Professor‚ Parker English 205 Sep 25‚ 2014 Kenyon Commencement Speech In May 2005‚ David Foster Wallace‚ an award-winning American essayist and novelist‚ delivered a commencement address to the graduating class at Kenyon College in Gambier‚ Ohio. Certainly‚ he is not the first American writer and college professor to address a graduating class. And yet‚ for some reason‚ in 2011‚ Time magazine named Wallace’s speech the “best commencement speech”; indeed‚ numerous other publications have rated Wallace’s
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We have not been good guardians of the Earth. How far do you agree with this statement? The era of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their environment. The Industrial Revolution dramatically changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles. It wasn’t that the Industrial Revolution became a stalwart juggernaut overnight. It started in the mid-1700s in Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labour. Fossil
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The Red Earth: An Analysis of Colonial France Colonial France in the early 20th century was a mass of contradictions. It was a republic dedicated to the rights of man; freedom‚ self-determination‚ and equal rights. However‚ it had a sprawling colonial empire stretching from Algeria in the northwest of Africa to the steamy jungles of Madagascar and Vietnam. The latter of which first experienced French colonization in the late 1850s (Herzog 9.3). Beginning after the 1858 war that saw the capture of
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Report on the Religious Life of Planet Earth Religion is relative to what a person regards to as holy‚ sacred‚ absolute‚ spiritual‚ divine‚ or worthy of worship; it consists of the way people deal with their ultimate concerns about their lives and their fate after death. On Earth there are seven distinguished dimensions of religion‚ which include ritual‚ narrative and mythic‚ experimental and emotional‚ social and institutional‚ ethical and legal‚ doctrinal and philosophical‚ and material Religion
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Themes There are a few themes in the novel‚ Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The first theme is achieving one’s dream. Professor Lidenbrock shows that with determination‚ one can achieve one’s dream. So when he got an opportunity to do so in making the journey to the centre of the Earth‚ he seized it immediately. At the end of this novel‚ he successfully completed the journey. Second theme is facing challengers with perseverance and courage. Many times during the journey‚ the travelers faced
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In Saving Normal‚ Frances‚ who is the former chairman of the task force that organized the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ warns readers that the DSM-5‚ offers an irresponsible set of proposals that will turn everyday stressors into mental illnesses. Outlining faddish syndromes of the past‚ Frances argues that whenever we freely label a set of human behaviors as a "disease‚" we lost a bit of our diversity and adjustability. Frances acknowledges that we all
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animals changed also. Holocene sediments contain remnants of more recent plants and animals‚ so it’s pretty easy to differentiate geologically between these two epics. Now there is growing evidence that the presence of humans has altered the earth so much that a new epic of geologic history has begun – the Anthropocene epic‚ a new human-influenced epic. This idea that we’ve entered a new Anthropocene epic was first proposed in 2002. The idea is that around the year 1800 CE the human population
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The Salt of the Earth‚ a 1954 film by Michael Wilson‚ is truly a masterpiece. In a very unbiased and professional way‚ I can say that this film is thus far‚ my favorite film that we have seen in our Chicano Cinema class‚ and the reason is easily seen. This film by Wilson adequately and precisely depicted the struggles that many Mexican American citizens suffered through in their work. The movie takes place in Zinc Town‚ New Mexico‚ where the population consists of many miners that work for the
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"Between Heaven and Earth" Written by Alana Aston "Between Heaven and Earth" features the dynamic physical theatre performer Stace Callaghan as she attends a "Boot Camp for the Soul". Recently performed at the Powerhouse‚ the show is a pilgrimage through time‚ space and soul as it traverses the crevasse between psychological breakdowns and spiritual breakthroughs. Callaghan has said that the show is an "offering of healing" and she has successfully achieved this through the manipulation of dramatic
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Throughout Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s novel‚ This Earth of Mankind‚ a multitude of social justice issue arise amongst the Dutch colonization of Indonesia. The European cultural influence truly suffocated the local natives to the point where social structure and class took precedence over knowledge‚ talent‚ and experience. Native Indonesians where seen as inferior to the Dutch colonials and race was thus correlated with class. Race refers to whether someone is Native Indonesian‚ Indo‚ or European. The
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