Refrain

A passage from Lord Byron’s, “The Giaour”, caught my attention it reads: “But first, on earth as vampire sent/ Thy corse shall from be rent:/Then ghastly haunt thy native place/And suck the blood of all thy race/ There from thy daughter, sister, wife/ At midnight drain the stream of life;/ Yet loathe the banquet which perforce/ Must feed they livid living corse:/ Thy victims ere they yet expire/ Shall know the demon for their sire, / As cursing thee, thou cursing them” This is the first text…

In An Inquiry Concerning Morals, David Hume writes about what his view of justice is. Hume believes that when it comes to justice in a society, there is no need to prove justice and that ‘public utility’ is the origin of justice. Hume states, “… the rules of equity or justice depend entirely on the particular state and condition, in which men are placed, and owe their origin and existence to that utility which results to the public from their strict and regular observance” (Hume, pg. 86). To…

A Different Strategy When there is no concept of hell, or any other horrifying threat, how is one supposed to keep robbers and murderers off the street? When one thinks about it, the truth is that many of us refrain from immoral activities not just because of the burden of wrongdoing that one will inevitably find, but also because in many religions, people are naturally petrified of going to hell or some other type of afterlife where they will be tortured for their sins on Earth. And even those…

The Pail canon I always founded that the Buddhism story is very interested and inspirational. The story about the the parable of the person with the arrow points out that when asking a question, we shouldn’t just look into detail but a big picture. Otherwise we could lost the essential meaning of escaping from suffering. My uncle once tells me that we human shouldn’t have any annoyance or irritability of everything, because thats all about attachment to something, and lead to bad karma.…

staying sober’s harder.’’ The emphasis of the beat comes from all the one- and two-syllable words. They almost fall like footsteps, echoing the speaker’s trek forward (‘’The day by day; the drudge and boredom bit”), even as the evolving rhyme and refrains reflect her growing awareness as she makes her journey through addiction. The word ‘’hard’’ has a clear emphasis on the difficulty of the poet’s situation, one can only imagine this is ongoing and hard to get away from. The poets use of the…

Appearance Vs. Reality The appearance of something sometimes can truly be valid, but it also can be invalid. Things may seem to be one way, but in reality that thing might not really be true. An example of this theme can be seen in The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is about a man who writes about his interactions with his wealthy neighbor named Jay Gatsby, in New York City during the 1920s. In the novel Mr. Gatsby re-ignites a past love of his…

over war gives the war itself great power, the power to take human life and destroy the ones left behind. Crane utilizes a metaphor to illustrate the kingdom of the battle-god as “A field where a thousand corpses lie” which, as aforementioned, is a refrain (Crane 11). A metaphor is when a word or phrase denoting one thing is used in place of another to compare them. The field Crane describes is the battle-god’s compared to his kingdom by using it in place of the kingdom. The battle-god is so…

salaries of the workers in the film industry because their salaries are part of the cost that movie producers try to reduce (Strauss). In other words, to reduce their costs, producers choose to hire extras instead of hiring additional actors, or they refrain to expend in high-end visual effects to save the costs of these services. In addition, the movie industry directly hires actors, visual effects, and hairdressers, and it indirectly affects food suppliers, banks, and even real estate.…

“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.” This thought-provoking quote is from Betty Friedan’s book, The Feminine Mystique, which was published 53 years ago. Now that we are in the twenty-first century, it is reasonable to presume that society has overcome gender barriers. However, slight traces of gender inequality still linger today. Just like race, skin color, and religion, gender should not pose an issue in any…

a process referred to as a Statement of Demonstrable Ability (SODA). You may be able to get your vision test arranged so that you are tested on if you can differentiate airport lighting and ATC light signals. 2) 14 CFR 91.17(a)(3) says you must refrain from acting as pilot, or required crew member while on a medication, and until you no longer have symptoms. You can first ask yourself if this medication is going to affect your vision, alertness, judgment, or sense of balance. If it’s a…