C. Auguste Dupin

I recently read a book titled Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, and I think it is an exceptional example of a fantasy book. The book is about a young boy named Jacob Portman who is fascinated by stories that his grandfather (Abe Portman) would tell him at such a young age. Later on, when he grows older, Jacob assumes that all the stories that his grandfather told him must be fiction. But later when a horrific tragedy occurs and Abe Portman dies, Jacob questions what…

My first key principle can relate to resilience in leadership. Daniel Coutu stated that “more than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails” (pl300 p69). I could have the most experience and the best training, but if I am not prepared to persevere and recover from crucibles, then my skills would go to waste. One key point of resilience is that different people bounce back from trials in different ways. People…

this, sociologists rely on their sociological imagination. “Which is the ability to look beyond personal troubles of individuals to see the public issues of social structure. Which are the social forces operating in the larger society” according to C. Wright Mills (McIntyre, 2014, p. 31). Furthermore, this has a major impact on the greater scheme of things. Since, “it opens up new resources for problem solving” (McIntyre, 2014, p. 32). An example of this is shown in Zimbardo’s article titled…

C. Wright Mills coined the concept social imagination in his book published in 1959. In the publication, Mills defines social imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society." In order to have social imagination, a person needs to exhibit the abstract capacity to see things from different points of view (Crossman). In other words, Mills explain sociological imagination as the capacity to see problems and society with a different approach with…

Out of the Silent Planet A Take on Philosophy In Out of the Silent Planet we see the bent, the broken, and the bold and how each of them holds a standard on the value of life. The character Weston was a physicist, obsessed with the idea of living forever. Later in the book Oyarsa (a sort of spirit entity) says that Weston has been “bent by the Bent One”. Bent is the Malecandrian word for bad or evil, meaning that in the sense of an allegory Weston had been corrupted by Satan. Satan being “the…

Growing up one’s environment tends to play as a factor in the way people go about things in life. People’s lives are shaped by society. People in different areas see things differently and depending on the length of residency in that area makes a difference in their outlook. Sociological imagination enables individuals to look outside their private sphere of consciousness and identify the structures in society that influence or cause their personal experiences. By taking a step back and looking…

2001 A Space Odyssey and the Odyssey have many similarities. The Ancient Greeks at the time of the Odyssey were wanting to keep themselves separated from the “barbarians”. The Greeks wanted to become more civilized during this time of discovery and exploration Homer portrays the beasts/peoples in the Odyssey as uncivilized and puts them in the same class as the civilized Greeks. An example of this is the Cyclops. The Cyclops is a pastoral nomad that goes against the customs of hospitality…

Like the Apache Helicopter The AC-130 Gunship has a wide variety of uses. The Ac-130 Gunship is a heavily armed, long endurance ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules. It carries a wide array of anti-ground oriented weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire systems. It also relies on visual targeting. Despite all the armor and weapons, it is still an easy target given…

In The Sociological Imagination, by C. Wright Mills, the interconnection of public issues with personal troubles is explored as Mills argues that the personal troubles of an individual are reflected in public issues, and that the formation of society and its public issues may be influenced by the actions of an individual. While personal issues and public issues are different and affect various groups of people, personal issues are often created by the standards, expectations, and values of a…

Tempetation- In The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, there are two demons, Wormtail and Screwtape, who are trying to corrupt a human, who they call Patient, from straying towards the words of God and the acts Christianity. Screwtape, the elder demon, tells Wormtail that he realizes how enslaved humans are to be of the ordinary. To fit in. Temptation is what every human has. The temptation to go against God and Christianity. “Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than…