PostScript

Seventh grade I simultaneously tapped my leg on the floor and my pencil to my desk. I looked around the room and examined all of my classmates. No one seemed as nervous as me. My teacher slid my test towards me and I felt my stomach drop as soon as I read the first couple of questions. I had no idea what any of the information was and I knew there was absolutely no way I was passing the test. What’s ridiculous is that even though I didn’t study, I felt bad for myself. “Are you okay?” my…

Facing the growing intellectual embrace of objective values and truth in his time regarding matters of how one should live, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard recognized a crisis in the (then) modern conception of selfhood. Similar to the way in which the Greeks speculated about the “good life” (E.g. the way Aristotle associated his idea of eudaimonia with the attainment of the highest form of human rationality), a collective desire for certainty and objective truth amongst his contemporaries…

The movie Minority Report By steven Spielberg, highlights a possible future as predicted by Deleuze in his “Postscript on the Societies of Control”, as well as Foucault's theory of Biopolitics. A neo-noir science fiction thriller loosely based off a short story by Philip K. Dick. In terms of themes, story and character development the movie was ahead of its time. The plausibility of the technology was impressive 90% of technology used in the movie is most definitely within reach by the time of…

Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday; and in her postscript it was added, that if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very well (ch.12 pg.42),” she was trying to portray one of the main problems that many families usually had during the time, which was marriage. In…

Nick Fest AP Language Mrs. Pittner August 15th, 2017 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Task 1: C.V. “Dave,” I said. “Take me home! I have to push!” (This was the word we were given for this particular function.) David didn’t want to hear it. “Go do it in the woods,” he said. It would take at least half an hour to walk me home, and he had no intention of giving up such a shining stretch of time just because his little brother had to take a dump. “I can’t!” I said, shocked by the…

Francis Crick, notable molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, challenges free will in a postscript in his book about the brain and consciousness, The Astonishing Hypothesis. He assumes that the brain determines many possible options in a scenario, and unconsciously computes the decision. He claims that people are aware of final decisions, but…

representation of women during the French Revolution. Gouges’ pamphlet basically takes a similar format as Paine’s pamphlet, where Gouges presents a list of rights that women should have. After her lists of the rights of women, Gouges writes in her postscript, how woman are treated unequal and are forgotten even though women at the time fought hard as men in the French Revolution. Readers see that when Gouges writes, “Enslaved man has multiplied his strength and needs recourse to yours to break…

character. The reader can find humor in the closings are sometimes as well: "Your friend," "Your best reader," "Your favorite reader," "Disgusted reader," "Your pooped reader," "Still disgusted," "Pooped writer," and "Fooey on you." Some of the postscripts appeal to young readers too like “De liver or” De better”…

Western commentary appearing in circulation between 1953 and 1965 was cautiously declinist, predicting a loss of living standards gained during the initial land reform years. This opinion was largely based upon the notion that Mao’s FFYP was to be firmly rooted in the Soviet model of FFYP, the latter having caused a substantial decline in peasant living standards and conditions. In these terms, the ambitious FFYP, geared towards the rapid industrialisation of heavy and light industry, was…

perceiving the color. Therefore, she did not have the physical experience and consequently not all the physical information. In addition, Frank Jackson replied to his own argument years later, explaining problems he found within his article. In his “Postscript On Qualia”, he gave two reasons for changing his mind: one, that you could have a false memory trace, or misremember something causing you to have a false idea of what the color red is, and two, that causal origins must not outrun the…