Author Joseph Staten brings to life a story from a loved game by many. The story is set between 2425 and 2525 on an outer colony planet named Harvest. Contact Harvest tells the story of humanity’s first encounter with a group of various alien species known as the Covenant. This book is great and I enjoyed it‚ I think it shows the potential of Mr. Staten’s writing. His outstanding amount of description really helped me imagine the planet Harvest and its inhabitants. The main theme is friendship
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Response to Question 1 According to Mary Pratt‚ “contact zone” is a term “to refer to social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today” (Pratt 487). In Pratt’s speech “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” she uses terms‚ such as autoethnography and transculturation‚ to help demonstrate the reasoning of her ideas. The main
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Eye contact and eye expressions are arguably one of the strongest and most intimate forms of non-verbal communication through reading a person’s body language during face-to-face interaction. Eye contact can make or break a job interview or presentation‚ romantic dates‚ casual conversations and many other situations. It can show whether a person is feeling sad‚ happy‚ confident‚ excited or scared and so on. Experts say it is unclear whether it is a person’s eyeballs directly portraying the look of
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Contact zones of the Olympics As Mary Louise Pratt defined in “Arts of the Contact Zone”‚ contact zones are social spaces where cultural interactions happen; including cultural exchange‚ conflicts‚ understanding‚ and sometimes unbalance of power in contact zones. Relating closely to cultural diversity‚ contact zones definitely exist in global events around the world‚ when people from different places gather together and communicate with one another. The Olympics‚ as one of the most influential global
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While they provide exercise‚ excitement‚ and fun extracurricular activities‚ sports can often bring a lot of pain. It is no secret that countless people get injured from their sport several times over the course of their career. One common injury in contact sports is also one of the worst and therefore‚ a solution to lessen the commonness must be found and enforced. Concussions come in varying levels of “grade” and pain intensity. Some symptoms of a typical concussion are headache‚ confusion‚ and amnesia
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In Louis Uchitelle’s book‚ The Disposable American‚ he explores the decline of job security and the concept of “lifetime employment” in the United States as well as the underlying shift in government involvement and public perception that accelerated mass layoffs of workers and precipitated the notion that workers must solely bare the full financial and emotional burden of their discharge rather than businesses or society. Chapter 6 and the discussion on government legislation in the late twentieth
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Jake Huston 11116850 Criminal Justice 205 10/30/11 Research on police and prosecutors reveals that uniformly they disagree that discrimination occurs in their agency and office. What then explains the disproportionate minority contact that occurs and the disparate treatment within the prosecutor’s office? Although police and prosecutors may contend that discrimination does not occur within their agency but that does not mean discrimination doesn’t occur. The facts show that minorities are
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Arts of the Contact Zone Q2R#3&4 In “”Arts of the Contact Zone” Pratt gets the point across that cultures should recognize the “contact zone.” By giving examples like Poma’s writing and a homework assignment that her son had‚ Pratt defines the contact zone as the “meeting of cultures with asymmetric power.” (p 487) The word “cultures” refers to every type of group in my eyes‚ groups such as sports teams and even classrooms. A classroom can be defined as a contact zone because the Teacher and
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Intercultural Contact Essay Introduction I have chosen the movie “Crash” seen in class as the subject of my intercultural contact essay (Haggis‚ 2004). Following a brief summary of movie‚ I will discuss the terms learned from intercultural communication course at George Mason University and apply them to various scenes in the movie‚ highlighting the cultural insensitivity characters portray towards members within their ethnic community and those who come from a different ethnic background. Brief
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Life Is Not Paradise Life can often appear to be full of despair. In the constant struggle between good and evil‚ evil seems to get the upper hand. This is also the case in the novel‚ The Green Mile‚ by Stephen King. The story and experiences of the main character‚ Paul Edgecombe‚ the supervisor at a prison block in the 1930’s‚ are the epitomy of the following quote. "Life is not paradise. It is pain‚ hardship‚ failure‚ and temptation shot through with radiant gleams of light‚ friendship‚ and love
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