Colson Whitehead

Dysfunctional, that is, anything outside of the ‘norm.’ Weird and abnormal. Strange. Flawed. Shirley Jackson writes We Have Always Lived in the Castle in 1962, and Constance’s awareness that her sister has killed her entire family and says nothing, is the most dysfunctional behavior within this novel. Jackson is no stranger to dysfunction; she grows up with her mother telling her she was the product of a failed abortion and makes it very evident that she thinks Jackson is plain and ugly. Jackson

Same-sex Marriage is a controversial topic. Everyday across the country, there are news stories about acts of discrimination, violence, or hate crimes against same-sex couples. It is very often criticized and looked down upon because many people think that this act is “against the bible”, or it’s “disgusting”, “gross”, or “not natural”. The discrimination against same-sex marriage is preposterous and discouraging. If you really think about it, they’re just the same as any other sexuality. We all

Gay marriage is one of the most controversial issues in this modern world. In my opinion I do not consider “gay marriage” marriage, because marriage has always been a covenant between a man and a woman by its nature. When two men or two women “marry” it denies the reputation of keeping the human race and the raising of children. Gay marriage also violates the natural law, and we should follow “avoid evil and do good”, the natural law is for every human being in the world and we should follow it

In the book,“The Piano Lesson” Augustus Wilson tells a story about his family who is struggling with their past. The story begins with a Boy Willie coming up from the South to bring up the idea of selling the family’s legacy, a piano, which he will sell to buy the land that his ancestors were slaves on. The only problem is that his sister Bernice owns half the piano and she doesn’t want to let him sell it. Throughout the play Wilson portrays the theme that we need to forget our past in order to

suggestions, inferences, conjectured meanings, suppositions, tentative explanations:--ideas, in short.” --John Dewey Out of the authors that I have read this year, Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey are the two that I have found the greatest commonality with in the subject of obtaining and gaining information. Whitehead speaks on education relating back to Life. It seems to be the only way to become a person that can understand the world around him/her is to be a person who learned using life as

*What is the mind body problem? Consciousness is the most fundamental facts of existence, it is what is most intimate to us yet at the same time the most mysterious. Consciousness is what makes life worth living if we were not conscious nothing in our life would have meaning or value. The mind body problem is as follows, there is something it is like to ‘be’ and this ‘being’ is fundamentally subjective and an organism has conscious mental states only if it is something that it is like to be that

In Nicholas Carr’s essay “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machine’s” he brings up the ethical problem of technology. Technology is all around today, but people are starting to wonder if this surplus of technology is starting to make the world less smart. Carr’s primary argument is as technology becomes more prevalent, people are losing knowledge to do certain tasks. Carr claims this is bad because people are putting their lives at risk and dying due to this lack

Keep Love in or Lock it Out?: An Analysis of Symbolism in Fences Symbolism is defined as an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. In Fences by August Wilson, symbolism is used heavily throughout the play in order to represent deeper meanings and add to the emotion of the storyline. In order for the play to have so much depth and emotion, symbolism is crucial to the work itself and the heavy topics

On Monday, April 18, 2016, I observed a School Board Meeting at Chenango Valley School District at 7:00 PM. The room was congested with a numerous amount of people that varied in age. The board members that were present were: Mr. David P. Gill, Superintendent, Mrs. Elizabeth Dicosimo, Assistant Superintendent, Mr. Stuart Elliott, President, Mr. Joel Luchun, Vice-President, Mr. Jason Aurelio, Mr. Steve Carr, Mr. John P. Hussar, Mrs. Christine Lomonaco, Mrs. Michelle Porterfield Wilson, Mrs. Kelly

We must acknowledge that life has never been easy and is expanding more complex all the time. From the author’s, Warren Bennis, point of view, the advocates of simplicity see reality as mechanical, static, segmented, and rational, when it is, indeed, organic, dynamic, whole, and ambiguous. In addition, Basically, the advocates of simplicity see relationships as linear, sequential and serial, discrete, singular and in- dependent, when they are, parallel and simultaneous, connected, murky, multiple