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his works, “Harrison Bergeron” and Cat’s Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut led an adventurous and interesting life, which greatly contributed to his writing style that made his works so enjoyable. Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922 in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana where he grew up with his older brother and sister. After graduation from high school in 1940, Vonnegut went on to attend Cornell University that year. In 1942, Kurt Vonnegut was doing terribly in school…

Excited, nervous, and ready for this new adventure to make my first visit to Poplar Hill Farm, in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Who knew that this place in the backwoods of Jefferson County and I would have a love affair and that in a few years I would be asked to collaborate on a research project for the Poplar Hill School. Armed with hundreds of questions, anticipation and youthful curiosity, I was ready for this journey into the past. Open and receptive to all the stories, they were…

hierarchy of law which comprises four kinds of laws, eternal, natural, divine and human law. All of the laws are guiding human to virtue. References 1. Aquinas, T. Summa Theologica. Thomas Aquinas – Treatise on Law, translated by Richard J. Regan, (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000). 2. Hobbes, T. (1651). Leviathan. Revised Edition, eds. A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press,…

Food deserts are very prevalent in America today. In a news article in the Indianapolis Business Journal, Jeffrey Hilburn says “More than 20 percent of the population in five of the eight counties in metro area (Indiana) live in food deserts.” That is in Indiana alone. A food desert is when there is no major grocery store within 1 mile of an area in an urban area and within 10 miles of a rural area. That means that the people within these areas are searching for places to get groceries. Instead…

In June of 2012 Cuddy started off her speech Your Body Language Shapes Who You are at TEDGlobal with an attention grabbing statement, and then asked her audience to survey their own posture. A good presenter always starts their speech off with an attention grabbing statement, quote or story (Koegel, 43). By physically engaging her audience at the beginning of her speech she was able to immediately capture their attention. I did not hear an exact purpose statement from Cuddy within the first…

People encounter reality in different ways, there are people who mistake the epistemic knowledge as their reality while there are others who dive further and investigate into the true reality. The prisoners in ‘Plato’s allegory of the cave’ and the police officers in ‘Changeling’ (Clint Eastwood, 2008) believed in the reality of epistemic knowledge, whereas Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) and the prisoner who left the cave tried to transmission their knowledge and refused to believe in the…

Finance is something I never put much thought into. Last summer I had great income, it felt great to receive a check every Friday. I did the usual, like tithe and spend the extra on my personal expenses. I never thought about the future, and if one day I would have a similar experience as Adam. For that reason our professor gave us a scenario. Our case was that we had a $29,500 yearly income. We had $10,000 in school loans and $10,000 car loans along with a $2,000 credit card debt. Our goal…

American owned Carrier, had plans to close two Indiana plants, and cut 2100 jobs to move production to Monterrey Mexico. However, after president elect Donald Trump stepped in, state officials offered Carrier tax breaks of $7 million to keep jobs in Indianapolis. (Reuters, 2016) This is typical of the United States, says a senior Mexican state official, as the feel that countries such s Mexico deal in banana republics. (Reuters, 2016) Banana republics – a small country that is economically…

Blinded by a sea of studio lights, I squinted awaiting the 3-2-1 go-ahead. At any moment I would join the livings rooms, breakfast nooks and bedrooms of over a million―in Technicolor. Tense, I found little comfort in a last glance at the flimsy, manila page of talking points. A thump in my chest drowned out the camera’s prosaic hum. *** As a journalist I am familiar with tough questions. I once challenged a sitting Prime Minister over his crackdown on press freedoms. I made the face of a…

Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16 year old girl from Indianapolis, Indiana that has terminal lung cancer. One day at a Support Group, for people with cancer between the ages of 12 and 18, she catches a very good looking 17 year-old boy staring at her. She finds out his name is Augustus Waters and he had osteosarcoma that took off his right leg. He is currently cancer free and is just at the Support Group per his best friend Isaac's request because Isaac has a rare eye cancer and he has to get…