D. Brooks Smith

Sennua Hunter Ms. Tussey English 12 Block G 20 November 2014 Winston and his Comrades 1984 , a novel by George Orwell is about Winston Smith , a member of the Outer Party in London , Oceania. The Outer Party is the people who work in the party’s government , in the four ministries. This novel explains how everyone in the party is always being watched through telescreens by the Thought Police. Throughout this novel , Winston shares a lot of his emotions and thoughts through writing in…

money in a private hospital like Doctor Gordon's. Finally, when the money was used up, I would be moved to a state hospital, with hundred of people like me, in a big cage in the basement. The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.” (160) d. Throughout the novel, Sylvia Plath emphasizes the curious similarity of physical and mental illness as if to say that both are symbolic of a larger condition, which is our life today.…

A very prominent theme throughout the book, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was that thoughts haunt people which creates a bell jar around people, trapping them in the vortex of madness which is their mind. In the beginning of the book Esther contemplates what it would be like to be “burned alive” through electrocution (1). This thought essentially comes back to haunt Esther when she talks to Hilda who is “glad [the Rosenbergs are] going to die (99),” which contributes to the accumulation of…

Adam Smith Adam Smith was an 18th Century Scottish Social Philosopher and Political Economist who wrote "The Wealth of Nations". In The Wealth of Nations, Smith details the first system of political economy. It is often referred to as "The Bible of Capitalism". Adam Smith's exact date of birth is unknown, although baptismal records show that on June 5, 1723, he was baptized in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. At school he studied Latin, mathematics, history and writing and later on attended the…

Sylvia Plath can very easily be considered one of the brightest minds in all of confessional poetry. She wrote hundreds of poems in her lifetime and three books: “The Colossus”, “Ariel”, and “The Bell Jar”. Despite all of her brilliance, she was plagued with a sea of mental illnesses. “The Bell Jar” was written to chronicle the events that occurred before and after her first suicide attempt. Her most famous poem, “Daddy”, mentions how she tried to join her father in death. There is even a…

The main character Winston Smith in “1984” resembles a divergent character, separating his path and goals away from societies’. This is clearly shown from the moment he committed a thought crime, a specific type of crime recognized sometime in the future by the Thought Police. Winston begins to talk to himself stating, “The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others…

Dan Dougherty Hist 489 Leonard 12/12/14 Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life is the product of a meticulously researched effort by Nicholas Phillipson to chronicle the entirety of Adam Smith’s life outside of just what information scholars have been able to glean from Smith’s few academic writings. Phillipson reconstructs Smith’s intellectual ancestry and explains what influenced Smith, and what Smith in turn gave to the rapidly changing philosophical culture of…

students and working with all these enthusiastic people. A few smiles every time easily made my day. Until I knew there is another opportunity to become Orientation Leader, which is a greater chance to help new students to adjust well to the Stony Brook community, I could not wait to apply for it.…

different schools they are interested in. Personally, I am interested in factors like location and school size. In this essay, I will examine three schools: University of South Florida (USF), University of Central Florida (UCF), and SUNY at Stony Brook University—SUNY. USF is located in Tampa, Florida, which is only about one hour away from my home. While it would be nice to be close to my family, I do not like the weather in Florida. It is too hot in the summer and it is not cold for very long…

semester. I also hope that it wasn't too rough because right now the physics homework seems so difficult. I really do hope it has gotten better and that now you understand the complex problems for simple concepts. So how exactly do I feel about Stony Brook University and my time here. Am I completely happy with where I am and do I hope to stay here for the next four years? I'm not sure how to answer this question because I don't know if I like this place or that I'm glad this place isn't too…