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An Analysis of Different Definitions of Feminism and Gender as a Social Construct (887 words, 3 pages)

What is Feminism? When I showed a female friend the first reading assignment of my women and gender studies class, she cringed. As soon as she identifies the author, Jessica Valenti, she shrieks Oh no, shes terrible! Please dont acknowledge her shes what gives feminism such a bad rep! I ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About Deciding to Attend the University of Oregon (999 words, 4 pages)

Its Getting Better All the Time, for Now... I am fortunate to live in the Pacific Northwest, as it allows this essay to be as positive as possible no other region in the United States shares a passion for nature preservation as unanimously as we do. I believe the driving ... Read More

Fitzgerald’s Disbelief in the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1040 words, 3 pages)

Fitzgeralds disbelief of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The Jazz age of the 1920's started with an economic boom. Americans found it easy to become wealthy, and the American dream began to center around it. As more and more people tried to get rich quick, social ethics declined. ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Volunteering in Living Skills to Assist AIDS Victims and Survivors (604 words, 2 pages)

Hope for AIDS As an issue that is closely connected to me, I had always wanted to volunteer to assist AIDS victims and survivors. Before I had even enrolled in Living Skills, a friend had contacted me about an opportunity to participate in an upcoming Relay for Life event being ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Mercutio From the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (781 words, 3 pages)

In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," two lovers find themselves being torn apart by a feud between their two families. Mercutio is a friend of Romeo, one of the main characters. Thought only present for half of the play, Mercutio's cocky, loyal and risque personality have an everlasting effect on the ... Read More

A Report on Visiting West Eugene Wetlands (1040 words, 4 pages)

West Eugene WetlandsThe first stop was Bertelsen Nature Park, an area with a wide variety of natural environments. Several ponds and sloughs lie on top of a wooded wetlandoak savannawet prairie landscape. The ponds were surrounded by a thin barrier of ash while the rest of the area consists of ... Read More

Creon as a Foil in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (763 words, 3 pages)

Creon the FoilAs the personality and character of the protagonist are essential plot devices in Greek tragedy, playwrights will often employ foils to reveal and incite the many facets of the main characters persona. In Oedipus Rex, Creon of Thebes serves such a role. Creon, whose rightful claim to the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (1127 words, 5 pages)

Never Let Me Go Not a Traditional Love StoryLove, by simple definition, is an intense feeling of deep affection but to humanity love is something much more significant and powerful than its simple definition suggests. Love is a force strong enough to last over vast distances and time, inspire some ... Read More

The Power of One’s Intellect in Book XIII of The Odyssey by Homer (659 words, 2 pages)

So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. ... Read More

Modeling a Friend For a Modeling Project (891 words, 3 pages)

Modeling is the process of emulating and adopting the behavior, mindset and values of an expert or other individual who is proficient in a task or behavior that you are interested in. For my modeling project, I chose to model a friend of mine who has a world view that ... Read More

The Immigration Laws and Politics in France (757 words, 3 pages)

"Where ethics and politics meet the violence of humanitarianism inFrance" was written by Miriam Ticktin and published in American Ethnologistin 2006. Due to its subject matter and the fact that it was published in ananthropological journal it can be surmised that the audience was primarilypeers in the field of anthropology ... Read More

A Report on Matthew Knight Arena, an Eco-Friendly Stadium (1000 words, 3 pages)

Essay 1 (The Problem)As far as eco-friendly stadiums go, Matthew Knight Arena is certainly one of the best. Clearly its no luscious paradise but for the context in which it was built Id argue those involved designed the area as well as one could expect. Minus the open field to ... Read More

Geothermal Energy in the United States (1103 words, 6 pages)

Geothermal Energy in the United States Geothermal energy (GTE) is the sum of all heat energy below the surface of the earth. The majority of GTE is generated by the decay of radioactive elements, such as uranium or potassium, in the earths mantle, while the rest is simply residual heat ... Read More

The Changing Perceptions of AIDS in Haiti and What Medical Anthropology Can Do to Assist With Outbreaks of AIDS and Other Diseases (824 words, 2 pages)

Response 2 "Sending Sickness Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Conecepts of AIDSin Rural Haiti" was written by Paul Farmer in 1990 for (and published in)Medical Anthropology Quarterly. The article mainly aims to make clear howperceptions of AIDS existed and changed in Haiti over time, but also posesquestions to anthropologists about what ... Read More

Pervasive Landscape Patterns in Downtown Eugene (529 words, 3 pages)

I have always known the word pervasive to carry a negative connotation, so I will detail a pattern in local landscaping where new architects should look first to apply themselves. I refer to the dated and inefficient use of non-native plant species and simple geometry to present a comfortable exterior ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Walk the Line (713 words, 3 pages)

