Thought

A vast majority of people in the South thought slave labor vital to the economy of Savannah, Georgia. Slavery to Wesley is an unnecessary luxury, one that the people of Savannah are obligated to abstain from because of Christ. He says that white men, just like black men, can thrive in the hot…

The Career Thoughts Inventory is a theory based tool utilized to examine negative career thoughts held by individuals seeking career options. The developers, James P, Sampson, Jr., PhD, Gary W. Peterson, PhD, Janet G. Lenz, PhD, Robert C. Reardon, PhD, and Denise E. Saunders, MS created the Career Thoughts Inventory to assist individuals acquire information specific to their ideas about career choices. This tool will assist career counselors in working with clients to exchange their negative…

Reed Galen, in his article, We’re Past Thoughts and Prayers, clarifies the importance of past tragedies and to always remember those horrific events and lives lost during them. Galen’s purpose is to inform people so they do not forget, but remember these massacres. He adopts a contemplative tone in order to get the people reading this article to feel some sort of sorrow, and also want them to make a difference. In order to portray his feelings and thoughts, he uses many rhetorical devices…

Ross Gay’s piece “Some Thoughts on Mercy” is about the experiences of African Americans in predominantly white communities. Gay’s struggle throughout the piece is that whites simply don’t seem to respect African Americans, no matter where they go or what they do. In doing so, he inadvertently makes a case for the voluntary self-separation of blacks from whites. Gay’s piece is composed largely of personal anecdotes of various racially-charged encounters. He begins with an encounter he had with…

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert The chapel speaker of chapel was Dr. Rosaria Butterfield who is an author and speaker. She is a professor of women studies at Syracuse University. I was thankful for her especially sharing of her story throughout her life. This was totally different path I was walking with the Lord. As she spoke, she was lesbian for many years, and she truly thought this is her identity and born as a lesbian. She even wrote a book that would be against Christianity.…

In Feminist Thought, author Rosemarie Tong writes about women’s different reactions to pornography. Radical-libertarian feminists celebrate pornography and want women to use it to their advantage. Radical-cultural feminists see mainstream pornography as harmful to women and think that it degrades their sexuality. In this essay, I will argue for the radical-cultural feminist viewpoint that pornography has negative consequences for women, and I will also take their argument further, contending…

reason, we will now analyze why we come up with these imaginary worlds in the first place. It is said that literary utopias are products of the period in which they were created. Ghassan Hage in his “Dwelling in the Reality of Utopian Thought” writes, “…utopian thought... is still emanating from and speaking to a reality; that utopia, rather than being a space inspired by an idealized past that has disappeared, or a future-oriented imagining of that which has no existence, is metonymic of minor…

assures Macbeth that he will successfully kill Duncan if he tries to, but the truth is that even if Macbeth fails, the blame will mostly be on Macbeth and not her. She says that Macbeth is a coward and that he is a man when he told her about his thought, but I think that he isn’t being a coward and he is more reasonable after he calms down about the idea that he will become king. When he hears about the idea, he is being too excited, overwhelmed and impatient of going to be king, so he thinks of…

anything and everything is possible. The world changed for the better, and people were beginning to think of ways to better themselves and society. Philosophers all believed in four views, rationality, progress, humanitarianism and freedom of thought. Freedom of thought was crucial for people as it allowed for them to break out of the previous chains holding them down, and challenge authority. This crucial concept was a major part of the novella, Candide, written by Voltaire.…

able to establish a typical event/situation. Bodily sensations and feelings were exposed and the question “what was going through your mind” was used to elicit any possible Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs). Client perceives all that symptoms/changes as being dangerous and reports the following NAT: “I thought I was going to die.”…