Bliss

George Perec was often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation. His best-selling novel Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante is centered around the lives of Jérôme and Sylvie, who are disillusioned students that dropped out and acquired positions in the field of opinion polling and market research. Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, essayist, and member of the Oulipo group, a loose gathering of French writers and mathematicians that used constrained…

The President of the United States, informally known as POTUS, is the “elected head of state and head of government of the United States” (President of the United States) and is in charge of the executive branch of the Federal Government, in addition to the Commander in Chief of the U.S Armed Forces. The President is one of the most powerful political and world leaders in the world, but despite this, is also human. Because the President is only human, he or she requires medical treatment just…

It is on the journey of life where true meaning and bliss is found. Moreover life can be a fruitless reality where one has little to show for their hard work and labor other than strife and discontent. Therefore one has to let go on searching for meaning in end results and start learning about one 's self…

Comstock Act. A variety of victims of the Comstock Act tried to write what they thought would help the society, but they were prosecuted for distributing obscene information. Edward Bliss Foote and Edward Bond Foote sought out to change the unfair law. The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915: Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations discusses free speech and the fight against the Comstock Act. During that time period, courts opposed free speech and…

The Republic: “The Allegory of the Cave”, Descartes’ “Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt” and Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix there are similarities and differences: especially in regards to the statement, “Ignorance is bliss”. As the movie begins, we find the main character Mr. Anderson seemingly lives a normal life. He is a computer programmer who works for a big software company. He is…

the existence of god, he as a man is a weak person who will gain hell and punishment, instead of heaven or bliss. I disagree with Pascal’s claim because not all men are respected and honored even if some might believe god’s existence.…

Japan ensures that its citizens are covered without regard to medical difficulties. Patients are free to choose the physician or and the hospital they want without being denied. Hospitals must be nonprofit and run by physician by and enforced by law (Bliss, Sugiyama, Yamaguchi, & Murakami, 2013, p 30). All Japanese citizens should be registered in an insurance cover whereas non-citizens are advised to national health schemes but is voluntary. There is the Employee Health Insurance and National…

individual being has a certain “spark of divine” within themselves. Also that the Over Soul connects all people to each other and Nature. These ideas of equality for all, being connected with nature, not conforming to the societal norms, and following your bliss, are all seen throughout writings from this period. Realism and Naturalism are two views that are very similar except realism tells it like it is not commenting on how or if humans…

Throughout The Popcorn Sonata by Jenny Bader, there was a well-encompassed idea that “a moment of bliss” is lost in adults. I say this due to the fact that Laila is almost impersonalized when she is referred to as a blur. This was a smart way to present Laila by the author. I say this because it represents this disconnect between Laila and her mother. To the reader, Laila seems as if she is more of a burden to Karen than anything else. There seemed to be an annoyance in Karen when she was…

example, in 2010, Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake that killed about 230,000 people and injured 300,000. Then in 2016, Hurricane Matthew destroyed over 500 schools in Haiti contributed to a tremendous loss in their agriculture and livestock (Bliss, 2013). Haiti already battles supplying their citizens with the basic living necessities and when natural disasters likes these occur, it makes it even more difficult for Haiti to achieve economic stability. As a result of Haiti’s poor…