Pessimism

It is difficult to describe the concept of scientific realism since there are many different views and variations of what it truly is. Through my research, I have found scientific realism to define as a belief that well-developed scientific theories are undoubtedly true, and that they work to explain the observable and unobservable aspects of the universe. There are many disagreements that center around whether scientific realism is plausible or not. I disagree with the idea of scientific…

Life is not a void filled with despair and difficulties as Hamlet has depicted in his soliloquy. Looking at Roger Ebert and Steve Jobs, we can see that it is possible to be content with your life even though it may seem like an unrealistic dream to some. Just because you can’t see it now doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And it most certainly does not mean you won’t be able to find happiness later down the road. Life is valuable; it just depends on how you choose to look at it. Hamlet does not…

He conveys that, “Cronkite questioned the credibility of American officials who saw “silver linings” in the “darkest clouds.” Yet he cautioned against yielding to “unreasonable pessimism,” settling instead for “the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion.” The war was stalemated and “the only rational way out” was through negotiation.” (Pach, Online, 2008). The significance of Cronkite’s reading of the editorial piece was not…

Poem Analysis The poem “The Power of the Word” is written by Lawson Fusao, a Japanese American poet. This poem is not a narrative poem and is closer to a lyrical poem. It shows us how the narrator, under a hostile environment, is trying to find the way to a better future. We can infer from the poem that the author is talking about the unfair and cruel experience of Japanese American in the 20th century. During that world war two, Japanese immigrants faced a lot of restrictions and many of them…

The second stanza takes a dark turn at the introduction of the condor. A condor is a bird of prey, constantly vigilant, always hovering. It is this image that indicates the negative emotions related to the final stanza, it shows the looming of pessimism on the adult mind, how there is never any time to relax and that ’I have no time for idle cares,’. Love’s Alchemy addresses this same issue, but not in the same context. The speaker believes that attempting to find and understand love is a…

Upon completing interview one and two, I surmise that interviewing is not as easy as it appears. Whether it be asking questions to a stranger, friend, or a family member, there are still levels of discomfort because my role changes. I am no longer their friend who can talk in a causal manner, I have to contemplate and decide what questions to ask and how to prevent boundary violations. With friends and family, I often do not perceive this and conversations are more lenient. It was difficult to…

American literary sphere for his speech at the 1950 Nobel Banquet, where, after accepting his award, he begins to address an issue that he feels is plaguing young new writers of that generation: writing with the notion of the apocalypse, unyielding pessimism, and selfishness. To Faulkner, writing about human emotion, empathy, and hope are the only things worth writing about, and this is something that he feels new writers don’t include because of the time period they live in - the early 1950s,…

introduced by American history text books is that the United States is better than all other nations. This is displayed when textbooks misleadingly inform readers that the pilgrims had “just the right combination of hopes and fears, optimism and pessimism, self-confidence and humility” and that there settling was “one of the most fortunate coincidences in our history” (84). Truthfully speaking, the pilgrims could control the Indians due to epidemics that had wiped out their populations. One…

Adam’s characterisation. Despite Adam’s longing desperation for his father, they can never be together and this potent sense of loss is portrayed through frequent analepses, from which Adam awakes “exhausted...gasping for air” (46), justifying Adam’s pessimism: his relationship with Diana “cannot survive him losing his job” (85). Thus, my explicit foreshadowing that “in a couple of weeks they would be separated” (46), anticipates the outcome which, ironically, magnifies Adam’s desolation and the…

Rocky and Body and Soul are both movies that fit comfortably into the boxing genre, a genre that has been defined by its typical pattern of the unknown boxer rising to fame, falling, and rising again. Leger Grindon encapsulates the commonalities of these movies and the boxing film genre in what he calls the “master plot” (Grindon 57). When Rocky and Body and Soul are held up next to the master plot it becomes evident that each fits in quite well, but each also has features that separate it from…