Young Life

“Strange Creatures.” In “Who Holds the Clicker?”, Lauren Slater elaborates on a man named Mario Della Grotta who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Slater uses Mario Grotta as an example because of the simple fact that he cannot live his life to the fullest extent due to his disorder. Similarly, Blackmore argues that memes negatively affects humans because they rely on imitation and can not think for themselves. Mario becomes the first American psychiatric patients to undergo…

and private skirmishes we doll ourselves out. To keep us from feeling imbalanced, stressed-out, or empty inside we must incorporate habit seven, Sharpen The Saw. Sharpen The Saw deals with keeping our personal selves sharp so we can better deal with life. It means regularly renewing and strengthening the four dimensions of our lives- the body, brain, heart, and soul. To commence renewal, we ought to address our physical dimension. As humans, we will only receive one body, so we need to treat…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. One element of Romanticism is the belief that imagination is able to lead to a a new and more perfect vision of the world and those who live in it. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein is the idealist who wants to create life from nothing; that is the ultimate ideal, marking victor as a Romantic. In another sense, Victor's actions demonstrate the Romantic renunciation of science and reason over emotion and nature. Victor's Romantic quest for the scientific ideal, “…

nightmare with a start, only to face another one in real life. Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is often interpreted as a response to the Enlightenment, but this text may also be a reaction to the Social Contract Theory that arose from this movement. The Social Contract was intended to promote equality among men, but it does not call for equality between the sexes (“Jean”). As Jean Jacques Rousseau…

(Shelley 66), and her “gentle and affectionate disposition” (Shelley 73) makes her the perfect maternal figure for the Frankenstein family. Safie De Lacey also symbolizes the submissive and caring nature of women because she renounces her luxurious life to reunite with her lover. The male characters, on the other hand, are self-absorbed and single-minded individuals who are all engaged in overambitious “quests that remove them from domestic interaction with women and take them to barren and…

universal ideas that are often explored in literary text for my propose the text that will be explored is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Frankisten is about Victor Frankenstein and his journey in creating the creature that terrorizes his homeland and his own life. The book Frankenstein hold many themes that seemingly all cannot be expected but two themes in the story I believe can be the umbrella that holds all of the themes under it. The two themes that will be exploring is the lost and craving…

My Personal Journey "Listen to what I say, my companions, though you are suffering evils. All deaths are detestable for wretched mortals, but hunger is the sorriest way to die and encounter fate."(Odyssey book 3) Circe is referring to Skylla, a monster, in this quote. But, she makes a point. Pain is unavoidable. I had to find that out the hard way. A way I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. I soon got out of it. I screamed to the monsters in my head, "What did I do?" just like Odysseus did when he was…

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a masterpiece that explores the fascination of creating human life from nothing. Since this book was published in 1818, there have been many different recreations of the story throughout these past centuries. The movie Victor Frankenstein directed by Paul McGuigan is one recreation made in 2015 that has an interesting take on the characters in Shelley’s story. Although the film and novel share the same general plot, the movie loosely follows the novel's…

voices. Shelley illustrates the notion of humanity as a production of multiple correspondences. Life itself overlapping, revealing connections, moving through past and present time: as do letters. Through the creation of Victor’s monster, human life exceeds the dimensions of any one individual, thus creating a parallel of impressions, each based upon the character’s mindset. Shelley communicates life with a variety of voices, allowing for letters to represent aspect, giving a glimpse of the…

Adolescence is a developing stage that occur between the ages of 13 to 19 along with their physical, emotional and mental changes. It is a phase of finding their individual identity in which they begin to create their own person and one’s relationship to the world around them. Parents find it hard to figure out their emotions and communicate with adolescents even though their physical and mental changes can be predicted. Adolescence will be exposed to many forms of problems as they experience…