The Faceless

In the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel reflects on his personal odyssey during WWII in the concentration camps. His memory is filled with the anguished cries and horrific images of his friends and family as they waste away in the camps and are extinguished in the Nazi ovens. This “dark journey” is extremely painful and completely traumatic. “Night” begins with the experiences of Elie as a young boy. This young boy’s story is a journey through hell, as he is taken first to a ghetto, and then to…

habits are hardly pressed: ‘Not that I want to pry, son, but where exactly is it you go to work of evenings?’ Burgess names Alex’s Post-Corrective Adviser P.R. Deltoid – a name of artificiality and coldness, state-sanctioned and reminiscent of the faceless anonymity of communist regimes of the time and hardly the kind of supportive counsel a disturbed teenager might need. When Deltoid asks of Alex: ‘You’ve got a good home here, good loving parents, you’ve got not too bad of a brain. Is it some…

Stephen Pressfield, author of The War of Art, states that most people have two lives: the life we live and the unlived life within us, but between the two stands resistance. Resistance is a disease that is more widespread than the common cold and more deadly than the Bubonic Plague. Every human being on planet Earth is a carrier of this disease, it is a disease that will cripple and prevent anyone from achieving what the carrier was put on this planet to do; whether that calling be art, music,…

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Hero Society often tends to think that heroes were born to be mighty, strong, and reliable, that no ordinary man can achieve heroism or greatness. However, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien follows a small, little hobbit’s heroic journey, illustrates the reader the value of this Hobbit’s heroism, and illustrates what it takes to develop into a hero; through the hobbit’s accomplishments, Tolkien not only shows society that anyone could acquire these heroic, but also uses…

Violent Video Games in a Violence Saturated World Video games have come a long way since Pong first showed up in the 1970’s and even farther since the first known video game, Tennis for Two, was created by Physicist William Higinbotham to be used as a science display in the 1950’s. When that simple game was unveiled to visitors, long lines formed full of people wanting to try this new technology. They would press a button to whack a tennis ball over a net represented by a couple of white…

vegetable or dish that they found repulsive. I do not know any of my peers that did not hear about those unfortunate children. In hindsight, I am grateful that I was not one of those children, who at the time when they were mentioned were fictional, faceless, nameless people I would never meet. I understood the definition of poverty and famine, but did not perceive it from experience, therefore as I child it was impossible to imagine. As a privileged child I never went without anything I…

Samantha thinks that she will never find love, that is until her sister, Diane, sends her on a vacation getaway to an exotic island, where she meets this hot stranger. Problem is, she discovers that Christian is a spoiled billionaire who is a super womanizer. At first Samantha tried to deny her feelings for Christian, but she discovered that she could not get him out of her mind. Christian knew he was head over heels in love with Samantha right from the moment that he first saw her, and he could…

The idea of psychological paralysis in a world that exudes opportunity has been a common theme of modern literature, especially during economically booming times in America—like the pre-depression stock market era or the post-Cold War patriotic fervor. Indeed, many people liked to focus on the positives during these times; however, many authors felt the need to expose details of t-hose who could not advance themselves in these times through the forum of fictional novels. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s…

Education and Coverage for Eating Disorders I didn’t want to go. I didn’t know much about where I was going, but that I was sure of. As a sixteen year old girl who has an endless amount of opportunities and dreams for what I wanted to do with my life, I shouldn’t be dragging myself out of bed at 5:30 in the morning for my family to take me to the hospital, yet again, to report the increase in fainting spells, insomnia, and extreme fat and muscle dystrophy. No, this isn’t an extreme cold or some…

Colonization of Africa The European settlers forcibly seized Africans land, resources and plantation. European created myth of “white man’s burden” is to show themselves as enlightened and as someone who is above common natives whereas Africans as savage, uncivilized and barbarians. But it only reveals one fact that how dehumanizing colonialism was in terms of creating hierarchy by categorizing human being. European imperialist mission to dominate the colonized land was based on…