Everyone in my grade despised that class, it was hard, it was tedious… but I loved it! It opened my eyes, and allowed me to see the world from a different perspective. Everywhere you look, there it was, chemistry. The periodic table was the one that winked my eye at first. It is only a table to gather and organize information, yes! But for me, it is the work of multiple great minds, their legacy for the humanity. The periodic table is a graphic metaphor for perfection. Everything is in it’s right place, and it all has a function. All about the periodic table gives me hope in a way that nobody else can understand. It is a weird way to relate life and chemistry, but thanks to that peculiarity; it helped me make the grown up decision of my life,
My periodic table on horse breeds. I choose this because I love horses. I love riding them, caring for them, and just being around them in general. I organized the horse breeds into four groups - ponies, light horses (usually riding horses), and draft horses (usually working horses), and other horses (miniature horses, gaited horses, etc.).
Contemplating on characteristics of Post Modernism Irony is the most compelling alternative. In Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain”, the rich amount of sarcasm and irony invites readers on a journey that’s exceptionally written. The dialect that is used in this short story does not have any moderation to what is being portrayed as a real life event. Just reading the title alone “Bullet in the Brain”, causes one to imagine a horrific event with the conclusion of someone being gunned down unfairly. To already know the ending of a story just by reading the title, one has to be very crafty in their presentation. As a result, the main characters actions have led to a consequence which sets up the theme of the story to be classified as: a tragic irony. Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” exemplifies irony and applies sarcasm in a literary form.
The Fixer: Irony Irony is an overpowering force in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer. The sequence of events which Yakov Bok goes through makes the entire novel ironic. The chief irony of the novel lies in the fact that what Bok is attempting to escape, he cannot escape. To understand the irony in the novel, it is necessary to examine two major events in the circular life of Yakov Bok. Bok is attempting the escape his life in the shetl.
Michael Sandel is a distinguished political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University. Sandel is best known for his best known for his critique of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. While he is an acclaimed professor if government, he has also delved deeply into the ethics of biotechnology. At Harvard, Sandel has taught a course called "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature" and from 2002 to 2005 he served on the President’s Council on Bioethics (Harvard University Department of Government, 2013). In 2007, Sandel published his book, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, in which he explains unethical implications biotechnology has and may have in the near future regarding genetic engineering.
may not be as simple as it seems to be. The author also encourages the
Perfection is much like the lottery; many people will strive for it with the hopes of attaining their ultimate goal, only to realize that reaching it is nearly impossible. However, unlike the lottery, there is not even the slightest chance of winning the final prize. To be completely perfect is an impossible feat, and the more attempts made to reach a status of “perfection”, the more let down a person will be. The quality of complete perfection is unobtainable and unreasonable, yet many cultures and certain groups of people take pride in being known as perfectionists. This reach for the impossible can be seen in the strict code followed by all knights during the feudal time period. Sir Gawain in the late
The story of Devadatta raises a compelling argument in regards to his journey in overthrowing the Buddha. In traditional Buddhism, Devadatta is seen as a selfish, greedy, jealous, cousin to the Buddha, who attempts three different times to kill him, before growing ill. Whereas in the Lotus Sutra, Devadatta is commended for being a good friend to the Buddha in helping him become fully endowed with the six paramitas. These six paramitas consists of pity, compassion, joy, and indifference, which also included thirty-two features, eighty characteristics, the ten powers, four kinds of fearlessness, four methods of winning people, eighteen unshared properties, transcendental powers and the power of the way. Famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud, designed what he called “the structural model of psyche,” which consisted of an Id, ego, and super ego. The Id and ego pertain to this particular story the most, while ones Id is a set of uncoordinated instinctual trends and ones ego is the organized and realistic section of your conscious the mediates between the id and super ego. This story of Devadatta can be looked at from a metaphorical and psychological standpoint when relating Devadatta to ones Id and the Buddha to ones ego. It is inevitably the story of Good vs. Evil. Furthermore as you read this essay, you will see how the perception of Devadatta changes from the beginning with traditional Indian Buddhism to Chinese Buddhism and the Lotus Sutra.
