Author: V. Iyengar, Dubai Chapter Tonight and extending into tomorrow morning, a rare total lunar eclipse will be visible to skywatchers across the UAE. The eclipse will last for about five hours, with 1 hour and 22 minutes of totality — making it one of the longest total lunar eclipses in recent years. Lunar eclipses occur worldwide a few times each year, but most are … Continue reading Rare Total Lunar Eclipse Visible Across UAE Tonight
Author: G. Li, Dubai Chapter On Friday, the defending champion Indian cricket team held a practice session at the ICC Academy in Dubai as they prepared for the Asia Cup. They will play their first match against hosts UAE on September 10, followed by matches against Pakistan and Oman. Playoffs will begin on September 20. Jasprit Bumrah returned to T20Is after missing two Tests during … Continue reading Team India Begin Asia Cup Preparations in Dubai
Authors: V. Iyengar, G. Li, Silicon Valley Chapter In our area, which is so obsessed with rankings and prestige, attending a community college after high school before transferring to a traditional four-year university is often an option that doesn’t receive much consideration. So, to gain some insights into this route, we interviewed a student who graduated from high school early and currently attends Las Positas … Continue reading The Road Less Taken: Transferring from a Community College
Author: Eli Faber Julie Otsuka’s novel, When the Emperor was Divine, develops a central theme of craving for home, being back together in one piece and returning to the life the family had in Berkeley, by placing the family in an environment that is dry and barren, separated from time and space with their lives seemingly coming to a halt as soon as they enter … Continue reading How Water and Time Flows in Julie Otsuka’s “When the Emperor was Divine”
Via Ingram In the movie, Rebecca, the main character, is nameless, except for her last name, which she gets from the man she has married. The main character is constantly contrasted with her husband’s late wife, Rebecca, who the film is named after. In comparison to the childlike, identity-lacking main character, Rebecca is a very charismatic, enchanting and powerful character. This is emphasized in the … Continue reading Analysis of “Rebecca”
Via Ingram Today, the environment is facing many changes in climate and temperature, and those feeling its most prominent effects are the poor and indigenous communities who live in natural, self-sustaining ecosystems like the Amazon Rainforest. Currently, the indigenous people are facing many threats to their way of life from deforestation, large scale agriculture, and river pollution. The trees in the Amazon Rainforest are being … Continue reading Deforestation Harming Indigenous Communities
Via Ingram Your best friends, the people you admire, your greatest desires, and your personality— all dependent solely on your point-of-view; what people have shown of themselves to you, and what parts of the world you’ve seen, as well as the viewpoints you’ve made and continue to experience the world while carrying based on other things within your viewpoint. The world can only be as … Continue reading Analysis of The Red Shoes
Li Chen He The debate between Unferth and Beowulf from lines 499 to 606 provides a sharp contrast between the hero, Beowulf, and the ‘antihero’, the exile, Unferth. Beowulf completely undermines Unferth’s argument and in turn is able to insult Unferth, which shows the capability and mental fortitude of the hero. On the contrary, Unferth completely ruins his reputation and seems foolish. This section of … Continue reading Beowulf: the Hero vs. the Exile
Johnathon Hao Excerpt: Perhaps the reader has already guessed why I was so willing and anxious to play the accompaniment to this violin solo; if not—the violinist was a girl of seventeen or eighteen whom I had first heard play a short time before on a Sunday afternoon at a special service of some kind, and who had moved me to a degree which now … Continue reading Analysis of excerpt from James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Cole Greene British colonial activity in Ireland led to the oppression of the Irish population, who were forced to remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. This created widespread poverty in Ireland, and was both a result of and a problem that perpetuated racism and religious intolerance against Irish Catholics. This begs the question, to what extent did Great Britain control Ireland … Continue reading Irish Couch Potatoes: Fact or an Idea Perpetrated and Spawned by the British?
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