Reaction time

more complex than usual in some way, as it’s more a self-conflict. Val is trying to take all the attention away from Cameron and that is causing her to become in opposition to him and even in some way with her mother. Val does not really spend much time describing herself however it is quite easy to evaluate the fact that she is uptight based on the fact that a lot of her brother’s life events seemed to annoy her greatly. After the event with her mother in the hospital, she realizes that she…

forever. However, Nagel suggests that even if we took up a larger portion of the universe, or if we lived forever, our lives would still be meaningless; our meaninglessness would just take up a larger percentage of space, or exist for a longer amount of time. Nagel states that these reasons are attempts to express the absurdity of life which arises from the paradoxical conscious awareness of our gratuitous stance in the world in combination with our need to take our lives seriously. Nagel…

“I will win. not immediately but definitely”. I live through what the life book throws at me. The mental pain became my strength instead of my punishment of undeserving torture and self-pity. Every day I start my morning right even if the voice destroyed my confidence last night. "I am stuck with you for life, you can't get rid of me". The dark entity daunts my essential energy of trying my limits. I decide not to ignore the voice but take advantage and transform each statement into a challenge…

In the Song of Solomon we go beyond further, we become able to fly, we leave all the material possessions behind, all the fakeness that we are born with all must be gone. In the article “Song of Solomon: To Ride the Air”, the author Dorothy H. Lee explains how important is for us to learn to fly and how this is related to going forward. Flying means to leave the ground, to go further than forward, even though when this seems to be really difficult and we might not be prepared to “leave the…

infinity” and in Otherwise than Being, Levinas is problematizing time and its relation to being. Time, in one sense, is alluded when the word “before” or “anterior” is used many times, but also “present,” a time that seems to be out of phase or dislocated; how can it be anterior and present? Here are a couple of quotes (that I already worked) where time is treated by Levinas: The differing of the identical is also its manifestation. But time is also a recuperation of all divergences, through…

pros and cons of getting a job, thought about it for months, and researched, but finally made the decision that I needed a job if I wanted to enjoy my summers, so even if I wanted to relax, it wouldn’t be very fun. After this moment, I spent even more time figuring out what jobs I could get and where. I started looking first at golf courses because a few of my friends worked there but it was a bust, none would hire me. I checked fast food restaurants but all required you to be at least 16. I…

her, these variables ensures a clear route for avoiding financial instability. Alice then wants to buy a house and save for her children's education, which are two great accomplishments that needs proper financial planning and a time frame. Alice needs to identify her time frame for buying a house because if she has no achievement point there cannot be proper financial planning. With no proper financial planning in place Alice also cannot plan for her children's education fund, how much does she…

you’re attracted to the future? Let’s hear as Nancy Situ explains her complicated relationship with the future in her essay “The Future is All I Think Of”. Nancy: I’m in love with him. Who do you ask? The future. Perhaps it’s hard to imagine a state of time as someone to love so let’s put him in simpler terms. Imagine someone that abuses you, loves you, scares you, but comforts you. That’s the future. It’s impossible not to think about him. He’s always there. He’ll be there tomorrow, the day…

to take this step, everyone told her that the past was in the past. They told her to forget the past and instead, move on to the future. Because of this, exactly three months and twenty-seven days later, my friend attempted suicide again. And this time, she succeeded. This disconnect between the past and the future, this insistence on moving on from the past, cost this girl her life. The worst part is that this is not an isolated event. More than a million adults and 1.152 million high school…

full attention is not on the road, but instead on their device. Texting takes the driver’s attention away from driving more frequently and for longer periods than other distractions. It takes their attention away from driving for a longer period of time because they have to read and process what they received. Other distractions such as eating or fiddling around with the entertainment system can be done while looking at the road. Although these options are not safe either, they are more safe…