The Last Question

rushed to the hospital thereafter to treat his injuries, but is kept in a ward with the other patients and develops a hospital phobia based on the description and interpretations of the smells and the treatment itself. He eventually dreams himself in a different time period of himself as part of the Motecas fighting against the Aztecs. It is implied where he may have died of a fever while being brutally hunted and running for his life by the Aztecs as a member of the Motecas. The narrator switches between two world: the realistic, modern world, and the cruel, savage past. One of the questions posed for the story is that whether chaos and order; civilization and savagery can coexist with one another since the narrator was taken care of at the hospital but was brutally hunted by the Aztecs in his dreams. Another question is, what is the significance of the dream compared to his real life? The last question is what is the theme concerning human behavior and the physical environment? To answer the first, both could exist as there have been religious topics about how chaos and order like with yin and yang coexist together. The narrator undergoes…

other people’s intentions and use perspective taking a story is told to the child and then a series of questions asked. This test is to see what stage of development children are in according to Piaget’s theories of cognitive development. This test was completed on a five year old, kindergarten girl at Tye River Elementary School. The first task completed was telling a story about girl named Holly and her dilemma of either disobeying her father to help Shawn’s kitten or following her father’s…

The question of whether a man should focus on personal work or love and his lover is posed as early as in the first sentence of the poem where Donne states, “‘Tis true, ‘tis day; what thought it be?” In conversational tone, I found the structure of this line very unique as it from a lover to her beloved stating that yes, darkness and night has become light and day, but why should that bring any change to the structure of their love. The narrator is trying to pursue her lover to stay in bed with…

The phrase, “do what you love,” is a saying many of us use when it comes to choosing a college major or a career. However, one person questions that phrase by asking if it is “wisdom or malarkey” (Pg. 1). That person is Gordon Marino and he is a philosophy professor at St. Olaf College. His article, called, “A Life Beyond Do What You Love,” questions the famous motto by saying that sometimes we should not do what we love, but rather do other things that will make the world around us better. Dr.…

John Keats uses music to create imagery which involves the clouds, the sunset, the gnats flying by the river, lambs bleating crickets singing and birds twittering. This last stanza creates a powerful imagery with the imagination of a crisp image and the beautiful sounds. “Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou thy music too While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, and touch the stubble-pains with rosy hue; then in a wailgul choir the small gnats mourn…

In any public speaking situation, you will likely encounter people who disagree with you, whether you're trying to inform them about a general topic or persuade them to think, believe, or do something. Some of the counterarguments, critiques, and questions they offer may be excellent ones; others may reflect ignorance about the topic or the audience's distrust of you, the speaker. This week, your discussion is about how you deal with counterarguments and detractors in a real-life speech. In…

Given the vast choices we have on this assignment, I have struggled to pick just one. Even picking just three is stressing my brain out to the point of just playing “Eeny Meeny Miney Mo”. A topic that caught my eye rather quickly was the question of if religion causes war. Of course, my opinion is one of strong emotion, but that is for later on. This topic is one that should, though it’s not, be a topic on every world inhabitants mind right now. Today the war ensuing over practices of religion…

contradiction between conclusion and action plan. Both ask “what you could have done differently” with the action plan having the added “would you act differently next time”? I would suggest that both could be part of the same question and in doing this would further simply the cycle. It does not include shared experience. As a teacher sharing good practice is vital to both student and teacher to progress and develop. Sharing good practice has allowed us to address good and bad methods of…

“For master students, technology is a tool for developing a lifelong patter of success” (Ellis, 2014, p.85). The first skill is to search the internet with key words (Ellis, 2014). This step can be very difficult for some students. Mainly because if a student is asked a question many with type the whole question into the search bar. This results in information popping up that is unrelated to your question. Things that will help getting the response you need is to use key and unique words while…

day was going so far. Erika had everything ready to go to start her patient process which looked very professional. I was also impressed with how smoothly she transitioned from asking small talk questions to questions that actually pertained to his health. That way it made it seem like they were still just having an everyday, easy going conversation and not an interrogation. II. During the assessment portion of the process, I was surprised how many questions were asked that didn’t pertain…