yourself, express yourself, have faith yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality duplicate"( Bruce Lee). I thought of this quote and connected to both Brian Kim and Shalon Wu essay/ article. The both of them try to look up to someone in their live. Have you ever thought about how two different people in different timeline could help others to discover and appreciate who they are because of them? In Brian Kim's “Arm Wrestling with Grandfather" and Shalon Wu's “In Search of Bruce Lee's
In Malcolm Gladwell’s Small Change, he argues about building strong ties. A strong connection to a personal matter can bring about great change as seen in the Civil Rights Movement and other protests. Would protests be affected if the members did not personally identify with the matter at hand? Individuals would argue, without having a personal connection to the protest it could affect your credibility later on. Some people would find it difficult to understand a man advocating for women’s rights
sometimes end up in situations of abuse and misuse. In the essay “Time and Distance Overcome” which is written by Eula Bliss in 2008, she points out that criminality throughout history influence the perception on an invention, and furthermore how time and distance can overcome things and restore the true idea of an invention. The story involves two themes. The invention of the telephone and utility poles to support power lines and various other public utilities along with the racism towards the African
Theodore J. Karamanski brings together a number of essays which discuss the ethical issues that practicing public historians may face. He illustrates how the issue of ethics shaped public history into the field we know today, and offers his two cents on the ethical codes of conduct put forth in recent years by such organizations as the National Council on Public History. But although it may appear that public history has come a long way from being an academic lunatic fringe to an accepted field in
differences it becomes to be hard to see the similarities to the nature around us. In From Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton presents a paradoxical look at our human condition that follows this thought. That as humans we get too focused on being human and what it means to be human. We get so focused on ourselves that we forget what it means to be anything else. We start to see ourselves as separate from the rest of the world. This is something to feel “Guilty” about, for we don't stop at just
Ryle have very different opinions when it comes to dualism and the human mind. The new information being presented by MRIs and the new information that is destined to come would likely pin these two further against each other. Descartes is a believer in dualism; he introduces and defends Cartesian dualism within his Meditations on First Philosophy, while Ryle completely disputes this theory in his essay Descartes’s Myth. Rene Descartes famously theorized that the mind and the body are two separate
impact others. The elite come to conclusions with the help of educated professionals. Some of the elite do not even realize how much power they wield. In America, political, economic, and military institutions have all the power. Over time, they each changed drastically. Other systems, such as that of education, are designed around the main 3 groups; they have little decision-making power. The lives of the typical American depend on their choices in the 3 major sectors. Those who end up being successful
In this Essay, I will prove that a certain argument found in Thucydides’s Peloponnesian War is a good argument. The argument is as follows; “An Athenian is always an innovator, quick to form a resolution and quick at carrying it out” (75). I will identify the premises and conclusion, as well as asses, both, the acceptability of those premises, and the logical strength of this argument. The main conclusion is how “An Athenian is always an innovator” (75). This in itself is an argument, because, it
When we got this assignment, I was originally planning on doing an essay format, and if I’m being completely honest its because the header takes up more page space. But I went to the writing center, and with my tutor’s suggestion and some more thought on the matter, I feel like the looser formatting of a letter would give me the freedom I would like to accurately communicate to you exactly what I got out of this making portfolio. I’m striving to be straightforward and introspective, and I figure
academic knowledge. Gerald Graff supports this when he discusses the flawed line between “academic” subjects and “non academic” subjects. In his essay, “Hidden Intellectualism”, he remarks, “We associate the educated life, the life of the mind, too narrowly and exclusively with subjects and texts that we consider inherently weighty and academic” (Graff 380). In other words, we are wrong to affiliate so strongly that which is studious with that which is good education. Dan Perkel furthers this argument