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their disbelief and embark on a fantastic journey in which anthropomorphism consumes reality; the second requires the reader to understand the animal-like behavior of barbaric humans. This dualistic situation where both realities conflict but align simultaneously creates an alternative domain which highlights the ambiguity of human nature. The first reality, in this dualistic situation, creates a place of refuge for Pi while providing him the inner ambition and strength to survive. The…

Our Relationship with Nature: Do children suffer from “Nature-Deficit Disorder?” Nature can be defined as the natural resources that have been on earth for several years such as trees, the ocean, animals, sand, the desert and so on. In our technological era, we have neglected the true understanding of nature. The genuineness of nature is when we are emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually engaged with the natural world around us; it is also when we can touch and use our senses with…

Fear of Death Why do people have the tendency to fear death? Some people can accept death, like the elderly. They know they have reached their time and they are ready for the next big step in life, but they don’t fear death they have a fear of dying.People are also afraid of death because they don’t want to be separated from their loved ones or they might not have done of what they wanted to accomplish. Also death can be used as a joke or as some kind of revenge, like teenagers. “ There…

No Impact Man: A Journey of Self Discovery Summary The brainchild of history writer Colin Beavan, No Impact Man is a life experiment, an online blog, and personal narrative. The story opens with a worried and frustrated Colin who preaches liberal environmental politics to those who impetuously wreck our environment without recognizing he as well is complacent about his own behaviors. Instead, he is on the spectrum of liberals who feel superior with their intellectual resources and acknowledges…

Writers of any story or essay are hypocritical in nature. Despite upholding truth and objectivity as standards, they act in a way which inhibits the authority of either axiom. This is best seen in Janet Malcolm’s essay “The Journalist and the Murderer”, where Joe McGinniss connives his subject and paints him as a narcissistic psychopath. He disregards truth by manipulating facts to benefit his personal image of his subject. The nature of his story also allows McGinniss to disregard objectivity…

The world is not a perfect place. Because of humanity’s imperfection, there is pain and suffering all around in society. However, although humans bring trouble to themselves with their flaws, they also possess the ability to handle unpleasantness and create a better world. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the author, Sue Monk Kidd, illustrates how all of this is true. Monk Kidd’s novel focuses on a fourteen-year-old white girl named Lily Owens and shows how she is able to overcome her…

Nature is Nurture In life, we wonder where do the best qualities that belong to us come from. Do we get them from our parents or are we a product of our environment? In today’s world, we most likely get them from both, but for this paper I am going to delve more into what makes me who I am. Hopefully through this essay I will be able to show who I am and where my most prominent features of both nature and nurture come from. This is going to delve more into my world than I let most people see…

had to go through this training so they could get “…a taste of the treatment…” just in case they became a prisoner one day (Shane and Mazzetti 2008). Giving them these experiences teaches them that chances are the enemies will not treat them like humans, so consequently, they end up believing they should do the same to their enemies. Another detail that supports the fact that dehumanization was present in Abu Ghraib is when Shane and Mazzetti (2008) stated that the prisoners, captured by…

The process of discovery enlightens and educates individuals with fresh, meaningful ideals about the physical and spiritual world, whilst also reshaping an individual’s perspectives of the world, themselves and others. Two texts which explore this dynamic of discovery is Simon Nasht’s documentary Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004) and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner (2003). Nasht’s documentary uses Frank Hurley’s expedition into the Antarctic as a vehicle to convey one’s…

As young children, our minds are innocent. We don’t know what friendship means nor do we value it. We are curious about how everything works in the world by seeing everything as a challenge. Through these challenges comes consequences, and from our consequences, we learn what the right and wrong thing to do is. However, there was one time I had done something I am not proud of. My curiosity got the best of me and I almost lost my best friend. Seven years ago when I was about eight years old, I…