Silence – My screams of horror and death, machine guns and burning flesh, to silence. Absolutely no sound, not even the chirp of a bird nor the wind going through tree branches. My absolute and complete, utter silence represents the trauma I’ve inflicted upon others and the burden they had carried with them throughout their […]
Tragic Hero: Paul Walker vs. Oedipus vs. Othello (Ronnie Wakefield)
Tragic Hero’s date far, far back. An example of a modern day tragic hero is Paul Walker. A tragic hero possess many characteristics explained by Aristotle such as hamartia, the downfall of a hero, anagnorisis, the moment when the hero makes an important discovery, hubris, the excessive pride and disrespect of the hero for natural […]
Thomas Edison, “The Old Man”
Thomas Edison, a 74-year-old inventor, is currently gathering data for an investigation of a substance that, if it exists at all, might explain how light travels. Edison told Claudy, a reporter who interviewed him, “I’m doing this for recreation.” At 74, he is getting ready to formulate some new theory, for fun! Edison is easily one […]
Mental Illness Rising Throughout Schools
Recently, more and more studies have been published showing an extreme increase of mental health statistics throughout all school ages. Educators and administration are seeing students suffering from depression, anxiety and also social phobia. Mental illness among students has sharpened, educators say, and it’s striking ever younger children, though many quietly bear the stress for years […]
Fake News: How to Differ the Real from the Fake
The resent presidential election created a new form of media, “Fake news”. Fake news in information that has been manipulated by a writer to create a story that draws an audience. Fake news sounds true, and the place where it is published looks like a real news page, but it is all created to make […]
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