Feeble-minded

“Fear can’t hurt you anymore than a dream” (79). Nearly every boy on the island had this thought running through their mind in Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. The novel tells the tale of a group of boys crash landed on an uninhabited island working to maintain a civilized system over a few months until they are rescued. Their struggle for survival and the constant questioning of what is civilized and what is savage turns them into monsters. Their actions are driven by a constant…

half-church of thirty-three students, the eighth-grade (graduating class) consisted of six students, excluding me. They were all just awful. They were terrible children with terrible attitudes and all dumb as a pile of rocks. The teacher was absent minded of genuine interest of the class. He couldn’t care less who had paid attention, completed the homework, or read the assigned chapters of the bible. However, among these careless children and this useless teacher, there was one boy who I grew…

highly chastised. So wrong. “Their books, their manuscripts, their films; turned to ash.” A work of art that offered freedom. “Who committed no crime but their own wild imagination.” A work of art, that got you prosecuted. “To be liberal minded,…

Any attempt to write sensibly about poetry leads to the core question of what poetry is and how it is composed. Poetry has always been attributed the virtues of having a unique artistic, expressive, inventive and perceptive quality. The very nature of aestheticism itself is to evolve, develop and come into itself, to adapt and capture anything from the nuance of a fleeting disposition to the voracious uproar of a generation. At the same time, what we deem as Great is almost exclusively Great in…

When I was very little, walking up the trail with a pack on my back and the dog at my side, I would reach out and pull leaves from the bushes and trees. I would tear off corners, smooth the edges, and they would be turned into spaceships, flying across a lush alien world. Sometimes the trail, worn down into the ground over time by paws and hooves, would climb its way up onto the crests of ridges and meander across the moist, mossy fringes of muskegs. The rough, black and gnarled spruce branches…

The Classical school of criminology has been associated to philosophers Marchese Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham (Irving & Mendelsohn, 1985). The Classical school of criminology was a body of thought that majorly impacted the criminal justice system through the transformation of crime and punishment. Beccaria believed that the best solution for crime was punishment (Taylor, Walton & Young, 2003). The main solution to crime is the use of punishment. Consequently, responsibility was given to the…

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, describes a utopian city, but not without a twist. With this piece, the author provokes the reader to question the morality of utilitarianism as both a citizen of the fictional city, and allegorically as a member of our world. Le Guin uses many literary tactics to compel the reader to be critical of her fictional society, primarily sharply contrasting imagery and metafictional writing techniques. The creation of two distinctly contrasting worlds, Omelas and…

make. When I was in high school, especially when sitting in a history class, there were always classmates who felt the need to throw out inapt remarks, hoping to receive a laugh from the class. A teacher’s simple question would often result in a feeble-minded “because they’re Asian” response. Because I have worked to disconnect from my Korean ethnicity, I could usually convince myself that these comments did not pertain to me, but knowing my ancestors Stereotypes are so prevalent in today’s…

Master and slave morality is a prominent theme in Nietzsche’s work Beyond Good and Evil. Master morality is an attitude of being to moral and appalling, respectively. Slave morality is an attitude which holds to the standard of that which is beneficial to the weak or powerless. Besides the differences, there are also similarities between them, including using this relationship as an undertake to getting to the basis of what it means to be “good” or “bad” and both types of morality being equally…

While it is long established that human are by nature social beings, the mode of interpersonal relationship is constantly altered in response to the fast-paced digital era. The contemporary practice of ‘sexting’ embodies how mankind adapts to technological advancements, and by examining the phenomenon itself alongside with the associated issues, the current sociocultural structure and legal framework can thus be improved in a more constructive manner. The increasing connection between digital…