Inklings

Written by the legendary Greek mastermind Sophocles, Oedipus Rex is a tragic play involving prophecies, mythology, and certain doom. Along with that, many judgments are cast upon the characters and it is up to the reader to decide which are sound, and which are fallacies. To be sure that the reader is clear on what judgement is, the Oxford English Dictionary declares that a judgement “is the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.” In his argument against Oedipus,…

percent of these situations will a teacher or a person of authority intervene in the harassment (Bullying is). Every seven minutes a child is told that they are worthless, ugly, a mistake; they are dehumanized and torn down. Before they even have an inkling of what the real world is like, they have already experienced the pain of it. One out of every four teens will be bullied at some point in their life (Bullying is); that is a quarter of society that will have been treated as though they do…

Jews, even in the 21st century media, are followed by a multitude of derogatory stereotypes and presumptions about their culture. With palpable gluttony, ugliness, weakness, and other distinctive communal traits, the Jew is a distinguishable staple of any anti-Semitic display. But where did these constructs come from? Contemporary anti-Semitism established because of persecution and relocation, strategic delineation, and political-occupational reputes of the Jewish publics in the Renaissance…

As I furiously flipped through the Contents section in Brett Lacey and Paul Valentine’s Fire Prevention Applications, pages vacillated hither and thither… hither and yon. Yearning for a topic to leap out and command my attention, I began to grow more and more disquieted. I’ll be candid. My understanding of the subjects at hand was shallow at best, and nearly nonexistent concerning most. Knowing that I at one point commanded a deep and nuanced understanding of Chapter 3: Codes and Standards,…

lovey-dovey all the time. The tension was mostly contained to the random discourses, but the reader could see this fear as not like any other human feeling for these two. The reader could soon tell this feeling was creating some mystery, and could feel an inkling of something more brewing behind the scenes. The brewing came to the surface in “The Airborne Toxic Event.” This was an unusual literary situation because it was a climax exactly one-third of the way through the book. While the story…

Racial Prejudice in the Tallahassee Suburbs In “Snakes,” a short story written by Danielle Evans, a realistic world is formed around a young black girl named Tara who is sent to stay with her grandmother for the summer. The story unfolds as the reader learns that the grandmother seems to be racially prejudice, even towards her own granddaughter, Tara. During Tara’s stay at her grandmother’s house, she is accompanied by her cousin Allison who is white. The story centers around Tara’s attempts to…

The role of women has oscillated over time, and affected their status in society and control they have over their own lives. Throughout history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Motherhood is regarded as women's most significant professions but in the 20th century, women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. During the 40s women's roles and expectations in society were changing rapidly. Previously…

After eleven Southern states seceded from the United States in February of 1861, and the country was one the brink of a Civil War, the rest of the world watched to see if the ideals of freedom and democracy would defeat the institution of slavery and tyranny. In Don Doyle’s book The Cause of All Nations, he explains how at the outset of the war, European nations had taken great interest in America’s struggle and ignited a division between those who sided with the North and those who sided with…

Jack’s leadership allows the boys to uphold savagery and reject responsibility unimpeded, giving him popularity. Jack is very noticeably the most politically powerful and earliest advocate for this lifestyle. The first event where he demonstrates his natural tendency to eschew responsibility in favor of savagery is when he sadistically guides his hunters to kill their first pig and in doing so completely avoids the task of rekindling the signal fire which he previously accepted. When he and his…

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” This quote by J.R.R. Tolkien is very inspiring to many Americans. J.R.R. Tolkien was born in January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was raised in Birmingham, England, and spent most of his time as an Oxford University professor. He published his most popular books like, The Hobbit(1937), The Lord of the Rings(1954-1955), and The…