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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Seuss

Challenges Clashed

In “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin tells the story of two brothers and their challenges in life. Their challenges deeply intertwine, and yet they are very different. While the narrator’s challenge is to take responsibility for his brother, Sonny, Sonny’s challenge is, however, to be independent from his brother’s responsibility, or anybody else’s. The irony is that these two challenges counter each other. Sonny’s challenge is to become self-sufficient, while the narrator’s challenge is to help him become self-sufficient. It is funny, isn’t it, that to be independent, he must first accept help from another? [...]

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Jonah

May 23rd 2008
Topics: Uncategorized

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Jacques-Louis David: A Man of Pathos

Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris, on August 30, 1754, and died 77 years later in Brussels on December 30, 1825 (Roberts, 3). He was taught by Vein, one of the most known painters of the time (Friedlaender, 12). Many of his painting, including the two I have chosen, represent very emotional events that had happened during and around the time that he lived. David was able to capture these events on canvas and really bring out its pathos and emotion. [...]

Jonah

May 22nd 2008
Topics: Politics, Uncategorized

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The Gun Ban – Will it Work?

One difficulty the world has always been faced with is crime. We have put penalties on crime, such as flogging and beating in the older days, and today we have more civilized methods such as jailing and the death sentence. But we still have crime. It would be ridiculous to think that we will ever fully get rid of crime in this imperfect world. Even so, we are still always striving to come up with new ways to lower the crime rate. One much disputed method to reduce crime is a gun ban – to ban all guns. Banning guns is a very dramatic thing to do and it deserves to be thought out. Something that seems to be neglected by a lot of anti-gun advocates is that criminals will still have the black market as a way to attain their guns even if they are banned, and for this reason I do not think a gun ban would turn out as expected. [...]

David

December 17th 2007
Topics: Modest Proposal, Politics

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Involuntary Servitude for a Better America: A Modest Proposal

It is an unfortunate fact that even in our age of modern technological proficiency and crime-solving techniques, criminal activity is still rampant in America today. Much of this activity is rooted in gangs, including many murders, beatings and other violence. Furthermore, some gangs have significant financial resources available due to the entrepreneurial skills of various drug lords. This allows them to extend their violent acts at will, and surely makes it difficult for the police to contain them and impossible to stop the flow of new criminals trained by these informal organizations. [...]

Jonah

December 12th 2007
Topics: Definition

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What is Wisdom

What is Wisdom? What makes a person wise? Is it what you do? Is it what one knows? How does wisdom differ from knowledge? Many people think “Wisdom” and “Knowledge” can be used interchangeably, but in fact, they are not at all the same, and should never be treated as so. They are two of the most misunderstood and misused words today. [...]

Jonah

December 11th 2007
Topics: Politics

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Will a Gun Ban Really Work?

All of us want to prevent crime. We all want to end man-slaughter. A highly debated method to reduce criminal activities is the gun-ban. Anti-gun advocates argue that if we attempt to take guns out of the peoples hands, crime will fall. However, for reasons I am about to reveal, I have found that a gun-ban may actually not work quite as intended. [...]


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