The Blob

Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? You are a college student, living in an apartment with two other girls. You work two jobs, trying to pay for school and trying to live. You and your boyfriend of two and a half years just broke up four days ago, and you just found out that you are pregnant. You are not in a financially stable position to take care of another human being. Do you keep the baby, or choose to have an abortion? What about this scenario: You and your wife are pregnant but didn 't know until…

An In-Depth Analysis and Modern Response to the 1960s Classic Horror Film, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Robert Alderich’s 1962 film, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, a horror film portrays a scary monster. No, not a blob-like alien creature, not a serial killer, but rather a monster that can be found today in “normal” families homes, in banks, and in nursing homes… Elder abuse. In the 1960’s and 1970’s the public started to become aware of certain forms of family violence, it wasn’t until…

Humans are curious by nature. Whenever a person comes across something new, whether it being an idea or a physical object, their curiosity grows. When a person’s interest for a certain objective grows, many things can come from this. The biggest thing a person can do about their curiosity is changing their decisions or actions. A person can decide to change their actions into discovering more about their interests. Another way a person can have curiosity is through mistakes. If a person ever…

This essay argues towards the conclusion that Robert Nozick’s ‘experience machine’ thought experiment does not successfully challenge hedonism as a theory of rational action. It will first explore the concept of hedonism and what would be required to mount a successful challenge to it. It will then outline the ‘experience machine’ thought experiment and assess the conclusions Nozick draws. Referring to epistemological objections raised by Woolard and Hewitt alongside methodological objections…

In the background of the Art Critic, straight lines are brought together from their various angles to suggest the corner of an art museum, while many contour lines work together to create the organic shapes that make up the scene. Specifically, this painting depicts a young man who is leaning forward to inspect a portrait of a woman and looking through a magnifying glass to examine a brooch clasped close to her chest. Light and shadow are used to create the illusion of depth on the young man’s…

Everything was so blurry when Cadence awoke. All around her were countless blobs of indistinguishable colours, mixing and meshing and colliding in every direction—all of them so bright, yet concurrently seeming to be delved into absolute darkness, making the phenomenon intensely weird. An immense pressure bore down on Cadence’s head as she slowly awoke from her unconsciousness, the last fragments of her most recent memories gradually fading away from her mind. As she sat up, reality slowly…

Stepping off of the yellow bus into the November air was like getting slapped in the face. I carried my sports bag in one hand and my water bottle in the other. We followed our cross-country coach over to what is called the staging area. Basically you have to hold at least one of your bibs in order to get into the MSHSAA Cross-Country State Championships. My coach handed me a sheet of plastic like paper with the number 998 printed across it. I walked through the gate and waited for my teammates…

getting to be a big boy now, and before Daddy left, he said I was the man of the house. Or that's what I think he said, I was only two at the time, but I still remembered even though it had been a year. I don't remember much of Daddy, he is like a green blob, but with a face of course, and the green was different shades and sizes. "Roar!"…

progress of this newest and best nation on Earth, man’s hope for freedom from kings and dukes and tyrants and priests…” Jackson wrongly encouraged views of Native Americans like those above, showing that he was a strong racist. Moreover, “Cherokee: a blob of forests, burnt-off fields, and raging streams with savages robbing travelers and, often enough, torturing them to death. That was Cherokee to him.” However, Cherokee had settled down, learned to farm, and did, in fact, live what whites would…

Philip K. Dick, a well-known author with many scholarly related awards, once said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn 't go away.” When reflecting on philosophical questions and their reality that one asks on a daily basis, one must start by finding the origin of the questions through several readings. These readings involved both, Descartes’ Meditation and Other Metaphysical Writings and Robert Nozick’s The Experience Machine. With close analysis, these two works of…