roman’s blog

In the past chapters Jonah visits the Hobby Shop where Frank used to work and the owner tells him how great a genius Frank really was. Jonah later learns through a paper that Frank is actually alive and lives in San Lorenzoand so Jonah sets out to do another story on that island where he [...]

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In the book Conrad makes only a few references to women and but shares his overall attitude about them and his view of what ‘European’ men think or ought to think of women.  Marlow himself runs in to five different women throughout the book the most significant being the native woman and Kurtz’s “intended.” The [...]

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So what is plagiarism? Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas or work in your own work without giving credit to the original author (citing). It is considered stealing and has high consequences especially in professional settings and it doesn’t matter whether plagiarism is intentional or not. I am personally guilty of a specific type I [...]

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I didn’t realize the entire picture about bias until we’ve learned that everything written has a bias of some form or another. The written work we went over in class this past week has had some clear and obvious example of bias especially from first story from the ‘Old Favorites of the McGuffey Readers.’ Summed [...]

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So it seems my thesis will be something like… ‘The future of video-gaming is likely to see players using devices that allow their brain to control and interact with objects in virtual environments and simulated situations that involve other people just like them.’ I think mind-video control is the prevalent topic when it comes to [...]

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So I’m researching the ‘future of video games’ and for the first time I really feel like this is a cool topic to do research on. Although my thesis is still in development, I hope it will come out clear and still be arguable because it is hard to be certain about the ‘future’ of [...]

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I am finding that my question is better fitted to time area in which India was directly under the British Crown as an official part of the British Empire, all of which is post East India Company rule. It is interesting because outside of Proquest I am finding two distinct opinions concerning British rule. Some [...]

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So as I further probe into the research question I am surprised about how useless proquest is in providing useful sources. I normally find decent articles on it but since my question is quite general I am not seeing anything that would directly apply to my question. The articles I can find are either addressing [...]

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As I’ve begun to research into my question of the ‘effects of British colonization in India’ I feel like it would be better and more specific if I focus on the negative ones as there are both positive and negative ones. The positive ones are pretty clear, which are: the modernization of the country, introduction [...]

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Whew, what a crazy ending! I never saw it coming. Its funny how at first I really didn’t like Okonkwo because of his over-masculinity, which dictated how he treated everyone, but now and especially towards the end, I really began to sympathize with him. Even as Achebe began to give him less and less personal [...]

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