Pendulum

Vincent Price The man behind it all In the mid-20th century, movies from the 50’s and 60’s were simple and yet captivating with many different genera’s to choose from. Some of the films where adapted to fit stories and epic tales you might find and remember from older books and fables from the past. Some of the best films focused on the classical Greek periods, the medieval times, renaissance period’s old westerns and modern day flicks with a strange horror aspect in it. Vincent Price was one…

Prison Population: The growing business “They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness). America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the…

Domestic interiors are concrete objects found inside a home. They occupy physical space. They include furniture, wall hangings, and other items that shape the personality of a home. Equally important is that these objects hold sentimental meaning. They can bring back emotions and memories. Leaving these objects behind can cause strong emotional memories in most people because these are the things they remember from their childhood and bring back happy, joyful memories. Nostalgia and…

One of the techniques used by Poe was the discovery and exploration of the Right Brain. Poe was an avid follower and believer in Phrenology, although it was studied very little in his time. Poe did not directly discover this part of the brain, but he would still describe it in great detail. He saw it as the exotic part of the mind. What he described as the exotic part of the mind is now officially called the right hemisphere of the brain. He believed this part of the brain dealt with…

Galileo Galilei was born February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, physicist, mathematician, inventor, and philosopher and his father was a musician. His father had planned for him to study medicine, but he went to study mathematics. Galileo had many accomplishments / developments that change our world even till today. Galileo had many accomplishments that made him different from other people during the 15th century. He acquired his knowledge since his dad sent…

Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America’s greatest science-fiction writer’s. His work often satires human nature and shows his reader’s the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. His…

Romanticism is often associated with positive emotions. When one hears of a “romantic,” he or she would imagine a young lover viewing the world through rose-tinted lenses or a young man waxing poetic about mountain landscapes. One would rarely think of insane asylums, straightjackets, and hallucinations. However, as Tim Blanning suggests in his book The Romantic Revolution, the Romantic literary movement was just as preoccupied with the darker aspects of the human subconscious. As well as…

Many of the violent events that have occurred in our nation’s recent history have a common theme; the offenders have a history of mental illness. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration reported that in 2012 approximately 43.7 million (18.6%) American adults had a diagnosable mental illness in the previous year with 9.6 million (4.1%) considered to be serious mental illnesses.1 Many people who experience mental illness will never hurt others but will consider or commit…

An adolescent female browsing Tumblr sees glamorous images of fifties teens swinging around the sock hop and sipping milkshakes through a straw in a Grease-esque diner. “I was born in the wrong era,” she says. The jubilant fifties teens join together to do the hand jive in their poodle skirts and leather jackets. “I wish I could have been alive in the fifties,” adolescent girl sighs. Although the imagery is captivating, it masks the female discontent of the Era of Affluence. What the nostalgic…

In his book “Debt, the first 5000 years”, David Graeber introduces us to a novel theory about the development of human relationships, money, commerce, and markets. The author himself has direct experience in Anthropology, although limited in comparison to other great ones in the field such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, he did study tribes in Madagascar and had other relevant first-hand encounters with the science. By making use of his past mentioned knowledge, but also by drawing parallel ideas and…