“Aren’t you Happy for me?” by Richard Bausch presents the story as a form of dialogue, mainly between the father and the daughter. The dialogue mainly encompasses the dad’s perception of the story, which is predominantly negative. Although Melanie tries to portray her point of view to her father, Ballinger is not that happy for her daughter. Several lines convey this fact, where he even gets sarcastic, teasing Melanie’s fiancé saying that he is much older than her own father is. “Daddy.”/ “Is that what you call him? No, I’m Daddy. You have to call him Granddaddy.” This sarcastic approach is mostly persistent on the dominating aspect of Ballinger in…

Relativism is a theory of knowledge or ethics that identifies the relativity of judgment based on the events, person, or situation with which the individual is dealing. In addition, relativism refers to the perspective that ideas and views are relative to variations in consideration and perception (Velleman, 2015). Therefore, this theory of knowledge denies the existence of an objective and universal truth, instead proposing that each perspective or viewpoint has some truth in it. Relativism comprises of several main categories that differ in terms of controversy and scope. For instance, whereas moral relativism deals with moral judgment differences among cultures and people, truth relativism proposes the absence of absolute truths…

I interviewed an employee of a meat processing company. The aim was to determine the ethical issues she encounters on the job or see others facing. Below is a report of how the interview went. The employee asserted that as one of the few females that work in the production department at a small meat processing company which has a labor force comprising seventy percent male workers, the ethical issues that she has faced and those that she has seen her colleagues encounter are many. One of them is discrimination based on pregnancy. The employee asserts that she knows of two qualified job applicants who were denied job opportunities because…

“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were,” were Dwight D. Eisenhower’s words in reference to the death of his first son. It is a remark that best describes the feeling of several parents whose children’s lives were cut short on February 16, 2018 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a gun wielding man stormed the school shooting haphazardly. Referred to widely as the Parklands shooting, the incident was orchestrated by 19 year old Nikolas Cruz, a former student of the school who had been expelled for exhibiting certain unwanted behaviors. Armed with…

My culture is the American culture, and being of this culture, one is provided with many choices, when it comes to choosing the religion in which one wants to be in. Examples of beliefs in the American culture are Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Jewish, and Mormon. Culture variations are seen in the types of food, clothing, moral codes, marriages, and language. These ideas are expressed in a person’s actions and in the way they speak (Rubinstein, R. 2018). These kinds of factors that is very distinctive, from one culture to the next. However, in American culture, the ways things are done do not completely distinguish the culture from others, because…

Numerous researchers, social scientists, and experts in various crafts have deliberated extensively concerning the issue of urban living and have attempted to characterize the nature of such life. Essentially, most of them have postulated that the city life has numerous elements that make it significantly different from the rural life including access to resources and the cultural setting of the various regions. Simmel, a 20th-century social scientist stipulated that the modern city offer space for the advancement of each individual and specifically in facilitating the peculiarities of their internal and external development. At a personal level, my experience in various cities has broadened my understanding of the uniqueness of every…

Informal assessments enable teachers to identify the progress individual students have made without having to rely only on standardized tests. It should address specific challenges that students face and compel the identification of different intervention criteria. Therefore, this paper will explore informal language assessments, informal reading assessments, and written expression assessments so as to establish how teachers can employ them to identify specific challenges faced by students and subsequently create a plan and intervene. Language plays a critical role in determining students’ levels of understanding and this makes effective informal language assessment skills important (Kaplan, Carolyn and Shemwell). Reliable informal language assessment criteria include the labeling of information using vocabulary…

“The Monument of the Lost Falcon” is Alan Sonfist’s nature-themed work of art that spans 44 x 28 m. Only an aerial view allows one to comprehend the model which Sonfist has made in a Wittgenstein forest clearing. The artist uses earth walls to model a silhouette of a falcon and then uses a fence to protect his work from destruction by people and animals. This work of art which depicts a falcon lost in the face of the earth shows the destructive nature of man and the artist symbolizes this through the fence (Sonfist, 2004). The artist seeks to express the need to care for the environment to people…

The statement of the French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot that people stop thinking when they stop reading really describes the whole significance of reading in people’s lives. In addition, it is necessary for a good teacher to plan classes in such a way as to arouse the interest of studying in students. On each of them, exciting thoughts and incredible discoveries are born. Books are an unquestionable source of knowledge and it is important for teachers to provoke interest in reading. Another bishop named Augustine of Hippo accurately noted that “the world is a book and those who do not travel alone”. Our Stories-Migration and Labor in Taiwan is…

“Every person is a creator of his destiny”, – people always thought, but it is partly true, as events and turning points on every life way can change the person’s future fate. That is why even Anna Evans could hardly imagine or foresee a long sequence of misfortunes and troubles in her early child’s age, when she was lavished upon with care and love of her big and friendly family. No one knows exactly where Mrs. Anna Evans was born and what her real age was. More over she never spoke about her family, but she is known as a fabulous remarkable women of a small but beautiful town. Admittedly…