To start this journal entry, I must share a quote by Irv Kupcinet. In this one line, and in almost as many words as I am years old, Kupcinet describes society as I see it. Putting my would-be-mocking view into a simple sentence, Kupcinet writes words that hold such truth that it is a little sad. As we, both see it, we both must ask,“What can you say about a society that says God is dead and...

I sat on the couch upside down. Legs over the back, my back against the seat, and my head hanging over the edge. The black and white movie playing on the television, sat high up on the wall across the room. The lights dimmed down in the dark room, as my family sat around me on the sofa, the floor, and on chairs. All ostensibly rapped into the plot as characters did something on the screen. I...

“Under a government witch imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.”A government has several purposes. The main and most important reason for a government’s existence is to protect the people and represent the people’s opinion on a large scale. However, if the government fails to do these things, the government isn’t just a failure to its people. Often times,...

"In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions and not the 'party line.' Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style."The above is a quote by George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language,” written in 1946. While I...

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, “This is mine,” and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, “Beware of...

Think: all men make mistakes,But a good man yields when heKnows his course is wrong,And repairs the evil: The OnlyCrime is pride.This quote says a lot. First, it recognizes that everyone is flawed. It gives the reader a false sense of security making them feel as though they are a part of this group. It makes the reader feel as though they are normal and that it is okay that they are not...

“But if we make a career of being unaccountable, we have lost something essential to our humanity, and we may well become a burden or a threat to those around us.”I think that Scott Russell Sanders statement has some merit. When he says “…But if we make a career of being unaccountable, we have lost something essential to our humanity, and we may well become a burden or a threat to those...

So this winter break I celebrated Christmas. However, in my family this is a huge event. As soon as relatives arrive, we are on family lock down. You are not allowed to leave the house without first asking because you are required to hang out with all of the relatives you do not like and do not know the names of. This year we were lucky because we only had our grandmas here for Christmas and then...

So in the writing prompt it says, “relate a personal experience and then draw out its universal significance”. So, I decided I wanted to take a wide view with the topic and just let it run on its own and see where it went.So the “universal significance” I picked was ‘seek danger’. Now I am not sure if that truly qualifies as “universal significance” in most people’s books, but I...

“ONE THOUGHT FILLS IMMENSITY”This instantly caught my eye. I think it was because I could relate and felt like I could pin point that feeling to times in my life. However, as I write this, I find it slightly harder than I thought. To me a thought filling immensity would be that one thought that makes you hold your breath. It would be the moments right before you find out an answer to a...

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair June 25th 1903, started life in Morihari, Benfal Presidency, British India. Blair was the great- grandson of a wealthy man named Charles Blair. However, by the time Blair was born his family is what, as Blair wrote, would be described as “lower-upper-middle class”. When Blair turned one, however, was when his life really started to shape. At this time,...

Many things have happened over my thanksgiving break this year. The two big things was getting ready for my birthday and going to a Bruins hockey game. In this entry, though, I think I am going to concentrate on the hockey game. It was my first one and was a completely new experience. Unlike the thanksgiving dinner, that has gone the same for the last couple of years and of course getting ready...

It is a fitting close for a play in which moral law has been made present to us not as a convention or command but as the law of life itself, as that which makes for life, and through which alone man can ground himself on, and therefore in his measure know, reality.I think that the above line first is explaining that in the play Macbeth moral laws are drawn into question. For instance, the rights...

I think that E. R. Dobbs is right on the mark with what he says about the play. On the surface, the play is about blindness. The blindness of Oedipus, the blindness of the prophet, and the blindness of all the people around Oedipus who do not realize the truth as it unfolds to the characters. Most certainly, the play also is about Oedipus fumbling in the dark, looking for the shreds of light and...

“Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?”My answer is yes. I have dance with the devil and I continue to because it is better to dance with the devil than have the rath of her fall upon you. (Also, it is pure fun!) I know it is dangerous to do so, but I love the feeling it gives me. The knowledge that I am, at that moment in time, dancing on the...

My philosophy question was “What is right and what is wrong”. I do not think my opinion changed much over time. From the start I rather held what, I would consider, an indifferent opinion. I thought that right and wrong were defined differently for everyone. However, I believed, that there were many similar right and wrongs with people.I was indifferent about the answer because I knew that. I...

These changes imply a fundamentally different understanding of human nature. What accounts for the change? What is gained and what is lost by this shift? Discuss your views on this matter.Modern society increasingly relies on psychology to explain aspects of human experience that used to be explained by religion. "Spiritual struggle" or "the dark night of the soul" is now understood by many people...

The “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is a metaphor that makes you question reality.The story starts with several prisoners chained down and forced to look onto a wall. Behind the prisoners, a fire is burning casting light onto the wall. People, who for the sake of argument could be called puppeteers, moved objects in front of the fire but behind the prisoners to cast shadows on the wall. The...

Evaluate the following quote from Joseph Wood Krutch's essay, "The Colloid and the Crystal" on the page marked 55 of the handout:Perhaps we men represent the ultimate to which the rebellion, begun so long ago in some amoeba-like jelly, can go. And perhaps the inanimate is beginning the slow process of subduing us again. Certainly the psychologist and the philosopher are tending more and more to...

What is “nature”? Begin your essay by attempting to create a definition. Continue by considering the implications of your definition. In order to get 500 words, you may wish to consider one or more of the following questions: What do people mean by “human nature”? What are the roots of the word “nature”? (Hint—nativity, pre-natal, nascent, etc.) How can we distinguish between what is...