Spoke

“I spoke to the devil in Miami, he said everything would be fine”. Good morning/ Afternoon members of the Poetry Road Show. Jahseh Onfroy, better known by his stage name XXXTentacion, is an American rapper from Lauderhill, Florida. Despite best been known for his breakthrough track, “look at me”, containing, vile, explicit language, he has been misrepresented. Throughout his career, Jahseh has expressed his feelings of depression and grief. This is evident in his track, “I Spoke to The Devil in…

Marcus Aurelius once said: “If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.” There are many dragons in every person’s life, they might not realize or notice it but when they do they try there best to defeat it. Not every person is capable of defeating his or her dragon; it takes strength, courage, and bravery. There are many dragons I would like to defeat. Some of them I know I could…

Race is an entirely arbitrary parameter by which to judge any human being, and it is detrimental to the advancement of our global society to do so in any fashion. Students across our nation are being held back by laws that were created on a foundation of racism and bigotry, which are supported by those who have been indoctrinated with such anti-logical dogma, rather than those who have analyzed their own ideologies and edited them when found to be lacking in any sort of intrinsic value. In the…

The process of putting two disparate philosophers in dialogue with each other, in an attempt to reconcile their views, is an old philosophical tradition. Early Christians grappled with making platonic theory and catholic doctrine compatible. The great scholars of Bagdad worked to let Aristotle and the Quran stand side by side. While it may seem like such attempts are simply efforts to “have cake and eat it too”, there is much to be learned from evaluating a text in light of what may at first…

In the 1882 collection The Gay Science German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first stated the idea “God is dead!” a point which he later referred back to throughout his body of work. The death of God has become a widely quoted statement and as such has met various interpretations and misinterpretations leading to a wide general debate as to whether Nietzsche was actually correct in proclaiming the death of God. In answering this question, it becomes of fundamental importance that there must be…

20 April, 2018 R&R #5 1. What is the most important spoke in the CRM wheel and why? You may only choose one. I think the spoke that is most important, other than those wanting their rights of freedom, is the fear of change. Fearing the unknown stemmed a lot of other spokes like hate groups, military power, and civil disobedience. The fear of “mixing” led to arbitrary racism in which people picked and chose what places need to be segregated. While over a hundred years later, there are…

In this article, Stephen T. Asma claims that play is valuable to humans. The first reason he gave is that play is vital for humanity. Asma further supported this by using Nietzsche’s three-step development in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The development describes the process of spiritual transformation symbolically represented by the camel, lion and child. The focus is on the transformation from carrying obligations as a camel, to rebellion for its freedom as a lion to finally evolving into…

I was born in the town, Fayetteville in North Carolina. Fayetteville is a small town that had a Wall-Mart, The Waffle House, Bojangles, and a Ruby Tuesday. If, you were to drive by and blink, you would have missed it. I went to church every Sunday like a good Catholic and I also went to a Catholic private school. Church and school constantly repeated the same message “follow the Ten Commandments.” I grew up in a very a religious environment that ultimately sheltered me from the “real” world. I…

hubs allocate funding to and coordinate activities of the spokes, community-based organizations. Both the healthcare system and community-based organizations work together to manage health promotion activities and health and social services delivery. This is mainly done by the healthcare system contracting and purchasing services through the community organizations. Though relatively new, there is emerging evidence to suggest hub and spoke models may be a promising solution to improving the…

one person stands up for what they believe in and say it loud enough for all to hear people will join their cause like an avalanche. One example of this would be slavery in America. Slavery went on for years but no one ever spoke out against the cruelties in it. Until one man spoke out with the right pitch, this man was Abraham Lincoln. He pushed and pushed for the abolishment of slavery until he was heard and the country took his back like an avalanche. This quote relates to “The Hangman”…