Rapture

Part I. What is a Worldview? Worldview is one’s interpretation of the world around him. Hindson and Caner text tell us that “worldview is the framework of belief’s by which a person view’s the world” (498). Worldview is derived from ones beliefs and upbringing. Actions, decisions, thoughts, and conversations are all influenced by ones worldview. Other influences on ones worldview may include media, parents, or environment (Lew and Gutierrez ch. 4a). As an individual gets older, their…

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not man the less, but nature more.” This quote by George Gordon Byron depicts how beautiful nature is and how much he loves and admires it. Unfortunately, nature has become less respected as years have passed. Early authors of the Puritan and Romantic Era, with works including “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” by Anne Bradstreet;…

at one of the greatest stories in all of video games, the story of Bioshock. Set in the 1960’s in the underwater utopia of Rapture, a city built on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean to be a haven of expression and objectivism by business mogul Andrew Ryan, Bioshock is a first person shooter entailing the arduous adventure of Jack (the player character). Jack is trapped in Rapture after his airplane explodes over the city and comes to find that the city was brought to ruin on New Year’s Eve 1958 by…

In Part II, I wrote about the purpose and part which human suffering plays (or should be playing) in the world. Instead, if we are able, we shut our eyes and remove ourselves far from human suffering or we revel in it vicariously. We take the pastoral or prurient path, whenever we can. The first is a form of fantasy infantilism, whete we pretend the Problem doesn't exist. No need to take any action other than insulating ourselves from that “non-existent” threat. The other is a bloodlust…

Social media’s population is expanding, with people creating new social media accounts daily. This causes career opportunities to arise, a successful career being producing click farms. The article “How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media” written by Doug Bock Clark, in the May 2015 edition of The New Republic, explains the status of click farms. Click Farms are online establishments that allow customers buy social media influence to boost their standing. Kim Capisong is an employee for an…

song was inducted into the National Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. For many this was their first introduction to hip-hop music. Hip-hop exploded to the forefront in the 80’s when Blondie song “Rapture” became the first number 1 song in the US that featured rapping. The song mentions Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash, two prominent artists in early hip-hop. The music video features Fab Five Freddy, graffiti artist Lee Quinones, and…

Krakauer describes the effect that the world would have on Chris, or so he thinks. “The suffering is replaced by a sublime euphoria, a sense of calm accompanied by transcendent mental clarity. It would be nice to think McCandless experience a similar rapture.”(Krakauer 198). Krakauer describes how he and Chris were put into nature, but how it helped them to clear their minds. After they had everything thrown at them, they could realize the real meaning of things. Naturalism comes in many…

But he do not know where is it.So he is regard Mary as Galatea. And when he know Mary is not a wax statue any more. He is rapture as if all fortunate in the world decade in him.With the tome goes by,he can not help doubting himself.Why he can not love “Galatea” as deep as he first saw her.Mary is conscious of the change of him.Maybe love makes someone selfish.She pretend everything…

Reflection Essay Progress is, by definition, an onward or forward movement to a destination, goal, or outcome. Progress takes time. Progress is not a simple task that can always be done overnight especially when talking about human civilization. The western world has taken life times to reach the point that is has become in this century. For those of my generation, this progress is slow and is not noticeable to the naked eye, but even going as far back as a few decades we can see that many…

In Moliere's play Tartuffe, the main character's name is Tartuffe, which like the definition of his name is someone who is a hypocritical pretender to piety. Throughout the book we see many different sides of Tartuffe. We see him acting religious, angry, excited, and we see him acting as his true self. A pretender to piety. He is able to easily trick Orgon into disowning Damis his son and giving Tartuffe all of his foutune and land and tries to seduce Orgon's wife Elmire. At the end of the play,…