Taylors

Poetry is one of the infamous outlets for expressing feelings through analogies, imagery and wordplay. Edward Taylor is one poet who shared of his various emotions in finding love and having children, but having a few of them pass away. In “Upon Wedlock”, and “Death of Children”, Taylor shared the different emotions that he felt including, love, grief and humility. He shared his feelings of love, expressing it as a knot “God has made in paradise”…

So far in Charles Taylor’s “The Ethics of Authenticity,” Taylor has been an advocate for individualism. Taylor consistently remarks that individualism is part of modern society/culture. While he understands that critics of modern society lay blame on individualism as the contributing factor to the decay of culture/society, he believes that there are aspects that should be commended. In the chapters 3-6, Taylor discusses how individualism is more just the center of the 3 malaises, rather its…

Text Messages with Taylor Two people meet in all sorts of ways, Taylor Booker’s parents met in a funny way. Her dad, Mark, was twenty two at the time when he jumped out in front of a car of recent high school graduates. The driver, Lisa, slammed on her brakes, looking at the guy that she was going to fall in love with. Mark and Lisa stayed in Salmon, Idaho as a happy couple and had their only child, Taylor, on March 30, 2000 in Salmon. Mark and Lisa never married but have been together since…

In the story "Teenage Wasteland" by Anne Taylor, Donny is to blame for his own disappearance because he didn't put enough effort into school, and he had a bad group of friends. Donny’s mom, Daisy, tried to help her son by, “[checking] Donny’s assignments every day. She sat next to him as he worked, trying to be encouraging” (Tyler 287). Daisy tried to help Donny by encouraging him to do good and helping work through his homework, but didn’t take full advantage of this opportunity. He had easily…

Gardner Calvin Taylor was conceived on June 18, 1918, in Baton Rouge, La., to the Rev. Washington M. furthermore and Selena Taylor. His dad, conceived in 1870 to liberated slaves, was a Baptist minister and passed on when Gardner was 13. He was raised by his mom, who was an instructor. He went to isolated schools and experienced his childhood in a city so focused on keeping races separated it showered pesticides to murder mosquitoes just in white neighborhoods, stopping at the edge of black…

The Mexican-American War: A Forgotten Fight What do most people think of when they think of the Alamo? Defenders dying in a heroic last stand? Or the unmerciful slaughter of innocent men trying to protect their homes from invaders? Is that all they think of? There is much more to the Mexican-American War than most people think there is. Despite the fact that it is overshadowed by other major historical events, the Mexican-American War is one of the most important events in the history of the…

Is it true? Are you the one? Were you stuck on a island by yourself? In the book, The Cay by Theodore Taylor there is a young man whose name is Phillip. In the book Phillip’s character reveals that many conflicts he had help developed intelligence, independence, and his thankfulness. At first though he had trouble doing all theses things he would’ve never had done if he didn’t get stuck on a island. Phillip is a eleven year old boy who lived in Willemstad on the island of Curacao. Since…

Hello everyone my name Taylor Sapp and I am here to speak with you about living a healthy lifestyle. When I contemplate the paramountcy of a salubrious lifestyle, I cerebrate about a girl denominated, Morgan. She’s my age. She relishes soccer, math, and playing with little kids. She sounds profoundly akin to someone who might be my neighbor, or the kid who sits in juxtaposition of me at school. But there’s a sizably voluminous difference. Morgan lives in a tent in Haiti and for years, she has…

Taylor brings up arguments in order to defend his biocentric view. He defends and stands for this biocentric environmental ethics rather than the usually accepted anthropocentric view. Biocentric is regarding and putting all living species in the same moral ground while anthropocentric means that we value and place humans in a higher moral stance above everything else. Taylor makes arguments by comparing humans to other species and highlighting…

The interview with Mr. Randy Taylor, a Ph. D student in the Social, Cognitive, and Neuroscience area as well as Intro to Psychology professor, was interesting because he is a relatively newer professor and somewhat closer to his students as compared to other professors. His interview involved questions about his interest in psychology, as well as the path he intends to take as a professor, as well as the struggles that he will face. Equally importantly, I asked him regarding the struggles with…