Category: Critical Thinking

Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben, follows the life and observations of Thoreau as he lived apart from civilization for two years and two months near Concord, Massachusetts. During this time, he encounters many different individuals who assist him in forming his ideas of life and society. Thoreau argues…

Mental instability is a theme that is portrayed in stories and novels by many writers and the stories “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman are not an exception. The setting of the two stories differs and creates a slightly different background force for the reader to empathize with.…

It is quite obvious in today’s society that the topic of Zombies is nowhere near a new phenomenon in American pop culture. They have been everywhere in pop culture from romantic comedies and drama films to comic books. They have taken over the video game world with games such as Residential Evil and have even…

I strongly believe that divorce should be legal in this country. Marriage is not just a religious concept okay? There are two ways to look at marriage. You either get married because you want it to become legal and official to get the benefits, or you want to declare your love in the eyes of…

Definitions Culture – The qualities, thoughts, expressions, diversions, convictions, customs, and social conduct shared by huge fragments of the general public. Popular culture- (additionally called mass culture and pop culture) is commonly seen by people from an overall population as a great deal of the practices, feelings, and articles that are overarching or inescapable in…

Introduction Studying abroad, as a rule, becomes a particularly important and serious chapter in the lives of people who decide at this stage. This essence has everything – new characters, introductory knowledge, of course, the evolution of the main plot. In a combined material with a dedicated InterStudy group, which went to the Urals to…

Dystopia can be seen in everyday life throughout society, as citizens are under constant surveillance and are in fear of the outside world. Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, was published in 1932. Inspired by the social and political changes from the Industrial Revolution, Huxley describes a future society controlled to seem perfect and…

It has been proposed that the future progress of non-profit organizations lies in ensuring the sustainable involvement of the Millennial generation through social network sites. Facebook, a social media network, creates new research contexts and methodologies in service management. Businesses must now engage in learning how customer-with-customer interactions in social media could work most beneficial…

Before starting this course, I have very little understanding of sustainability and its impact on globalization. My curiosity about sustainability led me to demonstrate in-depth sustainability as at some point, I felt that it is necessary to last things that already exist and create things that can last. I have encountered the fact that cutting-edge…

How much emphasis should be placed on the use of military force as a means of defeating terrorism? Three factors are particularly important when analyzing terrorism and counter-terrorism. First, the terrorist strategy, second, what the terrorists want to achieve and third, how to best fight them. Almost no democracies have fallen as a consequence of…