If This Is a Man

responsibility include that man exists and along the way defines himself, man is accountable for all men, and finally man is “condemned to be free” from the moment he is born. Sartre clearly states early on that there is two kinds of existentialists one is Christian and the other is the existential atheist, which he includes himself in the category…

Hammurabi's Code: Was It Just? Just image that you have knocked out the eye of a free man, your eye shall be knocked out too. Is that fair? Hammurabi was the king of Babylonia, around 1750 BCE. When Hammurabi became king, he was believed to get his powers from the gods. Hammurabi’s code was his laws, and people still discuss whether they were just or not, just means fair. Hammurabi’s Code can be shown to be just in three areas of law, which are family life, personal life, and personal property.…

holiday songs that take up a majority of play time on the radio. Everyone has songs they either adore or hate, and some people just cannot stand holiday music all together. However, no song this season has received more attention and backlash than “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” With the lyrics, “Say, what’s in this drink?” and “Oh baby don’t hold out,” many have claimed that the song implies date rape. Although the song does appear creepy and forceful at first glance, upon further inspection the…

For the first discussion of this class I thought it was very touching. As I sat and watched the mind-blowing tragedy that took place during 9/11 it caught me off guard. What went wrong during this event was that the World Trade Center allowed well over 1.3 Million people to come in and out of the building. Some people were Bomb traders, Tourist, and etc. During September 11 2001 flight 11 hit the north tower at 8:46 am, this troubled many of the citizens that was in that building thousands of…

A young woman reluctantly becomes the official companion to a man she hates: he’s the richest man on the planet known as the Human Falcon or Ubermensch, whose responsibility is to save the world. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: LITA LONSUN (20’s) becomes the official companion to the richest man on the planet. He’s been called many names including the Atomic Warrior, the Human Falcon, Ogun, and Ubermensch. Lita and the MAN have a mutual contempt and distrust for each other. PETER GRAY (50’s) escorts her…

and will then sit back in his cage and not disturb the others until he is hungry again. This shows that man is more cruel than an Anaconda. Next Twain uses the example to contrast man that has millions between an insect gathering for the winter. A bee or ant will only take what they need for the winter, whereas a man who has millions of dollars, will cheat the system just to make more money. Although the man has millions he still thinks he…

Throughout the ages, there has been a battle of good and evil. What caused all this mayhem? Many have tried to answer this question, and in various ways. These answers have shaped the different worldviews of history. The remarkable thing about these worldviews is that deep underneath all the outer issues runs a central theme with two sides that divides all worldviews into one of two categories. This topic has roots so deep that it affects every single other facet of the worldview. There are two…

It is this failure that men grow to fear, and in turn hate more and more. Hate stems from fear and "our fear is the fear of humiliation." Masculinity is a man's only barrier against humiliation since masculinity is a social construct that we evaluate a man through. "Our efforts to maintain a manly front cover everything we do. Every moment contains a coded gendered language." (Kimmel CP pp.…

Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants," an unidentified man attempts to sway his girlfriend, Jig, to have an abortion. The American man, whom jig is financially, and emotionally dependent on insists on letting Jig make the decision about her own body yet does not fail to give his respected opinion. While Jig does not seem to be willing to give up her child, she is aware of the dependency and realizes if she does not go along with the abortion, the man will leave her to support herself and a…

It is when they watched this damn series for five consecutive days that Jimin lost it. It was bearable on the first two days. Well, because Iron Man really is a great movie and it is also funny along the cool powers and such. Really, Jimin is not complaining about watching it again and again how could he complain if it means cuddling with his boyfriend, Jeon Jeongguk, in the sofa and some make out sessions here and there. It is more than he could wish for honestly, but you know everything has a…