Desperate Measures

conceptual loop" (Hall, 63) that will ultimately throw off his scent from imaginary creatures. Similar to fallen leaves, he is convinced that these fragments will serve as perfect camouflage for a man hiding from a conceptual shark. As if these drastic measures are not enough, Eric takes his defense systems to a higher echelon by attempting to suppress his own identity beneath the façade of someone else. Much like host manipulation, he is a parasite that tries desperately to seek refuge behind…

Evidently, Bigger’s life in South Chicago leaves him feeling frustrated. Society leaves him desperate for money and a better lifestyle, but afraid to challenge his oppressors. He winds up stealing and killing for money, easily from other African Americans. However, when the idea of robbing a caucasian enters his gang’s motives, he becomes so fearful…

people to be in a situation where they would feel that selling their organs is the best course of action? Does it fall on the governments who do not have programs in place to help the less fortunate, so that they do not feel that donating their organs is the only option, or is it the responsivity of the administrations of the recipient countries to enforce regulations against organs arriving from other countries and against organs being obtained for profit or from outside of a recognized…

Sometimes in this world, when all seems black and nothing is looking up, hope is the only thing one can have in order to keep on going. In William Bradford’s Northern Experiences we see the Pilgrims, making their sacred journey across the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower, consistently use religion and their belief in God as a means of hope. Many people at almost all points in history have looked to their “god” when everything else seemed lost. For religion is something that pervades outside your…

Ezra-Nehemiah is a historical account found within the Ketuvim detailing the Israelite return to Judah after the Babylonian exile. It focuses on the desire to restore Israelite society and quickly intermarriage arises as a major issue within this restoration attempt involving the more abstract issue of identity disintegration. The fight over intermarriage in Ezra-Nehemiah is not about racial purity but, instead, is directed at Israelite assimilation and the fear of an impending loss of religious…

In “Why Asking For a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password is Fair” by Alfred Edmond, discusses a major topic that is happening almost everywhere applicants are being hired. Should the people hiring have the right to ask for the applicant password in order to be consider as a new hire. He provides evidence to both side, but strongly agrees with the side the allows company to ask for people's passwords. It was not long ago when this type of practice was happening during the hire process. When…

The Battle of Shiloh On a nice day, alongside the bank of the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, Ulysses S. Grants soldiers were relaxing. They were enjoying their selves, and at the point where they did not have a care since it was a hot day. They walked around barefooted, their buttons unbutton, sleeves rolled up, wrote a Illinois volunteer (Sword). What was about to happen on April 6, 1862, in Shiloh, Tennessee would be a surprise to Ulysses S. Grants soldiers. The commander for the Union…

Italian peninsula during this time, was constantly changing political representation. When the Medici family took power in 1513, Machiavelli was forced into exile. This fall from the occupation he adored weighed heavily on him; forcing him to seek desperate measures to try and get back into his esteemed political profession. His work, The Prince, he thought, would be…

The war on drugs began in 1971 by Richard Nixon. Although the intension of the war on drugs was really to target certain groups of people, its outward appearance was to curve drug usage. That being said, this war has gone on for over 40 years; yet, the results of drug usage seem to be unchanged. The war on drugs has done nothing but targeted ethnic minorities, costed over a trillion dollars, and has exponentially increased the size of the prison system. This being said, I will argue that the war…

The Triangle fire was a horrific landmark disaster that occurred on March 25, 1911, killing 146 factory workers. David Von Drehle depicts the accounts of the harsh conditions and circumstances that the women in the garment industry, specifically at the Triangle Shritwaist Company, had to endure that led up to the fire. As well as the aftermath and the court case rulings. In Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, he touches on the strike in 1909 igniting a labor movement versus the unethical…