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In the essay “The Loss of the Creature”, Walker Percy highlights his observations on how people perceive the world. He argues that we have lost original, self-driven learning because people only measure their experiences based on other people’s expectations. He states how these preconceived expectations of our experiences give way to a symbolic complex. This complex is set by what people or “Layman” believe the experts have set. Therefore, their experience is only validated if people feel that

Camping in Alaska, Arizona, and Colorado The wilderness is vast, unforgiving, and beauteous; those who visit it unprepared find thorns instead of roses, but even as tough as a trip into the wild is, the pros can be worth the cons. Many venture into camping with no wary thoughts about the dangers it brings; the wildlife, environment, weather, and location can instantaneously alter your seemingly perfect trip. Surprisingly, these problems can be avoided, but only through careful planning. Planning

The weather was hot and the season for adventure was equally so in the highly anticipated month of August. The blissful summer of my senior year in high school was coming to an end. It was time. My morning had begun with the usual black coffee served hot in my favorite mug depicting a cat in a fuzzy purple sweater holding its own mug of coffee. Restless butterflies in my stomach had seemingly taken over my normal appetite. In front of me rested a paper doubtlessly staring into my soul. A paper you

The hot, arid air burned into my soul as millions of needles pricked my delicate skin. Beads of sweat coursed down my face as I turned towards the window facing the barren desert surrounding me. My family and I were on an ever sought vacation to the Grand Canyon, yet we had to drive from New York to Arizona and I radiated impatience throughout the journey. Walls of heat shrouded me as I gasped for air, yet my efforts were fruitless, swallowing nothing but fire. As my lungs collapsed, I looked out the

when I went Las Vegas, specifically Circus Circus. The advertisement I saw on television formed my “symbolic complex” of this place affecting my experience and making me lose my sovereignty. I then added how this was similar to Percy’s example on the Grand Canyon and how this “symbolic complex” affects us and we are dependent on it. I then ended and briefly talked about about one last thing that Percy states that we can still gain our sovereignty, by leaving these preconceived ideas. In this essay I

Sami Qian: The Grand Historian “If
it may be handed down to men who will appreciate it and penetrate to the villages and great cities, then, though I should suffer a thousand mutilations, what regret would I have?” (Letter to Ren An) The last excerpt from Sami Qian’s letter to Ren An, explaining his reasoning for choosing castration instead of death. Sami Qian was son of Sima Tan. Tan held the position of Court Astrologer who worked under the Han Dynasty. After his father’s death, Qian upheld

Oracene Williams in Saginaw, Michigan. Williams, the youngest of five girls, began tennis training with her family at the age of nine and flourished to become one of the world’s greatest tennis players. According to Serena Williams’s website, four Grand Slam championship titles, sixty-six singles championship titles, twenty-two doubles championship titles, and five Olympic gold medals fill Williams’s trophy case. Due to an impressive award collection, incredible athletic ability, and even greater

In the Article Grand-Slam Graphics, Lisa Strausfeld, David Ingold, Christopher Cannon, and Jeremy Diamond go in depth to explore the business-end of Major League baseball and create a polar-area diagram to portray the information in a way to give the viewers a greater understanding of the article in whole. After an eye opening come across after the Los Angeles Dodgers spent nearly two billion dollars just on sales at the ballpark, the Bloomberg News spent nine months gathering and evaluating the

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There is a famous saying that goes something like: if you take God out of the picture, there will be no answer. However, many people take God or gods out of the many aspects of their lives. Now, if God is mentioned in a debate or topic, it creates controversies and is specifically targeted by critics. Topics or questions such as evolution or the origins of the universe have long been debated, studied, and researched. Starting in the 19th century, evolution has been a long debated popular topic among