Concepts in metaphysics

Two minutes. Two minutes late. In the System, there is no room for diverting from the schedule. In “Repent Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison, there exists a futuristic, dystopian society in which time is of the utmost importance. Every minute— every second— is meticulously scheduled in order that the society may run smoothly. However, with the System being run this way, no one possesses the ability to think freely or have their own head on their shoulders. One man, the Harlequin…

From the beginning of time, it has been bred into our lives to incessantly create patterns that help form a basis of reality and how to adapt to that reality. During the earliest times of human existence, we were faced with the burden of overcoming the harsh realities of the world and have strived to create certain ideologies in order to survive. This created a sense of anxiety that was essential to human nature. However, as the world progressed, this anxiety translated from analyzing and…

Assuming Names is an unbelievable true story about a 15-year-old, Tanya Thompson, who fooled the FBI, DEA, and Interpol in addition to many other government and private institutions. Assuming Names is a story that seems too crazy to be true, but Tanya has evidence, on her website and in her book, that her adventures actually happened. She was a bored teenager who wanted to be recognized for her brilliance, posing as a 23-year-old world travelled countess. She used this persona to persuade…

Many find it easy to underestimate the impact one seemingly insignificant choice can have on your life and general wellbeing. But, taking one minor risk can change your life for the better. For instance, let’s look at one choice I made over a year ago: I had recently turned 19. While I had a couple friends, I was still shy and had a great deal of difficulty befriending others; I also wasn’t that confident or satisfied with life overall. For years, I’d been living with anxiety and depression,…

Identity was and always will be an important part of human life; it is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Identity is what makes a person himself. Without identity, a lot of things wouldn’t have happened, including the events of “Romeo and Juliet”, where in my opinion identity contributed to the conflict. In “Romeo and Juliet” the two protagonists come from entirely different families, each of those families has its own identity that it build itself over hundreds of years.…

New experiences impact who you are as a person, but yet they are so easy to come by. New experiences come from everything- first time at a restaurant? That's a new experience. It may or may not come up again, but let's say the next time you are thinking about where to go for dinner you remember how much you loved the new place you tried? That would never have happened had you not gone there the first time. New experiences change you everyday as a person as well as affecting your decisions,…

In the book, The Message in The Bottle by Walker Percy explains how humans experience different scenarios in regard to how they are brought to it , he goes in depth with this in the chapter “The Loss of the Creature.” From what I understand of the chapter and agree with is that when someone goes into a certain scenario they way they are brought up to it can really affect their experience towards it. If one sees some things at first glance they can truly be amazed by the site no expectation, it…

her critical and compelling piece of writing, "On Self-Respect," Joan Didion describes her own definition of self respect through her own personal experience and allusion in order to convey to her readers that having self-respect is not all about the pleasure you get from your surroundings, but rather to live well in your own soul and recognize the variety of things that’s worth of having. To begin her argument, Joan Didion used her own personal experience to develop her own definition of self…

A theme by deffinition is a reoccuring subject or lesson in a storyline. An author can vary the delivery of the theme in few ways. They may use the setting, the characters, and the events that take place. These are only a few ways to develop it. There are many different ways to explain a singular theme. A singular theme may be found in many different plots or storylines. Angela's Ashes and The Street, two seperate stories, one shared theme. A few themes can be found in each excerpts, but both…

Innocence lost An epiphany is a spontaneous understanding, it can easily be likened to a mental slap across the face. The epiphany that made me realize that the world is not as I thought it was occurred in 8th grade. When I was a child I had this idea in my mind of what the world was like, in my head the world was accepting and kind, with a niche for everyone to fit into. I was naïve and had never really experienced the world for myself, so I based all my expectations off of the media and…