Charles Wallace Murry

A fungus. That’s how the human race was taken out. Pathetic. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Also known as the zombie virus, it was discovered by British Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. It affected ants of the Camponotini tribe. The infected ant would leave its nest and travel to an area with the perfect temperature and humidity for fungal growth, then the ant would use its mandibles to hang on a leaf upside down until the inevitable death that would follow. Over the next one hundred and…

There are so many that love the person they are with, while other they do not know if they love that person they are with. Not only that, but who needs to love more than the other in a relationship. In the story “ Good People” by author David Foster Wallace he talks about a young highly devoted Christian couple that get news that one of them does not want to hear. This young couple is so in love until something unexpected happens. When Lane Dean Jr finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he starts…

I watched the Ted talk video, “The fascinating secret lives of giant clams” by Mei Lin Neo. This speech essentially entails information regarding giant clams, such as their basic size or growth status and most importantly how important/essential they are to their aquatic environment/ecosystem. While this speech was well presented and very informative, there are a few points in which Mei Lin Neo falls short on. Starting with her good points first, she was very confident regarding her topic, which…

Life leaves people battered with the obstacles one faces, but such experiences leave us all the wiser for it. In Elizabeth Bishop's “The Fish,” she utilizes the fish to represent how people struggle and get scarred throughout their life, but these barriers give us wisdom and courage to pick ourselves up and face what's ahead. The title of the poem is representative of the crucial nature of its central symbol, the fish while using free verse throughout one large stanza to do so; Bishop has the…

In the story "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" there is a very ambitious young man by the name of Yonatan, who was going around creating a documentary. He knocked on doors asking people what would they if they were granted three wishes by a goldfish, Yonatan went to different people different areas to get different answers. Unfortunately, Yonatan was not getting the answers he wanted, Yonatan was trying to become big in the TV world and he wanted to make this documentary poignant…

It is actually an awareness. Therefore, an individual person 's education is the actual human value of learning how to think, not just a material payoff. During "Kenyon Commencement Speech" by David Foster Wallace, he explains mainly about the actual purpose of education. According to Wallace, people do not know what the absolute goal of education is.…

Humor Essay Many works of literature today have persuasive strategies incorporated in them to grab the reader’s attention. Most of the time, writers also use strategies such as humor to send a crucial message to the audience. While this is one effective way of sending a message, other writers utilize formal writing to express the seriousness of a problem. Both methods are effective in getting a message across; however, writing without humor is stronger than those with humor because it is…

little like painting a masterpiece. Even the slightest falter in a brush stroke could potentially ruin the piece. The same goes for writing using the wrong words at the wrong time can completely change the meaning of the paper or article. David Foster Wallace and Paul Bloom both attempt to create a masterpiece. They both use incredibly charged language and all of their rhetorical choices are well placed. They know how to appeal to their targeted audience so much so that it comes down to only a…

Before proceeding to read “Considering the Lobsters” by David Foster Wallace the title of this article caught me by surprise, it is evident that this reading was going to be about Lobsters of course but it makes you think, what about them? Maybe the history of lobsters, where they came from, or maybe even the decrease or increase in population of these sea creatures. Wallace organizes this article starting out stating everything an individual needs to know about the (MLF) Maine Lobster Fest that…

One of the first pieces we read, David Foster Wallace’s essay Consider the Lobster, is about an annual state lobster festival. Although an inane subject, Wallace was able to dance around and through the topic while going on tangents that were sometimes pages long. Our first essay of the year had to follow the same style but the topics were totally up to us as long as it started out with an average, everyday…