The Edge

Patrick Østbye A Social Studies Scholar On the Edge of Nuclear War If John F. Kennedy was not our president none of us would be here. JFK saved the world. JFK was original during his time in office. He dealt with many different crises. He had to deal with the threat of having nuclear warheads in Cuba and he also invading the Bay of Pigs. Khrushchev had formed an alliance with the Cuban president Fidel Castro. Khrushchev and Castro threatened the US. The US was on the brink of nuclear war for…

Technology, the Ultimate Staple of the 21st Century Technology, the most impressive form of communication. Though some fear technology will eventually take the place of human beings, look around and comprehend how it has influenced the world. The millennial generation fonds technology more so than others, but over the past decade more and more generations are beginning to open their eyes to the new era. Likewise, technological devices are thought to cause individuals to be lazy, distant, and…

Parallel World Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that causes the mind and brain to lack the difference between what is real and not real, and can also cause individuals to not act normal in social settings. Marge Piercy author of “Woman on the Edge of Time,” helps us to explore the two worlds in which Connie Ramos lives in as well as allow us to meet the individuals that she interacts with in both her present and future. Although Connie is seen as a schizophrenic individual all…

John T. Edge reminisces in his essay of a time when he was a 17-year old freshman in college. He remembers the night where he gets pledged by a fraternity and stumbles drunkenly into an all-night diner. This wasn’t any old diner; it was the hotspot for young adults his age. He scarf down his food and rushes to the bathroom with no avail. He throws up on the floor and the owner yells at him to clean his mess up. In the beginning of Edge’s essay, he creates the setting, in the middle he develops a…

Recently in the United States education has been based on Stem. Stem is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Yo-Yo Ma in his essay “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” makes the claim that it should be STEAM, adding arts into the world arguing that artistic ideas are essential as well as the others. Yo-Yo Ma is a brilliant man, he is a cellist that graduated from Julliard School and Harvard both are top schools. He has won over seventeen Grammy awards;…

Trump? Everyone would like to think that there is not that much evil in the world. Maybe we are missing something. Former professor of sociology at the University of California Berkeley and author, Arlie Russell Hochschild, in her essay “The Ecstatic Edge of Politics: Sociology and Donald Trump,” analyzes several different perspectives regarding the mentality of the Trump supporter.…

When purchasing a book, a buyer drives or walks to their local bookstore, opens the shop’s door, feels a gust of wind hit their face as the air in the room becomes disturbed from the opening of the door, and searches through rows and rows for what they fancy. When looking at prospective purchases, the customer studies at the front cover, picks up the book, reads the summary, and brushes their thumb against the pages, letting them flow in a steady stream towards the opposite direction. This helps…

The revolution I chose to discuss out of the two was the Neolithic Revolution. Two archaeological theories I best chose on why these Revolutions occurred through change over time was, V. Gordon Chlide's "Oasis theory" and the "Edge zone theory" by Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery. These two theories show the possible reasons for adopting farming and domesticating animals where and why they did. For example, in Chlide's "Oasis theroy" he tells us that he believed the period of dry weather in…

Spoon-fed Feel Lost at the Cutting Edge Before arriving at university, students will have been powerfully influenced by their school’s approach to learning particular subjects. Yet this is only rarely taken into account by teachers in higher education, according to new research carried out at Nottingham University. This could explain why so many students experience problems making the transition. Historian Alan Booth says there is a growing feeling on both sides of the Atlantic that the shift…

“Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.” – Bridget Riley Who is Bridget Riley? Bridget Riley is a British artist, best known for her work in the OP art movement. Riley was born in South London in 1931. When War broke out in 1939 she was evacuated to safety. She has said this early childhood exposure had affected her artistic vision for life. She study art at Royal College of Art from 1952-1953. In 1956 she went to an art exhibition of American Abstract…