From Potter's Field

In the writings The Apology and Crito illustrated by Plato’s character Socrates is both persecuted and cherished with disagreements and oppositions within his ancient Athenian community. Socrates pledged a new kind of citizenship resisting the traditional ways that was based on the poetic speculation of Homer. Socrates’ philosophical citizenship is based on relying on one’s virtue, powers of independent reason, and judgment. Even though Socrates spoke heavily on human excellence and positive…

asked over 20 experts in the field for interviews and several responded, which added some clarity and explanation to the dense peer-reviewed papers. This helped create an intertextual conversation, in which I viewed the documents in relation to each other to form my own ideas, rather than viewing them individually. For example, I compared the results of a study by the USDA and research by Dr. Anju Aggarwal, which were essentially opposites. But by looking at the notes from each investigation, I…

I Belong” Jon sings the lyrics: Until I die I’ll sing these songs on the shores of Babylon. The term Babylon is an allegory, he is substituting the term this place or his life. Nevertheless, He is comparing the lives of the exiled Jews in Babylon, from the Old Testament of the Bible to himself, a Christian.The Jews were not in a place of belonging,…

instead he lost all his faith in God. After seeing so many pious towns people and his wife at the devils meeting Young Goodman Brown now sees humanity as neither good or bad but is a mixture of both. Brown not able to face his subconscious thoughts from his dream ultimately loses his faith and believes that everyone around him is neither good nor evil. Believing this he lives the remainder of his life in dread and in…

Letter from Birmingham Jail is one of the most widely recognized symbols of the Civil Rights Movement, along with his “I Have A Dream” speech and the Freedom Riders. In the letter, King described the hardships faced by African Americans and why he is leading a nonviolent protest against segregation. The Letter is an example of direct action, and is important to study in order to understand methods leaders can use to influence change at any level. My initial reaction to reading Letter from…

to man-inflicted climate change, but is also in sacred burial ground. There have been protests and legal actions taken to slow and stop the construction of the pipeline. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. defends similar non-violent campaigns and protests. From his arguments in “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” it is possible to imagine that, if he were alive today, Martin Luther King Jr. would have been in support of the Standing Rock pipeline protests. Martin Luther…

Muslim woman in a black chador, with the traditional covering from head to toe. A rifle to divide the face with a Farsi poem by the devout Iranian woman poet Tahereh Saffarzadeh. I believe this is what Neshat’s Rebellious Silence art is actually depicted in this artwork. The subject is looking at tradition and modernity. The veil is a symbol of freedom, the gaze is power and gun is control many might say. The form is looking at anything from the materials used, to the way it employs the…

It is shown through the devils Brown has to face but also his own devils. His temptations and anger. By turning away from his community Brown unknowingly embraces the evils of insensitivity and selfishness. Hawthorne shows that human nature is a mixture of good and evil by creating an everyday character. Young Goodman Brown, who has both good and Evil thoughts (Shmoop…

In Martin Luther King’s “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” King addresses the criticism received from clergymen,onlookers and supporters alike. In which he states “Freedom isn’t simply given by the oppressor, it must be demanded from the oppressed.” During the 1960s in America (Civil Rights Era), King shun brightly believing that America’s racist agenda could be dismantled through unity,non-violence, along with the effective use of our rights.In this letter, King respectively addresses his…

Nathaniel Hawthorne can be considered one of the most important writers of the Dark Romanticism movement in American literature. Most of his writings were settled in the Puritan New England and, as a result, aimed to show the inherent evil existing inside of the Puritans and human beings (Bell 107-8). “Young Goodman Brown” is one of these tales in which the protagonist starts a trip to the forest where we are shown this evil and depravity inside human beings. Although Brown feels how he loses…