Angela Robinson

Yvonne Daniels, also known as the first lady of radio, is an influential women who paved the way for more women to become disc jockeys. In her 30 plus year career in radio she worked at WYNR, WCFL, WSDM, WLS-AM, WVON, WGCI-AM/FM , and WNUA. Daniels was an African American “broadcast pioneer”.

Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act is a renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which is an aid program for disadvantaged students. Although it does sound as if the Act is helping children all across the country, Alexandra Robbins thoroughly explains otherwise in her book, The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. Within pages eighty five through eighty nine, Robbins thoroughly shows her negativity to the Act and why it’s hurting children rather than helping them. She uses hard facts, such as the emphasis on tests, altered curricula, and the corrupt college admission process to prove her point.

Some historical, figures are remembered for their actions, for example Napoleon, while others are remembered for their for their intent for example Charles de Gaulle. Every historic figure remembers differently depending on what they did, however it does not matter if the person had a massive impact or if they only made a dent in the end they are all equal because they have accomplished or almost accomplished something that could not be forgotten. Amelia Simmons became an important historic figure, especially in culinary history, because she wrote American Cookery, the real reason behind her writing American Cookery and how American cookery was one of the first stepping stones for creating a diverse world.

With today’s broad spectrum of opposing political ideals, climate change is one of the most polarizing and argued points. In an article entitled “Why Some Conservatives Can’t Accept That Climate Change Is Real” by Carolyn Gregoire, we are presented the supposed thought process and biases held by modern conservatives. The author, Carolyn Gregoire, serves as a senior science and health writer at The Huffington Post. Though challenging competency is a common attack used on both sides of the political isle, this piece sidesteps petty mudslinging and instead takes root in the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. Inherently, as a political piece, this article criticizes the conservative thought camp. In doing so, this article (like a majority of articles on the Huffington Post) is written towards a sympathetic, liberal audience. Pertaining mainly to psychology, there is no doubt logos is the appeal used by the author. Furthermore, with logos often comes strong, inductive reasoning. As we delve deeper into this article, we also will examine and explore several fallacies implemented by the author. Also

Author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”. When one thinks of comic books, it is very likely that the subjects that come to mind are Marvel’s Spiderman or DC’s Batman. Although comic books are stereotypically thought to be mainly about super heroes, there are a wide variety of subject matter they could be written about, such as romance. In the 1950s – 1960s, it was common for these romance comics to exploit the social norms of that time and emphasized the subject of gender roles. While the men in comic books were usually illustrated in a brave heroic manner, the women would be portrayed to be what would now be considered a stereotypical “trophy wife”. As a young child reading these comics and taking in these images, they are slowly molding their ideals to believe that what they are reading and seeing is what is accepted and normal in their society. By coding gender norms into the texts, authors are helping mold the ideology of its readers to believe that it is acceptable for both genders to follow specific rules that accommodate to the believed social norms of the time.

Chapters 9 and 10 investigate the relationship in the middle of Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. On one level, Chillingworth speaks to "science" and Dimmesdale speaks to "deep sense of being." Like Chillingworth 's disfigured shoulders, Dimmesdale 's disease is an outward sign of an internal condition, and not medication or religion suffices to cure it. What hampers his recuperation is his failure to admit his infidelity with Hester, which is by all accounts due, in any event to a limited extent, to the group 's reliance on the adolescent priest. He comprehends that he, in the same way as Hester, is an image of an option that is bigger than himself—for his situation, devotion and goodness. As it were, admitting would mean mending himself at the cost of the community.dimmesdale considers other, apparently hopeless good contemplations. The numerous disagreements that he experiences may come from the constrictive and off and on again two-faced nature of the ethical framework. For instance, the priest declines to wed any of the ladies in the group who show sympathy toward him, both out of a feeling of duty to Hester and out of an unwillingness to embroil a blameless outsider in a dim history of "sin." On the other hand, by inactively holding up for God to deal with things, as he proclaims himself to be doing, Dimmesdale causes Hester to endure awfully.

