Everything Is Illuminated

Over the centuries science has progressed rapidly. Since the beginning of time, humans have used science in everything. Today science plays a major factor in our lives. We are able to cure more illnesses than we could have centuries ago. Humans now can go to the moon or have organ transplants. A major revolution of science for instance would be the variety of medicines that we have now that help with many illnesses that people could not have cured ages ago. Science plays a huge part in life as…

Imperialistic twist, with the ¨white men¨ being the americans and the ¨brown men¨ being the Vietnamese. In both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now the ideologies of these poems are played out while showing that the while men think they are entitled to everything, they live an easy live with minute struggles that are blown out of proportion until the other side of humanity is shown. Just as Marlow does when he is finally able to understand that the…

spoke. “When flying over the territory of the USSR, everything recorded on the tape was transmitted to Earth. Obviously, therefore, the original sounds of the cosmonaut came from the tape.” (Wisnewksi 41-42). This is probably why the voice was not giving any kinds of details and tried to avoid them. All it would say was “ I can see the earth” and “ I see almost everything”, which then leaves the author questioning what he means be “everything”. He never explained what the earth looked like in…

Like The Matrix, Inception, or The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, The Truman show causes people to question their own existence in ways that can only be understood through liberal use of therapists and commercial sex workers. The reason for this is that every single shot is framed to give the audience the feeling that what they see before them is real. Most of the shots are given through static hidden cameras complete with the distortions that those cameras would bring. Peter Biziou, the…

Uprooting the Truth “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul,” said renowned Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson in his piece title Nature (qtd. in Perkins 591). The vitality of nature’s power is one of the fundamental pillars of Transcendentalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter mirrors this concept, nature playing a vital role in the novel from beginning to end. The influence of nature is a common theme throughout the novel. Specifically, the forest, flowers, and sunlight…

Analysis: The preceding narrative is from a time in my life not too long ago. It reminds me of Walker Percy’s essay The Loss of the Creature in the sense that things are not always as they appear to be. Percy’s thesis is one mustn’t blindly follow what we are taught, but rather, one must discover for himself what is genuine and true. My personal story, however, is slightly different than those of others in the fact that I’ve been battling addiction since the age of 15, and cannot relate much to…

CHAPTER ONE The Beginning Balls of fire were seen being thrown from east to west north and south breaking into friskers of pieces, toasted to and fro a non inhabiting void and this was known as the beginning. Before the existence of everything there was nothing, nothing before the God of all Gods who was birthed by no one; “THE SELF EXISTING ONE” decided to put his power into creating and conjuring of offspring for Himself. Day and night He worked alone incubated in His mind was…

When you hear the word suicide what do you think of? Suicide is the act in which someone kills themselves for many reasons. In the world today many teenagers are pushed to ledge of suicide because of bullying. Although we may not see it, many consider it everyday. There are many organizations that help support those who are suicidal. Not only there are organizations, there is also songs, movies or even books that can help support those in need. One song in particular is “Make It Stop” by Rise…

Politics is a controversial phenomenon, particularly in the way it has harnessed the media to influence public opinion. Representations of politics now cannot avoid inclusion of media which predominately conveys the inescapable message of politics Representations give the perceiver a clear view on whether the shadowed meaning brings out the best or worst of human nature. In any society media should use its capacity for representation to inform the people, but in the contemporary society,…

“Hakuna Matata! Ain 't no passing craze it means no worries for the rest of your days it 's our problem-free philosophy” (Hakuna Matata). Imagine a society where Hakuna Matata was taken seriously, where everything was done for the thrill of life. Where learning was done in only sports, speed was a relaxer and all troubles were far away. Fahrenheit 541, written by Ray Bradbury, is a fictional society where Hakuna Matata is taken to the extremes with the added features of technological advances…