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Food is one of the most important resources on Earth; everyone needs to eat to live. The worldwide need for nutrition creates a massively wealthy industry. Food production is a large scale business, and maximizing profits is the most important element of this industry. Margaret Atwood creates a parallel of this greed in her book Oryx and Crake. The food industry in Oryx and Crake is much more dramatically adulterated: meat and other food products have been mostly replaced with soy, and some…

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…

In the short story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds - The – Fire have not always gotten along. While growing up on the same Indian Reservation, they had separate friend groups (Alexie 874). Throughout the movie Smoke Signals, Victor Joseph’s and Thomas Builds – the – Fire’s, friendship strengthens. While Arnold Joseph, Victor’s father, is living in Phoenix, Arizona, he meets his neighbor Suzy Song. In the movie, Victor…

ADHD & ME is very informative book that offers a young person point of view of how it feels to live and grow up with ADHD condition. In this memoir of life with ADHD, Black Taylor discusses how he gets along on a daily basis and offers his readers a guide who are in the same situation. This book, ADHD & ME, is very easy to read and understandable as it is organized in straightforward, simple manner. Taylor first describes each incident, then its cause and effects and at the end of each section,…

Violence is a deeply rooted behavior in Man. It may include any behavior that involves physical force, with or without a weapon, contributing to, or significantly increasing the possibility of injury or death of another person. Violence may be either physical or verbal. According to biologists, it is part of human nature. Man’s use of violence is similar to that of animals. In the same way, human beings, including Pinter’s characters, use violence to defend their territory (Stanley), to…

The dialogue “Phaedo” takes place during the time that Socrates was to be executed after being falsely convicted. Before his death, Socrates explored many theories regarding the body and the soul with his pupil Plato. Plato presents four different arguments to prove the immortality of the soul, that all though the human body perishes after death; the soul still exists. Firstly, he explains the Theory of the Opposite Forms that something came to be living only after having first been dead. Then…

The first character that I was drawn to was Bernice Coates since her story in the first pages got my attention, which was different from the other characters in the novel, Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy. Bernice thought people saw her being a plain sensible girl, but she wanted to be more than that. She had dreamt of being a pilot, and jealous of her brother, Jeff, who traveled and had the freedom she desired greatly. However, she was stuck taking care of her father, who was a professor at a…

They were mainly educated White Anglo Saxon Protestant, or as otherwise called WASP. These were the people who thought it was their job to bring education and religion to the people of different ethnicities (Kipling 1). The election of 1912 played a big role in Progressivism. Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt ran against each other…

A Mess of Bad Puppies From The Teacher’s Funeral, by Richard Peck It was close and airless in the church before the female mourners got their cardboard fans going. Wasps droned in the window wells as people shuffled in, filling the pews. Beneath a spray of entirely white glads, the lid on the pine coffin stood open before us. It was without question Miss Myrt Arbuckle laid out within. She had the longest nose in North America. It stood up against the yawning lid, shiny and sharp with a flaring…

Today women are lawyers, doctors, surgeons, judges, and in the army. During World War II when men were in combat, they needed women to work in factories. Women had the chance to work, make money for themselves and control their money which usually men control the money. After World War II the work field changed forever, women are now working and today women are pursuing their dream careers. Due to World War II, the lives of women changed in three ways: being able to work in the army and be…