Concepts in metaphysics

Oh Council of Music, the time has come to address a grave and dreadful issue regarding the vile and insolent outsiders who have been invading our own practice rooms. We have a policy that you have set in place which truthfully states: “practice rooms are reserved for students only.” We also have in-room rules that declare: “no eating, close the door, don’t touch the AC, and turn off the light when done.” However, these infiltrators rebelliously break most to all of those laws, and they…

The poem “Choices” by Nikki Giovanni shows the impact of positive thinking. An example from “Choices” would be the first stanza, “If I can’t do what I want to do then my job is to not do what I don't want to do”. The world isn’t fair and neither is life, but opportunity is. If you don’t like where you ended up it can still change if make more opportunities for yourself and avoid things that you know are harmful. Later in the second stanza of “Choices” it states, “It’s not the same but it’s the…

Distinctive images can portray a wide range of ideas that individuals have on themselves, others and the world around them. Such images can influence the way of which we view themes and other individuals around us. This concept is demonstrated in John Misto’s ‘Shoe-horn Sonata’ through the use of the themes of music and symbolism. Themes of symbolism and visualisation are explore in the music video of Missy Higgin’s ‘Oh Canada’ (directed by Natasha Pincus). Both of these texts discover the…

Introduction Attention Getter: What if I told you I’d give you five one dollar bills if you give me a five dollar bill, would you do it? [Pulls out pennies] What about now, who is willing to change these 500 pennies for 5 dollars? Background & Audience Relevance: I know most of y’all cringed at the idea of pennies being exchanged for a 5 dollar bill despite it being the same amount of money. Speaker Credibility: To me, making this deal would have been the most amazing thing that’s ever…

When you think about appearance and identity they have a close relationship. For example your external appearance can depict you in a society. Which leads to it following you through your childhood to your adulthood. As in Hassan Blasim’s “Crosswords” and Daniel Alarcon’s “City of Clowns” both authors talk about how your appearance and identity change from your childhood to adulthood. In “Crosswords” Hassan Blasim talks about a reporter named Marwan going through a trauma and it ends up…

Over the Thanksgiving break I shared my portfolio with my family to get advice on it. My dad interviews people for his job and he told me that it was hard because as a junior in college we do not have much experience yet. The advice I got from my dad was to just keep updating the portfolio when I have more experiences. Right now I have very little experience. My dad also told me that he never usually looks at portfolios the only thing he looks at is the resume. The resume is the most important…

Assignment #7 • Explain in detail Box 8.3 The June Bug Disease: A Case of Hysterical Contagion- use the book and one additional reference. Pg 203 - The June Bug Disease was an episode of 62 influenced laborers that had side effects, for example, queasiness, deadness, wooziness, and some of the time heaving. A large portion of the laborers had already been chomped by a bug, for example, a gnat or parasite. Government wellbeing authorities started an examination that tried parasites, gnats,…

Identity is a very convoluted and confusing subject to many because it covers so many aspects of oneself, the way people view others, the social context and all the choices made during the growing period. Beverly Daniel Tatum wrote an article “The Complexity of Identity” to explain its construction using the many identities of oneself and the relationship between domination and subordination. When trying to identify oneself people usually ask the question who they are. It began a multitude of…

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. is a quote by Aldous Huxley. Perceiving others is the nature of every human being. When I entered Great Lakes I looked around the people and had different perceptions on each of them. I am sure even they would have had some perception on me too. Every time I perceive others it will be mostly through some action of theirs and not just by their appearance, but even that can turn out to be different.…

There are certain events in our lives that cannot be told. No matter how hard we try to forget about them, they still haunt our memories. Not everything you encounter will stay in your memory, only the events that are very meaningful and have impacted your life in some way will find a way to glade through your memory. Sometimes, the memories we have built haunt us and the only way to get them out is to accept them, and one way to accept this is through writing. It is hard to find words to…