Sublime

Against masculinity When I was a small, school-age child, perhaps 7 or 8, I brought a new book to class for morning reading. It happened to be “Baby Island,” a 1937 novel that Wikipedia describes as “Robinson Crusoe… but with four babies.” My intention, on that brisk fall morning, was to pull the paperback out of my backpack and open it to my bookmark. “What is that? Why are you reading that?” someone asked. A cluster formed around my desk, to see the boy who was not reading a very boyish book…

Pikmin has taught them how to manage and allocate resources. Minecraft has taught them how to cooperate to reach a common goal. The Super Mario games have sharpened their reflexes, and their eye-hand coordination skills have been fine-tuned in sublime ways. From nearly all of their games they have learned that no plan is foolproof, and that plans sometimes require reworking when the situation demands. They are not constrained by the limitations of their physical size or physical ability. They…

Heading into the Alaska ill-prepared would be considered a death wish in the eyes of many but for Chris McCandless this journey had a greater meaning. In the book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer tells how a young man named Chris McCandless left everything he had and everyone that loved him behind to go live in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer also leaves it up to the reader to determine whether or not Chris McCandless was crazy, a sociopath, or an outcast for heading into Alaska the…

245) Dickens projects Sabbatarian London as likewise involving "an utter depression of soul"--"Melancholy streets, in penitential garb of soot, steeped the souls of the people who were condemned to look at them out of windows in dire despondency" (67)--before moving to the Povian "dreariness of thought" (245) that also characterized the Sabbaths of Arthur's childhood: There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract…

projects, and it's similarly magnificent that they appreciate her husband, Jim Thorburn, as well. I continuously maintain that Hallmark supports family values by employing several couples within their network in various capacities, and it gives me a sublime feeling to witness Hallmark's dedication to family in that fashion. While Tammy is a highly esteemed supporting actress within the realm of this splendid network, she has not yet appeared as a leading lady, and her husband has not appeared as…

When one imagens the idea of a “good life” there are many different things might spring to mind. The Romans and Greeks had different ideas of this “good life” and so do I. The way one thinks about this achieved life can illuminate what values they hold. Romans value consistency. Greeks value the middle line, which is sometimes described as average. There are multiple others, but this paper mentions just a few. As shown in the textbook, tells us in Seneca’s On Tranquility of Mind explains that…

A Hero of Our Time is proportionate to an adventure tale, in which we see a combination of beauty and danger, where the mountains and waterfalls are sublime and never provoke a sense of horror, shock, or breathlessness. And thus, the narrators work to capture and convey this sense of trepidation, elation, and other extreme emotions through the…

Edgar Allan Poe has become a vital figure in the world of literature based on his gothic short stories, Cask of Amontillado to The Fall of House Usher and Tell-Tale Heart, each unique in their own way as they have attracted more people to his books for over two centuries. In his short stories, Poe has shown numerous amounts of descriptive and unsettling imagery with different techniques, adding an eerie mood along with suspenseful syntax. Poe not only incorporates techniques such as unsettling…

The Romantic movement provided readers with works consisting of passionate emotion, an appreciation for the natural world, and individualism. Elements of Romanticism have been recognized in works from a multitude of different cultures. Significantly, William Wordsworth is widely known as one of the great English Romantic poets. In addition, Walt Whitman, an American poet, has also been acknowledged for the Romantic elements in his works. Although both poets are from two different cultures, their…

Further, this essay is also noteworthy and very prophetic, since Kant hints at the distinction between hypothetical and categorical imperatives which became more prominent in his thought as he developed his philosophy. One ought to do this or that and not some other things.’ This is the formula under which every obligation is proclaimed. Every ought presents a necessity of action and is qualified for two meanings: either I ought to do something as a means if I wish something else as an end, or…