November 2010
31 posts
History will always repeat itself
As technology is constantly growing and producing its roots of creation, we are also learning the way creation can affect us widely. Visually, we can detect how popular culture has been determined from the past, to the present and determine the future by looking at popular culture and really seeing it.
Obama's Political Potential
“As for Obama’s strengths, he is a great orator, but, so was Hitler.”
Mental Thought
When engaging in any activity that requires mental thought, there are always thoughts that are running through you’re mind, thoughts that no one else around you is thinking, because they are apart of your reality, they are yours and they will remain yours into you put them into action.
Conservatively multitudinous
In conclusion, the modern state today consists of multifarious elements of both tangible and non-tangible characteristics, which are, conservatively, multitudinous.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
“In imagining that God could have used another warning sign like for example, if the child Adam eats apples from the centre tree, they he would have been transformed into a meridian longitude.”
Film Studies
“I also feel that through cinematic devices her sexuality and worminess is embraced.”
As of 2010...
”I do believe the analysis of womens opression should not be part of a class or minority, because as of 2010 we are all equal.”
Close reading
“… perhaps signifying a ‘Whoa Nelli’ slowdown horse your moving to fast.”
- regarding the significance of a character named Nellie.
History of everything
Through out history there have been various events that took place to shape the world in which we live in today.
...but somebody's gotta do it.
Wolves are known for their animal instincts so it’s also true that wolf hunting is not an easy job.
blacks in white america.
The United States is a country of freedom. It is also a country of opportunities. What a shame that these opportunities include not just the good ones, but bad opportunities as well. Such an opportunity was the exploitation of mankind to build the United states. This exploitation brought about racism and thoughts of superiority.
A poop too great for the gods.
On the sacrilegious treatment of Hector’s corpse in The Iliad: “This defecation is of such magnitude that the gods have to intervene.”
Oh my goddess.
Venus was so adored that people named things after her. For example, the Venus Pen and Pencil Company. In my research I discovered that Venus wore a girdle. Which leads to the interesting question: ‘Was Venus fat?’”
Full credit.
Fieldwork has not always been central to anthropology. The idea is actually fairly recent. The wheelchair model, where anthropologist do research through others accounts was one that was used a lot before fieldwork became popular.
Could be?
Fieldwork is a way of falsifying researchers work, and therefore anthropology is about critiquing other anthropologists projects.
But what does 'dependent' really mean, anyway?
Independent variable: variable that is affected by the dependent variable, relies on dep. variable.
Dependent variable: variable that stands by itself and affects the independent variable.
Leave your thoughts behind.
After years passed, they slowly began to let him into their tradition rituals, but even that took much time. With each setting, each observation is made, the ethnographer should be ready for something like this to happen. The author stresses an emperical one which ultimately means that once the ethnographer is doing fieldwork it is crucial to be able to leave your thoughts, rituals, etc behind...
Alternative Better Alternatives
With Methyl Bromide being highly toxic and a ozone depleting agent, farmes in California as a result of the Montreal Protocol have been forced to find an alternative. The search for an alternative in and off itself has farmers still looking for a better alternative.
My mother, a woman.
“I felt very pride when I was talking about my mother, a woman, who spent half of her life on bringing me up.”
Pounded hypersexuality is half-dead. Go figure.
“Clashing her Chinese Culture with Middle Eastern Belly Dancing and viewed through Western Culture can be dissected like this: Western Culture can add [Lucy] Liu’s already hypersexualized demeanor with her revealing tactics she does with Belly dancing to an ultimate ‘go figure’ of complete hypersexuality.”
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“The essentialism of pounded hypersexuality in...
What really is Orientalism anyway?
Orientalism, to David Said, is known as Eastern culture and is typically thought of as a combination of Asian, Japanese, Siamese, Chinese and other non-European cultures. The concept of Orientalism relates to music because it creates a stereotype for the different types of music in different Eastern cultures. For example, in the movie Lady and the Tramp, there is a scene with two siamese cats....
Jane Adamms: She is important because of many...
“Jane Addams — The woman that created the hull house in chicago, which housed immigrants. She is important because of many things. It promoted womens suffrage, by which single women would work in the house. It gave to the idea of the social worker. And the last idea of the influx of immigrants with a progressive reform to stimulate them.”
good thing they held their breath:
When the tanks exploded on the shuttle, it caused the astronauts to no longer have any carbon monoxide because it was leaking into outside space. They couldn’t breathe any longer, so while holding their breath, they made a contraption thingy that would allow them to have breathable carbon monoxide.
And bang!
They are denied since they are clearly under the age of seventeen, they do not sell them the tickets. So in many cases they buy tickets for a G/PG/PG-13, they enter the theatre. And bang! They sneak into the screening of Kick Ass.
On The Canterbury Tales
“The narrator saw the Parson in an un-sarcastically holy pecan in the middle of the chaos in the church as he showed by stating…”
It's okay, a lot of men have that problem...
King Henry observes the moral of is men and assesses that if he doesn’t act immediately, they will lose the war due to premature courage.
End of the road/'Cuz I can't let my hoagie go
The religion of Buddhism ties in the idea of impermanence, or the believe that nothing last forever, to their religion. When we start to accept the fact that nothing lasts forever then we realize begin to stop suffering. If you suffer its only because you wanted something to last forever; past relationships, family member’s life, a sandwich, ect.
Student Conduct Meetings, Who Needs To Speak...
I swear I had just gotten there! I hadn’t event dranken anything!
thoughts about "improper conduct," no thoughts...
“Even though the original intent of the camps was not what it eventually was, I do think that as mentioned in the movie and by the stories it did get out of hand as far as whom was sent to the camps, so some were specific targets. As more voices where heard as to what was going on, the camps went as quickly as they came. Furthermore, that is one thing that exiles where able to do from the...
women's history?
“The Women’s Strike for Peace was a strike for women getting the right to vote. The Federal Civil Defense Administration was a strike for women’s civil rights. The FCDA held a strike in which women brought their spatulas and waved them in the air while wearing aprons. The Strike for Peace used Republican Motherhood by bringing their daughters and holding their babies.”
intro to african american studies:
The three major figures that formed the cornerstone of African American political thought were W.E.B. du Bois, Marcus Garving, and someone else.
