their notions of religion with the changing economy, and their political stand points. Between the collapse of Rome in AD 476 and the rise of the high Middle Ages, Europe sustains centuries of violence and chaos. Rulers were warlords whose strength secured their control. Warriors felt deep loyalty to their lords. Clan and honor were important during that time. In time, a reform movement arose. Some wanted to repristinate the church; others wanted to […]

‘‘The Minister’s Black Veil’

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“Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap”(Hawthorne 1). A very interesting and lustful start to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, begins a journey of communal sin from Puritans such a Faith. Hawthorne is clearly making a statement, especially since it’s the very first lines that Faith and others surrounding in the community around them are the true sinners. In the Minister's […]

Childish Ways Transform True Love

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There are four forms of love discussed in the Bible: Eros, romantic love, Storge, family love, Philia, brotherly love and Agape, God’s divine love. Love is mostly analyzed and discussed in the chapter of Corinthians, as God’s divine love. Love is illustrated by Paul, one of Jesus’ disciples, as a verb, that is made up of actions. Paul personifies love as having the ability to be patient, kind, and without envy, which drive our actions. God loves everyone, and society […]

Sinful Judgments in Young Goodman Brown

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What if you suddenly woke up and everything you thought you knew was wrong? Every person you unconditionally trusted, every idea you purely believed in, and every system you believed infallible turned out to be a lie. This idea is explored in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” which revolves around the internal conflict facing Goodman Brown, a young, devout member of the Puritan church in seventeenth century Salem Village. Brown chooses to enter a dark, suspenseful forest where […]

The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture

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In The Digital Age, by Astra Taylor, presents two significant views that Taylor argues against the debate of how social media takes effect in the work of social production. The first view of position is the techno-optimist view which illustrates a positive view and can also be described as the Utopian view for technology and social production. The notion of free culture is for the techno-optimist view which is represented through social media openness that creates an equalized social ground […]

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Today, the United States has 101 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) still in existence. Historically, they were created to help educate recently freed African Americans at a time when they were not welcome as students on college campuses and had rare, and realistically nonexistent, avenues to continuing and higher education. As colleges and universities no longer have overt racial barriers to attendance and the enrollment of racial minorities are expected to continually increase, some may wonder why HBCUs still […]

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