Leonard Peikoff

Annie Leonard, best known for the creation of an animated documentary about the life cycle of Stuff and entitled “The Story of Stuff”, explains in a namesake book the polluting process through which the Stuff is created and eventually dismissed. Her message is clear: we not only have too much Stuff (she prefers not using the word goods, “since goods are so often anything but good”), we also do not use it properly. Annie Leonard is an American environmental activist whose greatest aim is the…

Harlan is the writer of the highest selling book to students joining college, The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might keep running Into in College. From landing on grounds to offering a lavatory to 40 outsiders to sharing address takes note of, The Naked Roommate is your first best friend when carrying out a background at EVERYTHING you have to think about school. Beside that, Harlan is an expert speaker who has gone by more than 400 secondary school and school grounds. He is a…

Everyone has read, at one point or another, the heart-wrenching tale of partners being separated by war and of the trials and tribulations of them persevering through such a trying time. It is a very well-known story because it is easy to imagine how one would feel without their significant other. Imagining this scenario from a child’s perspective, however, is not. Without being a military child, it is nearly impossible to imagine yourself in that situation, as it is so unique. The deployment of…

Virginia Woolf’s “Professions for women” is an essay, but it sounds like a speech. Woolf recalls that when she worked as a journalist, she felt restricted expressing down her real feeling and reviews about men’s writing. When she worked as a novelist then, she also had to worry about if men would be shocked or disagreed with the truth she told. Her own two specific pieces of experiences reveal women’s struggle in today’s society and also try to provide solutions for defending women’s rights.…

“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, and the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” This quote was said by Mark Kennedy an American writer. As this may be a funny quote it is also true. Technology has been growing rapidly over the course of history. We lived in a world where writing letters were the normal thing to do. However, things have changed and people are not the way they use to be. We…

Leonard Cohen, Gladwell explains, is an experimental innovator, because he had worked for days, months, and even years slowly and steadily to fight to create Hallelujah. In contrast, Ed Sheeran is an example of a conceptual innovator. In a documentary called…

In Virginia Woolf’s The Death of the Moth, Woolf explains that she has pity for the moth as it makes its final struggles before death. Woolf observes the moth’s last attempt to right itself, exerting its last “fiber of energy”. She felt pity for the creature as it moved once more before turning stiff. One reason Woolf chose to use several contrasts within the essay is to express the relationship of the moth to the world. To the moth, the world is of incomprehensible size. Being such a small…

In the poem “The Lesson of the Moth,” both the moth and the cockroach have their own philosophies on how life should be lived. I believe in the moth’s philosophy. I believe beauty is everything. Like the moth, I would prefer to have a shorter life filled with beauty and happiness than to have a long life full of fear causing me to avoid everything and never being able to experience anything fun or getting to see true beauty. The moth lives an exciting and short life, and he was able to see what…

Virginia Woolf demonstrates the universal struggle between life and death in "The Death of the Moth". Observing the moth, Woolf sees that is trying to accomplish something unattainable by going into and out of a windowpane to get outside. Virginia Woolf sees the moth in another context that recognizes the moth not as insignificant and in demand of pity, but as a small creature of the world. The moth symbolizes the wonder of life and death by being used as an example of the simplicity of life,…

Analysis of the Death of the Moth Death is inevitable. It can happen in the blink of an eye with zero warning, or be a drawn out process, as the individual struggles to survive. All living entities will face their death at some point. Do all entities obtain the same amount of energy, or life force though? Virginia Woolf examines life and death in her essay Death of the Moth. The piece was published in 1942, approximately a year after Woolf faced her own inevitable death by suicide. Woolf…