...Cultural Event: Morse Museum For my cultural event, I attended the Morse Museum in Winter Park. At first I did not know what to expect, I have passed by this museum plenty of time but never went in. I was pleasantly surprised by what I discovered in this quaint museum down Park Avenue. My friend and I spent about an hour roaming throughout the rooms of the stained glass covered walls, immaculate paintings and other types of glass work. First walking in we were greeted by these two kind women who handed us pamphlets and a map of the museum. They suggested we watch a film about the history about the glass and painting we were about to see. After watching the film, we wandered into a vibrant orange room filled with stained glass lamps, each...
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...Zachary Mayes English 1321 What literacy is, what it meant to them, and how they became literate? Literacy is the ability to read and write. The inability to read and write is called illiteracy. There wasn’t a successful place for illiterate people in the past, there still isn’t in the present and I don’t believe it will be later on in the future. Almost everything anyone does requires them to read or write. It is said that the illiterate don’t play an important part in society. The great Malcolm X stated “I use literacy as my biggest weapon”. If anyone has heard Malcolm X speak, they could definitely tell he was an intelligent and educated man. Being an educated man with influence over many people was a very big threat to the community controlled by white folks. Malcolm Smith dropped out of school after the 8th grade and started his life down the crime road. He was 20 years old when he got caught stealing and was sent to prison. In jail he met an inmate named Bimbi who encouraged him to read as much as he could and take classes offered through the prison. After prison, he continued to read books on religion, history, and philosophy. When Malcolm joined the nation of Islam, he changed his name to Malcolm X and told the brothers to get an education because, “Education is the passport to the future”. Malcolm was not a man who believed that the problem of the African Americans would be solved through a peaceful, quiet means and nuances, he believes the problem has graduated...
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...In an article I read, it states that the state has absolute and systematic control of all forms of telecommunications and is actively spying on its citizens through mass surveillance programmes. They have sent civilians to prison camps for communicating with the world, which is illegal to do. The ‘Bureau 27’ monitors every phone call and internet activity in North Korea’s State Security Department. Apparently, the unit specialises in converting intelligence and uses sophisticated equipment to detect mobile phone frequencies. Citizens find it impossible to make international calls. The vast majority of North Koreans have no access to the internet and live like if they are in prison. The domestic intranet, the Kwangmyong, are the only ones allowed access to government approved websites and email systems. Someone proficient at computers, especially a hobbyist, can take advantage of his/hers knowledge and stalk,spy and stalk on someone. They can hack into a person’s mobile device and read their private messages or try to empty someone’s bank savings in an instant. Sounds creepy, but that’s how we live in today’s society. The bright news is there are people who set up firewalls and prevent from this from...
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...abroad in Japan. Ten years later, here I was, 6,300 miles away from San Francisco, California. I have just gotten of the plane, after a long 12-hour flight of excitement and anxiety. As I was grabbing my luggage to depart the airport, I found myself wondering about how I am going to adapt to this new culture. I was excited to explore Japan; first thing first was to obtain my rail pass. Since Japan is too small for every household to own a vehicle, the best way of getting around was by train. I made my way to the self-serve ticket booth, and proceed to purchase a transit pass. At first, it was confusing because I did not know what I was supposed to do since everything was written in Japanese. As I stared at the screen, there was a button that read “English” in the upper right hand corner. With some relief of not having to verbally or physically ask someone about how to purchase a transit card, I quick click on the “English” button. Well what did you know; I was able to understand what the buttons on the screen after all. I pressed the button that says “new card”, then it asked me to insert ¥1000, ¥5000, or ¥10000. I inserted a ¥5000 bill and like magic, my transit card popped out. I retrieved my card from the machine and made an entrance onto the train station’s platform. As the train approaches, I was expecting to be shoved into the train cart with other riders, like sardines in a can, but it was not as bad as I expect it to be. As the sliding doors...
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...I lived through the 1980s, but was not touched by them. They might as well have been the 1880s, for all the notice I took of the defining characteristics of the decade. I didn’t own a wide-¬shouldered jacket with rolled-up sleeves, a double-breasted suit, or indeed any item of clothing that cost more than a pot plant. I dressed myself from charity shops, right down to the socks and underpants. I didn’t own a watch or a television, got around by bicycle, cut my own hair, and was not acquainted with any person who owned albums by Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Sade or Spandau Ballet. (Maybe it was because the few friends I had were lesbians.) The prospect of buying that newfangled invention, a CD) player, was as remote as investing in a Picasso. A high-flying career in the corporate sphere, or a steady job of any kind, held no attraction for me. Who needs money when so much of the food in supermarkets is exactly the right shape to fit down the front of one’s trousers, hidden by a loose jumper? Who needs status when one is an Artist, already living on Mount Olympus? At the dawn of the 1980s, my first wife and I were in fact living in Fitzroy, a shabby inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Both of us were writers, misfits, snobs. In the grand intellectual tradition of Wyndham Lewis, Sylvia Plath, TS Eliot et al, we detested the common horde - lowbrow Philistines, the lot of them! We lurked in our tiny student flat, reading Four Quartets and In Memoriam, admiring shoplifted art books...