Throughout the years, scientists have always been inventing new technology and new developments (maybe just say technology and leave out developments) to improve society. For example, one of their concepts to improve society is the development of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is the modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material. Genetic engineering however, has been a concept that has been debatable (too many “has been” just say ‘a debatable concept..’) for many years leaving society to be fluctuant about the effects that can occur in humanity, such as the separation in society between the rich and the poor. The poor would be classified as the natural born humans which would mean they would
Society contradicts itself. Perfection is a fantasy that is often compared to reality, however everyone is expected to be perfect even though it simply cannot happen. Everyone reaches a point in their life when they are no longer a child and the true pressure of society begins to weigh down on their shoulders. Some individuals can handle the pressure, however others break under the pressure. Bullying, harassing, tyrannizing, and tormenting someone can be caused by anyone. These actions are caused by people who are usually delusional and think they are superior. “Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others.” (Bullying Definition). Just because someone is different physically or because they have a different sexuality they would be at the risk of being bullied. For example, Tyler Clementi was publically humiliated because he was suspected of being a homosexual. Just as society and bullies has an effect on people, family does as well. There are many ways a child can grow up in an abusive or unhealthy environment caused by their parents. When someone does not feel safe in their home the scar it leaves lasts forever. Because of self-esteem issues caused by societal pressure, bullying, and dysfunctional families individuals will often commit suicide.
I’ll be blunt; I had an extremely hard time finding the motivation to write this paper. My mind was a whirlpool; spinning and spinning and spinning with multiple ideas, mostly spitting out the bad and good ones. At some points, all I was left with was crappy two words as an idea. Hardly English paper material. I have written enough words in the last week to compare to the bible’s word count. But finally, finally, I found my muse and I have written her tune. My muse is perfection.
We, as humans, live in a world today where the dust of improvement never completely settles in the air. With every year that goes by, some new piece of technology emerges that will seem to make our lives easier and thus making our lives ultimately seem perfect. Every blackberry, laptop, iPod, High Definition television and convertible has been proclaimed by the media as necessities; therefore, items one cannot live without and must own. The more technologically advanced one is, the more perfect his or her life becomes. This factor, this need for perfection, has evolved rapidly over the course of human history and may be in for a head-on collision course for disaster and confusion. Lauren Slater’s, “Dr. Daedalus” and David Brooks’s, “Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia”, share this aesthetic notion of perfection in action. No matter how “unnatural” or over-the-top these changes may be, it seems impossible now to turn back to how we once lived: horse driven carriages instead of Ferrari’s, live classical music instead of hip hop and R&B blasting in our headphones, children playing outside instead of gluing their eyes to the television for hours at a time, and going over to visit a friend instead of sending a two worded text consisting of “what’s up?” Perfection has consumed the lives of many and has caused Americans to make drastic changes in order to keep up with the vision of perfection even though it hasn’t come into existence.
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We often think that our main goals are linked to perfection, however, we are unaware of the devastating effect this unattainable concept has on our outlook on life when we cannot achieve it. Though the textbook definition of perfection is, “the quality or condition of being perfect and without flaws”, it is a vice that harbors many doubts and insecurities and holds us back from things we want to do for fear of not being good. Perfection is a concept that cannot be achieved as it does not exist.
Throughout my school career I have always loved chemistry. In Chemistry there was always a sense that there was more, there was always something new and exciting to be discovered and theories to be proven (or even disproven). Chemistry was the main subject with a real practical aspect to it during school and it is this, along with my genuine fascination with the subject, which fuels my desire to study it further.
Society has a reputation of what a women should strive to be. Throughout the years ridiculous expectations has labeled a women. A woman should know how to: cook, clean, raise kids, take care of the household, be seen not heard, all while maintaining their figure and looks. Women are the heart of the household and family in most situations without her everything would fall apart. Society has corrupted the minds of many with the false images of women. In the poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “Marks” by Linda Pastan they share a common theme of women in their society in time. that are being upheld to certain expectations. Both poems were written within ten years of each other; showing that not much about the view on women had changed. They share a similar tone and feelings on being judged by others. Today the same feelings and stigmas are still imposed on a women life. Women in today’s society are judged on appearances, behavior, and superficial ideas that have been embedded by society.