To the Lighthouse

I had not heard of the Moomins before my stay in Finland, but after arriving, I quickly realized that they were everywhere. There were plushes, and home items, and pretty much anything you could imagine with Moomin on it. I have the privilege of living with some Finnish girls, and I asked her once, “What are these things? Why are they everywhere?” She showed me this enormous collection she had of Moomin merchandise, though most of what she had were collectable glasses and plates. She told me…

{Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World emphasizes the destructive outcomes of being unable to find a medium between wanton immorality and rigid moral standards, as well as the dangers of a perfect society.} Brave New World is set mostly in a futuristic, utopian society called “The World State” (Huxley, Brave New World 3), in the year “A.F. 632” (4). In this society, babies are mass-produced in identical batches and “decanted” (9) from bottles instead of born, and sex is used for pleasure and…

Spring break was just around the corner, my friends and I had not even a clue on what we wanted to do except one thing, we wanted to make this spring break the most memorable as we can. We did not want to just sit around or netflix and chill, we wanted to go out and explore. One day as I was sitting in class, my phone started blowing up, “buzz buzz buzz” it would go every second, I started getting butterflies in my stomach when I saw “SOUTH CAROLINA!” written on my screen. My friend had…

and job training. Method Treatment will include: Buddy, Tammy, Johnny, Lori, Vanessa, Billy and Annie. The listed required treatment will be utilized by the entire family. Services are provided at the local behavioral treatment center. Address: Lighthouse Counseling 1286 Midlothian Court, Midlothian VA 23114 Phone…

A study by Pat António Goldsmith found that eighth-grade black and Latino students are more likely than similar white students to have “high occupational expectations, educational aspirations, and concrete attitudes” (2004). This research also suggests that black and Latinos in segregated schools have great optimism about their future education, and have more positive attitudes about class and teachers, especially if the teachers are of minority background. Goldsmith notes that this results can…

Sir Thomas More described utopia as an ideal humanist island, where there is freedom and harmony within the community. Peter Weir in his film, The Truman Show, presented his version of utopia, a town called Seahaven. This essay will analyze the film as a critique of consumerism. The name of the city itself is, as Smicek points out, an anagram of, “as heaven,” that seems to, “replicate a saccharine of 1950 's American suburbia” (33). The main character, Truman, lives in the, “pastiche of…

‘While standing on a bridge on the morning of 3/20/66,... at 01:25, Radioman Third Class John R. Weitlich, saw something he had never seen before... I thought that I was only seeing some lights from the lighthouse.. then at that moment, all the power was cut out in the area, this was after i had noticed a huge, flash of light!.. it appeared to be that there was a big object about 300 to 500 feet off of the ground, this emitted an eerie white light that appeared to pulsate in its intensity. When…

What would it be like when the famous authors Huxley and Orwell look back on our world and disappointedly smile and say, “I told you so”. The Brave New World and 1984 show us an image of the future, or better yet, an image of what life that’s 100% controlled by a government would be like. This paper will give you chills of what great people predicted for our world. 1984 is a novel by George Orwell that was published in 1949. In that time totalitarianism was not well understood and all the…

Suetonius was born around 68-9 AD, possibly in Hippo Regius (Suetonius xviii). His mentor described him as ‘scholarly and honorable’ and many held him in high regard (xix). Suetonius completed The Twelve Caesars sometime around the 120s during the peak of his career (xxiii). Suetonius conveys his opinion of each emperor indirectly through how he portrays their vices and virtues. According to Suetonius, a Roman leader’s good and bad qualities included their military successes, relations with the…

may not take much to make them lose their way on the road to recovery. As a result, they feel justified with returning to alcohol or drugs. This is why it is important for self-efficacy to remain high for recovering addicts. One’s commitment to abstinence is a strong predictor for motivation in the reductions of drug and alcohol use. The level of commitment to abstinence at treatment end predicts sustained abstinence, a requirement for recovery (Laudet & Stanick, 2010). Abstinence is the…