To the Lighthouse

mental illness, but have also committed horrible crimes. These patients are sent to Shutter Island for so called “treatment.” The treatment involves, electric chairs, brain surgery, and mental torture. All patients worry about going to the lighthouse. The lighthouse is where the brain surgery of lobotomy is performed. This consists of cutting and scraping most of the brain connections to and from the cortex. The cortex…

years the copper started to tarnish and turn a light brown over the years eventually turning green. Why did the cape hateras statue move? They had to move the statue because it was a danger to the lighthouse because it was on the coast and the land it was built on its not stable because the lighthouse might be destroyed. How to survive in the wild To survive in the wild the first thing you need to do is bring a lot of water and be prepared for anything. Water is the most important thing you…

Pulsars: Lighthouses of the universe Imagine a star between four and eight times the mass of our sun exploding into a supernova. Next imagine watching the inner core condense into a sphere due to the enormous gravity of the star like there’s a new star forming in its place. This new star is so dense it smashes electrons and protons together forming neutrons which form a neutron star. This is the recipe for a pulsar. There are several types of neutron stars but this essay will highlight pulsars.…

My Personal Leadership Philosophy and How it has Developed As a leader I am very unique. I hold strong personal values in the areas of trust, respect, and responsibility. I believe that no one person should be responsible for someone else, but that we have to grow up and learn to take care of ourselves. Prior to this course, I perceived leaders as people who told a group of people what to do in order to accomplish a task. When I was put in a leadership position I was always effective, but I…

The Bird Artist is a classy book that depicts controversial and cruel romantic narratives on the backdrop of profound animosity and pardon. The book features Fabian Vas as the main character and storyteller who sketches and paints at the Witless Bay (Norman, 1995). Fabian Vas lived in an era where the cultural worldview informed the social trends. The moral law was at its apex. Various art movements emerged at the dawn of the twentieth century. According to Fabian, painting is a God given…

Mental illness is sometimes seen as an issue that develops in adulthood, but that’s not always the case. In fact, “approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life” (National Alliance on Mental Illness, n.d.). Among the common mental disorders in adolescents is depression. Efforts to decrease the number of adolescents who suffer from depression include assistance from helpers and community programs, but before one can be a helper…

thoughts of confusion, trauma and chaos that World War I has impacted on many lives. The loss of loved once during war times, is a painful experience that can bring on psychological and painful events throughout someone’s entire life. In To the Lighthouse death blind sides the characters to the true facts of life. Even if you know someone is dying, it is painful and difficult to deal with. In the Waste land by T.S. Eliot, death and chaos is portrayed…

him had that meager fixity, that bare unloveliness. But nevertheless, the fact remained; it was almost impossible to dislike any one if one looked at them. She liked his eyes; they were blue, deep set, frightening.4 As the first part of To The Lighthouse moves toward its conclusion, Lily considers each of the members of the Ramsay family and the guests, not with the cold, analytical outlook of the men, but with the compassion and exactitude of an artist…

Prompt 1: In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, the society is based on the community, leaving little to no room for individuality. Several characters in the story are branded as outsiders since they do not fit in with the “normal” World State citizens. One of these characters, Bernard Marx, shows a monumental shift of his behavior and mindset from the start to the end of the book. Bernard Marx is introduced to the story as a character who does not seem to suit the normal Alpha Plus role.…

As Aristotle once said, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” I am writing about Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. I picked this poem because of the images the speaker creates in the poem with the lighthouse, storms, boat, and youth. Personally, these images reflect exactly how love is and should be for everyone, and that is exactly what the speaker is trying to convey to the reader. In this essay, I will discuss each of these images, how they help define love and give my…