Ray Allen

What Is Heroism? “The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by,”(Felix Adler). This quote of heroism from Felix Adler makes sense, Mr. Adler worked as a professor in political and social ethics, Adler also developed other's minds so that these people could also succeed in this world. In his works he definitely saw examples of a hero. Some of the household heroes that Adler got to experience were presidents like…

A sizzling pan is pictured as we hear, “This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” The egg is cracked and cooks over the heat. This commercial has been etched in my memory since childhood. The issue of legalizing drugs has been debated even longer. Gore Vidal wrote his article “Drugs: Case for Legalizing Marijuana” in The New York Times in 1970, a full 17 years before the aforementioned commercial hit the television airwaves. Vidal’s piece was ahead of its time, but still…

Jean Baudrillard The Hyper-realism of Simulation In Baudrillard's essay “The Hyper-realism of Simulation (originally published in 1976), He stresses that the use of media, signs, and symbols has overloaded our culture to the point that “reality itself, as something separable from signs of it …vanished in the information-saturated, media-dominated contemporary world” (J.Baudrillard, 2006). Mass Media i.e television, photography, and advertising have shaped and our human interaction and…

Jean-Paul Sartre, who is often referred as the founder of existentialism, hated to be identified as an existentialist, for he deemed it a violation of his individualist philosophy to be a part of a literary movement. He even rejected the name because he deemed it to be too confining! Existentialism at its conception rotated around the “life is without purpose” mantra; however, with the introduction of authors such as Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, a new light illuminated…

SUMMARY Sets in the futuristic period, Guy Montag, a fireman, who, paradoxically, burns houses and illegally owned books. One night, after having burning quite number of homes and books, Montag met Clarisse, who happens to be his old neighbor. Clarisse, a seventeen year old, who is like a typical teenager, who likes to talk but what Clarisse sets from other teens is that she question about the world and nature In the course of the chapter one: part one, Clarisse asked Montag if he is happy, and…

Historical Narrative Rāhula’s story My dear students, I have gathered you all today to tell you a story. Of course, not an ordinary made-up one that we usually tell around the fire, but my story. The story of how my father was enlightened. The story of how I rejected the foul beliefs of Hinduism, how I stopped believing in the Brahman, and how I started living the life I do today as a monk. I, Rāhula, will tell you the story of my humble beginnings. When I was a young boy, I knew very little…

Utopia is a novel that belongs to the science fiction genre, written in 2008 by Ahmad Khaled Towfik, an Egyptian doctor and writer. The novel is about an imaginary ideal place that predicts the near future of 2020 after the end of petroleum economy in Cairo, Egypt. The author divides the country into two social classes; concentrating mainly on the rich and the poor, while omitting the middle class completely. The rich utopian side as depicted in the novel, is where people live in a luxurious…

In her article, “The Flight from Conversation,” Sherry Turkle argues that technology is destroying the art of conversation. The author has her reasons for persuading the audience about why technology is destroying conversations, thus making it harder for the average person to start a conversation. Most people today are aware what we call conversations isn’t what it used to be, because times have changed. I argue that people don’t talk anymore because technology takes people away from each…

The Ugly American The Ugly American was a political novel written by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, depicted through different vignettes, how our inability to understand our operational environment, failing to assimilate into another culture along with an inflated sense of superiority can be disastrous to diplomacy abroad. The book really showed how an individual can impact the impression of a culture and a nation on to another country by their ability or inability to integrate themselves…

Charjully Goff Ms. Lippay English 9th September 23rd, 2014 Banned Books “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame”- Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. Banned books are books that people can’t have access to. This is considered also as book censorship, sometimes due to religious, political and moral purposes. The main books that have been banned are usually because they contain religion purposes that might offend, sex scenes, drugs, prostitution,…