Opinion

Solomon E. Asch’s article, “Opinions and Social Pressures” they both were on the right track when they stated that humans lose their individualism when subjecting to social pressures. Lessing starts off her article by stating that those in the Western world like to publicize their right to be an individual but often disregard this right and succumb to the…

the thing you're in the real world where we can only imagine perfect worlds. The song "Rainbow Connection" was about the rainbow connection and if we’ll find it, and the opinion-editorial “TED Talk Opinion Editorial” was about what perfection is and how we’ll never reach it as a group. Both "Rainbow Connection" and “TED Talk Opinion Editorial” deal with the TOPIC that a perfect society is impossible to create, but they do so in different ways. To begin, the song “Rainbow Connection” is…

In my Opinion, I believe that Jim is the one who learned more from the relationship between Antonia and himself. Jim was an orphaned young boy who came to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He meet this young girl named Antonia, whom I feel forever changed his life. Jim and Antonia became really close throughout the book. Jim is the narrator of the book so you have insight to his inner most feelings and thoughts. As Jim quoted in the book "This was enough for Ántonia. She liked me better…

Forming my own opinions was one of the most challenging jobs for a younger me. I figured it would be easier on me of I just listened to other people’s judgments and based my life off of them. I watched the same shows as the kids whose rulings mattered, I listened to the same music as all the prominent kids, I even judged people I had never met before based on the assumptions of other people. I now hate shows that require audience participation even though they cannot hear or see you, but because…

The Guardian takes science journalism seriously. Maybe it’s because it is so close to the Royal Society of Science, one of two places that shaped how Western Europeans do and talk about science, and the one responsible for elevating Issac Newton to science God and leaving Gottfried Leibniz a broken man who died homeless and intestate. Or maybe the Guardian wants to make sure scientists are heard and understood so others do not suffer because someone is petty, self-interested, or self-righteous.…

to Your Opinion” by Jamie Whyte is a chapter from his book Crimes Against Logic which was published in 2004. In this chapter, he discusses the invalidity and weak logic behind the commonly used cliché of being entitled to one’s opinion and claims that having the right to one’s opinions is not only false but damaging to the flow of ideas between individuals. Whyte opens his argument with the statement that, whether you are right or wrong, the assertion that one has a right to their opinion…

My opinion on Washington and his Farewell Address Is that even though it was writen 220 years ago some of the points he addressed are still very much relative in 2017. In this paper I will be giving my opinion on Washington's Farewell Address. Therefore back in 1796 George Washington was inferring the nation about the debt we will eventually be getting ourselves into. Many people of the nation didn't believe or didn’t agree with him or think he was right. But he may have changed our…

Should Others Opinions Affect Your Own Choices Has anyone ever told you their opinion about what you or other people are doing? The opinions of others or what they might think keep people from living the lives they want to live. That one girl you like but your scared that other people will not like her like you parents or your friends, peoples opinions do affect you and what you do. So I myself, think that peoples opinions should not affect you and what you do because why would you care…

In Mark Twain’s essay “Corn-pone Opinions,” he examines what causes people to conform to the majority's opinions and how it is human nature's tendencies that leads them into imitate others opinions. Although this essay was found and later published after his death years ago, it can still apply to today’s generation and society as a whole. Twain acknowledges in his essay that if a man desired to prosper in life, he would have to conform to the majority’s opinion in order to retain his social and…

W.B. Yeats’ Opinion of War W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He wrote following the belief of “spiritus mundi”, the spirit of the universe and the collective unconscious or memory, which influences him to write around different mythologies, despite being a Christian. “Spiritus Mundi” leads to two of the works that reflect his opinion regarding war and conquest. Through these two works, “Leda and the Swan” and “The Second Coming,” Yeats’ opinion of war as a…