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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha. You may know what it feels like when you’ve done something you didn’t have to do for a friend, or relative that you didn’t really want to do but you felt like you had to. Like in the story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, when Rikki shows his…

The discourse on the visibility of “the body” is one that not only touches on censorship but also on the idea of “passing,” which informs and maintains oppressive gender norms. In the scholarly article Coming Out and Crossing Over, the authors extensively discuss the act of passing and the differences between the way transsexuals and transgenderists perceive the body’s ability to do it. Individuals who resist conforming to “the dominant system” of gender are pushed “to alter their bodies or…

The movie “Girl, Interrupted” is based on patients admitted into a mental institution, all for various amounts of time and is set in the 1960’s. The first person who will be discussed is the patient Susanna Kaysen and her eighteen-month stay. The second main character that will be discussed in this paper is Lisa Rowe. This paper will also pertain to various other patients who the author of this paper deemed important to the abnormal psychology class and its lessons. Starting with the main…

With the emergence of the internet and social media. We rapidly adopt a different facade for each site. This is akin to the offline identities that we construct for ourselves. This is comparable to an unlikely situation, whereby a person would be in the same room with their different groups of friends, colleagues, ex-partners, current partner, immediate and extended family members, all at the same time. However, this situation becomes the norm when it comes to social networking like Facebook and…

From being the General of the Continental Army until on the brink of death, George Washington, the first president of the U.S., cared about America and wanted to keep it safe against upcoming and unavoidable dilemmas the country would face. To accomplish this, he wrote his Farewell Address, with the help of the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. In this letter, George Washington informed the people that he would no longer run for…

Life with Four Brothers In the Eldridge household, there are five children. I am the oldest of those children. I am also the only girl, because there is only one other option of gender (not counting the ones society tries to push on us, none of my siblings think they are cats or anything of that nature) this means all my siblings are boys. This also means I am one of two girls in the entire house. Having a two to five ratio of girls to boys the house gets a little hectic, and when I say gets a…

killing Grendel had he possessed a greater advantage (Cory pg. 2). Once Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother, he receives many treasures from Hrothgar and Wealtheow that he doesn’t keep for himself. Once he sails back to Geatland, he gives his own king and queen, Hygelac and Hygd, many various treasures, along with the gold necklace from wealtheow. Once again showing that while Beowulf is very prideful, he is still under allegiance of his home country, and that his honor lies within the town, and how…

Magic Mike XXL This film which is a follow up to the prequel titled “Magic Mike” has been a recipient of mixed reviews by critics. The controversies are as a result of its explicit nature of the kind of life portrayed by the film through its characterization of both men and women. Some critics might claim that the film objectifies men while promoting body standards which are not realistic, however, in a different view, the men in the film are not just about their bodies but rather their…

been unfaithful to him (1.1.491-492). Emotional and melodramatic, Antony states that he wishes “the Furies [would] drag [Alexas] quick to hell” so he may torture Cleopatra there, while he awaits Antony’s arrival (4.1.440-444). Antony does not want Cleopatra to truly die, because once he is told she is dead, he is overwrought with grief. He states, “what should I fight for now? My queen is dead”, indicating that without Cleopatra he has no reason to live (5.1.306). However, prior to Cleopatra’s…

transforms himself into a young adult that is prepared for the world ahead of him. Holden's first day, or rather night, in New York City was one of confusion and sadness. He begins his eventful night by checking into a hotel, where he then sees a drag queen, dressing into women's clothing. He then peers into another room and sees two people spitting a drink on each other, he notes that “The hotel was lousy with perverts. I was probably the only normal bastard in the place” ( Salinger 62 ).…