Essays on Man

The movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angelos, California, in what could be called a high class ghetto. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his…

Einstein’s Brain “Markedly different” from normThe article that I have read is about how Albert Einstein’s gray matter in his brain has differences then the average persons. They are not sure though if it has any links between his great intelligence though. Dr. Dahlia W. Zaidel of UCLA was the researcher on this project. She…

At the time that Ralph Ellison writes the novel The Invisible Man there were, as there are today, many ideas on how to improve the black mans status in a segregated nation. Marcus Garvey was a militant black nationalist leader who created a “Back to Africa” movement. On the other side was Booker T. Washington…

In Arthur Millers 1949 essay, “Tragedy and the Common Man,” Miller began by saying, “In this age few tragedies are written. ” This particular essay was published in the New York Times, was also the preface that was prepared for “Death of a Salesman” in 1949. Before Millers “Death of a Salesman,” there was only…

The Rich ManFranklin P. Adams is one of the less known American modern poets. His poems, like the poems of many other 20th century American poets, comment the society after the industrial revolution. Adams poem, The Rich Man, concentrates on the class division between the rich and the poor. Furthermore it satirizes the old view…

The Healing ProcessThis is a brief psychological overview of the healing process. The image of healing is best described by Gloria Vanderbilt in “A Mother’s Story” when she talks of breaking the invisible unbreakable glass bubble which enclosed her that kept her always anticipating loss with echoes of all past losses. She wrote, for example…

I was watching an episode of The Simpsons on TV the other day, and there was a craze around town because the Springfield Lottery was up to 130 million dollars. Bookstores were selling out of Shirley Jacksons The Lottery. Homer quickly threw the book into the fireplace when he realized that the book could not…

Cadyn AllenApril 1, 1999CP English IVMs. WadeA Strange Man of Many TalentsLewis Carroll by today’s standards would be considered a weirdo. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, who was a separated man who delighted in the consortship of little girls. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was influenced…

The Terminal Man was about theneuropsychiatric section of a hospital doing a breakthroughsurgery to help reverse the effects of psychomotor epilepsy. The patient’s name was Harry Benson. Harry hadpsychomotor epilepsy because he hit his head in a caraccident and it resulted in brain damage. Harry was a goodsubject for the operation because he was brilliant,…

NostradamusFor four centuries Nostradamus’s prophecies have inspired fear andcontroversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, thebirth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Did he,as his believers claim, predict some of history’s most monumental events -from the Great Fire of London to the launch disaster of the space shuttleChallenger?…