Shaggy Rogers

Death is Inevitable Drew Magary explores the subtle differences between youth, aging, death, and overpopulation the post-aging world of The Postmortal. These anti-aging, “postmortals”, believe that death can never overcome them due to their ability to not age. What these postmortals don’t realize is that death is inevitable. The novel follows postmortal John on his journey from being afraid of death and procuring the cure, to willing to die so that others can live on. John’s story forces…

The desire to get what one wants is a natural characteristics that the human race possesses. We want things now and we are not afraid to make it known. Often we can provide certain things for ourselves like clothes, food, and shelter but there also things that require persuading someone in order to obtain something we need, like buying car or purchasing a home, but one must be able to negotiate in order to obtain one’s target point especially when dealing with money, which can make interpersonal…

off after their softball game and discovered the body of his wife Doris Angleton who had been shot thirteen times there were no signs of forced entry into the home. However, during their marriage together, it was also rumored that Roberts brother Roger Angleton had made…

An individual’s identity is shaped through a complex interaction between internal and external forces which form the basis of one’s values and attitudes. Orson Welles’ revolutionary film Citizen Kane (1941) examines the psychologically damaging effects of internal conflict brought on by parental neglect and the morally corruptive impacts of an unchecked pursuit for power and influence. While a critical analysis may provide insight into these notions, the prevailing notion posited through the…

From Rotten Tomatoes to Roger Ebert, film reviews are informative literary mediums through which critics analyze a film’s overall quality, with the goal of distinguishing whether or not the film is worth watching. A film review has a typical structure: it is comprised of an introduction that provides basic background information about the film, actors, producers, and directors. It is generally followed by a brief plot summary, film analysis (of themes, film technique, acting, etc.), and a…

News Headlines on My Birthday I was born on June 8, 1995, in Charleston, South Carolina. If I could go back in time to that day and pick up a newspaper, I would learn about what was happening in the world on the day I was born. The Science section of The New York Times on June 7, 1995 featured a story about Astronaut Dr. Norman E. Thagard breaking the United States space endurance record. Astronaut Thagard broke the record by staying on Mir, Russia’s space station, for 84 days. Russia’s space…

In Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton point out that when negotiating, people have an inclination toward positional bargaining. When using this method in negotiations, people argue from their respective positions in favor of their desired outcomes, and the authors suggest that this method does little to reach ideal solutions, is inefficient, and puts relationships at risk. Throughout the book, they provide instructions for using the method they term “Principled…

The children were located in their classroom at approximately 11:05 a.m. on Thursday, November 3, 2016. The children had just got back from lunch and were busy getting back to their routines. The children’s ages ranges from five to six years old. The teacher, Ms. Otts, had arranged tables of 3 children per table. Each table was using play doh as their material. The teacher gives each student one container of play doh and instructs the students to see how many circles they can make out of each…

Nothing is Needed for Something Many people judge their success on how much they have and the material possessions around them; Ernest Hemingway, however, believes people must accept they are nothing to achieve true success and happiness. Nothingness is a difficult concept for many to grasp, but it becomes more clear with age what nothingness means. People also often do not want to accept or believe they are nothing in the world. Most believe they have a specific purpose and are in some way…

‘Rear Window shows how easy it is to be deceived by appearances.’ Discuss. Hitchcock’s critically acclaimed thriller ‘Rear Window’ details the life of 1950s New York - where affluence, materialism and patriarchy were valued. The deceit that plagues the plot of the story, strips bare the constructed facades that underpin the film and as a result, highlights how easy it is to be deceived by appearances. Although innocent in nature, these facades act as the foundations for LB ‘jeff’ Jefferies’…