This article explores the philosophical dimensions of colonialism, including its historical development, moral implications, and political consequences. Kohn and Reddy examine debates on sovereignty, rights, resistance, and postcolonial theory, highlighting how colonial practices shaped modern thought. The entry provides a critical framework for understanding colonialism’s legacy and ongoing relevance.

I think capitalism is great. By rewarding people and companies who provide worthwhile goods and services, capitalism promotes efficiency, creativity, and competitiveness. It lets consumers choose, stimulates economic development, and lets them raise their quality of living. Capitalism can rapidly meet evolving demands and tastes by depending more on market forces than on central authority. It also encourages personal freedom, allowing people to invest, follow their passions, launch companies free from more government control, so creating more possibilities and general prosperity.

The Out of Home Care Toolbox's "Trauma and Shame" essay investigates how shame—a normal aspect of growth—becomes detrimental when connected to complicated trauma. Caregivers assist children negotiate shame in healthy environments by means of empathy and restoration. Traumatic events, however, can cause shame to become internalized and produce negative self-identity.

I hate shame so much when I was young. In my elementary school England’s class, our teacher likes to say ‘shame on you!’ whenever we failed to answer her questions or didn’t met her expectations. But as a I grew up, I found out that shame sometimes is always motivation for me to accomplish my goals. If I failed to do something while others can do it. This would makes me feel shameful, and I would motivate myself to try all means to complete what I need to do.

Leading online tool for crowdsourcing, GoFundMe lets people gather money for personal, medical, philanthropic, or emergency needs by means of a large network of contributors.

In my personal experience. It’s very frustrating when crowdsourcing happens. Crowdsourcing is the process by which many people, each making little contributions to finish a project. Usually not directly related to the work, these volunteers or contributors may be chosen or offer to assist.

Sarah T. Roberts reveals in Behind the Screen the secret world of commercial content moderation, where more than 100,000 people worldwide search through upsetting internet information to keep social media platforms safe. Roberts emphasizes the psychological toll and exploitation these moderators endure through intensive fieldwork, therefore calling attention to their vital yet unseen influence on our digital experiences.

I think this is funny because website always ask if you are over 18 or over 21. If I click I am 18/21 older, they wouldn't ask for further verifications. When I was 16 or 17 I always click that I am older than 21 and I can easily get into the website. Back in China when I was using some apps required age verification. They would ask me to do a real name verification that I have to enter my personal ID number and do a living face verify using the camera. After passing that I can keep doing what I need to do.

The NPR piece by Anya Kamenetz looks at internal Facebook studies on how Instagram affects teenage mental health. Though headlines point to an obvious connection to damage, the data is more complex. The studies show both harmful and positive effects; mixed results that do not definitely show Instagram aggravates teen mental health. Critics contend the business minimized issues in favor of advancing the platform.

I think it’s a great question of should we still allow people to use instagram if it’s bad for us. If Meta’s proves that instagram can be bad to teenage girls. Shouldn’t we find ways to let it be beneficial instead of just ban it. I would considered that as a method to stop instagram from taking away customers from Facebook. Also the study indicated that in general this could be harmful. But there’s people benefits from this platform. If unfair to close it just because this may be bad for the tonnage girls mental health. Finding ways to make it beneficial to mental health would be the right solution.

Cetaceans evolved from land-dwelling mammals to entirely aquatic creatures like whales and dolphins. Beginning around 50 million years ago, they evolved echolocation and modified limbs into flippers. Gradual anatomical alterations in fossils point to their close relationship to even-toed ungulates like hippos.

I want to talk about the natural selection, I think this is very interesting to me. There’s a story of giraffe, in ancient time they have long neck and short neck giraffe. And as time passed by, the giraffes ate all the greeneries on the ground and the shorter trees. Only the giraffe with long neck can survive by reaching higher branches to eat. The nature helps us to select the talent that helps us to survive. Groups without these talents would die and leave the one with the beneficial talent.

According to TechCrunch, Facebook users do not have the ability to opt out of having their phone numbers used for two-factor authentication to be searched. While users have the option to restrict search to "friends" or "friends of friends," total privacy is not achievable. Privacy experts have criticized this practice, citing security dangers like as SIM swapping and concerns about personal data usage.

I want to talk about the friend suggestion function. I sometimes find it pretty annoying because I feel like the are stealing my personal information. For example, if people wanted to get my personal info, they can simply find who I'm related to and get access to my social networks. If people follows me, the system would recommend my friends to them an they all know each other. I personally think that at least the apps should ask us for permission before doing any 'suggested friends' actions.

Color blindness, commonly known as color vision deficiency, is a condition that makes distinguishing certain colors difficult. Almost always from genetic mutations that change the way our spherical cones work in the retinal, red–green deficiencies being the most common. Color blindness diagnosis will most often involve the Ishihara test. Even though there is no cure for color blindness, there are possibilities to help such as color filtering glasses and mobile devices. Color blindness does limit some careers and daily activities.

This paragraph gives me a totally new insight of disability. Traditionally, people would think disability as somebody can't see, can't hear, or have no legs(physical disability). Instead of the invisible disabilities such as colorblind, this made me think of people might have personality disabilities. For example, I'm afraid of public speaking. Doing a lecture in front of the whole class would made me super nervous, my body would start shaking, I would forgot everything no matter how long I prepared, and for most of the time I would stand there and have nothing to say which is very embarrassing. I started is that a problem I have to overcome or is it my personality disability?

