Cicada

It is, however, hardly surprising that science took this path. It would be rather simplistic to say that all of this comes from Descartes, though his influence on the way in which animals are conceived within Western thought was by no means trivial in its impact. Within this framework exists the claim that humans have the right to dominate and control animals, both conceptually and physically. If the question of governance can be posed as “‘how not to be governed like that, by that, in the name…

The Juxtaposition of Beauty and Horror in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War In Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War, Ninh incorporates juxtaposition throughout the novel to compare the beauty and horror of war. With every gruesome aspect, such as rape and harm relating to war, comes beautiful details. War is such a horrific and morbid event, yet Bao Ninh describes lovely scenes that contradict significantly to the horrors of war. Ninh first used juxtaposition when he mentioned the horrific events that…

Medea’s Rage Throughout many stories we always see the males at a powerful position and the women tend to be the over bearing crazy type. Whenever something goes wrong we as the audience are always quick to blame to female or say it’s because she having a mental break down. The tragedy of Medea is no different. We all assume that Medea took her rage and acted out in an awful way due to no fault of anyone else. But the truth is that if it wasn’t due to Jason’s selfishness and betrayal to Medea,…

Jasper Jones is an award winning novel written by Craig Silvey, first published in 2009. After reading the first one hundred pages, the novel has left a positive influence on me. I have enjoyed reading the text so far. Within the novel, Craig Silvey uses real life experiences which he encountered growing up on an orchard in Western Australia in order to craft the context and Australian setting within Jasper Jones. Jasper Jones is set in Corrigan in 1965, and it follows the protagonist Charlie…

The Zhuangzi, was a very famous Chinese philosopher who narrated various anecdotes and stories. These stories are a fundamental part of the philosophical teachings of Daoism. His thoughts are highly diverse, but very disorganized at the same time. Every story or statement of Zhuangzi, even though brief and rambled, has a philosophical viewpoint. He creates a fantasy world, with imaginary characters, and uses it as a ground to talk about issues surrounding life and death, without fear. Throughout…

Patients would find Western medicine safer and more believable as there are solid evidences rationalizing Western medicine. An example is the nature of therapeutics used: Chinese medicine uses a wide array of therapeutics including shed skins of cicadas, dried scorpions and dried snakes shown in To Taste A Hundred Herbs (1984), which appear to be less scientific and effective than synthetic drugs used in Western medicine. As patients generally find Western medicine more scientific and convincing…

Summer for me as a child were more than just a break from school, it was an excuse to be Alice and roam in the wonderland that was my backyard. I didn’t like staying inside for too long back then, especially when there was this whole world of wonder behind our house. Now Alice is all grown up, the magic drained by school and the worries of growing up, but she still remembers some of her adventures in wonderland. Let us flip through the worn, aged pages of the story of my lost wonderland. Telling…

I was reading a forum post online and someone misspelled the word ‘activity’ as ‘activia’. Then other commenters pointed out the blunder and were poking fun at the mistake. Someone jokingly substituted the word into a horror movie, now titled Paranormal Activia. This two-word response prompted me to wonder, “What would Paranormal Activia be about?” This adaptive short film works in two ways to adapt two sources into a singular film. I took the comment and combined it with a similar story…

southern France when he was sixteen(starchefs.com). According to the interview “Heston on His Passions and Influences And Why the Fat Duck Gets Better,” it was the environment’s rich aroma of lavender, its special lightning effect, and the sound of the cicadas that woke in him a passion that sparked his imagination and inspired him to integrate cooking into his lifestyle as a result of the sensations evoked…

During the larger part of my childhood, my parents were what was known as “birders” -- amateur yet dedicated ornithologists who, rather than looking at birds, looked for them. They had met in college, both pursuing a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Management at Frostburg State University. Neither of them ended up in careers related to their major -- my father became a molecular biologist and my mother a school psychologist -- but they did retain their love for the natural world and, more…