Jean-François Lyotard

Full of Emptiness In today’s society there is the looming thought of absence in many things. For some it might be the absence of a parent or an education. However, in the poem “The Morning is Full,” Pablo Neruda expresses the heartbreak of the absence of a particular season, which points to the absence of complete love in his life. Pablo Neruda is a poet from Chile who constantly expresses his feelings by describing nature, ultimately pointing at the feeling of love. "Twenty love poems and the songs of despair," says "Neruda trusts and celebrates his senses and inextricably links his experiences, quite specifically, to the natural world he loves, the damp forest of Chile." Neruda looks at nature to be in touch with his senses, which ultimately puts him in touch with his feelings. His poem describes the despair for love and creates an imagery of absence of intimacy in his life. Neruda expresses the absence of fulfilling love in his life by examining and revealing the feelings evoked by his senses, most of which are portrayed through descriptions of nature. The central problem is the absence of intimacy in Neruda’s life. There is an absence of particular senses of which he seems to crave more. In his poem fourth poem in his twenty poem series, "The Morning is Full," he says, "the morning is full of storm in the heart of summer." Summer is typically associated with sunshine, playfulness, and happiness. Neruda surprises his reader by pairing an image of summertime with a storm.…

is still little agreement in any field about the aesthetic criteria defining this avant-garde of artistic movements. Indeed, even the notion that postmodernism retains the nom de guerre “avant-garde” is debatable when considering commentary such as Richard Schechner’s Post-Post-Structuralism? in TDR and hghghghghghg. In her introduction to Postmodernism, an analysis of contemporary visual art, Eleanor Heartney compares the absence of any finite exactitude of postmodernity to the concept of…

After the events of WWII, to say that America had changed drastically was an understatement; with the entirety of the Cold War, amongst other political strife at home and abroad, America during this time was an era of conflicting ideals. Consequently, literature changed its perspective; most commonly, however, was the transition from modernist ideals to postmodernist ideals. Much like modernism, post-modernism offered to reject the ideals presented by popular trends during their time; yet for…

conflicting thoughts that went through her mind as she participated in the event as both an Egyptian woman and as an anthropologist. She realized that the January 25 Revolution was a historic event for her country. Moll and many others during the uprising “created a personal record” (para. 1) by filming the incident. As she became more involved with the filming in the Tahrir Square, she realized that this type of fieldwork was creating something more to tell than what was currently being told…

Rationale State of the Church Barna Group survey results emphasizes that young people today are heavily influenced by major social, spiritual and technological changes that have occurred over the past quarter century. The last argument of young people leaving the church, is that they feel that "hostility to those who doubt." More than a third of young people said that they feel that they have no one to ask the most interesting questions about his life in the church, and 23 percent said they felt…

Waxman, S. 2008 Finding Rosetta (ch. 2.). Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. Times Books, N.Y. Throughout the course of this chapter Waxman overviews how antiquarianism and Europeans within Egypt had both positive and negative effects on Egyptology. She starts off by looking at Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and the work his savants took on as they documented the great monuments of Europe. She then goes off to talk about Jean-Francois Champollion and Giovanni…

religious themes in honoring the gods. The epic of Gilgamesh remains one the greatest legacies of Mesopotamia attesting to the fact the epic remains one of the oldest stories written on clay tablets, with adventures of the mythological king, Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu, having brave the trials the Gods given them, and ultimately the Gods unleashed the flood upon the world. However, no one knew how to properly translate the Egyptian hieroglyphics which lay strewn across their temple walls…

“Ya’ll smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.” John Green’s Looking for Alaska explores the concepts of life and death, or more specifically how to live and die. Main character, Miles Halter, desires an exciting life and decides to leave the safety of his home to attend Culver Creek boarding school. Here he meets trailer-bred genius Chip “the Colonel” Martin. The Colonel introduces him to a life of fun and mischief. More importantly, Miles discovers the beautiful, clever, and self-destructive Alaska…

harsh punishment that was going on. This struggle between the Black and the Mulattoes later known as the Creoles will determine the fate of the country and most likely impact it in mostly negatives ways. During those periods of time, the country faced a lot of challenges trying to recover from the indemnity, trying to make a working economy after the years of U.S occupation (1914-1934); then from the ruled of the Duvaliers to the first elected Democratic election and president in 1990 which got…

1 : Introduction 1.1 General Background Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian novel, set in a world where the ownership of books is illegal, and firemen burn books instead of putting fires out. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman. He decides to investigate the loyalty some in their society have for books by reading some he kept in secret. He is then discovered by his captain who reports him, and is chased by the government until he escapes in a river. In the end, he washes up…