Grappling hold

allow the people’s individual rights to be imposed upon. Jack Rakove completes his essay by stating, “There is a genuine dilemma in declaring rights that makes the Federalist position more defensible than the standard story recognizes, and we are grappling with its consequences still, every time we ask whether there can be other sources of fundamental rights than text of the Constitution itself.” Hindsight always informs a position and the Federalist position can be seen as being on the…

their children. Sadly, it is still a “racist” mentality among the African American community that has become a hindrance of learning. Many parents at my school believe that “white teachers” hold lower expectations and provide poor instructions when compared to white students. Since adolescents are grappling with their own identity, it is more likely students will mimic the pessimistic attitudes and values of their parents. Because of this learned behavior, African American students…

The wars in Vietnam and Korea, during the Cold War, were both attempts made by the United States to stop/slow the spread of communism in East Asia. During these two wars, the US was unwilling to partake in total warfare, yet was not prepared to lose in battle. Due to this, limited options were available for the US to remain in their position of dominant world power, achieved in their victory during the Second World War. How did the United States position as dominant power in the World coming out…

Jax stood in front of the metal tube that now contained the woman he now knew he loved. She was dead, well, not truly dead, she was cryogenically frozen. They had pumped her bloodstream full of chemicals and dropped her temperature down to below negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. They would wait until they had some way to save her life. Jax only hoped that they hadn't been too late and there was no way to save her. Probabilities were high that she would never be saved. Tears had dried up long ago,…

In “Electric Funeral,” a chapter in I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), Chuck Klosterman, a best-selling author, analyzes three separate “villains” in today’s society in order to emphasize their impact on others through their actions. In this analysis, Klosterman wrongfully assumes Perez Hilton, a out-of-date blogger, is a “real villain” because of his prejudice against the “first authentically famous blogger.” This incorrect thinking clouds his judgement from…

Slowly Changing Future “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). The conflicts to the basic right and freedoms in a society can be depicted as a battlefield. This battlefield is not like a war that lasted for couple of years but for centuries and may last longer than a centuries more. These battlefield are fought for the freedom of…

Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli, both grappling with regional instability and constant war, arrive at different frameworks for handling man’s inherent propensity for conflict from very similar models of human behavior. Hobbes, watching his fellow countrymen fight each other during the English Civil War, decided that humans perpetually desire more power to secure their well-being and therefore incline toward warfare as a means to achieve this. Machiavelli, similarly accustomed to the…

Man has been grappling with the complexity of free-will and determinism since the antiquity era. Over the centuries, innovative ideas have been presented defending both cases of the argument. In the case of determinism, I choose to focus on two specific branches of the philosophy: casual determinism and theological determinism. These two concepts contribute the most compelling evidence on the determinist’s behalf. The main issue which arises from determinism is the notion that an individual is…

To discuss the power of simulacra – why Prior can reject it, and why Roy and Joe cannot – we must establish how each character is affected by it. Power is the epitome of success for Roy Cohn. He wants to have it and be remembered it. To Roy, the antonym of power is gay. Gay is a status, not sexuality. He says this himself in his diatribe about homosexuals. Labels do not mean identity; they refer to “clout” (Kushner 45). Roy learns this from the nuclear environment he grows up in. He is a youth…

On a societal level, Ness crafts the monster to symbolize the grieving process Conor undergoes. Grief is a painful process many experience when facing the loss of a loved one; with the tree’s assistance, Conor develops throughout the text as he transitions from denial to anger as well as forgiveness and acceptance. In the beginning of the novel, Conor’s first interaction with the monster resulted in yew tree leaves scattered throughout his floor; contrasting from his usual nightmare, the barrier…