5 Tips for New International Student in the US
1.Starting off easy – International students entering US for college are full of vigor and ambition. They want to gain as much experience as they can while they are here. This mentality for teenage freshmen sometimes turns out to be a bit overwhelming when they are immersed in the entirely new culture. The right thing to do would be to take things slowly and one step at a time. Do not be tempted to take 18 hours of classes or be looking to earn dollars right from your first week in the US.2. Travelling and Shopping- Until you have your own car travelling in US is very limited and sometimes frustrating too. However, please ask for help if you need to go around the city for groceries and cl...
Posted on August 4th, 2016
World's Highest standard of living
This photograph was taken by Margaret Bourke-White in 1937. It depicts the American lifestyle of The Great Depression period (1920-30) and the late 1930s. This iconic picture was featured in the February 15, 1937, issue of LIFE magazine that focused on the destruction caused by the Great Ohio River flood of 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky. According to the Life Magazine, the devastating flood of 1937 took close to 400 lives and left roughly one million people homeless across five states in the winter of that year. This picture can be considered as one of the best examples of photojournalism because it tells the whole story of an era: The Great Depression and 1930s. In this picture, we can se...
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
Ali's Phantom Punch : legitimate or a fix ?
This photo was taken on May 25, 1965, at the WBC Heavyweight Championship Match between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston. The picture is one of the most iconic images in sports. It shows Muhammad Ali in a bold and determined stance screaming at his opponent Sonny Liston who is floored on the canvas.
This clash was Ali’s second time fighting Liston, after a match in 1964 at Miami Beach, Florida where Ali had won the match (Reed 108). Both of these fights remained controversial in boxing history. According to The Appendix Journal, the first bout between the two was highly anticipated but, ended up in controversy. Liston, who was thought to be invincible and the most intimidating fighter of h...
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
A gun to the head..
‘A gun to the head’ is a picture from Vietnam War (1955-1975) by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer Prize for this photograph. This is one of the most popular pictures of Vietnam War which shows a South Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong in Saigon. The picture was shot on one of the streets of Cholon, the Chinese section of Saigon in South Vietnam. It was on the second day of Tet Offensive, an assault coordinated by North Vietnamese with Viet Cong to attack about a hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns. This assault changed the perception of public towards war and led to end the US involvement in war. The person with a gun in his hand is a South Vietnamese police General Nguyen N...
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
So you think you know who Michael Jackson is..
Michael Jackson, an American singer-songwriter and dancer, is regarded as the “King of Pop". He was the most popular artist the modern world had ever witnessed and was considered as the greatest entertainer of the world. His has given outstanding contributions in the field of music and dance. Jackson is well known for his Pop music and Moon Walk dance. He performed as a lead singer of the Jackson’s Family’s Motown group, Jackson 5, as a child. (BARNES) His award winning career as ‘the king of Pop’ transformed the face of pop music and popular culture.Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958. Michael's mom was a house wife and his dad was a middle class worker and a fo...
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
Philosophy of Music
Philosophy of music is the study of music, its nature, and our experience of it. According to Stephen Davies, philosophy of music studies various questions like how music expresses emotions and what is distinctive to the listener’s response to this expressiveness; the modes of perception and understanding that can be expected of skilled listeners, performers, analysts, and composers and the various manners in which this understanding can be manifest; the manner in which musical works exists and their relation to their instances or performances; and musical profundity. A definition of music can be different from person to person. For one person, music can be a source of inspiration in his ...
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
World History By Roshan
Mesopotamia and EgyptIn Mesopotamia, Sumerians began settled life in Neolithic period (7000-3000 BCE). The most important invention of Sumerians was writing. Writing allowed them to record their pasts and achievements which made the advancement of civilization in this region easier. Writing helped them develop methods for communication. Cuneiform (drawing pictures of objects) and Ideograms (signs understood to represent ideas) are few of the innovations driven by development of writing. Scribal Schools were established at around 2500 BCE for males of rich families. Sumerians also made advancements in mathematics and medicines. They were polytheists. “Epic of Gilgamesh", an epic poem p...
Posted on June 22nd, 2016
Civil Asset Forfeiture
BackgroundCivil Asset Forfeiture enables legal authorities to confiscate civil properties such a money, car, electronic, real state, etc. The law enforcement officers may seize the property if they sense like it has been associated with a criminal activity. In fact, the officer may not have a full evidence of the owner of the property being guilty of the crime. This law was established to prevent drugs crimes, terrorist activities, and other civil offenses, but is sometimes used as a means of revenue generation and private profit. According to FBI, th e asset forfeiture law is under Fourth and Fifth amendments of the U.S. Constitution. On top of federal law, all the states have their ow...
Posted on June 22nd, 2016
Progress and Obstacles in Artificial Intelligence systems
Artificial Intelligence(AI) is simply a process to make machine learn and act smart. McCarthy (2007) describes it as the field of science and engineering of making intelligent machines. It involves designing, understanding and evaluating the machines. These machines can understand natural language, reason various domains of the physical world, and solve new problem by adapting and understanding the problem. British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54) is regarded as the pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence (Berkeley, 1997). In his paper, Turing argued, if a machine could pass his test, we could say the machine was intelligent. This test was later named as ‘Turing Test.’ This ...
Posted on June 22nd, 2016
9 Useful phone app everyone should try
CCleaner - CCleaner is an easy-to-use maintenance application that can be used for cleaning memory of a phone or a computer. It was develop by Piriform Ltd, and is free to download. Cleaner can be used for android, apple, and windows computers. The main function of this app is to make a device run faster by removing all the junk files, and cleaning the registry. The user interface of CCleaner is very nice, clean and easy. A single click Analyze button will display the amount of files that can be cleaned, and another ‘Clean’ button will erase the analyzed files from the memory. It can clean application cache, browser history, old call logs, clipboard contents, and more. CCleaner also allo...
Posted on June 21st, 2016