Stupidity

be blown out, but it can also flourish. White’s goals represent the flames and the man’s stupidities are the winds The more disagreements and ignorances toward White’s goals will cause it to be blown out. For example, if the old knights refuse to believe Arthur’s new ways, it will die out. Although if there are fewer disagreements and ignorances, the goals can prosper into something bigger. Wind or stupidities are not harmful to solutions; they just need to consider the benefits. Arthur’s plan…

Ch. 3 Writing Prompt: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” –Martin Luther King Jr., American activist in the Civil Rights Movement. This relates to me because when I was younger the worst thing I could was be hardheaded and dumb. If I were not like that before hand, I would have been doing great things right now but now it has been prolonged. I have seen so many people mess up or ruin their lives just by choosing to be ignorant, not willing…

Ignorance when looked up in the dictionary means,” a lack of knowledge or information”. When said on the street Ignorance is a sophisticated version of calling someone stupid, which means “lack of intelligence or common sense”. When used in an African American household this same word means you are retarded, which means “less advance in mental, physical, and social development”. The word ignorance has many meanings, and in specific moments in time ignorance is called for to make statements or to…

he thinks are positive (like thoughtfulness), and traits that are negative (like stupidity). In Tolkien’s writing, the reader can clearly see the author favors cleverness and intuition over physical strength. Tolkien shows in his writing what traits he believes are positive and negative. The majority of the negative traits expressed in chapters one and two are shown in the trolls. Examples of these traits are stupidity and gullibility. In chapter two, the text states,¨ It was the wizardś voice…

The fabliau genre has been a long-standing tradition in medieval writing. However, because of the reoccurring characteristics of the fabliau, it is a genre that is viewed as one-sided. Because of this, the fabliau genre is most often compared to and associated with the courtly love genre of writing during that time. Writers and poets of similar professional standing wrote both genres and both styles of writing were intended to be read by a similar audience. French writers in both genres…

decreased capability and inclination to individualized thinking and reflection. According to David Hopkin’s article, “How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization”, written on 22th March 2015, the world is profoundly marked by stupidity, and the root cause of it is due to the well-known TV-show called Friends. In the article, Hopkin depicts the downfall of western civilization as well as how Friends come into play in this collapse. The language of the article is primarily…

being equal to whites. Again, this comes from a historical context. During the slave and oppressive periods, Whites wanted to brand African Americans as ignorant to maintain superiority over Blacks. This mindset caused ignorance to be defined as stupidity and incapability as opposed to absence of awareness and…

Anatoly Dyatlov’s ignorance led to the unfortunate disaster of Chernobyl, as we know it today. This resulted as Dyatlov wanted to conduct a test on the reactor but as the test preceded more and more things went wrong. Dyatlov was blinded by his stupidity and ignorance as he forced his employees to continue the experiment, threatening them by telling them they will loose their jobs if they do otherwise. Dyatlov was willing to risk his team and thousands of civilians just to prove his point, just…

story “A Sound of Thunder,” the main character is murdered. The future is changing because of Eckles own stupidity, the anger of the safari guide,and the lax screening process of the Safari Inc. Eckles decides to step off the path to redesign the future and create his disappearance .”A Sound of Thunder,” shows that apparently your actions can lead to many consequences. Eckles stupidity engages and destroys his future Eckles has gotten scared and runs off the path.Eckles is directly told…

experiences. In the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien shame causes soldiers to act differently and to make choices that they would have never thought that they would’ve made. Even though shame drives some soldiers towards heroism, not stupidity, it plays an important role in the novel because it changes the characters’ personalities and it stays with the soldiers when they are Vietnam, which causes them to make unnecessary decisions, shame is the reason in which Tim O'Brien decided…