Friedrich Nietzsche

characteristics that these monsters share or differ in can determine their true nature. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Susan Hill’s “The Woman in Black,” and Friedrich Durrenmatt’s “The Visit,” each piece has its own style but the underlying characteristics add up to the same types of themes in the pieces that are similar in their nature. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.…

I remember it as if it was just yesterday, July 13th, 2006, 4 am and striking sounds of terror; my family and I were petrified by the Israelis bombings just outside our door near Beirut. Squeezed in the middle of the family room avoiding the bombings of a war, I looked outside the window and wondered why no one was doing anything about the horrible situation we were witnessing. I grew up in the reality of a land in a maelstrom of political turmoil, in the middle of a war-torn, politically and…

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” (J. Robert Oppenheimer) was what was said by one of the leading scientist in the United States’ process of creating the atomic bomb. During the second World War, desperation to win and end the war led to an international rush to make the first atomic bomb. The bomb was the weapon that was thought to be the weapon and the key to winning any war. In the United States’ effort to create this atomic weapon, the Manhattan Project was founded by…

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche determined that responses evoked from works of art can be either Apollonian or Dionysian in nature. With the Apollonian response, a person's reaction to the work of art is "dominated by reason and disciplined analytical, rational, and coherent…

Have you ever wondered that the definitions of morality, ethics, values and virtues are made by men and not by ‘gods’? These are created in order to put a barrier from conflicting interests. That is why, according to Hegel, rules and laws are considered to be a compromise among the differences of men. Although, how can laws of men be seen as “good” when past (some at present) practices of the primitive societies, do not seem ethical right in the twenty-first century. Roman nobility treated…

The human condition is inevitable in existence. It cannot be avoided, as hard as one may try. It is the beginning, the end, and all the meaningful experiences in the middle. No one is exempt. Everybody lies, and everybody dies… If the human condition applies to everyone, how and more importantly, why are people so different? Why are people motivated by different things? How does faith tie into all of this? Is there really purpose in life? Growth, aspiration, and mortality are three aspects in…

Race is an entirely arbitrary parameter by which to judge any human being, and it is detrimental to the advancement of our global society to do so in any fashion. Students across our nation are being held back by laws that were created on a foundation of racism and bigotry, which are supported by those who have been indoctrinated with such anti-logical dogma, rather than those who have analyzed their own ideologies and edited them when found to be lacking in any sort of intrinsic value. In the…

mentor, published Studies on Hysteria; this was the start of Freud looking into psychoanalysis. These are a few of Freud’s accomplishments. There were many people who influenced Sigmund Freud to become who he was and to do what he did. Friedrich Nietzsche Charles Darwin William…

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Comic books have engaged young people since the Golden Age of the 1930s to 40s and continue to engage young readers of the 21st century. Little did we know that according to Dr Fredric Wertham, M.D., comic books seduce the innocent. He was so concern about how the child’s mind reacts to the ‘badly drawn, badly written and badly printed…’ comics, that he set…

the way modern day people write. According to Sullivan, technology has been changing people’s writing style since the invention of the typewriter. . In the past, technology has had an effect on the brightest minds such as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He had his style of writing changed by the invention of the typewriter. Technology may even be having an effect on the average person in current society. Is it possible that we can…