Form of the Good

basketball you need to do the following steps: gather supplies, learn the proper shooting form, and having the right mindset. First thing to becoming a good shooter is by having all the…

bring about activism due to the weak personal connection it provides or rather the weak-tie it provides. He conveys this through the use of anecdotes such as: the Greensboro sit-in, a phone theft, and The Twitter Revolution. Although Gladwell makes a good point in his claim about how personal connection plays a key role in activism, his claim about social media is not entirely true, in fact, social media is playing more of an impact in activism and has a better potential for strong personal…

the Italian word sonetto which means "a little sound or song." Traditionally the sonnet form of poetry is created with 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, has a fixed form, and employs one of many rhyme schemes. The original and most common form is the Italian sonnet. Also referred to as the Petrarchan, named after the Italian poet Petrarch who is considered one of its greatest practitioners. The Italian form has two stanzas. The first stanza is the octave, eight lines posing a question or…

presentation of death in Dylan Thomas’ poem and Christina Rossetti’s Death is a common theme for poets, we see this in Dylan Thomas’ poem ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Remember’. Neither of the poems use the word death directly, they use metaphors such as ‘silent land’ in Rossetti’s, and ‘good night’ in Thomas’. Both poems are littered with euphemistic language to elevate the tone, this portrays the poets own reluctance to talk of death. Rossetti’s poem…

Through observing America’s language culture, Robert MacNeil’s “Do you speak American,” John Simon’s "Why Good English is Good for You,” and Douglas McGray’s “Lost in America” carefully criticize the current forecast of what it means to be an English speaker in a social setting, in order to bring about a national education reform that favors the practice of superior language above all other skills. When it comes to getting a point across, each author indicates that the type of language used can…

impractical, is worthwhile, “Do you suppose that what we say is any less good on account of our not being able to prove that it is possible to found a city the same as the one in speech?” (472e).…

Aristotle firstly argues that virtue consists of intellectual and moral virtue. Intellectual virtue is teachable and can be obtained through time and experience; while moral virtue forms through habituation and constant practice. Aristotle states that moral virtue cannot form in man by nature since everything made by nature fails to change to another side by habituation. He concludes that rather than born to be moral or immoral, people have the capacity to be potentially virtue through…

established on August 13, 1812. It was founded by the Russian American company. The Russians came to California in the 1780s and they settled on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The company’s ships were searching for sea otters, seal and sea lion pelts. They wanted to form colonies to trap the sea otters and harvest their pelts because they were…

maintain a good, needed lifestyle, kids that are under the poverty level are not getting the health or education that they should because wages are too low for some to maintain a necessary lifestyle, as families do not have the money for it. Many kids below poverty level are affected by not getting the education that they need. Some kids in parts of the world will not even experience what a good education is like. “180 million young people under the age of 18 are involved in the worst forms of…

What Does Violence Do? when I read “A good man is hard to find” and “There will be blood” I have nothing in my head but the thought of violence. In my opinion, violence can be, and most often is, the strongest element in a story. as we see in “A good man is hard to find” the story revolves around violence, being there from the beginning where they have an emotional violence in their mind to the point where they experience physical violence, getting killed. Now you might be asking, “But why is…