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...Michel Faber Me and Dave and Mount Olympus (2006) I lived through the 1980s, but was not touched by them. They might as well have been the 1880s, for all the notice I took of the defining characteristics of the decade. I didn’t own a wide-shouldered jacket with rolled-up sleeves, a double-breasted suit, or indeed any item of clothing that cost more than a pot plant. I dressed myself from charity shops, right down to the socks and underpants. I didn’t own a watch or a television, got around by bicycle, cut my own hair, and was not acquainted with any person who owned albums by Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Sade or Spandau Ballet. (Maybe it was because the few friends I had were lesbians.) The prospect of buying that newfangled invention, a CD) player, was as remote as investing in a Picasso. A high-flying career in the corporate sphere, or a steady job of any kind, held no attraction for me. Who needs money when so much of the food in supermarkets is exactly the right shape to fit down the front of one’s trousers, hidden by a loose jumper? Who needs status when one is an Artist, already living on Mount Olympus? At the dawn of the 1980s, my first wife and I were in fact living in Fitzroy, a shabby inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Both of us were writers, misfits, snobs. In the grand intellectual tradition of Wyndham Lewis, Sylvia Plath, TS Eliot et al, we detested the common horde - lowbrow Philistines, the lot of them! We lurked in our tiny student flat, reading Four...
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...his benefits (i.e. hacking). By using a personal computer and a modem Kevin was able to commandeer a phone company’s digital central office switch by dialling in remotely, this simple technique allowed Kevin to make free calls and eavesdrop all communications made by every individual. This was the start of his hacking “career”. At the of 17 years old, Kevin was arrested and charged with “destroying data over a computer network”, he spend three months in jail. What did he do? Instead of using his knowledge to explore the various computer adventures, Mr Kevin preferred to rather have a run-in with the police. Time after time he had a collision with the police. His next arrest was in 1983 at the University Southern California, where he was caught trying to gain illegal access to ARPnet using the university’s computer. For the crime committed he was sentenced to six months in prison. When he was released, he had the number plate of his car printed “XHACKER”, but he still had a hacking appetite. A couple of years later he was accused of tampering with a credit transfer computer. An arrest warrant was issued, but it later disappeared from the policies records without a clear explanation. Kevin’s main method of obtaining illegal information was through social engineering, his stolen information included user-names, passwords etc. Kubutona Letuka PT2013-0675 C_ITSS311 A couple of years...
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...online gaming is fast becoming an addiction among school children. It has been reported that there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of cases of online-gaming addiction among teens in Singapore. Furthermore, book loan statistics from the libraries of Singapore show a decrease in the number of books borrowed per person over the past few years. This has prompted the National Library Board to launch a series of reading programmes and measures to “up” the statistics as well as interest among Singaporeans, for example, increasing the maximum number of books borrowable from eight to twelve [Ed.: from 4 to 8?], as well as launching “Read! Singapore 2006”, a reading-centred campaign. If reading as a hobby has not been facing some significant decline in popularity, would it be necessary to embark on such programmes to encourage others to read more? Hence reading risks being outdated in our increasingly...
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...Life is only the Beginning When we think of the end times there are all kinds of examples that flood our minds. These examples come from things we may have read, heard or been taught. The Bible is our key piece to use for understanding because it gives us so many different ideas of what we will see in the end times. When thinking about the different ideas of the end times two of them pop out at me. The rapture and how future events can be looked forward to by Christians. What is the rapture all about anyway? Will when you get right down to it means to be caught up. How as a Christian does that help us understand what rapture even means? For a true meaning of the word rapture we have to dig a little deeper in God’s word to find out the answer. As we take time to learn about the rapture we then will have a much better understanding. Being caught up or being taken up to heaven is what we can define the word rapture as. If the rapture would happen today then Jesus has retuned and we as Christians are being raised up in spirit to the heavens. That is exciting to even think about the opportunity to be whisked away right where we stand. It reads in 1st Thessalonians 4:14 that since we believed that Christ was raise from the dead then when Christ comes back he will raise us up. One of the things that we have to do is be ready for that day because it could happen without a moment’s notice. God did not give us the time or the date because if we knew then we would use that information...
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...enough. At first I thought that getting your essay read and critiqued by everyone in the class was pointless and insignificant. After we had finished I realized that some benefits had came out of the class critique session. Back when I was in IB English class the teacher used to give us grammar warm ups everyday. One day she decided to change our...
