Irrationality

“The English Malady”, now known as hypochondria, was considered to be a “bizarre and contradictory [way to instill] irrationality” (Mullan 142). About 300 years later, hypochondria has changed from a disease to merely a side effect of social isolation. Throughout the novella, Ethan Frome, both Ethan and his wife, Zeena suffer from social isolation; however, the length and extent of this isolation affects them in different ways. Zeena suffers in a more obvious way, nagging for attention and…

An important theme of the story Flatlands is the idea that people are unable to accept the truth or change their perspective, and as a result, they do anything possible to reject it. Also, the people of Flatland believe that women and irregular figures should be treated disrespectfully. However, I felt that Abbott simply wanted the readers to find that to be absurd, but then realize that their reality isn’t a whole lot different than that. In other words, he wanted people to find that Flatland…

The American Dream, deemed to be the greatest opportunity for prosperity and affluence in the world, and regarded by the masses as the ideal standard of living, is the quintessential lifestyle many yearn to live. However, many overlook the associating sense of delusion and deception that corresponds amongst it, resulting from the excessive fantasizing of prospective wealth, and this mindset is truly apparent in the novel, Death of a Salesman. The novel was written in 1949, the pinnacle of the…

energy over slow and complicated. This is the main point of mcdonaldization, which is defined to be giving importance to characteristics like quantity, efficiency, and predictability which brings both positive and negative effects of automation and irrationality of rationality. Although McDonaldization may have negative effects, it is still good because it allows for work to be quantifiable, efficient, and…

The Accuracy of Criminal Profiling As society keeps expanding, through growth and technology, more opportunities for crimes pop up in our daily lives, ranging from internet gambling, all the way to insider trading. But as with any criminal movement, criminal justice is not far behind. Half the battle of fighting crime is knowing what to look for, and the other half is knowing how to stop it. Criminal profiling does both, and being in a generation with James Holmes and The Columbine shooting,…

Do colors and emotions have a connection? In our everyday lives, colors impact the way we feel without even noticing the connection. Color is an inseparable part of our lives that we tend to perceive things through. It has a deep impact on our emotions and feelings. We learn as we grow, especially in school, to associate colors with emotions. For instance, children in school learn that the color green is associated with being glad and red being associated with anger. Yet do they know that the…

attempting to offer a newly found dimension in explaining the events that had led up to this German political crisis. Psychohistory probes the unconscious psychic influences that control man’s behaviour whilst making him oblivious to these forces of irrationality. Historians who utilise these approaches draw on psychological analysis to clarify human motivations that drove individuals or groups to embrace such actions, beyond the complexity of commonly regarded historical causation. These…

This work is featured as the last work in the exhibition, as it sums up the main opinion of the negativity of consumerism. While the work can be symbolic of Pollock’s irrational and overwhelming mind, it can similarly be viewed as a symbol of the irrationality and overwhelming nature of the growing consumerist culture. Additionally, because this work has no true beginning or end, it functions as a commentary on the continuous cycle of consumerism that has no end in sight. This is therefore…

Arthur Schopenhauer affirmed the emotion I felt when he proclaimed “the greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.” (Schopenhauer, 2016) I had formed an incredibly strong bond with my grandmother and looked to her for knowledge, guidance, and comfort my entire life. There was a particular instance one sultry summer day in southern Virginia that changed everything I had ever felt. It held a significance in my ability to establish trust and to construct healthy…

The Pursuit of Happiness: Aristotle’s Theory of the Soul and the Best Life Aristotle’s explanation of the soul describes three distinct parts that combine to produce the soul. It is comprised of matter or potentiality, form or actuality, and a compound of both matter and form. The soul is a complex ratio of these three shares. The compound of both matter and form creates the living being, with the potentiality representing the body and the actuality portraying the soul. Compounds that possess…