Claustrophobia

I will be arguing that Happiness is the only thing of intrinsic value in human life by proving hedonism is true. Hedonism believes that in life the highest goal is happiness. I will use be using different explanations about personal experiences, experiences of others, and hedonism to explain why happiness is the only thing of intrinsic value in human life. These explanations will show that each decision we make, we make based on the happiness and pleasure they will bring to our lives therefore…

Who am I? Kazuo Ishiguro has initiated a sense of empathy by displaying a strong sense of emotions and feeling through each character. The novel Never Let Me Go encompasses the various contrasting personalities and realizations through dialogue and interaction. The three main things that inaugurate empathy in the book are the cognizance of one’s identity, the effect it has on themselves and their daily lives. The realization of one’s identity has several influential factors, such as the way…

Any kind and decent person would take a stand against the cruelty inflicted on animals by the food industry. Those that chose an alternative diet enjoy the rewards that come with supporting defenseless animals as opposed to the rapacious and malicious food industry. Hopefully bacon and baby back ribs smothered in barbeque sauce will lose their appeal once the veil of anonymity that shrouds the food industry is drawn back. Why is it that it is acceptable to eat a pig or a cow, but repulsive and…

Modern social construct: Fear of isolation Solitude is the fact of being alone; Modernism has alienated how our relationships with each other and with social institutions such as the place of worship, Educational Institute, place of work, and family unit have alienated some individual from our society or community, while many factors influence isolation weather they were forced out or their own personal ’choice. Both written literature, On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone and The Yellow…

Today is Vimy Ridge Day in Canada to commemorate those brave individuals who fought during WWI at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. In honour of this day, I thought I'd share my experience at Vimy. Visiting Vimy may have been the most surreal experience I had on my 2014 Europe trip. Although I had visited many WWI and WWII memorial sites, Vimy Ridge was one that really resonated with me. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is Canada's largest overseas war memorial site; it is located at the highest…

Window of the Soul: How Writing Allows Expression of the Human Condition Throughout every society’s history, there has been a prevalent inequality between the females and males of that population. Women were considered slaves or property belonging to men; thus they have been viewed as second-class citizens and intellectual inferiors. The result of this prejudice was to restrict woman’s lives exclusively in the domestic sphere. This limitation severely controlled their interactions and…

Authors profusely use themes to add dimension, help the reader understand, and direct the reader in following the path of novel’s intention. Providing a novel with the structural value of a theme, the author keeps the reader guided. In a Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving uses themes to combine the complexity of his work. Without the theme of religion/doubt tying in with fate versus free will, the novel would lose substance and value. Faith and religion, without a doubt, is the underlying main…

In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon introduces Christopher Boone. A 15 year old boy who discovers his neighbors, Mrs. Shear’s dead dog in his backyard. In this paper I will explore the reasons why this is actually a murder-mystery novel, why Christopher would be considered autistic, analyze some of the major characters in the novel and how they relate to the themes of the novel, and explain my take of the ending. Christopher at the start of the novel…

In Documentaries, Directors often use modes of persuasion to convince the viewer of an idea. In the Salesman, the director uses the mode of Pathos to have the viewer experience emotions that wouldn’t typically be associated with a traveling salesman. Certain film techniques like the use of close up shots help create this emotional appeal. Without emotions, this film would be a boring film about traveling salesman. I think the empathy evoked by the director is critical in staying true to the…

LOGLINE: American Truck driver Paul Conroy finds himself capsulized in a state of Claustrophobia and manic fear when faced with his impeding surroundings six feet under in a wooden box. SYNOPSIS: Paul Conroy is a 35 year old truck driver in Iraq, but in this very moment, he is a man incased in a coffin struggle to both hold his sanity and find his way out of the dark, dank, depths of some unknown location in Iraq. Harnessing a lighter, phone, flask, a pen and pencil, and various other…