Cold Hard Truth

D.J. Towns Mr. Homo Class Period 1 2018 March 7 Hard Life: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times Throughout the time period of one's life, there may be, ordinarily, a discovered issue with money and financial situations. Consequently, you may find these types of issues with yourself or maybe even someone that you know. Charles Dickens himself had financial issues all throughout his childhood, resulting in a childhood that would not be as enjoyable as mine or yours today. During…

of my square around the the court, I picked up a little rock, turned to Nick, said “How could you get me out, haha”, and tossed a rock at him thinking I was being funny. Once it hit, I started laughing, Unfortunately, I had “tossed” it a little too hard. He clenched his hand and let out a painful sounding groan. My mind exploded with fright as my eyes burst…

Hard Times in Humboldt County depicts an issue that arises often in different type of industries. When demand is high and supply is plentiful, one of the variables are bound to change. Once that has happened, people within that industry face hardship and must adapt or fail. The video has a vintage feel, however the 1980’s was not that long ago. Within the last 30 years, society has changed its thoughts in some ways and have stayed stubbornly the same in others. For centuries, civilizations have…

Tom and Gatsby are both dishonest and deeply flawed men who commit consistent shows of indiscretions. For example, Tom condemns Daisy’s affair, but does not have the decency to be discreet about his own. Gatsby’s shady business dealings with Wolfsheim and illicit ways of acquiring wealth can, without a doubt, compare to Tom’s unscrupulous character. Both Tom and Gatsby lie and cheat, but Tom does it for the sole purpose of self-indulgence, while Gatsby does what he does in pursuance of his…

senses of reality, seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting are all to mislead one from discovering the true reality. This truth will explain that reality can’t be good because…

During slavery in the United States, southern white slave owners were raised to believe that blacks were inferior, and they believed it. It was hard for slave owners to imagine life any other way, and for them, there was no reason to imagine life any other way. It could be argued that the Yankees used Plato's epistemology. They broke free from the "chains" holding them to the belief that blacks are inferior. The reason that they were able to do this might be that their "chains" weren't as…

the abstract question of reality. In contrast, the aim of modern science has been, by employing the scientific method, to establish reality beyond any doubt. As a result, the public commonly accepts scientific findings and theories as undisputable truths. However, the certainty of modern science is misleading and continues to leave the question of reality open for…

given, so is the need for reason, which in this case would be science, more specifically his scientific claims. By choosing not to question and reason all that was presented as the truth, one was choosing not to follow one of the actual Scriptural truths. Furthermore, this claim opposed what Aristotle proved to be the truth (the Church’s convention), and “therefore mistrusting their defense so long as they confine themselves to the field of philosophy, these men have resolved to fabricate a…

Thus, his job is the “cataract” that disables him from truly living, and keeps him from establishing relationships with those around him and wholly expressing his creativity. Gabriel Conroy experiences similar feelings of disillusionment in James Joyce’s The Dead. Gabriel lives in a “cloud” of misperceptions, and constantly suffers from obsessive misinterpretations of how others perceive him. As a result, Gabriel possesses a close-minded and defensive attitude, which affects his ability to…

Until he can justify holding them, and it seems as though it would be just as hard for him to do this as it is for the theist to provide justification for his belief, both the theist and the atheist have an equal burden of establishing the truth of their assumptions, and therefore neither can establish that their conclusions are true. I argue that when one cannot establish that either conclusion is true or the…