David Miscavige

Dr. Q Honors English 17/3/23 The Fundamental Actress of The Importance of Being Earnest- Dame Judi Dench “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a British comedy written by Oscar Wilde, which was transposed into a movie by the director Oliver Parker in 2002. Lady Augusta Bracknell is a dominant character which has a profound impact in both play and movie; her role is essential. She symbolizes the stereotypical upper-class woman during the Victorian Age. She is the tool through which Oscar…

David Hume drew our attention to the popular problem about inductive reasoning, which can be seen as an argument that cannot provide a circular justification for inductive reasoning. However, Nelson Goodman’s problem is different, because he is not questioning how we can justify induction, but rather what kinds of inductive practices are valid, and unfortunately, there is no clear answer to this question. In this paper, I will be explaining Goodman’s «New Riddle of Induction» and how we can…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality assessment is a psychometric questionnaire that helps individuals discover their personality or psychological type. After answering a series of questions, the results are compiled to determine if the person is sensing (S) or intuitive (I) , thinking (T) or feeling (F), introverted (I) or extroverted (E), judging (J) or perceiving (P). With the fore mentioned possible trait combinations, there are sixteen personality types possible. The test concluded…

During the early 1980s, Americans of all races, sexes, and social statuses subscribed to the notion that one could be successful through hard work and determination. In his dark comedy Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet exposes this to be, as stated previously, nothing more than a notion. In this two-act play, working class men, including young and cunning salesman, Ricky Roma, do business in a sales office under the supervision of meek office manager John Williamson. The salesmen are forced into…

Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher; starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Based on the novel of the same name, Fight Club takes you into the mind and world of “The Narrator” (Edward Norton) – AKA Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). As he struggles to take control of his life and of his reality. The film touches on multiple issues: Revenge, masculinity, and consumerism. It juggles all these issues while using a variety of editing, filming, and storying telling tricks and techniques. For…

Factors That Contribute to The Chances of a Specific Individual Becoming a Serial Killer. Societies all around the globe are full of deviance. Whether it is a crime or just an immoral act, there’s always an explanation to one’s behavior. In most illegal activities, especially homicides, there is a motive, unless it is an accident. The reasons behind an intentional killing are numerous: jealousy, revenge, hate, greed, and so forth. But the means to a murder are different when it comes to…

In the 1999 film, Fight Club, Tyler Durden proclaims, “we’re the middle children of history. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off” (Fincher) Then, through the 2000’s, we experienced a highly televised war and an economic crisis. When the idea of upheaving the economic structure of society from…

Modern or sociological thinking first appeared in the mid 1600’s to mid-1700. The age of enlightenment refers to the period during which an intellectual movement spread throughout most of the western world. Previously society was dominated by religious doctrine and superstition. The feudal system and divine right to rule was largely unquestioned in society. Rene Descartes published Meditations in 1641 and introduced the "Method of Doubt" in which the concept of God was finally met with…

Hume vs Locke What is personal identity? What is the “self”? There is a great debate that surrounds this subject in philosophy. So, which philosopher has the right idea? Is it David Hume with his theory of impressions? Or is it John Locke with his theory of consciousness? Both men are famous for their views on the matter, and both pose very interesting ideas. On the surface their views seem quite similar, both men believed our experiences shape us. However, Locke believes that our experiences…

David Sedaris, author of Us and Them, recounts the events after hearing of a television deprived family who lives down his street, the Tomkeys. Confused, Sedaris sets out to find what they could possibly be doing if not getting their information from a daily dose of T.V. “so [he] began peering through the Tomkeys’ windows.” (799) What he found intrigued him. The Tomkeys were “forced to talk during dinner,” they hadn’t a clue “what dinner was supposed to like or even what time people were…