A private message, or direct message, is a private communication between users on a digital platform, seen only by the users. Private messages first appeared in IRCs and forums, but they are now associated with social media platforms and instant messaging applications as part of communications that are private. Private messages have become used for personal, business, and peer to peer communications, bringing forth additional privacy and data security issues. ​

I have a lot to talk about privacy. I watched a video of a vlogger made a challange. He asked some IT specialists to collect his personal information on the internet only provided one of his social media account, can use both legal and illegal methods. After several, the specialists get his real name, passport photo, home address, family comditions, and even credit card number and expiration dates. The IT specialists were not professional hackers, they were just workers in the internet industry. I feel so unsafe after watching this video. How can we protect our personal information not being collected? How to retain our privacy?

This link is basically about comedian Jaboukie Young-White made a joke on Twitter regarding the FBI's involvement in Martin Luther King Jr.'s killing while posing as the agency. His account was suspended and the tweet deleted. People responded differently; some felt it was a brave joke, while others thought it was nasty.

Jaboukie used such way to tell people that he believes MLK was indirectly killed by the FBI. But the thing is he is using a 'Verified' FBI account. His behavior will mislead a lot of people who don't know the history of believing the FBI did that. He sure could use his own official account to express his own idea. In this incident, FBI is a group that harme by this trolling. But if some individual was harmed this way, it's even worse.

This page clarifies how websites monitor internet activities of users. It talks of technologies websites employ to remember users, display adverts, and gather data: cookies and hidden images. The paper also addresses privacy issues, what laws guard individuals , and what individuals may do to lessen tracking—such as using private browsing or ad blockers. It's a useful summary of the reasons why websites monitoring people.

I always felt that my phone can listen to my conversation with my friends. For example, when we are talking about we need a new mirror. Later I open my shopping app and they immediately recommend me some shopping app. Whenever I search something online, and I open another website the website is full of ads of what I just searched. The craziest thing is my parents gave me some money and I told my friends that in the chat, For example 1000, and I told him in the chat that I want a new Catless downpipe. The shopping app would recommend me exactly 970 dollars product. I feel our personal information were stolen so easy by google, Instagram, and other apps. We didn't even notice and the apps didn't notify us.

The Wikipedia article about the COVID-19 pandemic gives a detailed account of the worldwide health disaster that resulted from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The pandemic started in Wuhan China during late 2019 before it rapidly expanded across the world to create major health and economic and social consequences. The article explains how the virus spreads through human contact while explaining both the symptoms patients experience and the creation of vaccines. The article explains how public health authorities put lockdowns and travel restrictions into practice to slow down the virus transmission. The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 7 million confirmed fatalities during April 2025 although experts believe the actual number of fatalities might be higher.

It's very hard to determine authenticity. I want to give a example in my real life. I ordered a carbon fiber spoiler designed by RW carbon in the US. But I found that they get all of their products at a very low price from Chinese carbon fiber factory and put on their logo and sell them. While I choose to find the factory directly and purchase the spoiler with the factory directly. Is the spoiler I bought considered authentic? They used the same mold, same machine, same raw material and same process. They are the exact same products. I also want to talk about the friendship example given in the paragraph. If I spent time with a person and I considered this person as my authentic friend, but the person is pretending to be your friend. Is our friendship considered authentic?

The Wikipedia page about Internet Relay Chat provides details about IRC's definition alongside its creation history and its function as a real-time communication tool between users. Jarkko Oikarinen from Finland created IRC when he developed the system in 1988. Users can access IRC through channels which operate as chat rooms to either broadcast messages to all participants or maintain private conversations. IRC gained massive popularity throughout the 1990s because users employed it to distribute worldwide news rapidly during major events such as the Gulf War.

I've been curious that why are we still using email nowadays. I first know email when I was very young, my father was writing emails to his client and I knew such way of communication through my father. People tend to use it as a way of formal communication, or I send emails to older people because they don't use Instagram or snapchat. I wonder as we are developing, are we still going to use email. Another reason I am using email is because when I'm trying to open account online, they need to verify my email. But in China, our phone numbers are linked to our Government issued ID number and linked to our WeChat account. We can register any account with our WeChat account verify jut with a single tap. Is that going to be the future?

I want to share an example around me of bot using. A friend of mine use bots to post contents on the Chinese Tiktok. He use bots to help him find contents, videos, and also the bot also works as a voice actor for the video. He had several accounts all run by the bot. The most simple one he would tell the bot to put on some stress reliefing videos with the audio of some novel. and put the novel link as an add in the video. All of the work were done by the bot and all he did was to review it before posting it and hit 'Post'. Nowadays, bot helps us a lot and correctly using bots helps us make our life a lot easier.

The visual programming languages (VPLs) serve me well during my studies because they help me learn fundamental coding concepts. The programming languages Scratch and Blockly enable users to learn about loops and conditionals through visual interfaces which prevent syntax-related problems.

I've read some book written by Lao Tzu. He believes that 'Tai Ji' (the black and white figure) generate 'Liang Yi', (which means day and night). 'Liang Yi' generates 'Si Xiang' (which means the four seasons, spring, summer, winter, and autumn). 'Si Xiang' generates 'Ba Gua' (eight different directions, north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest) and they each represent different things like fire, wind, thunder, water mountain, and ground. 'Ba Gua' generates everything in the world. He had a book about how to predict people's future using 'Ba Gua' because he believes it makes up everything in the world.

Taoism thinks that we should learn from nature. Like there's rules in the nature, we have to discover them and follow them. Such as the leaves grow and fall, cycle as a year for a reason. Water will stop fire, fire can burn wood, wood can grow in soil, and soil can stop water from flooding. Nature works as a cycle, we have to learn the cycle and rules of nature and follow it.