At the Mountains of Madness

Argument Essay In most countries, many people never get to taste the sweet taste of freedom. Many people have to fight for their rights; their freedom. From the authors of the iconic, “I Have A Dream,” speech, to the emotional “Cairo: My City, Our Revolution,” to finally the courageous “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses,” story. All of these passages show determination, hardships, but overall, hope. I believe that freedom is not given in most situations, but demanded. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in…

A Method to the Madness: Understanding the Politics of Irrigation in the Andes. Paul Gelles, Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development is an interesting take on the evolution and adaptation of the indigenous traditions surrounding irrigation water in the Colca valley of Peru. Gelles describes how traditional systems of irrigation coexist and compete along modern, government-sponsored models. The main focus is on how “competing structures of power and…

After reading both Wasps by Aristophanes and Bacchae by Euripides, I realized that words can be just as powerful as a god. Athenian government officials, such as Cleon, in Wasps and Dionysus from Bacchae had total control over others. The people the Athenian government and Dionysus controlled were manipulated to believe that they had power. Within Wasps, readers are introduced to Procleon, a man who has an obsession with being a juror for the Athenian government. Procleon’s obsession is…

Copy Principle: Prompt One David Hume, in the book, “An Enquiry of Human Understanding,” denies the thought that ideas are innate or come from within us. Instead, he claims that all ideas, when they are first experienced are derived or duplicated from simple impressions or world experiences. This is known as Hume’s Copy Principle. To prove his hypothesis, Hume divides his argument into two sections. One being that complex ideas can be broken down into simple ideas and followed back to their…

often delved deeply into the metaphysical and conceptual creation of creatures and their subjective effect on humans and their mind. His works were often short stories, that fell into his self termed genre of weird horror or weird fiction. (ref mountain of madness) The playwright is one of the acting factory’s directors Mitchell Rist. The four plays (The Unnameable, The Quest for Iranon, Pickman’s Model and the Music of Eric Zahnn) were adapted from shorter works by HP Lovecraft as part of the…

and this is what he believes is best for the tree but the tree itself wants nothing of this and just wants to grow and prosper. “As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery. I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish…

Gender The thing about gender is this, it does not matter if someone is male or female; life will kill everyone and mistreat us all. Bit over the top? Not even in the slightest. Dreams are only dreams, reality is far from a dream and very close to a nightmare. Gender is just a distraction, actually focusing on gender is the issue. Men and women are both human, who cares if women have more emotions and men are viewed as being burlier, at the end of the day it takes both men and women to survive…

Michael Ignatieff once said, “Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.” According to the article, over a million of civilians have been displaced or severely affected by violence in the past two years. The forces were under the command…

While the exact setting of "Ulalume" on Halloween is debated, the recitation of the poem has become synonymous with the spooky holiday. Another work by Poe, "The Black Cat," a tale of murder and madness written in 1843, has become entangled with Halloween. The story features a reference to witches in the form of an alcoholic who entombs a cat in the corpse of his murdered wife. "The Black Cat" has become a classic Halloween tale, particularly among…

The Savage In Humanity In late 1972, a plane crashed in the Andes mountains, stranding a group of 45 people and forcing them to resort to cannibalism. Similarly, in The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of boys crash land on an island in the middle of the sea. The group initially attempts to maintain order, but by the end, there are two distinct, rivaling groups: those who have remained civilized and those who have turned to savagery. The only reason why people do not become…