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...The owner was Bernice Worden and she had been missing. They searched his farmhouse and found her body decapitated and was hanging upside down by her feet. Her body was dressed out like that of a deer. He had shot her with a .22 caliber rifle. They questioned Gein about all the body parts he had in his house. He told investigators that he had made about 40 visits to local graveyards in a daze like state. He didn’t know what he was doing sometimes he would come out of the daze like state and return home empty handed. Ed Gein was born to George and Augusta Gein in La Crosse County, Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. They had two sons Henry George Gein and Edward Theodore Gein. They lived on a farm on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Augusta moved here to prevent outsiders from influencing her kids. Ed Gein would leave his only to go to school, and when he would come home he would spend most of his day doing chores. Eds dad was a drunk that would spend his time drinking, but the marriage continued because of the families religious belief about...
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...Major Kennedy Professor Tucker HMXP 102 Media Fasting Essay #3 Fasting from social media or any type of media for a whole twenty four hours is pretty hard. During this time of pure meditation from the digital world was a good way for me to understand, why we need media and why it’s also not needed. Since I was born, I’ve always been surrounded by technology, even the earliest stages of the internet. Most of us today use social media, television, or even our phones to obtain news and information around us. Personally I couldn’t tell you the last time I read a newspaper to know what’s going on in my community. Media is making our lifestyles a microwavable generation where everything is quick and handed to us. Not knocking technology or social media because I feel like it’s much easier to get information in the palm of your hand. But one thing I notice about using too much technology is that we are slowly losing face to face communication skills. More people use texting as a main source of communication and I’ve seen my peers write essay papers like the way they text which isn’t a good trait to obtain. By doing this fasting from technology, I felt at peace for a while, felt like I didn’t have worry about people or the world. Sometimes we don’t even realize how stuck on our phones we be or even the fact that we check our phones even when no one has called or text us. Media is influencing us in our everyday lives, by commercials, reality shows, and even game shows. Realizing...
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...Book Report In English IV To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee This novel was written by Harper Lee. This was written in the mid 1950s in New York City and was first published in the year 1960. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is the narrator and lead character of the story. Her father is Atticus and her brother is Jem. She is intelligent; she learned to read at an early age which was taught by Atticus. She changed, with her perspectives about Boo and all the things about life as she experienced it, by means of Atticus, as Atticus explained it briefly. She also improved her personality as well; at the end. Atticus Finch is Scout and Jem’s father. He is also a lawyer. He defended Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping Mayella, a white woman. With his strong will and empathy, he fought for justice that made his family vulnerable of immoral hearsays and of seeing that justice doesn’t always prevail. He is a good teacher to his children. And he was able to put his self in the same situation, which makes him a great teacher. Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch is Scout’s brother. He is four years older than Scout and he remains as a close companion and protector of Scout throughout the story. Jem finds himself in an unstable situation with his traumatic experience at Tom Robinson’s trial. His disappointment upon seeing that justice does not always prevail led to his confusion, but what Atticus instilled in him dominates and guided him to the right path. Arthur “Boo”...
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...that I am an extroverted kinesthetic learner who uses intuition to think things through then make judgments. Certain human cognitive functions depend predominately on either the left or right hemisphere of the brain. In the first test I took, which was the brain dominance assessment, I have learned that I am most likely more dominant in the left side of my brain. Some characteristics of left brain dominance are being logical, verbal, and time oriented. After reading some of the differences that exist between the left and right hemispheres I have concluded that the assessment scores were as accurate as they could be. Prior to taking this evaluation I expected to have more dominance in the right side of my brain because I am right handed. The evidence provided by the website proves my prediction was incorrect. It also so states the most effective way for me to study would be with outlines, lecture notes, or the Cornell format. The next assessment test I took was associated with the terms of introversion and extraversion. Extraversion tends to be displayed in outgoing, talkative, active behavior, whereas introversion is showed in more reserved and solitary behavior. Introversion is the state of or tendency of being solely or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own personal life. The testing scores stated I am most likely a more extroverted individual. I agree with the analysis but also noticed that I share behavior tendencies of both. The evaluation also...
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...It is so hard to hear him suffering and I was starting to get very scared for him. My husband and I have been continually praying for Michael and that he stays safe, but we haven't heard from him in a while. So, I was starting to get very anxious. I remember walking out towards our mailbox one day and seeing something sticking out. I letter a little more formal than usual. My heart sunk, and I started sobbing before I even opened the letter. As I walked inside I handed the letter to Michael. Not being able to come to words he read the disturbing letter. Dear Mr and Mrs Bergin. I am sorry to inform you that Michael Bergin has passed away. He was very sick already, but he died when a heavy shell exploded near the aid post where he was currently standing. This event happened at the 3rd Australian field ambulance, Belgium. I am also a chaplain who was friends with Michael. When he died, so did so many people's hearts. He was such a lovely person to be around and a great friend. He was always very committed and brave. He has been awarded the military cross posthumously. Michael is someone that we will never forget and has made a very big hole in our hearts now he has gone. We will remember...
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