Being and Time

How to Live Life In E. B. White’s “Once More to the Lake”, White describes the tale of his trip to a familiar lake he went to with his son. Since White also grew up at that lake, he experiences moments of déjà vu. The theme of “Once More to the Lake” is written through the author’s tone, his literary devices, and the similarity to “What are Homosexuals For?” Throughout “Once More to the Lake” White’s tone is consistently anxious (Tone Vocab…). Although, at the beginning White seems nonchalant…

Prospective memory (PM) is defined as the memory to perform future intentions and includes activities such as picking up a gift for a friend on the way home from work or remembering to take medication at a certain time each day (Einstein & McDaniel, 1990). In the real world these intentions are often performed to benefit others and are considered prosocial in nature (Brandimonte, Ferrante, Bianco, & Grazia-Villani, 2010). An example of a social PM task would be remembering to keep an appointment…

Welfare needs to stop acting on good intentions and start acting on discernment by creating a motivation to work and get out of poverty. There are two major ways to promote this strategy: to make it so that welfare is only given out with the condition that those who receive it must be in active pursuit of a job and to make it so that welfare is only given to those who become enrolled in getting some kind of education or training. For example, according to Erin Thomas, who is a social work…

He hesitates and wonders for a long time and questions himself—which path should I take? In reality, this is a symbolic poetry of meditation. It involves important decisions that were taken in the course when people have to abandon one desirable thing to deal with another. “If each reader…

calcium in the blood increases the occurrence of kidney stones. Kidney stones can be quite painful and, in some cases, require surgery [7]. Medical intervention can be exceedingly difficult and sometimes impossible given the large distances and travel times for space missions. Therefore, it is important to minimize the amount of bone mass astronauts loose to avoid health complications crew members may not be able to manage on the…

includes the epithelium a thin and moist layer, which is the outer layer of the vocal folds. Underneath the epithelium is the Lamina propria (SLP) which is the part of the vocal folds which cause the sound through their vibration, the final layer being the vocal ligament determines the speed of the vibrations that occur, deciding the pitch and volume. The speed at which the vocal folds vibrate causing sound depends on many things including whether you are male, female, young, old and what pitch…

Alright, this time nothing’s gonna stop me from this. Guess who was my first thought after I saw this task. Bingo! Heath Ledger’s Joker. For me, The Dark Knight is not just another ridiculous superhero story, like ‘Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice’*, but the whole philosophy behind. When people are young (yea, just like I’m turning 81 tomorrow), they all praise the Batman. When they get older and start to analyze some facts, they come to the conclusion that it was the Joker who was a real…

My senior year of high school was relaxing at first as I didn’t have any real plans for my future. I was completely clueless about what I wanted to do, academically and professionally, post high school graduation. When I looked at my past for help I saw a pre-teen adolescent, a girl with eyes too big for her face, belting vocals into the bathroom mirror for she thought she could perform in a band someday. As I looked further back, I saw a six-year-old child who dreamed of becoming a dancer— who…

out, one day it all became too much. The stress, the anxiety, the depression… it was overbearing. That day I checked myself into an inpatient program, knowing I needed time to breathe and figure out a way to stop repressing my emotions. After all, this wasn’t the first time I was in this situation, but that story is for another time. You met me in…

as the first main character, with Belle as the second. Throughout the story their written duet as main characters coincides with the troubles of the late 1700’s and early 1800’s , with some added melodramatic storyline. Lavinia is characterized as being the innocent and gullible protagonist, she is brought towards many situations where these traits blind her perception of what is really going on. Even with her lacking of perception she is seen as a survivor through her and others many hardships…