Journal Essay Examples

Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, says in his essay “Reporting Live From Tomorrow” that we should learn from experience to predict our future instead of using our imagination. Gilbert says, “If human is a living library of information about what is feels like to do just about everything that can be…

David Lawerence, publisher of the Miami Herald, emphasizes the crucial role of media in informing the public (quoted in Valente 4). It is worth noting that not all information is published, resulting in a distinction between reported, ignored, and false information with profound societal consequences. Furthermore, biased media professionals possess the ability to influence how…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was written by Tom Stoppard and produced for the first time as an amateur play in 1966. It was later produced professionally in New York and London in 1967 and catapulted Stoppard to international fame and he came to be considered a major playwright of absurdist theatre of the twentieth…

Congratulations are in order for the The Dark Man, which celebrates an important 20 year anniversary this year. The first issue of the journal appeared in the summer of 1990 and featured contributions from a virtual who’s who of Howard scholars.  TDM was originally edited by Rusty Burke and, after changing editorial hands several times, it…

In fact, the dependency of modern Glasgow on this industry is so great that some even say ‘Glasgow made the Clyde, and the Clyde made GlasgoW. One thing that consistently impeded Glasgow industrial progress was the shallowness of the Clyde, which meant that cargo often had to be dropped off outside of Glasgow – successive…

The title of this story is “Mother Tongue” From the background information, I learned that Asian American students didnt do as well on the English & writing part of their standardized test as they did on the math part of the test. The name of the author of this story is Amy Tan. The introductory…

“Two rows behind me, I heard a chair move and turned around to see Alaska standing up, slinging her backpack over one arm” Peg. 39 This quote shows how loyal Alaska is. She believes that what Budge was getting kicked out of class for was not fair so she did what Alaska usually does-spoke her…

In today’s world of various products and services, businesses aim to excel and lead the competition by marketing the most number of consumers, which is a full time endeavor of business. To survive in the market, a firm or an organization has to be constantly innovating and understand the latest consumer trends and tastes. Marketers…

Content wise, the abstracts and bibliographies presented by Mr. Oltman all discuss the topic of nicotine addiction and the treatments being developed in dealing with the disease, most especially focusing on relieving/alleviating withdrawal symptoms. The content of all three abstracts from different publications compliment one another and just by looking at these provided bibliographies one…

For the second reflective journal, I have decided to discuss on the topic of ingroupers and outgroupers. This subject matter caught my interest because I find it to be very accurate within our society. To begin with, people are generally more inclined to associate with a crowd that is very similar to them. These similarities…