Walk the Line (2005)I first watched Walk the Line after being introduced to Johnny Cash from a friend. As a young southern gentleman, it was love at first listen. After a couple of weeks listening to Mr. Cash, I vaguely remembered a film regarding the man made a couple of ... Read More

My Friend’s View of the American Dream (537 words, 2 pages)

The American DreamMy interviewee is a 16 year old male high-school student, and his idea of the American dream is quite risque compared to most. He values comfort and easy living over possessions, and disregards any materialistic wants for finer things in life, such as drugs and alcohol. As tempting ... Read More

A Case Study of the Problems the Global Green Books Publishing is Going Through (8792 words, 32 pages)

Case StudyGlobal Green Books Publishing was started two years ago by two friends, Jim King and Brad Mount, who met in college while studying in Philadelphia, USA. In the new business Jim focused on editing, sales and marketing while Brad Mount did the electronic assembly and publishing of books for ... Read More

My Solitude in the Morning and Fondness for Darkness (552 words, 2 pages)

Alone amidst the darkness I would sit every morning, eating my cereal and enjoying the peace. Despite how commonplace it was, I found myself most content in the ten odd minutes I would spend every morning, in the dark hours of the early morning before my 615 departure to make ... Read More

Silence as My Newfound Interest After the Camping Trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park (552 words, 1 pages)

In the summer of 2011, I went camping to Lassen Volcanic National Park with my Boy Scout troop, where I had the fortune of hiking up to Cinder Cone, a steep conical hill of volcanic debris that looks proudly over the rest of the park. I took up the rear ... Read More

An Argument That Andrew Jackson Is Not a Good Leader (593 words, 2 pages)

Andrew Jackson Champion of Democracy or Tyrant?Andrew Jackson the commoners friend, or at least to some, but just how democratic was Jackson? In order for a government to be democratic each branch of the government must follow the will of the people, or at least according to Jackson. However, Jackson ... Read More

The Much Awaited Trip of the Century (1460 words, 6 pages)

I have often dreamed of being able to escape my comfortable, mundane life, and going to travel the world and experience new cultures, but there have always been obstacles standing in my way school, work, time, and, of course, money. But recently events aligned that such that I was able ... Read More

A Look at the Close Relationship of Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (537 words, 3 pages)

How would you react if you had only a year to live, and your body would gradually deteriorate in the short remainder of your life? In Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom details his close friendship with his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, who suffers from ALS. Despite Morries condition, he manages ... Read More

The Theme of Silence in the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (1391 words, 6 pages)

In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, the theme of silence appears multiple times as an indicator of self-oppression within women in both China and the United States during the early 1900s. In Kingstons memoir, silence is used as a symbolic representation of muting ... Read More

The Future of E-Cigarettes and Their Potential Influence on Teens (426 words, 1 pages)

If it remains that the FDA does not regulate e-cigs, what effect will it have on our teens in 5-10 years? Since electronic cigarettes were first available in stores, they'vehad a lot of criticism from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).Currently, children and teenagers can use these cigarettes, and it'squestionable ... Read More

An Analysis of Case Studies and the Application of the Theory of Care Ethics (3289 words, 11 pages)

Ethics of care is a theory in which humans look upon the needs of one another and respond accordingly based on the good or harm that might result. It is said that care starts at home and extends to other situations as one develops their ability to care. For example, ... Read More

Victor Playing God in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (652 words, 3 pages)

Frankenstein Though Shelley sometimes portrays Victor as a god for creating themonster, he often sees himself as closer to his own creation because ofsome of his decisions and actions. He certainly seems like a god in themore literal sense, having created life from nothing, but after seeing thenature of his ... Read More

An Examination of the Images of Gadawan Kura in the Photograph of Pieter Hugo (1420 words, 5 pages)

Background, as well as intention, play a key role in viewing andinterpreting Pieter Hugo's series featuring a group of men in Lagos whokeep hyenas as companions. The images themselves are striking, and almostseem like a high fashion editorial. The images are composed so the men areframed in the center of ... Read More

My Failures in Being a Funny Person (354 words, 2 pages)

Comedy I'm not funny. Like, decidedly not funny. That's not to say I don'thave a sense of humor, because I think everyone does one way or another,but I'm definitely no class clown. For year that was something that reallyupset me, why weren't my jokes land right? Something just wasn't right, ... Read More

Amir’s Redemption in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (766 words, 3 pages)

In what ways does Amir seek redemption? - The Kite Runner Confused about his own life, a boy makes a decision that ruinsthe rest of his childhood and leaves him with a guilty conscience for most,if not all, of his adult life. Throughout the book The Kite Runner, writtenby Khaled ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013