Fatalism

The Cats of Mirikitani is a Linda Hattendorf documentary that tells the story of an elderly Japanese American street artist that lives near Washington Square in SoHo district of New York City. The documentary begins in 2001, detailing how “Jimmy” Mirikitani lived on the street and made money by selling his drawings. Jimmy kept his belongings in a shopping cart and set up a makeshift table beside a storefront. In the aftermath of the Twin Towers collapse, the documentary maker invited Jimmy into…

Fate: Greeks versus Barbarians The concept of fate permeates throughout ancient Greek culture, and Herodotus’s Histories are no exception. However, the exact role that Herodotus portrays fate to play throughout his work is more difficult to determine. On one hand, Herodotus’s work demonstrates a more fatalistic mindset right from the beginning in books one through four– with characters such as Cambyses and Croesus struggling in their attempts to alter the outcome of predetermined prophesies. At…

Baby Mama Drama Teen pregnancy is one of the biggest issues in America. It’s everywhere. It’s promoted on television, social media sites and even right here, in our local high schools. Teen pregnancy has become glamorized and young girls think it’s okay to have a baby before they are even twenty years old. What’s wrong with society? The problem of teen pregnancy can not only be prevented, but it can be stopped. There is no reason for children to be having children of their own. The USA has one…

The United States has been viewed as the beacon of opportunity since it’s independence in 1776. Families and individuals have travelled from all over the world in order to start a new and better life in the States, and to have a better standard of living for themselves and their children. Historically, this is true, and has even been carried out to today. On the other hand, statistics of the standard of living and the career possibilities for those who are identified as the minority in the U.S…

1.Introduction My rational of choosing Japan for a holiday is because I personally like their culture, savoury food and their beautiful scenery of the country. Japan is an island in the Pacific in which is divided by the east coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan. Japan consists of four main islands that are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Tokyo is one of a prefecture of Honshu and other largest cities that include Yokahama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama, Hiroshima and Sendai.…

The connotation of revolutions very often evokes a sense of rebirth, a political reconstruction of a fallen system. While there is very little misunderstanding of the destruction that comes with the upheaval of a previous system, such violence is typically tolerated in the hopes that a superior regime will replace the one that had once been. Such was the goal of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 within Russia, a previous monarchal system to a believed better communist government. The world of…

Individual vs. Society in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Nikola Englová 17.6.2016 Nineteen Eighty-Four is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in of the dangers of totalitarian government. Individual versus society is one of the main themes in George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as the principal conflict of the novel. "Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."[ "Nineteen Eighty-four, by…

On the other hand, Catch-22, representative of the chaos surrounding World War II, does not depict the same downfall seen in All Quiet on the Western Front, presenting instead an absurd world which is run by an ineffective bureaucracy and full of paradoxical rules and situations. The ridiculous characters Heller creates best convey this sense of meaningless existence. Many of the high-ranking officials within the novel, especially Colonel Cathcart, are particularly absurd. Not only does Cathcart…

goals by influencing many European citizens that the Nazis were wrong. The White Rose Resistance Movement was successful because they convinced others that the Nazi Party was wrong, and the movement leaders, Hans and Sophie Scholl, endured heroic fatalism, teaching others that freedom is worth the fight. The White Rose was a group aiming to convince people under Nazi power that Nazi’s morals were wrong and should not be followed. Although Hans Scholl is the original founder of The White…

Development of the Gangster Films Gangster films are the most complex category of films that mirror our view on the moral justice as well as order whether legal or illegal. Crime films are centered on criminal activities such as hoodlums, bootlegging alcohol during Prohibition, bank robbers, and petty theft. Admittedly, the criminal activities that feature in the gangster films are executed against the laws, and they are carried out with no regard to the safety of human life. They evolve around…