Originality

Jess C Scott, a well known author and blogger, explains the relationship between people and the media through this quote "People are sheep. TV is the shepherd." Although media can enlighten citizens with helpful information media also portrays a "Mr. Hyde" disposition. Media has the possibility of taking individuality from a persons identity in present-day consumeristic society. In order to avoid losing orginality, a person must use a "discerning eye" to remain innocent from medias predisposed…

narrates the hardships she underwent after she, a Jewish white, decided to marry a black man. When he was a child he realized that his mother was different from others around him as she kept many secrets and would not reveal her ethnicity and originality. When asked where she came from she would answer that God made her and on her ethnicity she would interject with ‘I am light skinned’ and change the subject. But according to her son’s prodding into her to reveal her past, he came to the…

Many individuals in today’s society believe that by conforming themselves to other people’s tastes or likes is the only way to be accepted. Conformity can be seen as good or bad through many point of views. One could be that it’s penitentiary of one’s uniqueness because everyone tends to insult or disrespect each other’s features. One pro could be that everyone can be exactly the same where no one can stand out. In the short story “The Pedestrian” and the movie Dead Poets Society it emphasizes…

YES, I know it might have come across as a major surprise to all those who know me, I did infact read this book. I read it all. And I took some time out and did not post the review. But now it's here. Major Spoilers ahead. (As I have ranted the whole story basically. I NEEDED some kind of therapeutical venting after I lost so many of my brain cells reading this.) I had absolutely no plans of reading another clichéd novel with bad writing and predictable plot and annoying characters. But one…

Creativity is the generation of imaginative new ideas, involving a radical newness innovation or solution to a problem, or a radical reformulation of problems, or an integration of existing knowledge in a different way. The created item may be intangible (scientific theory, musical composition, and joke) or an original physical object (invention, literary work, architecture, painting). Creativity involves use of everyday capacities such as the association of ideas, memory, perception, analogical…

off” (Lace 43). This shows that the Jews were badly oppressed because they were being treated like animals and were not given anything to help them keep their originality. In shaving the Jews heads, the Nazis wanted to make the Jews feel like they were all alike and did not have any individuality. They wanted the Jews to forget their originality and in…

Emily Dickinson The originative Emily Dickinson was a gifted poet as she composed passionate poems that baffled readers with her literary style. Using her naïve perception, Dickinson’s poetry was written on a daily basis. Through her use of quick-witted metaphors and improvised grammar, Emily Dickinson remains a classic poet whose poetry influenced American Literature today. Emily Dickinson was seen as psychologically unbalanced and reclusive in her life, as shown through her varying emotional…

The podcast deals with the dialogue “Plato’s Republic” written around 400 BC, which discusses the meaning of justice and what it truly means to be just. Firstly, a background in ancient Greece’s politics was offered, speaking of the appeals and brutal regimes of government prior to democracy being restored. The major issue addressed in the podcast is the execution of Socrates by the majority of Athens for the corruption of youth in and the introduction of gods that the Greeks did not once…

Paper #2: Synthesis and Argument (5-7 pages) 1. W.E.B Du Bois makes a strong and persuasive argument about “double consciousness” and racial struggle in America. ANSWER THIS QUESTION: Do you agree that “art”—broadly defined—can be an antidote or a form of resistance against certain kinds of discrimination? 2. Take a position on this issue by first exploring at least three of our course texts, starting with Du Bois and leading through several of our other readings (Martin Luther King,…

things is of no use. Happiness is not just proper functioning of body but also proper functioning of a person as a whole. Our proper function is to exercise this intellectual side in creative activities which can create something valuable with originality. I was giving importance to other activity like job, study and family hence not allocating the time to my painting hobby. Now my view is changed and going to allocate time to my creative activity which gives me happiness and also contributing…