Man Has No Nature By Jose Ortega

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

Men do have different ways to respond to different situations than women, and it is

Reading The Night We Became People Again was a pleasant and refreshing experience. By comparing Jose Luis Gonzalez's tale with the work of his contemporaries, we see his style of writing is different. His way of developing a plot is more lively and cheerful; he even includes humor in many of his dialogs and events. In The Night We Became People Again, Jose Luis Gonzalez is telling the story of the day his first son was born. He starts off with a normal day at work when a longtime and mentally challenged friend of him, Crazytop, rams in and announces Jose's wife is in labor. They both rush out and face a few setbacks along the way, like a power outage during their ride in the subway. Soon enough, he arrives and gets the opportunity to greet

Individuality is the quality that people that makes each person unique and distinguishable from each other. It is important to remain distinct from others, even among groups of people that are classified as either the same or very similar. While individuality is a concept that many people agree with and want to ensure, the pressure from most people’s lives, including their environment and the people around them, forces individuals to lose who they truly are and morph in order to fit in. I strongly agree that individuality, while important, is difficult to keep because of outside factors, a concept that was presented by Logan Fey.

At some point in time we have all wondered what it means to human, and what we are supposed to do with our lives. Throughout the centuries, there have been gradual changes in what it means to be human. Through Pico della Mirandola we will how man became the measure and took the place of God, through Charles Darwin we will see how nature and science began to take the place of man, and through the art of Friedrich we can visually see all of these changes.

Anthropology and genetics are two fields that, when put together, discover some amazing things. Most of these amazing things are written in the book The Journey of Man, by Spencer Wells. In it, he explains where humans originated from, and how we came to populate the entire globe. It is both humbling and riveting, and a great start to understanding how much work truly goes in to studying our past.

The small city of Brownsville is small in both population and mind. Even though there are individuals who commute morning and night from country to country, there is no unity. Growing up, I had never experienced a “diverse” city. In the city of Brownsville, Hispanics are the majority. As a result, individuals who saw somebody of a different race or ethnicity would make negative and offensive comments towards them. At times, these offensive comments were accidental. Other times, the offensive comments were on purpose and intended to appear humorous to friends. Apart from discriminatory remarks to outsiders, this happened amongst people of my Hispanic community.

Man’s development should move equally parallel along the lines of knowledge and Being. Unfortunately, it is knowledge which is overemphasized at the cost of being (his essence; all that a man stood for). Man’s knowledge depended upon his being. Man’s being is different from that of the stone, plant and animal. But even among human beings, there are great distances between ‘beings’ of human beings, one from the other.

In 1994, a conflict the US couldn't understand, between clans and tribes it didn't know, in a country where there were no national interests, occurred. The Rwandan War of 1994 did not deserve US intervention. There are four contentions on why the US should not have gotten involved in this Rwandan war. The Black Hawk Down incident, how the UN was there previously there, there being no Possible Gain, and having nothing to do with us. Through the examination of the novel, An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina, it is Obvious that these key points are valid.

A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash definitely fits the category of “grit lit.” It is a novel about the Hall’s, a family who is wracked with grief, anxiety, and guilt after the ‘mysterious’ death of one of their sons, Christopher or Stump. The story encompasses more than just the story of the family though as it is told from the perspective of Adelaide Lyle, an old wise woman from the town, Jess Hall the youngest son of the family, and Clem Barefield, the sheriff of Marshall who also had heartache of his own that is intertwined with this families story in more ways than one. The novel incorporates most if not all of the features that is “grit lit” including: an element of crime, a focus on the bleakness of life, lyrical language, and a central character who wishes to escape their environment or get peace inside it.

...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him is not a story of one character, but rather of a people. Rivera, much like in the Actos of El Teatro Campesino, basically uses a stock character. Although each story seemingly gives more detail and specificity to the character, it can also be interpreted as doing the exact opposite. In telling of the life of one, Rivera in turn reveals the lives of many. Even though specific details of each of their lives were obviously different, the core issues still remained; Chicanos needed change and they needed it immediately. One of the most noticeable techniques Rivera uses within his novel is the constant changing of the point-of-view. The novel is centered on an unnamed male protagonist, however, throughout the story the point-of-view ranges from that of a mother praying for her son unwillingly fighting in Vietnam to that of an omniscient narrator, capable of entering anyone’s heads. This often times seemed to be very random and even abrupt. However, it was through the sporadic sprinklings of changes in point-of-views that Rivera was able to not only showcase cultural struggles of the time, but also call for social change as well as reveal the confusion and uncertainty of the people themselves.

Ever since the existence of a civilization, the fundamental question of how and why; to identify and explain the human’s nature and how man is ought to live, has been the key element in philosophical world. Many philosophers provided and made public of how they viewed this world as, and the human in it, and experimented themselves with their approaches, however, no philosophers could possibly bring forth the same views as other philosophers nor yield an answer which do not leave a sense of doubt in our mind. None of the theories were incorrect, but none of them were right in the sense that even two

“The meaning of life is to not simply exist, to survive but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”said by Arnold S. in the absolutely true diary of a part time indian sherman alexie explores the meaning of life through never ending friendships, facing your biggest fears and learning not everyone is against you.

He asserts that the existing individual is separate from your body, soul, memory, or any other aspect about yourself. “You are no thing, you are simply the person who has to live with things, among things, the person who has to live, not any life but a particular life” (Ortega y Gasset, pg. 118). So according the Ortego y Gasset, we are all given a sort of tools (i.e. body, intelligence, etc.) which we need to utilize to live a specific kind of life. And the only way to realize our true ‘destiny’ is to learn what our specific design is and how to utilize the ‘tools’ that we

Mankind has always looked towards progression in all ways of life. Advancement requires change to a criteria’s state of being. In the short story, “Dead Men’s Path,” written by Chinua Achebe, we read about an ambitious headmaster wanting to instill modernizations into his area of operation. The story concerns the boundaries of tradition that are overstepped by the headmaster of an “unprogressive school.” (Chinua Achebe). We can often see modern-day governments overstepping public boundaries. The governing bodies that have overriding powers over the outcomes of historical and protected lands, often produce unfavorable protests by public groups that evolve from environmental concerns and public rights. With the smallest rebuttals by these protesting groups, we can sometimes see the power in which community contains.