Originality

In a world obsessed with knowledge we are ignorant about so many things, but is that actually a bad thing? I don’t think so. Think about death. Our death is the one thing that we are completely ignorant about. We have no idea when the moment will come when we cease to exist. Even people who have a terminal illness and have three months to live don’t even know the exact moment they will die. In our ignorance we can continue to live and embrace what we have. If we knew how we would die we would…

By virtue of being the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto occupies a prime place in the Gothic literary pantheon. However, interest in Otranto has predominantly been informed by its primary position in the Gothic canon, and discussions of Walpole’s text are usually subsumed into a broader analysis of the Gothic genre. This is unsurprising given how expansive the genre has become, including famous works of literature, like Jane Eyre, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber and branching off into…

The Role of the Dominion Mandate as a Motivator for Team Creativity The Dominion mandate was established by God as the appointment of mankind to a position of authority in the earth and as a direct imperative to exercise the dominion. The dominion of sin and death was followed by after Adam’s fall, but was not eradicated. The Dominion mandate was restored and renewed in the dominion of Christ. The believers of Christ shared in the dominion and made many accomplishments while Christ reigned…

It rots the core of the perfect world, transforming from utopia to a dystopia, “no matter how much engineering and conditioning is put forth society remains the same” (Firchow 9). A community can be made to look as pure as possible, but mankind will always be there and always be flawed. The illusion of perfection is perpetuated by propaganda. Ironically, propaganda within Brave New World is used to extend the delusion of perfection and to prohibit outside sources from “brainwashing” the masses.…

written by Cole and Meleni Smith has a profound meaning that delivers a refreshingly ground breaking new message. In the uplifting song, Cole uses his own crooked smile as an example of how not to view an imperfection as a flaw but as a symbol of originality and individualism. Instead of dwelling on the crookedness of his own smile, he focused on the inner qualities that would help him move forward. He raps, ‘My s**t is crooked but look how far I done got without it.” J.Cole reached his…

Sometimes there was a lot of people and i do not know when to say hi to them. I want to check my myself but I am afraid of the logistics.borrowing the setting of 1984 and the cult of personality of Big Brother. Macintosh commercial borrows the gloomy setting of the dystopian novel to portray Apple products as the only way to break free from conformity. The Extract from 1984 describes a hypnotized crowd under the control of a tyranny. Orwell characterizes the manipulated citizens with: “at this…

On the contrary, Jerry’s argument stating that original thinking is attainable may never be confirmed, but there will always remain a possibility that possessing an original thought is a reality. If there is a way to focus an Individual’s train of thought so that there is nothing pressuring their decisions, Twain argues that you need a setting like a, “jury-room closed against outside influence” (Twain 251). With the ability to tune out all aspects of life and only listening to the facts with no…

Many of Adorno’s ideas can be recognized throughout The Merchants of Cool’s exploration of youth and popular culture. As addressed by Adorno, standardization, identification, and pseudo-individualization all take form in the growing teenage culture. In the documentary The Merchants of Cool, you can see how standardization is seen throughout the film. It shows how teens are very vulnerable in their quest for what’s considered “cool” in popular culture. Today, the search for being “cool” affects…

Within the past decade, zombie movies have become a fad. It all began with the original Night of the Living Dead and cruised into the more current ones like World War Z and The Walking Dead. These movies and shows have taken horror and gore to the next level, but if you are looking for that scary, dreadful, and nail biting zombie movie that everyone loves, I would suggest looking elsewhere. A Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a movie about 3 high school scouts who plan an…

From various fashion magazines featuring trendy “perfect” female shapes, to television commercials implicitly messaging how people can only attain happiness by purchasing their make-up toolkits, the idealized physical body standards propagated by advertisements manifest a power relation that subjects women to be uncomfortable with their current appearances and conform to the dominant “white” aesthetic views that demand unrealistic characteristics and induce insecurity. The ideal is whitewashed…