1987 ANWR Coastal Plain Report says that there is only a 19 percent chance of finding…
Allison Avery is one of the three Avery girls. Her older sister Quinn is beautiful, smart, and an all around good character. Her younger sister Phoebe is popular, innocent, and always happy. While Allison is just interesting looking, doesn’t try in school, and has only one best friend, Jade. Allison Avery Is a 9th grader trying to fit in, in a suburban town that she hates. Its to perfect for her, and everyone there has to be perfect too. Alison isn’t perfect and will never be perfect, so this annoys her a great deal. Jane, is perfect to, she’s a great student, and she pretty too.…
To start off, Sophie was a hidden deviation and her parents did everything they could to…
Stephen Crane’s first novel Maggie (girl of the streets) is a tale of uncompromising realism. The story chronicles the titular Maggie, a girl who lives in the Bowery with her emotionally abusive parents and brothers Jimmie and Tommy. The novel revolves around the trials and tribulations of Maggie and her family in the Bowery. Highlights of the story include the death of Maggie’s father and brother Tommie which drive Pete to turn into a cold and hard person by novels end. Maggie desperately tries to escape bowery life, but in the end Maggie succumbs to the Bowery and dies a broken woman. Crane is considered a Naturalist, and in Crane’s naturalist world no one escapes their biological chains. Maggie’s parents are both unfit parents: they are emotionally and physically abusive, and have alcoholic tendencies. Despite Maggie’s and (to a lesser extent) Jimmie’s longings to escape the bleak world of the bowery they do not. Crane is making a statement on the adverse effects of industrialization and urbanization with the novel. Industrialization and urbanization on the surface create jobs and strengthen business, but upon further examination it disenfranchises the very people it promises to help. Many of the families in the bowery are immigrant families who become wage slaves. Maggie’s family is no different; because of their dependency on big business they have become disenfranchised and incapable of growth. This idea of being set into a world where there is no escape from one's biological heredity that Crane showcases the in the novel is mirrors Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory. According to Darwin only the biologically strong would survive in the world, with the weaker specimens expiring. In Crane’s novel the people are not inherently weak; it is the environment that shapes them and prevents them from growing. Ultimately, all of the characters in Maggie are victims of the Bowery life.…
‘It’s Tolstoy by the way; I say as I open, the open door. He turns around. What? Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up the writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickaxe in Mexico 1939. But I understand how the T thing could confuse you. He looks at me, his eyes narrowing. William Troubal doesn’t like to be put in this place.…
Solomon, R.C. & Higgins, K.M. (2015). The Big Question: A Short Introduction to Philosophy (9th ed.) [Online version]. Retrieved from AIU Online Virtual Campus. Introduction to Philosophy: PHIL201-1503A-03 website.…
I think one point Fox is trying to make through this story can be summed up in that one phrase. Throughout the story it appears the characters are unaware of their actions and how it plays into the outcomes, they are even oblivious to the actions of those around them. “Don’t pay much attention to what people say. Then, someday, you’ll find out what you think yourself. Try to go to what is new as innocently as you can — let the surprise of it take you first,”(Fox, 37). What the reader can sense and what the characters of the story portray and different. For example I had an uncanny feeling that Nina and Len were lovers, the clues were there for the taking. In the end of the story when Helen finds out Len and Nina were lovers she is shocked and amazed. The innocents of her youth opened and the maturity of life allowed her to see what was had really occurred and how she played into it. Hence supporting the fact that people are unknown to themselves. I once had to take a seminar about the inner self awareness. The speaker used a window and divided into four panes much like child draw, and stated our “selves” are like windows. In one pane is what I know and others know about me, the next what others know about me that I am unaware of, the next is what I know about myself that others do not and finally what I am aware about myself as well as others. In order to truly grown in self-awareness we need to make the window…
The name of this artwork is Christina's World. This artwork was made in 1948. The name of the artist is Andrew Wyeth. It was done on a wood panel with paint! (Tempera paint to be exact). There is a girl in a pink dress, brown hair, and brown shoes (I think there boots but I'm not sure). She looks like she's on a fram of some short. There is wheat she is sitting on. There is a brown house in the background. She's far from the house.…
She struggles watching Sophie grow up in a culture so distant from the way she raised her daughter, and even further from how she was raised herself. She does not fit into the western culture, and seems to find flaws and lack of moral everywhere, especially in her daughter’s husband John, who is between jobs and seem to suffer from depression, an illness she does not recognize. The mother and grandmother drift further away from each other as a result of the grandmother trying to teach Sophie discipline and respect the way she was taught it. Eventually the daughter decides that they would be better off without the help of her mother. The grandmother moves in at a friend’s house, and seem to be getting along pretty well, even though she still seems to be complaining over American culture…
“Knowledge is the object of our inquiry, and men do not think they know a thing till they have grasped the 'why' of (which is to grasp its primary cause). So clearly we too must do this as regards both coming to be and passing away and every kind of physical change, in order that, knowing their principles, we may try to refer to these principles each of our problems.…
“Context is all” (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth when considering knowledge gained through sense perception?…
Alice in wonderland is an adventurous book full of mystery, conflicts, and surprisingly allegory. Alice goes through trails, revelations, and at one point even gets accused of “being the wrong Alice.” In this story, Alice believes that she is dreaming and having a weird one at that, but in reality she is not really dreaming. Alice is really trying to find herself and with that she is portraying the conflicts in her life through the world of wonderland. To me wonderland is just a dimension of realization and a way for Alice to find the answers to the questions that she needs. But will Alice realize this in time or will she go on through her “dream” without any realization at all? In Alice in wonderland there are many cases of allegory. The cases the i will be pointing out and defining in my own words are “The Rabbit Hole”, “Size and Growth”, and “The Looking - Glass.” In this essay i will explain my theories and definitions of the allegory in Alice in Wonderland.…
There aren’t two minds that are the same, and because each person has a different kind of a mind, they also learn and receive information differently. In this paper I want to talk about Gardner’s theory; according to which, “we are all able to know the world…
“Philosophy is defines as the study of the principles underlying conduct thought, and the nature of the universe. A simple explanation of philosophy is that it entails a search for meaning in a universe” (Chitty, & Black, 2007, p. 318).…
A human being on tasting the fruit of thought is no longer comfortable in the pit chained to ignorance. He begins the slow climb up and down the ladder of knowledge.…