Fodder

The social and political aspects of any country are always deeply entwined with the political environment often being swayed by civil aspects and even ancient seemingly archaic cultural and religious customs. India in particular retains a very culturally influenced political scene despite recent efforts to convert into a more modern, secular institution. Throughout the majority of India’s history it has been integrated into various major empires, the first of these was the Indus Valley…

used for healing a wide variety of symptoms and diseases for thousands of years. Some say that it was first discovered by ancient Romans who noticed that their cattle and horses seemed to prefer it to other forms of vegetation that was added to their fodder. Even the creatures that were sick and had no appetite would nuzzle through the hay to find pieces of it. Out of curiosity, physicians studied it to see what made it so special to the animals. And that was when they found out that it could…

Sensitivity Why do college students take things so seriously these days? According to the article, “Today’s College Students Can’t Seem to Take a Joke!”, written by Caitlin Flanagan discusses how college students cannot take a joke. This article, is about comedians coming onto college campuses to perform comedy, however college students take things too seriously. It talks about how the college students only liked the positive comedians that did not make any offensive jokes towards anyone.…

Global Climate Change The Issue The debate over global climate change seems to keep the media outlets buzzing as much as sports, fashionistas, and President Donald Trump. In fact, the debate over global climate change and its alleged impact on the Earth and American industry seem to even grip the President’s administration as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt has held the headlines lately with his seemingly absurd and wavering stance on the subject (Bacon, 2018).…

The absurdity of war is in the title itself. It emphasizes the lies peddled to young people in order to have fodder in the trenches. Ursula Lies argues that Remarque plays with the meaning of the title: “The German has the pun and the double negative at the start – “nothing new (or no news) on the Western Front”; the English title makes it positive – stressing…

In his poems Dulce et Decorum est and Futility, Wilfred Owen uses a range of ideas, forms and language to influence responders and create meaning about war as an experience of human calamity, waste and idiocy. It is pointless and disgraceful and its influence on individuals is captured powerfully by Wilfred Owen. His personal participation and eventful death in WWI adds a stark truth to the tragedy and waste of potential of youth. Owen knew all too well that war defaces men physically and…

sports than school, as they’ve been taught. Gates proves this by bringing up the fact that “only 26.6% of black athletes at the collegiate level earn their degrees” (Gates 11). Equality to Gates is when “colleges stop using young blacks as cannon fodder in the big-buisness wars of so-called non-professional sports” (Gates 14). This means that colleges and people in general should stop putting black athletes’ skill level before their education, and, in theory, only using them for their athletic…

The Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo is a book told by a horse’s point of view. The horse is born and sold to a small farm in Britain. Once it is old enough, it is trained to plow by Albert Narracott and works hard on the farm. But since the Albert’s father doesn’t need the second horse for his small farm, he sells it against his son’s will to the army for money to help him pay off the mortgage on his land. He sells it to Captain Nicholls for forty pounds. Captain Nicholls promises Albert that he…

George and Lennie: True Friends? (Of Mice and Men) A true friend is the greatest treasure one can ever discover. This sentiment, however cliché it may sound, is universally true, across all ages, races, and back through the hallowed halls of history. The great classic novels, like Nicholas Nickleby, often feature the most intriguing examples of true friendship. Some such books make the bond between friends very obvious. Others do not. One example of the latter opinion is the great classic Of…

gambling when the majority of Americans gamble on golf and casinos because to him that was the equivalent of a couple of hundred dollars. Because Jordan was the most famous athlete in professional sports, anything he did was fair game or gossip fodder for public consumption. The students felt that it should be an athletes decision to serve as a role model or not. They also believe that athletes should conduct themselves as responsible professionals because they not only represent themselves…