Apathy

You may have seen or read a scary, gruesome, , gut wrenching movie or novel, but nothing compares to the novel or film of “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. This horrifying fiction is above anything you can imagine. This fiction really portrays humanity as dark and pessimism throughout the whole thing. To start it off, The whole first page of the novel instantly reveals its deep and dark sense. Like one of the first sentences in the first page start out with “nights beyond darkness and days more…

their school. The United States is a nation of trauma—a nation in perpetual grief. Too many parents never get to see their children grow up—never to see their child get their first job, drive their first car, or walk at their high school graduation. Apathy can no longer be…

The 28th amendment should be the dissolution of Electoral College and putting popular vote into place. The founding fathers had their reasons for basing American presidential elections off Electoral College. However, today the reasons are out-of-date. Wanting to bar a more direct democracy in order to make an inaccurate model of America’s representation is simply foolish now that advanced nations recognize people as equals, so every person's vote should actually count. The controversial…

Entertainment has always been a major part of everyone’s lives since childhood; it makes us laugh and also feel engaged. Since humans create these entertainment products there are bound to be innovations and biases present. A form of entertainment known as the late night talk show will often go into political topics for the viewers entertainment. Late night talk shows supposedly provide a great alternative to traditional news media outlets however their partisan bias typically misinform viewers…

Casablanca is a film form 1942 so it was a war propaganda film, to make the people of america more patriotic.the most important theme in Casablanca is that everyone is trying to escape. A movie that was repeated over and over again was that he loved her and she love him, but she sacrificed love for a higher purpose. Rick try's to be neutral but can't. because he was never neutral he had always done stuff to help the allies. Casablanca is a tale of two songs. The first song, "La Marseillaise,"…

insanity of Pecola Breedlove; the ultimate victim of the novel. She is utterly obsessed with the need to somehow acquire blue eyes, just like Shirley Temple and Mary Jane. Pecola’s community is responsible for her psychological downfall because of their apathy and internalized self-hatred. People discover the fact that Pecola is pregnant with her father’s baby. This…

Niemöller and Elie Wiesel use literary devices in “First They Came…” and “The Perils of Indifference” to express the speakers’ apathetic and indifferent attitude. Even though Niemöller’s poem and Elie Wiesel’s speech talk about indifference and apathy, and the literary devices given in the both works give the reader a better understanding of the poem and the speech. In Niemöller’s “First They Came…”, it contains literary devices, like diction, syntax, and repetition to convey Niemöller’s…

of the time in the concentration camp, are grim and depressing. He writes of many physiological views and reasoning for prisoner’s choices and mental state. He puts their phycological phases into three phases. Phase one being shock, phase two being apathy and phase three being depersonalization. We will visit each of these phases in this essay and then compare the logotherapy of Frankl to Sartre, Freud, and Marx as I feel you need to understand what Frankl and the prisoners went through to…

forward. The sad truth was that my “revitalization” efforts (which was the name I gave my initiative) could not change a thing. Here are some reasons why. Case 10B: Apathy If board members aren’t coming to meetings, you’ve got to find out why. The problem with this volunteer board was that no one was asking why. In fact, after years of apathy, the President didn’t even send out meeting agendas anymore. The secretary didn’t send out minutes either. In short, no one was communicating with anyone…

Congratulations on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout! You may not realize it now, but you will learn that this is an accomplishment of lasting value. Indeed, I am now over the age of 50, when I reflect back, I see that being an Eagle Scout is one of the few things from my youth that continues to benefit me today – and at first glance I must admit that this seems rather strange. However, upon deeper reflection I think that I understand why this is so, and I think you will too. You see, while…