The Mailbox

In Aristotle’s view, everything in this world can be categorized. Living beings include plants and animal. The plant has nutritive soul and the animal process both nutritive soul and perceptive soul. If we discuss animal further, we can divide animal into rational animal, which is human, and non-rational animal. The essential feature of “being an animal” is perception. From the Aristotle Introductory Reading: “413b2: What makes something an animal is primarily perception.” Perception is…

In 1944, Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia. Her father was Willie Lee Walker and her mother was Minnie Lou Tallulah. Alice Walker was the youngest of eight children and she was blinded in one eye by one of her brothers. He accidentally shot her in it with a BB gun. She had begun to separate herself from other children. “Having grown self-conscious as a result of her injury, Alice withdrew to writing poetry” (Novels 49). “Living in the racially divided South, Walker attended segregated…

Kayla Samantha Dietz English Lit after 1890 ID: 17263212 March 10th, 2018 Time & the Importance it holds Time is described as finite. This means that everything on Earth has an expiration date and that nothing on this planet is meant to last forever. Thus, one should spend all their time on Earth doing what…

birthday breakfast at Bob and Evans. he had chocolate chip waffles with strawberries, and a ton of whip cream. When they got home, they were watching TV for about 20 minutes or so, and then the mailman came by their house and put some mail in the mailbox. So Ryan’s mom asked him if he could get the mail. when he opened it he found a bunch of junk except for two envelopes that said for Ryan Reynolds. so he took it inside gave his mom the mail except for the two envelopes. He sat down on the…

Feeling like an outsider in a place you consider home, is one of the struggles that to this day I still live with. June 8, 1996 was the beginning of the hectic journey of my life, I was only a year and three months when my mother made the decision to pack up and move to the United States, where my father had been living with my two older sibling. A small two bedroom house located in Galveston Texas is what my family would call home for the next couple of years. As the youngest child out of my…

The Many Faces of Nora Helmer Henrik Ibsen’s stated; “A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws flamed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view” (Forward, 2009). In 1879 Henrik Ibsen wrote the controversial play A Doll House. During this time women were just starting to come out of their stereotypical roles, and Ibsen whether he meant to or not illustrated this change…

The songs and artists that I will be comparing today through Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are Merle Haggard in “Mama Tried”, and Tupac Shakur in “Dear Mama”. Merle Haggard was a very important figure in the country music genre in the late sixties, up until the mid-eighties. Haggard Was an ex-con whose best friend was executed when they were in prison which impacted him greatly and caused him to change his way of life. While Haggard was in prison he learned how to impersonate other famous country…

Introduction Positive Corporate Social Responsibility Cisco, the world renown information technology and networking company, has been able to build a great reputation by connecting with the appeal to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in various stakeholders. There are dozens of success stories that model the CSR ways of Cisco. Its CSR reports titled, Accelerating Global Problem Solving, outline the forefront of ingenuities that are benefiting local communities and making Cisco an enriching…

The characters in William Faulkner’s writings were affected by the Southern social classes. “Faulkner’s story, the one story he has to tell, is the his-story of the South into which he was born and which, in turn, has lived in his bones and words.” (Friedman) Old, new and reconstructed South; if it had anything to do about the South, Faulkner would write about it. Not many other writers understood the Southern social class like Faulkner did. When reading William Faulkner’s writings you most…

In the short story “ A Rose for Emily “ William Faulkner presents us with a very intriguing story that starts with the death of Miss Emily. The whole setup of the story is very intriguing and this is shown through Miss Emily’s character and the way she acts and what she does making her a round character . The way she is developed leaves the reader hanging on what her next step is, since little is known behind her reasons for her actions and it is left to the reader to interpret her actions. To…