The movie “Ghost World,” directed by Terry Zwigoff and written by Daniel Clowes and “Maggie the Mechanic,” written by Jaime Hernandez brings the life of four young girls from two different lifestyles to the graphic novel world. Both stories give the readers realistic and interesting look into the comic book adventures that defied comic book conventions. In “Ghost World,” with Enid and Rebecca, we catch a glimpse into their view of the world, not entirely invalid, and sometimes childish and superficial. Their activities gave them pleasure, but are not as much fun as they used to be. In contrast to “Ghost World, ” there are Maggie and Hopey in “Maggie the Mechanic,” whose stories focus on their antics, and the sexual tensions. Hopey, who is a lesbian, is desperately in love with the primarily heterosexual Maggie, and Hopey makes it clear, she will always there for her. This essay will focus on the differences between Maggie and Hopey, Enid and Rebecca concerning their friendships and romantic relationships, Their departure form each other, and how traditional relationships are defied.

The autobiographical graphic novel “Fun Home,” by Alison Bechdel presents characters evolving to the reader in an intimate way. She reveals within her novel the high cost of claiming to be gay or lesbian within America. Instead of reading the author’s recollection of her experiences, her graphic novel connects the reader within the experience as the observer. This allows the reader to look at both the personality of the novelist and the developmental impacts that have shaped her. “Fun Home,” is a distinctively persuasive novel that is entangled within the lives of Alison’s family. While presenting to the reader the explanations of Bruce’s death, Alison endeavors to adjust to the reality of her father’s death by remembering family life at the “Fun House.”

All the active reaction heroines took in movies were fully understandable; however, their behaviors were seemingly intricate. Indeed, in the process of getting heroines’ husbands back, they always did a great deal of zany things. Coincidently, in both The Awful Truth and My Favorite Wife, Lucy and Ellen both figured as their husbands’ sisters came before their husbands’ new fiancées. For separating Jerry and Barbara, Lucy confused “Princeton University” into “Princeton town” that “his father lived there for over twenty years.” Also, Lucy performed as a vulgar showgirl in a Virginia club with poor jokes, rude behavior and coarse habits to irrigate Barbara’s entire family and to undermine the relationship between Jerry and Barbara. At the same time, to make Ellen’s existence at home more acceptable by Bianca, Ellen became a daffy “sister” of Arden from southern

The film The Fly is about a scientist that makes an experiment that goes terribly wrong. The scientist was working on a transporting device. So, he tries transporting objects like plates and newspaper then, he transports living things like a cat and guinea pig. Trouble occurs because he tests it out on himself and it goes terribly wrong, he went into the device with a fly and mixed their atoms making his head and left arm of a fly. In the end, Helen his wife is ordered to kill him because the fly was messing with his mind.

In this paper, I’m going to discuss the argument that the famous American anthropologist, Ruth Benedict, has put forth regarding ‘ethical relativism’. Ethical relativism is the theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms and values of one's culture or society. That is, whether an action is classified as right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the society in which it is practiced. The same action may be morally right in one society but be morally wrong in another. For the ethical relativist, there are no universal moral standards -- standards that can be universally applied to

There are of course debates as to where the true Mount Sinai is located some of the arguments include; One being far northeast of Jebel Musa near the Gulf of Aqabam, with another being far north of Jebel Musa because of the battle of the Amalekites. Galatians 4:25 also says, “Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children”. It is also debated

The Wonder Woman character went through different changes from different authors who kept creating her journey. In the beginning Wonder Woman was written by William Marston but after his death in 1947, the Wonder Woman went through a change due to a different writer taking over. As Steinem states, “She became sexier-looking and more submissive, violent episodes increased, more of her adversaries were female, and Wonder Woman herself required more help from men in order to triumph.” (271) This change made Wonder Woman a different character than what readers fell in love with in the beginning. As

Children always looking for a positive role model to have, and many end up choosing superheroes they see in their favorite comic books or ones they have seen in the media. Since children are so easily affected by things they see in their childhood, having discriminatory elements in these influential characters may be problematic. “The Wonder Woman Precedent: Female (Super) Heroism on Trial” written by Julie D. O’Reilly, was published in the Journal of American Culture in 2005. O’Reilly is a professor of communication and women and gender at Heidelberg University. In “The Wonder Woman Precedent”, she writes about the hardships that female superheroes in the media must face that male superheroes do not go

Karen Horney is one of the preeminent figures and founders of modern psychoanalysis. Although her ideas are not widely taught today or accepted as a basis of psychoanalysis in and of themselves, her ideas of social and environmental influences are “integrated into modern psychoanalysis therapies and personality development theory” (Quinn). She was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and was one of his early followers. Yet Horney joined the class of neo-Freudians after her research and writing led her to develop and establish psychoanalytical theories that ran counter to Freud's ideas. She objected to the Freudian psychology of women, which instigated the search for her own theories for the causes of neurosis. This in turn led to her