Jonathan Haidt

In her article “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious,” Antonia Peacocke discusses how those who watch the show Family Guy should realize the creators’ jokes should be viewed as what they are intended to be: a harsh reality rather than crude. Peacocke argues that when taken at face value, Family Guy’s humor could potentially be considered offensive. Instead, the creator Seth Macfarlane intelligently uses satire to mock American culture. The article is overall…

Food is arguably mankind's best friend, but also its worst enemy. How could something as insignificant as a potato divide the different social classes in France? In Tom Standage’s An Edible History of Humanity, he describes in great detail the role potatoes played in French social life. Food has played an important role in social statuses throughout history, but also a big political influence, and the deciding factor in many wars. There are many similarities between the impact of food…

Jonathan Swift was a highly satirical writer who often openly criticized politics and political issues. Due to the time they were published, their politically-focused themes, and the base from which most of his writings were inspired puts Swift and his works resolutely in the Neoclassical era. Even after the end of the period in the late eighteenth century, Swift’s work continued to influence writers and stories world-wide, even to present day. The Neoclassical period lasted from 1660 to the…

The bystander effect as coined by Pyschologytoday.com is “when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation.” Sophocles, Jonathon Swift, and Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo the writers of; Antigone, A Modest Proposal, and The Banality of Heroism are all stories about the bystander effect. The bystander effect occurs in modern times because it happens in modern schools, all over the world, meaning the crisis of The bystander effect must be stopped .…

Thesis: The thesis of the story is that poor parents should raise their children as food and sell them to help Ireland’s situation. Main Points: The poor people of Ireland predominately Catholics are living in squalor due to a financial burden by children should just raise their children as food to help their own financial situation. By doing so it will bring new culture to Ireland such as new culinary arts and creating more food and less people. Swift argues that the problem they are having…

During the 1700’s there was much overpopulation, starvation, poverty, and the such in Ireland. Kids were living in the streets begging for food just so they could live another day, everyone was miserable except for the politicians and wealthy. Jonathan Swift proposes a solution to help cure this problem which the law-makers are ignoring. His solution is that we should resort to cannibalism and eat babies. Of course, his solution seems unmoral and shocking to most, but that was his intention.…

A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift is a satirical essay, in which Swift gives a detailed over the top explanation for how to deal with the poor Irish. When Swift wrote this essay, fully titled “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick”, there were many others who were writing pamphlets on how to deal with the growing poverty rate in Britain at the time. Swift used over the…

Done by Joshua nagenthiram Memento is a psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan where we see the film through the perspective of the main character Leonard Shelby. Leonard has short term memory and only remembers certain glimpses of his past. The way this film is shot is through Leonard’s point of view where you see how his short term memory effects him with grasping things together and most of the time we’re just confused as he is. The film is shot backwards and is like a puzzle…

Barack Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Oprah, and many more will be able to converse with one another to discuss what was once was, what will be, and what is present. In the restoration point, Jonathan Swift, the author of “A Modest Proposal”, and Plato, father of “The Allegory of The Cave,” would be sitting across from…

A personal issue that people face is the courage to try new things. People are afraid of being ridiculed by others who have experience in a certain field. I sometimes question why others will make fun of a someone because they have the courage to try something that they are unfamiliar with. While there are some who will deride a person for having the bravery and determination to be successful in a field that they have no experience in, the majority of those who are experienced will display…