David Kellogg Lewis

Throughout City of Glass, the identities of characters, and even the author, are unclear. The protagonist, Daniel Quinn, embarks on solving a mystery for his unknown employer, but as the plot unfolds, he becomes increasingly unsure of his own identity. Thus, while Auster initially presents his novel as a work of mystery focused on the secrets of the Stillman family, his novel ultimately tackles the uncertainty of identity. Tim O’Brien similarly writes In the Lake of the Woods as a seemingly…

“Such devotion and confidence are rare even among women. There are many who would have searched a year, some who would have waited five years, a few who might have hoped ten years; but for twenty-five years this woman has retained her affection for and her faith in a man she has not seen or heard of in all that time.” This quote from The Wife of His Youth tells the story of a woman by the name of Liza Jane, whose endless love and loyalty for her husband led her on a twenty-five year search. Liza…

Zodiac (2007) is a American Neo-noir mystery-thriller based on the real events of the Zodiac case. It is an excellent mixture of nerve-racking suspense and desperately obsessed police procedural work. Director David Fincher is famous for his interest in experimenting and exaggerating with mystery and anticipation in his films, and Zodiac successfully keeps viewers on the edge with its elusive and uncertain narrative. However, the plot of the film is not about the actual killer, but more of the…

put-on-display than in the masquerade of pop” (Hawkins, 2009, pg. 93). The sexualities and love lives of celebrities are a common topic of interest and discussion among both the journalists who write about them and the fans that read about them. Artists like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Annie Lennox queered their image, which generated a lot of questions about gender and sexuality as early as the 1970s. In the United Kingdom, these displays of queerness were generally more…

In the beginning of the earth’s creation, there were three gods, who were responsible for creating everything on the earth. That including their greatest and worst creations – Life and Death. The strongest and oldest was Ragnorok, the god of earth. He is responsible for the way the earth is shaped; he can move mountains with his bare hands, open canyons with a single step, and disrupt tectonic plates by thinking too much. He was the most conceded of them all. He thought himself to be invincible…

The novel centers on unnamed narrator who struggles with life and suffers from insomnia. Henry A. Giroux says, “Fight club portrays a society in which public space collapses and is filled by middle-class white men disoriented in the pandemonium of conflicting social forces who end up with a lot of opportunities for violence” (71-72). He works as a Product Recall Specialist for unnamed company. He is responsible for determining if product recalls or detective models meet cost benefit analysis.…

In this assignment I am going to compare the teleological argument with evolution and see how it differs in opinion. I will also look at what seems the most realistic approach. The teleological argument is an argument in which can also be known as design arguments. The teleological argument is famously associated with ST. Thomas Aquinas who states that the design argument is one of his five ways of knowing that God is real and that he exists. The teleological argument uses evidence from nature…

birthed the spawn of death to this nation's values: Consumerism. At its full adulthood in the 1960’s this Gahimeth of Greed and Self-interest,makes all the nation succumb and bow to this figures Idol. But three wise men of the people,Frank Capra, David Fincher, and Morris Berman, in a mighty display of insurgency, bring forth three gifts to this abomination known as Consumerism. Frank Capra brings forth a people's capitalism as the Golden Ideal of American culture…

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on August 22nd, 1908 in Chanteloup, France. Cartier-Bresson had five siblings, Cartier-Bresson being the oldest. His family were privileged growing up due to his father was a textile manufacturer. His whole life he was interested in the arts and was inspired by his uncle who was a painter (Oden). Many members of his family were also interested in art. He went to school in Paris where he developed an interest in literature and art. In 1927 Cartier-Bresson studied…

In section X, Part 1of his influential exploratory book “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, David Hume argues mankind doesn’t have any reason nor justification to believe in miracles, while also stating that miracles are not a basis of religion. Miracles and religion seem as if they have always been related, although what each religion considers to be miracles differs, therefore miracles cannot be a basis of religion. Due to the fact that miracles are merely experiences of which humans…