History of ideas

From the start, I knew the drawing I was working on was going to be the best one I had ever created. I had scratched out a rough concept at four in the morning at an all-night sale in a department store, and it was nothing special. The lines I completed the next day while my parents watched a vintage Bollywood movie, and it looked pretty good. The following evening, I scanned the drawing into my laptop, zoomed in, and gave it a good, hard look. And it was actually really nice, I thought. Maybe…

How could something as little as reading determine your whole life? Walker Percy explains just how he believes this to be true in his essay, Another Message in the Bottle. According to Percy, you must make the breakthrough into reading in order to have a beautiful imagination, do well in your profession, and treasure your heritage. In Walker Percy's essay, he shortly mentions that making the breakthrough into reading is basically just finding the pleasure in reading. This pleasure ultimately…

The concept of conveying a message can be quite ambiguous. Truly, any action can be interpreted to have rhetoric in its undertones, and therefore be convincing in some way. With this, there are countless measures of ways to present an argument. Each method of presenting an argument has different affordances. These affordances encompass every strength and weakness presented by that medium. The affordances that come with each form of media greatly affect the effectiveness of the argument presented…

In this novel, the inner party uses destruction of words to decrease the amount of thinking the people in the society do. The party eliminates words such as excellent and splendid; making people use plusgood instead. Getting rid of advanced words requires the people of society to do less thinking. The less people think, the better it is for the inner party. The inner party constantly creates and destroys events and people to suit their own development. If people do not have to think and have a…

Copyright, according to Dictionary.com, is identified as "the legal right granted to an author, a composer, a playwright, a publisher, or a distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work." A set Assortment of ethereal rights acknowledged by the statute to the author, creator and or originator of specific literary or artistic work, sometimes limited for a certain time period.The privilege is deposed to the creator…

If I could turn my passion into a successful business it would be a small school for the arts. I think it is a good idea because there are many people who love the arts like I do and the small school would be where they go to learn more. You can love music and not know what a time signature is but, if you went to a class about music then you could learn much more. There are many students that love the arts however they are not given the opportunity to take art class, dance,music class,or drama…

What comes to mind now that the semester is over and the future of after college is getting closer and closer. Students have grown, tripped, and got back up, stressed, and became creative in some way throughout this semester. Creativity is unique to almost every individual. Creativity can be expressed in different forms such as writing, acting, personality, drawing and multiple other forms. Throughout the semester, we saw creativity through presentations and three different books. The whole…

Throughout this essay, I will discuss the arguments Locke presents against the notion of innate ideas. Essentially, Locke does not accept the concept that particular ideas intrinsic to the human mind are existent. Perhaps the strongest argument Locke makes for this claim is that we are supposedly born with a “blank slate” or “tabula rasa”, revealing that innate ideas are not possible since majority of ideas are derived from experience (Solomon & McDermid 205). In addition, Locke argues that…

Ideas are like seeds, plant them and they just might grow into something brilliant. Where would we be as a society if the hundreds of amazing medical innovations never can to fruition because an idea was discarded? According to Psychologist Richard J. Haier of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, “When an idea pops into your head, it is unlikely the result of a single event—like the click of the proverbial lightbulb—in your brain. Studies have shown that no solitary brain…

One day, while Dillard was working in her office, she was distracted by the sound of an airplane cutting through the air. She uses imagery of sound to describe what she witnessed in the fortieth paragraph. Dillard heard the “buzz of an airplane...it rose and fell musically, and it never quit.” This imagery is included in order to bring back the tone of awed appreciation, and to display to the audience that Dillard thinking about Rahm’s performance months after her last encounter with him. In the…