Apathy

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch lives in a sheltered home, protected by her brother, father, and housekeeper. This solitary lifestyle leads to her unintentional insensitivity to others. However, as the story unwinds, poverty and inequality grow evident to Scout her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. Although she begins the novel as a naïve young girl, unable to apprehend the effects of poverty and segregation, Scout ultimately develops into a more…

modern society. While it is a relatively simple way to get more oil for energy, it is not a safe method for an extended period of time. Our scarcity of consternation towards the Earth’s well being is alarming. In the movie, the monsters have the same apathy their environment (the children) and exploit its resources, but Mike and Sully discover new methods to get clean energy. Monsters Inc. predicts a positive outlook for their environment, but it is up to us to become the Mikes and Sullys of our…

Students want to learn important things for life, not just pass a class. Teaching based on a curriculum leads students to apathy, and to drop out of school. So, why incentives? Incentives represent real life rewards. In other words, students can relate with the fact that hard work will pay off. Students can apply this method in a daily basis to achieve personal, and career…

The presented passge provides an ideal character study of the lawyer, the narrator in Bartleby, the Scrivener. As the man walks home and analyzes the occurrence of the previous day, he envisioned in details and quickly self-rationalized his success in discharging Bartleby, his scrivener, from his office. The narrator’s syntax and diction demonstrates a character of sophistication and precision, while the rich observation and self-conglaturatory tone in his analysis and reveals his nuanced,…

Environmental issues addressed in Trash and Wall-e -An analytical essay __________________________________________________________________ The main issue of overflowing waste in the texts (Wall-e and Trash) is mainly derived from the unawareness and sheer apathy from society; mainly the emotions and responses of a responsible authority body. Both texts facilitates the examination of human condition. However, Trash delves into a psychological aspect, in terms as this unawareness comes from a…

taking place right before their eyes. This indifference and lack of humanity shown were a result of lies that had been fed to the Nazi party. This was just one of many heinous examples of the apathetic nature of mankind presented in the novel. This apathy and indifference to racial prejudice are still an active force in the world today. Indifference to other people's struggles is a particularly difficult issue to combat in mankind. Wiesel shows the indifferent nature of mankind when describing…

Atlas de geografía humana is a 2007 film written and directed by Azucena Rodríguez (b. 1955) in collaboration with the scriptwriter Nicólas Saad. The film adapts the homonymous novel of celebrated author Almudena Grandes (1998), who also collaborates in the script, and focuses on the life of a group of women between their thirties and forties working together in a publishing company. With a strong female presence in front and behind the camera (original novel, director and protagonists, among…

Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tom a young boy goes on many adventures with his companions. Tom is a troublesome boy who lives with his Aunt Polly and his half- brother Sidney. Throughout the story the mischievous boy often gets into trouble and expresses his apathy for the many things that bore him. Many would argue that even after all his adventures, Tom does not mature as a person, but that is simply not the case. Tom is mature because of his actions towards Becky, Huck, and Injun Joe. From the…

awareness brings activism, but Purbrick presents a very realistic alternative: Does overexposure to human atrocity render awareness ineffective? Purbrick cites Susan Sontag, who makes the claim that “viewing such images encourages inaction: helplessness, apathy and even boredom” (Purbrick 168). The argument is that an overexposure to such catastrophic imagery renders the awareness ineffective because visitors feel it is too late and there’s nothing that can be done. Additionally, grossly…

Love and infatuation is not always associated with the explosion of emotions; just the opposite, is often associated with a reflection and thoughts. State of mind of a man in love undergoes various stages from the apathy, through total emptiness to an outright morbid excitement. Love has not a one name. Narcissus’ love, the main character from the Ovid’s myth, cannot be compared with other shades of love. Despite his young age, Narcissus love was mature and dedicated, unique in its kind. These…