While reading my old textbook for English 101, I found a section in it about what the author calls “Cultural Assumptions” that is things that we take for granted.
The examples she gives are:
1-Communities accept us for who we are
2-True love conquers all, and
3-Entertainment is just for fun
I don’t know about anyone else, but I never [...]
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11 Apr
Cultural Assumptions
19 Nov
Breaking Dawn Review
Breaking Dawn is the final installment in the very popular Twilight Saga, authored by Stephenie Meyer, published in August of 2008. The novel finalizes the story of Bella Swan, a human, and her relationship with Jacob Black, a shape shifter, and Edward Cullen a vampire, who in the novel finalizes her transformation into a vampire [...]
30 Sep
Heroes, Thomas Friedman, English and the Crazy Street Preacher.
Today was, interesting. After a boring Anthropology test, I skipped BIO100 class (yeah i know, and i don’t care) and a mostly (except for a little brain tease and a chapter of the Baghavad Gita) boring ENG class. I ran into ASU’s crazy preacher and a disappointing trip to the library, i finally got home [...]
21 Sep
Why the Tao Te Ching (daodeking) Can Never Be Briefly Disscussed.
First day of ENG101 (yes, i am picking on the class again!, but I bring this up again for a reason, as previously mentioned, born in my ASB102 class)We had a small discussion about Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. One student said that one chapter in particular (Chapter 3: Hushing in Ursula K. LeGuin’s translation, [...]
12 Sep
BIO100 and ENG101
At this point I really hate my biology class. The subject we’re tackling now is evolution, and since I love evolution I actually though that I would love it, but it turned out to be a Evolution for dummies, much like that of Dr. Nash at the beginning of ASM104 (except she was good at [...]
12 Sep
English Essay, Take Two
So I re-wrote my essay and rather than taking an analytical view of it, I went all out Bodhidharma on them. Hopefully this time I get my point across.
The Depth at the Surface
Zen is something that by its very nature cannot be defined. It cannot be described, categorized or even captured in song, story or [...]
8 Sep
I Believe In Temperance Brennan
This is my personal narrative essay about my beliefs and philosophy.
Because it was supposed to be in narrative form, i made up some of the details. storytelling is after all, a form of lying to tell the truth.
I believe in Dr. Temperance Brennan. Her attitude, her philosophy, and her demeanor in life is both [...]
31 Aug
Why lowering the drinking age won’t fix anything.
Once again, a response to something I heard in my ENG101 class.
College Presidents re asking for the drinking age to be lowered in order to fix the binge drinking, underage drinking I general I suppose, and help with the high rate of, well, drinking. Many people like the idea, especially many teenagers (go figure) arguments [...]
29 Aug
Machiavellian Society and V for Vendetta.
Today in English class someone brought up V for Vendetta as an example of a Machiavellian Society. Do the ends justify the means?
I disagree, there is a process, a humane and cooperative process that allows us to discuss and diplomatically resolve problems without conflict or without casualties.
One example that I drew, especially because I have [...]
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