Dangerous Minds

The human mind is a tool that requires a healthy balance of both selflessness and self-respect to function. In Veronica Roth’s Divergent filmed by Neil Burger, the effects of an unbalanced psyche is evident and personified by the faction system. The people of this world are divided by basic human traits and oppressed if they do not conform or fit in. Therefore, through the course of the movie, the faction system corrupts the idea of a healthy mindset. To begin, the people in the world of…

perfect and will make bad decisions, and if a person does get injured or dies in a dangerous situation, it may not always be the person’s fault. A person should not be held accountable for their actions in a life-or-death situation because he/she might make illogical decisions when they know their actions will determine life, or death. For example, people might make dumb decisions out of panic because they know…

picture in the reader’s mind. In the stories “A Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game,” both Poe and Connell use descriptive imagery. Poe describes the underground catacombs full of dead bodies and Connell describes the wild jungle on Ship Trap Island. Each of the authors use imagery to make their stories come to life. Poe uses imagery very well; however, Connell uses it in a better way and has more description. In the beginning of the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” the…

the film High Noon, and the short story, “ The Most Dangerous Game,” are very similar, though they also do have things that make them different as well.High Noon, written by Carl Foreman, is a film about a marshal who has to protect his town from a gang of criminals. “The Most Dangerous Game,” is a short story about a hunter who is stranded on an island, and has a mission to defeat the General in a hunt off. High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game” are very similar yet different stories, there…

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly,”( line1), introducing the earth as a female in the beginning of the poem“Sleeping In The Forest” was a bold move made by Mary Oliver. The poet uses metonymy, personification, and symbolism to move the direction of the audiences thought of a forest into a whole new idea of peace and softness. Her main idea is to show how men view women in their full integrity through the correspondence of a dark forest and a woman. The speaker is…

I believe that it can be dangerous to look up to role models. If the person being admired decides to do something immature, the person who looks up to them may want to do the same thing, or may lose hope that anyone can be respectable. Often times people are not what they seem on the outside either. Another reason it can be dangerous to look up to someone is that the may change over time. People might also lie about who they are. or about their achievements. A widely known example of this would…

Zaroff’s words set the tone of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”. Upon introduction, Zaroff appears to be nothing more than a sophisticated cosmopolitan who find pleasure in the sport of hunting. Upon closer examination, however, the general’s love of hunting stems from his belief that the intellectually and physically superior men should eliminate those who are weaker. General Zaroff’s sadistic view of humanity in “The Most Dangerous Game” displays the irony in his civilized…

objection which states that mental states are in fact not connected to behaviours. Each mental state has its own identity that can be linked to any type of behaviour, and it is not necessary that one mental state will link to just one behaviour for every mind. Behaviourism consists of three claims about the mental state which include the epistemological claim, the semantic claim and the metaphysical claim (61-62).…

as walking, named Doodle is put to the test by his older brother who teaches him how to walk and pushes him to his limits to achieve great things which in the end, takes his life. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is another short story that revolves around an isnad landed “ship-trap island.” A dangerous shady man by the name of General Zaroff along with his brute of a partner ivan take on their typical routine of man hunting as a game, but this time they meet an unexpectedly strong…

authors of "The Most Dangerous Game," "A Worn Path," and "The Truth About Being a Hero," Richard Connell, Eudora Welty, and Karl Marlantes, demonstrate how certain decisions and actions change one's life through their works. In addition, the following question is answered throughout each of their works: what is at the end of each pathway that those decisions and actions lead to? Considering their passages, specific pathways often lead someone towards a certain state of mind or situation in life…