At the core of human behavior and activity is our strong inclination, and indeed, our need to be social with one another. All of us, along with other species in the animal kingdom, achieve sociality through some means of communication. Humans, however, have taken communication to a level beyond that of our animal relatives –Continue reading “Humans and Language: A Survey of the Gesture-Primacy Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Origins of Language”
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Education in Crisis Areas
This paper was presented at an undergraduate conference at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 2017. It was written originally as a research paper. While this paper is a few years old, I decided to post it now because of its focus on education and the importance of education in creating aContinue reading “Education in Crisis Areas”
Holding a Purity of Line: An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
If there is one thing which the characters of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises are good at, it is being miserable, especially considering that they spend most of the novel on vacation in Spain, partying. Yet, no one is really happy. They play fast and loose with alcohol, attraction, and money throughout the entire novelContinue reading “Holding a Purity of Line: An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises””
Olivia Michael Tarman 