Oscar Wilde

One’s name and gender does not define who they are or their identity. Identity could be something that one is born with. It can be developed throughout life, an individual figures out their character as they grow up. As a teenager, one starts to figure out who they are. As a child, their identities are innocent, they do not know right from wrong, accept anything that happens. However, as a person starts to have more freedom and spare time to decide who they are as a person. It can change them…

It's troubling that falling asleep in class happens often for Charlie Cortes. I discovered that passing out during meetings might be a problem for him also. Instead of an interviewer, I surprisingly became a doctor for Mr. Cortes. It was very difficult for him to keep his eyes open. Unfortunately, I informed him that he suffers from extreme sleep deprivation, possibly destroying an alarming amount of brain cells. It was also hard to ignore the hundreds of dried acrylic paint drops of rainbow…

Do discrimination and racial profiling still exist? Brent Staples answers this question in his short essay, Just Walk on By. In this essay, Staples elaborates his opinion on the concern of racial profiling and the injustices that come with it by providing us with his experience as a young adult living in Chicago. Staples never faced his ultimate goal of reality until being awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago. When his dreams of budding out of the rancorous cycle of poverty…

significant. Thus, in order to obtain the most accurate and honest results, I will be conducting an anonymous survey to address this deficit and abrogate the present self-censorship anomaly. As Oscar Wilde once said “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth” (Wilde…

analysis to take place.  This approach reduce the time and resources required to perform the study. Using Fragrances has become a fashion statement now. As it goes with fashion nothing remains static. Fashion keeps coming and going. In the worlds of Oscar Wilde "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Same is the case of fragrances. Every brand launches a new variant every Four or six months. One of the easiest ways of addressing the need for a…

In Amy Zimmerman's article, “It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual On T.V”, Zimmerman showed her fear and concern for the children who would be influenced by it. She argued that the main reason for these extreme stereotypes were the T.V. She not only speaks to those who think they are homosexual and bisexual, but also raise consciousness to the immediate individual. The purpose of this article is to inform people that the media portrayed homosexual and bisexual personal community errors. In fact,…

“The book’s that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame”. This quote by Oscar Wilde encapsulates the idea that texts often highlight issues or ideas prominent in our current society, regardless of the time, place or context of the text. Texts address important issues within our society and facilitate deeper thought and reflection about these ideas. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, set in the distant future, ideas relevant to us in the present world are conveyed by…

places of horrendous mistreatment and pain. Meanwhile, a separate form of brutality is shown in the aristocrats, personified by the Marquis St. Evremonde. The brutality of the Aristocrats is of a bittersweet kind, like The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The sweet,luscious exterior,…

Igor Babailov, a Russian born American artist once said, “Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.” Without question Leonardo Da Vinci captured souls. His 15th Century contributions remain supreme whether they be in art, science, mathematics, engineering, writing or…

INTRODUCTION Oscar Wilde once said, “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” A portrait is defined as either a painting, picture, sculpture, or any form of artistic representation of a person, where the person’s facial expression is the main focus of the artwork. The goal of a portrait is so showcase the mood, attitude, or even characteristic of the person. In most cases, a portrait illustrates a person looking directly at the painter with…