Vanity

There is Forbin, the creator if Colossus, who is cool, calm and analytical. Colossus is a strange, mirror image of Forbin. This artificial child possesses all of these qualities. Colossus mirrors Forbin's biggest flaw: vanity. They are confident in their abilities to the point of arrogance. Forbin has created the ultimate computer and is blind to its dangers. He is not concerned by Colossus’ ability to exceed the parameters of his programming, but rather takes pride. Like…

The lesson of "Slaughterhouse-Five" is whatever you need it to be. That is the magnificence of the book. In any case, in his usually dull, wry way, Kurt Vonnegut gives us a few conceivable subjects to investigate. One of the subjects identifies with the route in which Mr. Vonnegut displays the human life expectancy. Through his written work, Mr. Vonnegut offers an old conversation starter: Are we experts of our fate, or would we say we are pawns of destiny? The medium through which Mr. Vonnegut…

there was increased public awareness about the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics. A movement against this gathered with people across Europe contacting their government and demanding action to be taken to protect animals from the testing of vanity…

Utopia is described by Hythloday as the perfect society. It is described as a place that works in perfect harmony, which is equally fair and just in all aspects. All the cities looked for the most part about the same. The town is, for the most part, square in shape. It is surrounded by a thick, high wall, with many towers and bastions. Inside of those walls, there are rows of houses with flat roofs that faced each other, and behind each row of houses there are large gardens. Every house has…

President Obama offers Kanye West three presidential tips President Barack Obama (left) and Kanye West (right) By ANGELA CHAN Published on Sunday, October 11, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO–During a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the historic Warfield Theatre that took place Saturday morning, President Barack Obama gave rapper Kanye West three pieces of tongue-in-cheek ‘advice’ for his 2020 presidential run. The 54-year-old politician opened the event by tackling subjects such as gun…

Hamlet is a product of his circumstance, a porn in his father's twisted scheme. Could it be that he was stripped of his identity that lead to insanity all for his father’s vanity? What father who professed to love their own flesh and blood would ask for their demise for a calamity? Unlike a traditional Shakespearean revenge tragedy, Shakespeare creates the focal character as incapable of being a revenger. The complexity arises when the audience identifies that Hamlet is not fit for such title…

start of the play, love is portrayed as being both beautiful and terrible. Romeo, conflicted, chases after Rosaline, who does not love him back. He spills his thoughts to Benvolio, saying, “O brawling love, O loving hate, / O heavy lightness, serious vanity… / Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire…” (1.1.181-185). As Romeo ponders over the…

it. Examples of this can be found in “Araby” and “Eveline” in the way that both main characters undergo the transition from innocence to experience through epiphanies, causing them to see that their personal paralyses are due to their own sense of vanity. Both of these stories nod at completeness in the sense that there is something each character desires or longs…

World War I was a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of soldiers and altered the lives of countless others. Shortly after the War, two novels surfaced, Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison and All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, that became influential in our understanding of how the soldiers lived. Each novel provides a firsthand account from a soldier’s point of view on one of the most brutal wars ever to have been fought. The novels portray war without…

First, I apologize for not responding more expeditiously regarding your letter asking for support at Springwood. You’re one of the few who are at the center of my character and Christian based education and I owe you and the school more than I could ever give monetarily. I thank you for pouring your life into me when I was much younger and then as an adult when you sent a “rock” with me into combat. You planted many seeds of which some are still sprouting as validated by this letter.…