Apathy

In Animal Farm, as in the Russian Revolution, an idealistic, classless society is transformed into a barbarous, bloody dictatorship through negligence, apathy, lack of education, and trust on the behalf of the citizenship. In Animal Farm, Orwell uses the animals to show how the Bolshevik leaders were able to seize power so effortlessly. Mollie, representing the self-centered bourgeoisie, will unthinkingly…

Moreover, Goodall toured a medical research laboratory and realized that baby chimps located there were not allowed to interact with each other as they were contained in small boxes. Her encounter with a chimp hiding in the back of a box and rocking back and forth in its cage led her to advocate for labs where chimps could interact and be contained in larger cages if research was necessary. Jane not only noticed the maltreatment of laboratory chimps, she persisted in making her demands for…

magnet, always being pulled different ways and never really becoming myself, by myself. I’ve been a bottle without a message, floating between people and shores. I would keep friends for the school year then lose them in the summer because of my total apathy towards most of their lives, thus my lack of importance in theirs. This continued for all of middle school and my first two years of high school. [Make this moment more impactful, significant, so we know she’s someone important.] I met…

when Paul tells the centurion and tribute how he is a roman citizen(22:29). This begins to shows us the view of Paul by both the Jews as well as the Romans. The Jews hold a dislike towards Paul and his new ways, while the Romans show a sense of apathy towards Paul. Throughout the text there is a constant pattern of the Jews showing a dislike towards Paul while the Romans only acted or lack thereof because of the Jews. While Paul is being treated this way, Jesus was with him to encourage him…

Loss and grief can turn to madness if you let yourself explore your thoughts. One can become insane just by thinking about a once gloomy past. The terrors from before can haunt and make you see things which were not there last. Imagination starts to work and you’ve dug your hopes real fast. That’s exactly what this grieving narrator of “The Raven” had to bore. This was through the unexpected loss of his beloved Lenore. The narrator of “The Raven,” creates this frightening yet sophisticated bird,…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Bapu, as everyone used to call him is known for his strong ideals. Not only did he include them in his individual life, but also turned those very ideals into a mass movement which led a nation to its independence. His movement or Satyagraha was moment for the truth. One of those ideals was that of Ahimsa. While the word “Himsa” would mean violence, Ahimsa would mean non violence. According to Gandhi, the essential element of Ahimsa is truth. It is inseparable from…

Hawthorne is a man of loaded words and vague, yet meaningful, expressions. Within his works, are a plethora of lessons to be taken away and messages to be reflected on. One such message being his reference to enjoying the good and the bad life has to offer. On the surface the meaning comes across as nonsensical ramblings, however when thought about for a short period of time, one can easily understand the power behind the phrase. “There is no fate in this world so horrible as to have no share in…

When a parent is incapable of responding to a child, the child develops feelings of isolation, apathy, and eventually aggression. Seemingly, the classic scenario of the angry father and son is often understood to be a result of genes. Although this may be the case, it is also due to the environment simply because they live in the same household and…

psychology there is a concept of “product of inevitability “or minimizing negative situations when it the outcome is probable to come out negative in order to not feel so bad about it. People felt that nothing they could do so the mistreatment or apathy was their external justification, allowed people to convert or conform to anti-Semitic…

Suicide rates for persons over the age of sixty-five have increased dramatically in the United States in the last decade. The suicides are associated with numerous risk factors such as financial or relational loss, physical illness, hopelessness, isolation, depression among others. Depression has for a long time been blamed as the main reason for contemplating suicide. However, according to a recent research presented in the annual American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry meeting, older…