1. Reading - Not Just an Assignment
The Frailty Within From the very beginning of "Hamlet", the theme of frailty is prominent. In Hamlet's first soliloquy (1.2), he expresses his despair due to his mother's hasty remarriage after the death of his father. When he think of how his mother changed from a grieving widow to the bride of ...
Computers Can Never Think. To form an opinion on computers and thinking, I think it is important to first form an opinion on thinking itself. Now many people may feel that thinking is merely scientific - the application of facts and figures. I disagree; and therefore went to my dictionary to s...
What makes an advertisement worth your while? What draws us in? Is it our emotions, our sometimes rational thinking, our background? Many times we feel a unique urge to possess an item that looks like a million dollars in an ad, because we think that we deserve to feel like a million dollars, and su...
Lewis Thomas strategy "On Natural Death" is to invite the reader a new way of thinking about death and pain. Many of us don't give it much thought but the reality exist that death is imminent to all living things. Although we all have been affected indirectly by death, we seldom think about its pa...
Living in a world of racial prejudice, hate, and greed, words can be powerful weapons, and can be used against anyone in a horrible way. In ways that can make you hurt and cry inside, and can lead to violence. Violence like: fighting, staving, shootings and bombings. Of all the words of the vocabu...
Yeah, Right, Whatever! A young teenage girl dressed all in black turned the corner. She had chains hanging down the side of her black, baggy jeans. What's the first thought that went through your mind? Have you ever seen a nicely dressed young lady surrounded by a group of teenagers who have mult...
Summary Lincoln and Tony both got called to Mr. Ayala's office. They both thought that they were in trouble, but they weren't. In fact they called them because they both got chosen for an exchange program in Japan, because they both have showed interest in martial arts. They both thought that they w...
Yeah, Right, Whatever! A young teenage girl dressed all in black turned the corner. She had chains hanging down the side of her black, baggy jeans. What's the first thought that went through your mind? Have you ever seen a nicely dressed young lady surrounded by a group of teenagers who have mult...
The book Anthem touches on many important subjects that Ayn Rand placed in the book to tell people about. One of the primary purposes behind the book is to project that everyone needs to be themselves and should be different from everyone else. Ayn Rand is also trying to incorporate that people must...
Question A great poem puts into words what we already know but had not thought of saying. How far and by what means has a poet you studied achieved this? Philip Larkin Larkin goes from general to specific as he takes a momentary experience of observing dancers and explores the meanings of being...