Every Waking Moment

single fact, humans. Throughout their teachings we got to explore how we should behave among society, how we should help others grow as we grow, to care about others feelings, and to never be selfish as we accomplish our goals. During the class the moment that I will carry with myself throughout my career is the moral of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”. The idea that we have to keep an open…

ways to bind them and freeze them is something I never thought I’d be learning. I wish I could cover my eyes and still be able to cast. Then I wouldn’t see the result! I suppose that means I wouldn’t be able to defend myself either, and would lose every duel… Argh. Professor Silvers went through The Stunning Spell and the Full Body Bind Curse today, as well as their counters. As I wrote notes with my quill, I became more and more nervous. Professor Silvers reminded us several times that these…

René Descartes once stated that “common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” This quotation implies that there is a lot of wisdom or common knowledge to go around in the world, in order make a sound judgment; ironically it doesn 't always materialize, just as in the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. The main protagonist in this novel is Ethan Frome. He renders the impression of a man to be pitied because faith…

Specifically, Roger Chillingworth takes out his anger by plotting his principal revenge against Dimmesdale. In fact, Chillingworth absorbs himself so extensively in his vengeance that he “direct[s] every thought and action of his life into the one channel of revenge” against Dimmesdale (Stone 141). Stone highlights Chillingworth’s use of another one of Freud’s defense mechanisms, displacement, which occurs when an individual shifts aggressive impulses…

“drug” in which we must get our daily dosage. In “Does the Internet Make You More-or-Less Connected” Dave Pell talks about how our phones have become a normal part of our lives and that we can’t avoid them. He is right when he says, “Most of the moments once reserved for a little alone time have been infiltrated by the real time Internet.” There’s no escape from this “drug” making nonconformity almost…

balloon in the opening scene, what sort of precedent or example is it setting for Kurt? Clearly it is not a positive one, as he perceives a dream, which by pure description is not anything very frightening, to be a nightmare. So much so that after waking up he “lay awake in the dark, tossing and turning,” It is here that D’Ambrosio not only showcases Kurt’s negative connotations with the thought of his father, but also how the fear and uncertainty of growing up is associated connected to him.…

Ive exerted myself too much for the first time i've used my super strength. He tells me stories when he thinks i'm asleep. Personal stories that make my heart crack in two. His father, The Supreme beat him every day for all 19 years of his life. Extra beatings on his birthday. He hates his position and wants to live a normal life. His cruelty comes from his survival instinct. I start chiming in and soon I've learned to enjoy his company. One night I notice…

at that time. His mother was someone very special to him because only she sometimes can understand her son, but this young boy still couldn't understand why his mother was waking him up at the middle of the night for no apparent reason and rushed him to the shelters where there she would hold him and pray and scream for every little sound she hears, it was still clear that she waned to keep her family safe. He briefly talks about his father and we can assume his…

talking to her parents or not spending time with them. According to Emily, Julio also gets mad for something very similar. Julio claims that since she doesn’t spend every waking moment talking to him about his children she “doesn’t care about them enough.” Julio feels as though she should put in all the effort of going to see them every chance she gets, but he refuses to put in the same…

I believe in giving up your passion I believe in giving up your passion. From a young age it was drilled into my head that I had to find a sport, activity, or hobby to be above average at. Sadly throughout my childhood I was nowhere near above average at things. Trust me when I say tried everything. From cross country to the french horn. You name the sport or activity I tried it. It wasn 't that I didn 't give it my all or anything, it 's just that I didn 't excel. All my friends had that thing…