Tackling crime, greed, and corruption, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street explores the insidious underbelly of modern American life. Based on the true memoir of a former Wall Street broker, the 2013 film follows the story of Jordan Belfort as he navigates wealth, Wall Street, and the federal government over a 10-year period. At its release, The Wolf of Wall Street was … [Read more...] about The Wolf of Wall Street and America’s Ambivalence Towards Wealth
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Constructing the Riemann Integral: A Brief Prelude to Real Analysis
Welcome back. I hope that everybody is doing well as midterm season winds down and finals season ramps up. In engineering, mathematics, and computer science, the integral is a powerful tool. A single-variable integral can yield the area under a curve, and a double-variable integral can provide an efficient way to compute the volume under a surface. Integrals also allow us to … [Read more...] about Constructing the Riemann Integral: A Brief Prelude to Real Analysis
Kiki’s Delivery Service: Emerging into Adulthood
Kiki’s Delivery Services is a 1989 Japanese animated film that was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who also created the screenplay, based on the book Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiki Kadono. The film follows a young witch named Kiki, who moves to a seaside town, as a part of her village's tradition for young witches in training. She has to stay there for a year and learn about … [Read more...] about Kiki’s Delivery Service: Emerging into Adulthood
The Death Enigma Prompted by Morbid Curiosity
“Don’t look.” Look. Slowing down, I peer across two lanes, scanning the scene. A man lies still, face down on the cement with a marine corps baseball cap sitting next to him. Behind him is the wreck. Though told not to look, I have to. What was once a pickup truck is merely a hunk of metal, shaped and bent like an abstract piece of art. I can’t help but stare. The thrill … [Read more...] about The Death Enigma Prompted by Morbid Curiosity
Innate Moral Core: Part 1 (Introduction to Innate Concepts)
Morality (the sense of whether an action or person is “right” or “wrong”) is considered a defining feature of humanity. The typical conception of morality in children is that they are born amoral (without moral sense) or immoral (a moral sense different from adults). Developmental psychology theorizes that children acquire a moral sense through various developmental processes … [Read more...] about Innate Moral Core: Part 1 (Introduction to Innate Concepts)