David Henry Hwang

Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare is mainly about the search for true identity. Paul believes that people should do whatever they want to do in life, disregarding if what people claim is true or false. Paul wants them to forget their past and have new experiences. Which is why Paul goes to many people in order to help them reveal their true identity. For example, Paul wants to help Flan find his true identity but he just ignores him. Causing Flan to stay the same. Paul causes Rick to…

As humans, we tend to put ourselves in the spotlight of our own world. We use humanistic terms that give a place imagined borders. Don McKay’s “Otherwise than Place” is a lyrical essay that starts off with the narrator holding an introspective stone from the West Coast of Vancouver Island, he asks himself what the relation is between place and wilderness. As encouraged by Don McKay, it is a good meditative practice for humans to notice that we label things according to our occurrence to the land…

way or another; two important men who revolted against the government in order to achieve justice consist of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. Both men impacted numerous individuals with their powerful words, their words carried the ability to inspire both men and women to do right by their morality and not follow unjust laws. “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” by David Henry Thoreau along with King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, allow the audience to understand what it means to…

The first chapter of the book ‘The Empire of Trauma’ by Fassin and Rechtoman, examines the origin or the genealogy of the concept of trauma. The authors wrote that the concept of trauma has a dual genealogy, one that is scientific and one that is moral. Both the scientific and moral genealogy are rooted in the nineteenth century Europe. Fassin and Rechtoman argue that the “reconfiguration of the relationship between trauma and victim, in which the victim gains legitimacy as trauma comes to…

Transcendentalism was first practiced by the likes of Henry David Thoreau in the mid eighteenth century. Displeased with society, Thoreau moved into a one room shack, isolated in the woods, where he wrote Walden. Transcendental ideas have been preserved throughout time by people like Chris McCandless. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, details McCandless’s journey all over the nation after graduating at Emory University. All in all, transcendental ideas have proven to be very relevant today. Not…

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Amongst the sea of people gathered by the beach stood a man donned in his iconic red and white stripped sweater, round glasses and a pom-pom on top of his head. Waldo embodies the self-definition that one seeks for himself. He created a signature and trademark for himself, and stamped it across the world. Waldo teaches the significance of non-conformity. An American essayist, Ralph…

Am I jus for my disobedient acts? I must be jus for each one that I have ever committed. Civil disobedience is a fracture within the law therefore there must a relishable reason to be disobedient. Yet the reason to go against the state would be due to negligence. Justice is associated with the concept of everything plays a natural role, coming from Feinberg and Gross. Justice must maintain the status quo for society. It is a just act as long as justice is being attempted in the proper context of…

In Yukio Mishima’s novel, The Sound of Waves, the use of nature and the evidence of traditionalism are both concepts that are instrumental in forming the plot and of themes of the story. Traditionalism, which is a belief, and nature, which is seen as divine power, coexist in The Sound of Waves, where the acts of nature in the novel often work in ways to support the traditionalistic views of pre-modern Japan. To be able to fully analyze the effects traditionalism has on nature in the novel, one…

When one is a child the essence of innocence is still embedded in our hearts and the ability to be ourselves still overflows through our everyday actions. Nevertheless, as we develop we tend to grow out of that state of mind and we start becoming aware of the judgmental society we reside on. Hence, individuals may become more confirmative and afraid to express their true emotions to the world with the fear that their true self will be rejected by society. Ralph Waldo Emerson a transcendentalist,…

Thoreau’s book Walden was first published the decade before the Civil War. The Economy is the first chapter of the book wherein Thoreau attempts to rationalize why he chose to spend two years and two months living in a cabin, away from the hustle and bustle of modern society. All throughout the chapter readers can see that the writer is not able to rectify his own ideals from that of society’s. Rather than just being a commentary on his objections to that modern society, could Thoreau’s text…