The Expansion of Technology has Improved Security

Security is a very important part of our lives and we use it in some way every single day. It helps immensely to protect us against criminals, terrorists, and even invisible viruses on a computer! Humans will most likely never be able to stay 100% safe, but technology can make that number as close to … Read more

Aphasia symptoms, prevalence & treatment

Each year 180,00 new cases are recorded in the United States with a disorder that is not well known to the population in our world (8). 84.5% of the Earth’s population have never heard of this disorder or the term itself (9). This disorder is known as aphasia.  Although there are a lot of new … Read more

‘Italy was not united, but conquered’. Discuss this assessment of Italian unification.

Introduction Throughout the nineteenth century, the region of Italy faced internal and external issues that caused tensions to rise on the peninsula. Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, after the Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna in 1814, much of Italy was controlled or greatly under the influence of the Austrian Empire. … Read more

How can we reduce the stigma of mental illness?

Ungar, Knaak and Szeto propose that the most effective way to reduce stigmas felt by the mentally ill in healthcare is to take a multidimensional and multilevel approach “that address stigma holistically, from programming to structural change” (Ungar et al). The authors call for the employment of a “human centered design approach” to be used … Read more

The right to be forgotten

On May 13, 2016, the European Union court made a decision on a case where a citizen from Spain sued Google Inc. that Google’s search result was an infringement of privacy, giving all of the citizens in the European Union “the right to be forgotten”.(fact sheet) The right to be forgotten is a new concept … Read more

WWII and Inglorious Bastards

World War II is an Iconic subject across the world, not to mention the United States. The way that World War II impacted the world came in many ways. Some being firsthand stories of the struggles to survive or the heroism shown through till victory, others were things of fact and of history that shaped … Read more

Human Forms and the Surrealist landscapes

Chapter 1: Introduction – The History of Surrealism Surrealism is an art movement originated by the poet Andre Breton, who was at first part of the Dada group but then went to initiate Surrealism in Paris in 1924. He defined Surrealism as a `Psychic automatism in its pure state’, in other words it means to … Read more

Events that shaped the United States

There are events in every countries history that shape society, political climate, as well as social and economic views. In the U.S., three of the most important events are the civil war, the industrialization era, as well as the progressive era of the 1890’s to the 1920’s. Each of these events in history heavily transformed … Read more

Impact of the European conquest of Africa

People who really understand just how and why the European conquest of Africa happened to have a tremendous jump on better understanding why things happened as they did in the colonial period and, I would argue, in the post-colonial period. Nevertheless, some other areas of Africa were under the European command by 1880. During the … Read more

Designing Surface Parking Lots as New Public Spaces

Abstract Lacking of innovations and flexibilities in the design of surface parking lot leads to a truth that most of the standard surface parking lots are designed exactly the same. So that most of our urban area, dominated by these surface parking lot, have become uninviting dead field. This research proposal aims to argue that … Read more

Analysis of Genesis

The first book of the bible, Genesis, has come from many a translation; from Latin, to the Greek Transliteration to mean generations. The book as a whole can be described as the story of creation. However, it is evident that within the first two chapters that there is a clear contradiction about the story of … Read more

Is fashion the route to a cultural revolution?

Introduction Examples of how fashion has been used to protest before hand Why fashion is important to change the world What is a cultural revolution? How is fashion translated into action? Photographers and context Fashion and protest have always been associated despite their recognition being insubstantial. Our history is rich with instances by which garments … Read more