The Blob

Frankenstein, Freddy Kruger, the Blob, Godzilla, the bogeyman are all fictional monsters that have haunted humanity for generations, known for the terror they spread. Unfortunately, not all monsters are fictional; there are even some masquerading as humans that show no humanity or compassion. Second only to Hitler himself, Dr. Joseph Mengele is the most notorious monster since the last millennium. Dr. Mengele performed a myriad of horrid experiments in the hops of not only creating the perfect…

Have you ever felt your life depended on one test? That 's exactly how I felt when I took my Drivers test. It was just a normal day, I woke up for school with a coolness in the morning air, but I felt a certain excitement in my heart. The excitement was followed by nervousness by the thought of sitting behind the wheel while someone judged me. I stopped focusing on that and started getting ready for school. Once I had eaten and was ready to get dropped off at school, I yelled out, “Dad it 's…

evident in “Candide”, where the common sense of youth and the rationales of the kind tutor are set in contrast to one another. But eventually we get a “happy” ending where we get to garden and have all of the views come together into one balanced giant blob, but not because they both reach a compromise to the point that they all makes sense, no, both of these theories come together head on and they come to be in mutual recognition of each other. They both know that they exist, and they have…

Abortion has been a very controversial topic for decades. It is common to confuse the opinions of others to the concrete facts of the matter. It’s important to take into consideration and fully understand the factual information of the situation, the legality, and the moral aspect of abortions before forming beliefs and views of your own. An abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. (dictionary.com) The pros and cons of abortions are endless and will never…

Every Child Deserves a Chance Over 54 million “unimportant and unwanted mistakes” have been stripped of the right to live. That’s 54 million less people to be loved, appreciated, cherished, and respected, even if not by the actual biological parents, but by an adoptive parent. Children who could have been future presidents, lawyers, physicians, businessmen or women, architects, moms, dads, soldiers, etc.. Abortion threatens both the individual rights of human beings and the common good. The…

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machine allows for one to choose their desired experience; plug in, and let life play out as you experience it, but it is not actually you doing these things and growing as a person; you are the one that is “…floating in a tank [as] an indeterminate blob” (Nozick 645). For these reasons, I, as well as Nozick, would presume that most people would choose not to enter the experience machine, and instead live your life and face the obstacles in the world as your true self. Assuming this premise to…

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) has taken victim of a multitude of lives in the United States during the 20th century. Many believed that this epidemic was a sign of judgement in relation to the religions they worship. Others viewed this stigma as a curse and that revealing themselves would shame themselves for the rest of their lives. Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-born American artist who began to focus his works on the AIDS epidemic after a close friend’s baby contracted HIV. His…

Joining a discourse community is something we have all experienced, whether it 's a particular sports team that you partake in or watch, or an online community like Tumblr, twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. The discourse community I am involved with and would be discussing in this text would be the horror film and literature discourse community. According to Swales, there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. They are common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication…

Generally, when people give reasons for why our lives do not matter, many turn to our smallness in the universe or to the fact that we do not live forever. However, Nagel suggests that even if we took up a larger portion of the universe, or if we lived forever, our lives would still be meaningless; our meaninglessness would just take up a larger percentage of space, or exist for a longer amount of time. Nagel states that these reasons are attempts to express the absurdity of life which arises…