In "A Visit To A Small Planet," many human faults are indirectly scrutinized and ridiculed, adding hints of satire to the interesting comedy. One of the faults being derided, is the fact that although our race does not enjoy nor promote violence and war, it still occurs and we still do things to p...
Written in 1897 by Edwin Arlington Robinson,"Richard Cory" is a detail-oriented poem designed to make the reader think very thoroughly about the words and phrases that are used throughout the piece. Using a variety of rhetorical devices, the author characterizes the eponymous Richard Cory as a regal...
Do we really know the people around us, at least the closest ones? Of course we think that we know the people we have spent most of our time with and gone through a lot with, however, we can never know somebody completely. As cognitive science stipulates, human beings form their own subjective version of the personality of people based on observable evidence or intuition in order to understand them. Though, it cannot be verified if this, in the own mind, formed up conception of man complies with the reality. Even if this concept of mind is confirmed as accurate by the one of who we are making ...
While most outsiders wanted to Christianize the Wari', others were eager to make use of the rubber, Brazilian nuts, cassiterite, and other marketable capital in the large territories that were under the tribe's control. ... Although some outsiders used representations of cannibalism for monetary gain, others displayed empathy and a desire to understand the Wari' culture (Conklin 68). ...
A Swiss Proverb once enlightened, "When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything". Sadly, vision is the primary sense of mankind and often the solitary basis of judgment. Without human's limitations of the shapes, colors and textures of our overall outward appearances, the world would be a pl...
