Puppet on a String

Transcendentalism is an idealistic approach to identity, nature, humanity, and divinity. The themes derived from Emerson and Thoreau center on this transcendental view of self-reliance and nature. In Thoreau’s Walden, he uses key points Emerson shows in Self-Reliance. The two men carry a great influential impact on society showing ideas of non-conformity, infancy, identity, the meaning of self-reliance, and an overall connection to nature. Emerson and Thoreau teach what purpose nature has to…

Strangers are simply friends, we haven’t met yet. Strangers are dangerous. Strangers are strange. To someone I am a stranger, and to me you’re a stranger. We may become friends, or we may continue to walk different paths the rest of this lifetime. This could be down to luck, destiny, or our own life planning. Due to frequent déjàvu episodes I sign onto the internet to ferret out information. According to the medical websites, this could be the sign that a mental illness is about to present…

being a needed field of study, since many feel males have always dominated all fields of study just by the virtue of being men, so how can men have problems? This becomes especially true when we try to compare women v men instead of men v. the social strings that guide them. The role of masculinity…

In modern day society, new forms of technology that improve communication, convenience, and other factors in a person’s everyday life are constantly being developed and studied. One issue that an average consumer may not realize is how dangerous and influential the desirable devices can be. Many authors of various forms of literature and art have explored the restrictions that technology has on human interaction and thought using concepts such as symbolism and characterization. Ray Bradbury, in…

It has been known for a long time that the witches, demons or other creatures with the supernatural powers, especially in the past, have influenced people's lives to a great extent. Every single person believes in their power, magic and will. People are afraid of their ability to affect others and to predict the future. Humans recon that their predictions are inevitable and everything what they say, fulfils in its own pace. In this paper I will focus on the significant role of the…

A couple of weeks ago in my Intro to Lit class, we read John Milton’s Paradise Lost and it tells the story of how it all began from Satan’s perspective. I suddenly became curious as to how Satan was able to get himself cast from Heaven. Is there human freedom in Heaven? I believe that this is an extremely important question to me because we are in a continuous spiritual battle here on earth and I just wonder if the fall of man could happen again in Heaven. Is there human freedom in Heaven? Do…

The second half of the 19th century was a period of significant change in American Cities. Industrialism, growing of labor unions, change in immigration Patters, growth in entertainment, development of political machines and bossism and significant changes in quality of life made the latter half of the 19th century full of dramatic growth, diversity and transformation of American Cities. The era of Reconstruction (1870) to the end of the 19th century, the United States underwent an economic…

The exception though is Trump. While the other candidates are merely puppets of the GOP, Trump isn't reliant on any money or power provided by the party. Trump actually self funds his own campaign, severing any ties that would put him under the control of the GOP. With any other candidates, the voter can never be sure of who they really are voting for, but with Trump there is no question that he will be the one pulling the strings in the white…

Completely out-of-touch with his people, he fiddled the figures to produce a turnout for Saigon of over 650,000 when only around 425,000 were registered. This fiddling of elections showed what the Americans’ real priorities were – rather than focusing on installing democracy, they were focusing on not installing communism. In an almost entirely Buddhist country, Diêm was a devout Roman Catholic, one who favoured the rich landowners over the peasants – a mistake that, combined with his…

main contributing factor of the heaviness was Tony Iommi, guitarist of Black Sabbath. When he was younger, his fingertips were severed in an accident. Because of this, he tuned his guitar lower to make it easier for his fingers to play and bend the strings. This resulted in a heavy, dark sound. Many of their songs had lyrics with occult or horror themes, dealing with Satan, magic, monsters, and demons. One of their most famous songs, Black Sabbath, deals with a vision that Geezer Butler, their…