Irrationality

Nowadays, ink can get you fired from your job as easily as it can get you an interview for one. The ink on a job application being considered more appropriate than the ink on people’s bodies has become the foundation of a growing debate. Workers getting fired from their job for inked images on their body, employers disqualifying employees applying for a job because of facial piercings, and employees having to hide changes to their appearance to fit company dress codes all exemplify aspects of…

affecting more than 26% of the U.S. adult population (CDC, 2011). Many famous figures, such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Manley Hopkins, Van Gogh, Beethoven, and Bach, struggled alongside William Styron with severe depression and overwhelming irrationality. William Styron, author of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, suffered from suicidal depression and madness and was eventually hospitalized for his condition. Styron’s text gives the audience a look into his life of serious mental…

Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges was removed from the origin of The Bhagavad-Gita by thousands of years and miles, yet his works bear remarkable similarities to The Gita’s teachings. Specifically, Borges’ short stories, “The Immortal” and “The Library of Babel,” reflect and parallel the teachings of the sacred Hindu text, The Bhagavad-Gita, namely, its assertion that desire creates suffering and inhibits the pursuit of knowledge, and its perspective that divinity and spirituality can be found…

altruistically, however it serves only human self-interest, which fails to adhere to the morals of altruism. He uses examples of environmental degradation and the ‘tragedy of the commons’ to prove that “individual rationality translates into collective irrationality”. He further explains that Rational Choice Theory is not to be completely disregarded, as it can be used as a powerful tool to help analyse potential situations. This article is useful to my research topic as it clearly outlines the…

Any discussion on the relationship between science and sensory art is inevitably conditioned by the specific meanings and associations that each term has come to acquire. During earlier periods in which ‘science’ meant a systematic body of knowledge constructed on rational principles, and ‘art’ referred to an activity requiring the steady acquisition of skill, the fields of science and art were not automatically regarded as the polar opposites that they have tended to become in the modern…

an National Public Radio news story, Vonnegut worries that society is becoming more and more inhuman (Inskeep, 2006). “There is a serious theme that runs through. And that theme, that concept of our inhumanity and our self-destruction and our irrationality, if anything it 's becoming stronger” (Siegel, 2011). This fear of Vonnegut’s gave him a hatred of society and its tendency to give life, and especially war an inconsequential sentiment. Vonnegut integrated this fear and hatred of society…

Archetypes are elements of certain emotional complexes found in the unconscious minds of all human beings, charged with the potential for good and evil. This very theory is depicted in literature which expression and form pertain formal patterns of meanings from dreams, myths, and legends. A theory that comes up in stories that we read or movies that we have seen highlights the components of a good tale through the use of character development, setting, and moral lesson. Critics and proponents…

independent in this instance, as she does not accept the Duke’s offer and remains firm in her decision. She ignores someone who has the same social ranking as her, which in her society, she risks being an outcast proving her to be irrational. The irrationality she has is evident through the repercussions of her marriage to Sebastian, or more so the lack of repercussions. She is…

Established contemporary American writer, Sarah Dessen, perhaps one of the most well branded young adult literature authors, has written over 10 successful best-selling novels. Novels such as What Happened to Goodbye, Along for the Ride, and Lock and Key have sparked the lives of many individuals all over the world. The world introduced the future adored author on June 6, 1970 in Evanston, Illinois. She grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she eventually attended UNC – Chapel Hill where…

Analytical Essay “First-time author Judy Blume, a New Jersey housewife with two small children, would have laughed if you told her in 1969 that her books would transform an industry, influence more girls than Laura Ingalls Wilder, and sell 80 million copies” (Winer). Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) was born on February 12, 1938, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of Esther and Rudolph Sussman. Blume attended an all-girls' High School but unfortunately, she contracted…