23 Enigma

“Judge Garrett: In this courtroom, Mr.Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation. Joe Miller: With all due respect, your honor, we don 't live in this courtroom, do we” (Demme & Nyswanger, 1993)? Judge Garrett orates a maxim that is espoused to be the umbrella of our American culture. Yet attorney Joe Miller portrayed by Denzel Washington, in the 1993 movie Philadelphia ripostes, that reality is not mirrored by the tenets of law and justice. In…

ice, elbow room, faint hearted, good riddance, jealousy is the green eyed monster, heart of gold, in a pickle, knock, knock? Who’s there?, love is blind and, out of the jaws of death. The eminent William Shakespeare on his 53rd birthday (April 23, 1616). The cause of his death is a mystery, theories ranging from Tertiary Syphilis and Typhoid fever to Alcohol and drug abuse. The only way to discover why this illustrious man died is to exhume his bones, but, consequently he has a curse…

Nugent (2012) writes on the reasons for American Poverty. His main contingencies, that the less advantaged are in their socioeconomic position because of poor life decisions, and that government poverty programs simply perpetuate the cycle, resonate with many conservatives. Nugent argues his opinions with a major conservative slant, in a way almost ignorant of other factors. Even if he is ignorant other factors, his points on poor choices being a major cause of poverty prove at least partially…

the world, the identical se-lection of goods for all nations, and the localization makes Apple Incorporated a global commodity. The main vision of Apple, Inc. is to create a worldwide product with a solid existence. Cultural understanding is the enigma of any global product having prosperity. The point is, being global is not primarily about the prepositioning your goods around the world, it all about advertising all you’re new and updated products in the areas of the world that are not…

Marlow’s introduction to Kurtz started when the Chief Account said, “‘Oh, he will go far, very far…[h]e will be a somebody in the Administration before long. They, above---the Council in Europe, you know---mean him to be’” (23). Before Marlow met the Chief Account, he already encountered several examples of savagery in the Congo, mostly from Europeans; since he already faces his test of mental fortitude, Marlow regards the Chief Account’s words as a beacon of hope. He views…

World War II started in September, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The attack was not provoked by Poland in any way. This upset Britain and France; which ultimately led them to declare war on Germany. Both Japan and Italy joined Germany and created the axis powers. These three countries attacked other countries (unprovoked) just for the sake of acquiring more land and gaining power. Around 1942, it seemed that Japan and Germany were invincible. However, things soon changed. There…

Steve Jobs, a man known for his inventions, is an enigma to the public eye. Starting his company out of his garage and transforming it into a fortune 500 empire. But nothing in his life was easy, from being put up for adoption, to getting pancreatic cancer, to even getting kicked out of his own company. His story is one of hard work and perseverance. All his life he has had his ups and downs, but he worked hard to succeed. From his early life, creating his company, and his health issues that he…

Julius Robert Oppenheimer is often referred to as the “father of the atomic bomb.” a title he earned for his role in the Manhattan Project as the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory; where, the first Nuclear bombs used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II were developed and tested. After the war ended, Oppenheimer was appointed the chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, where he lobbied extensively for the…

Originally Gatsby, and the enigma he appeared as, captivated Nick, but eventually that glamour faded away - “So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door”…

Trees are a stable source of life for everyone on Earth. Unbeknownst to many, their lively roots have entwined for eighty thousand years beneath our feet, unnoticed and nearly impossible to destroy. Possessing an intricate weave, they are alike to the towering poles with twisted wires that line the streets. They are jigsaw pieces in the puzzle of land, necessary to complete the picture but unthought of as individuals; going without a few pieces slightly impacts the likeness, but after a certain…