At the very beginning, I had heard a lot of people saying this is a film which should be in the must-watch list. Frankly, I feared for watching this film though when it came out three years ago. The reason is that I was afraid...
Do you think the world can become a better place? Although many of you folks think it can’t, well guess what, you are wrong. “How to make the world a better place” is a question many ponder. The world is now horrible because of things...
Situated in the southeastern region of Vietnam, the image of hundreds of necessitous and poverty-stricken locals left my 13-year-old self in distress. Dressed in a filthy rag, a mother desperately begged people for money – carrying her sick daughter on one hand and a dirty...
A good amount of people consider success a formula to follow, a matter of plugging in for x and for y. People constantly ask the Walt Disneys and Steve Jobs of the world how they reached their status, so they may live like they do...
I connect with people using a positive non-verbal communication gesture, a high five. A high five is a friendly and neutral action that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand and slap the upraised palm of the other person. High fives are commonly seen...
In relationships, countless factors determine the strength of the bond between two people. A major factor is communication. Author Ernest Hemingway utilizes this theme in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants. ” The story features a couple who appear to be having a conversation;...
As cities experience an increasing number of robotic workforce, the need for robot friendly design is becoming ever more critical. From our hawker centers to parks, the future of urban housing and mobility may just be shaped for and by the robots that we will...
In the Babbitt Sinclair Lewis is critical of the American lifestyle and society in a subtler way, he doesn’t necessarily write in the story his thoughts on the society of the time, but you are able to really see and picture his critic in various...
Social Injustice. A self-chosen phrase that best describes the chaos that is currently happening in our society. A judgmental society full of discriminators, oppressors, and self-proclaimed adjudicators. Nevertheless, we are all born with a human nature that search for a feeling of belongingness. Due to...
For a lot of people, the clothes we wear help define who we are. Clothes give us a sense of belonging and personality, as well as displaying our individuality and giving us confidence. Earlier this, River Island released its #LabelsAreForClothes campaign with a anti-bullying charity...
Population growth is not an issue that we can neglect; serious problems can arise like environmental damage and limited resources. Population growth can be defined as an increase or decrease in the population of living species. There are a couple of major impacts that the...
Introduction to Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author who was born in 1939. When Atwood was eleven, she spent half of each year in northern Ontario because her father worked as an entomologist, a scientist who studies insects. One of the many activities...
A common worry among the Islamic modernists and those living in Muslim societies during the late 19th century was, how far can the cultural renaissance progress and how much of their traditions will be swept away along with it? Charles Kurzman notes a modernist Islamic...
Look to the person beside you and try to remember the first day you saw them. Were there any stereotypes hesitating your communication with them? Any labels alarming you to stay away? And most importantly, did you? Labels can help us identify people, however stereotypes...
Since the earliest human beings appeared on earth, people have migrated, traveled, and traversed thousands upon thousands of miles of land and sea to spread not only their population, but also all of their languages, ideas, and cultures as well. This paper will discuss the...
As Charles Babbage once said ‘At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged’. As Charles quoted that new things are achieved by new knowledge or thoughts, I will have to talk about people who...
Jane Eyre is a praised contentious feminist novel but yet it does nothing more than reinforce male regime over women’s attempts at patriarchal roles. Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, published in 1847, details the life of the Victorian society; revolving around many events that paralleled...
Throughout history and literature, people have been crossing borders. Not only have groups crossed physical borders such the walls of Jericho in Joshua and the seas that Odysseus crossed in The Odyssey, but they have crossed social barriers as well. Some examples include crossing the...
Personal assistant chatbots are used to handle administrative tasks such as scheduling meetings, setting reminders, retrieving information to answer questions, or pulling information from the internet into a summary. These kinds of chatbots have a variety of different use cases and can be used internally...