Joshua Leonard

The year is 1957 and the USSR has just launched the first artificial earth satellite. In response America launches the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DOD) to create America’s lead in science and technology. The Internet had its humble beginnings here, within ARPA’s many projects.      The Internet has become one of the key symbols of today’s pop culture: everything has a “dot com” address; people do not say “call me,” but instead

     The Poem titled “A Kite is a victim” written by Leonard Cohen contains multiple tropes. Through my own analysis I propose that the author’s central focus concerns life. Cohen discusses the relationships and accomplishes that we make throughout our lifetimes. In my opinion, the kite is a metaphor for the essence of life and living. Each of the four stanzas in the poem begins with a trope. In every case the tenor is the kite. These tropes will be analyzed with regard to

Comparison of Two Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was made into a film by two different directors. Baz Luhrmann’s to Franco Zeffirelli’s interpretation of Romeo and Juliet were very distinct and they both appeal to different age group audiences. Franco Zeffirelli’s version was the first film of Romeo and Juliet. It was produced in 1968 and it was quiet typical, exactly what the audience would have expected the film of ‘Romeo

Mezzo Cammin The poem Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow explains his regretful life and his reasoning at why he didn’t live it to its full potential and how he looks at his past. It then looks to his future as being near and bearing a huge weight down on him. The way Longfellow talks about his life is depressing. He doesn’t speak of the good accomplishments, only the things he hasn’t done until he looks back into the past and then forward at how the future may be. In the first part of

Kera Cleary Business-127 Case Study- Barnes & Noble To which environmental forces is Barnes & Noble responding? Barnes & Noble are responding to external environment. When Leonard Riggio opened Barnes & Nobles he wanted it to be more of a social gathering verses just a bookstore. It was a BIG HIT, one of a kind. 1995 Amazon.com emerged. In 1997 Mr. Riggio launched the barnesandnoble.com in order to keep up with the customers wants. This is a continual battle Barnes

The writing of the author’s work depicts the author’s purpose in the novel. With the tragic society that Equality 7-2521 survives in, it not only proclaims the major conflicts in the story, but also passes along Ayn Rand’s writing on how it contributes to expressing the conflicts even further. The prime conflict is individualism itself in a world that doesn’t follow the philosophy of one’s attributions to be upheld. It doesn’t exist because of a society that sways the course of people’s lives, coming

Modernism, a constantly debated term, is a philosophical movement that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, following World War I. Painters, writers, and musicians did not however perceive it just as a period in time, rather as a “commitment to experimentation in techniques, freedom in ideas, originality in perceptions, and self-examination in emotions” (Baughman, Bondi, Layman…etc,1) Writers, for example, like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway broke away from the

Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours” tells the story of three women, each from different eras of society, yet connected through the internal conflicts which they face. Laura Brown, one of the novel’s three protagonists, lives the white middle-class American dream. However, throughout the novel her mental health begins to deteriorate due to the oppressive lifestyle which she feels society has forced upon her. The Virginia Woolf portrayed by Cunningham, was in fact historically accurate to the original

Natalie Ertz English 2100 Star Trek and Racism Star Trek is one of the most successful and lasting entertainment franchises of all time. While it takes place in a futuristic society, the series explores issues that were widespread in the time of it’s making. This includes one of the most prevalent issues of our time: racism. Thanks to the, at the time, radical philosophy of Gene Roddenberry, the show attracted a large audience. The adventurous and utopian society made many people hope for a future

training films and programs for the Army. Leonard Bernstein was the composer for ‘West Side Story.’ Leonard Bernstein is most famous for helping compose the score for West Side Story. He learned to play piano when he was only 10. Dmitri Mitropoulos, a conductor for the Boston Symphony, was Leonard's mentor for a week. Afterwards, he had a love for music, and wanted to center his life around it. Serge Koussevitzky was also his mentor, and a father figure to Leonard. He first met Serge, when he was one