The Originals

resides with his wife and children in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, as a children’s orthodontist. During the time when he worked with the Pittsburgh Post, he wrote articles about history lessons, one of which talked about Andrew Burstein’s novel, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving. Burstein’s novel described why Irving’s writings had an effect on the timing of his literature: books were not successful after the Revolutionary War. Irving’s first novel, a satire book…

prevalent then. Leaders, like Fred Hampton, began to realize what they could do if they all banded together to fight a common struggle. After attending each others meetings, over time they eventually banded together to form the Original Rainbow Coalition. Although the Original Rainbow Coalition…

member’s growth throughout the book, each with a metamorphosis of their own. Kafka makes a statement by alluding to Christian values, such as the parallels between the characters in the book and the biblical characters and the use of the apple as original sin. By being bold and defying the expectations of…

In an Egalitarian society, when it comes to justice, equality and basic human rights come to mind. Now, when I think of John Rawls, I think of a liberal egalitarian. Similar, yes. Moreover, liberal egalitarianism is more encouraging, if you will. Why? Fairness. Rawls provides a theory called justice as fairness. Within this theory, he presents two principles of justice. Principles in which, human beings can refer to when decisions are to be made, for instance, decisions on the constitution, laws…

comes from experience and later categories. Aristotle used his four causes to categorize knowledge, the material cause, the formal cause, efficient cause, and the final cause. Calvin disagrees with Aristotle’s position on man’s blank state claiming, “Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul” (Mcneil 10). Calvin states since the fall, man is born in a state of rebellion not in a blank state or neutral.…

Saint Augustine of Hippo was viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity whose writings and teachings influenced the development of western Christianity. Augustine was born in Roman, Africa and was raised by his Mother who was a devout Christian and Father a Pagan who converted to Christianity when baptized on his deathbed. At a young age Augustine was the first and only one in his siblings sent off to be educated. While being educated he became familiar with Latin…

This essay discusses the Modern and Original dilemma. The Original dilemma touches on freedom versus order while The Modern dilemma focuses on Freedom versus equality. One thing that both of these dilemmas have in common is the four ideologies or belief systems that stem from both delima’s. The four ideologies are Conservative, Communitarian, Libertarian, and Liberal. Conservatives are people who are averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes; the counterpart of these type…

There are no more original ideas. Ideas have only been adapted and improved. Things that were created back in the 1800’s are still around today, just improved and better. Things such as transportation have been improved. People use to go places with wagons, today we go with gas and electric powered cars. Things that were created last millennia are still around today. Transportation, Communication, and even computers. Today people communicate with Cellular Phones. They can call, text, get on…

The Strengths in the Original Poem of “Intimacy” By removing “Peacock feather,” the delicacy of the feather is diminished. A wheelbarrow is a rough object. The wheelbarrow does not offer the same imagery with the line of “wide eye tamed with dirt” as the “peacock feather does”. A wheelbarrow is neither wild nor tamed, but a peacock is a free animal, and one that is not typically domesticated or tamed. The father also references to the title: “Intimacy” of being a soft and fragile concept. The…

Though some might not know a thing about them, HeLa cells have affected an abundance of people. Original HeLa cells were cut from the cervix of the African American woman known as Henrietta Lacks. Born as Loretta Lacks, Henrietta was born in Roanoke, Virginia on August 1, 1920. At the age of 30, Henrietta was diagnosed with “Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I” (24). Her cancer could not be defeated and Henrietta died October 4, 1951. Before her death, Dr. George Gey of George Hopkins…