Irrationality

Mills Summary Garcia’s view on racism is one that is based on attitudes of hatred and lack of regard for members of certain races. Garcia states that “Racism, then, is something that essentially involves not our beliefs and their rationality or irrationality, but our wants, intentions, likes and dislikes and their distance from the moral virtues.” (236) This stance opposes the thought of racism being belief-based. Garcia uses an interesting method to counter the thought of race being unreal.…

Smart by Shel Silverstein on page 157 is an enjoyable poem about a naïve child who believes he is more astute than every person he associates with. For example, the child thought he was getting the better deal when he received a dollar and “swapped it for two shiny quarters/ ’Cause two is more than one” (lines 3-4). By choosing quantity over quality the child is displaying a lack of understanding between amount and worth. Silverstein’s lyrical poem, uses repetition, rhyme, meter, and tone of…

desire for physical desire and misinterprets the policemen’s innocent chatter for malevolence. Since the narrator imagines that he has a correct and rational interpretation of all the events as they unfold, it becomes clear that Poe’s definition of irrationality lies in the belief of one’s…

these are the side effects, make sure you complete the prescription in it’s entirety” blurb that you have just about every time you go to the pharmacy. The way that the healthcare system has become is completely irrational. An example of this irrationality is when you schedule an appointment; you expect to be seen at your appointment time. However, we are often times sitting in the waiting room for the doctor to finish with his patients before you can be seen. The doctor is either late to work,…

‘’Charlie, you just shot Pete Van Horn!’’ It was a pulchritudinous day; at least it started out that way on Maple Street. Ordinarily, monsters didn’t come to Maple Street, but today was no ordinary day. The power went out all along the street. The cars stopped working. The radios picked up nothing. In the very beginning, everyone thought in a reasonable and a very logical manner, but as the situation escalated the rationality decreased. People can become violent, deadly, and filled to the brim…

When Baynton states, “Disability has functioned historically to justify inequality for disable people themselves, but it has also done so for women and minority groups” I think he means that inequality and discrimination have not only been towards disable people but to women and minorities as well. People with disabilities, women, and minorities all have fought for rights and justice in regards to many ways of life. For instance, the term disability in regards to disable people was correlated to…

existence lingered conspicuously in my mind. As such, I must perceive my existence to be secure and to an extent infinite—without the threat of immediate demise. This irrationality behind the security of my existence enables me to make “rational” justifications for why I must set goals and seek progress in my life. Without this irrationality, I would have no rational reason to live. As such, I am irrational, in that I believe my existence to be secure, for the sake of having a rationale to…

and West were considered as two world totally conflicting and contradictory to each other. As Orientalism was defined by the West, they automatically defined themselves as well. East was represented as inferior, which makes the West superior. Irrationality, primitiveness, and despotism are attributes given to the East which constructs the West as rational, progressive and democratic. They not only had the power to make Orientalism as a common discourse, but they also succeeded to convince the…

Macbeth is the sole figure to be blamed for to be blamed for his own downfall. During the play, his actions in his journey to the throne, together with his malignant nature and unchecked ambition consequently lead to moral corruption and the ultimate relentless calamity for him. Shakespeare utilises multiple literary devices and dramatic techniques to help convey the direct correlation between Macbeth’s downfall and his uncontrollable selfish ambitions. Furthermore, the text portrays how a…

The Dionysian and the Apollonian are two impulses that Nietzsche identifies as ways of thinking that is expressed through art. The Apollonian being that which relates to logic, reason, and order, whereas the Dionysian relates to irrationality, intoxication, losing oneself, and emotions. When these two impulses come together and are balanced art is created. One genre of television series is drama. In dramas there is usually a protagonist which would represent the Apollonian aspect by bringing…