Month: September 2019

We Are Not The Sum Of Our Past

There were two things my father always told me, “When you were born did anyone ever tell you that life was going to be fair?” And, “I only married your mother to give you a name.” My mother’s two favorite confessions to me were, “You ruined my life being born,” and, “I only kept you

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On My Way To Make It In Life

The beginning of human existence is the childhood, where it is incapable for a person to know where he would, in the long run, end up. As a baby, he or she would be expected to adhere to the rules of the parent, before going to be a toddler. As a toddler, the formative years

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Deep Within The Scars

One of our greatest distinction as mankind is our ability to extract information from the past and project it into the future. For this reason, we often think, write and narrate about our past experiences. As part of our narratives, we have a different version of stories that oft unveil the ruined coexistence amongst ourselves.

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Over-Humility

Modesty is a virtue… but is too much of it a bad thing? In our country and many others, I believe society has inbred within us the heinous quality of over-humility, which can have detrimental impacts for people who practice it. Albert Einstein once told society that: ‘I have no special talent. I am just

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The Fastest Horse

Technology is the constant race for speed. Faster, smaller are the key words in today’s society. Where we once bred biology to carry out the necessary functions of life, now technology has surpassed everything in its ability to provide for the human race. Where once we had horses, now we have cars. But how far

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The Method of Hate

This essay interprets the concept of hate attracting hate as a method. This doctrine suggests that negativity breeds negativity. While it may be true that hate does often attract hate, we must remain tolerant enough to understand that this will not always be the case. Only the bigoted will assume that only one path is

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Life As Evolution

Life is no less interesting from being equipped with an enormous variety of people. While time and space may vary and change, the fundaments of human psychology remain the same. We have heterosexuals, homosexuals, women, men, children, babies, the intelligent, the unintelligent and all manner of criminals. People are consistent in their psychology – everyone

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Immersion

It could be said that without the conflict and the sad beauty of a tortured death, the Bible and Christ Himself would never have sold half so well. His story would be trite and boring – it would be normal. If the media is any indication, nobody follows what is normal. And so, even then,

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Michel Foucault’s theory on Knowledge and Truth

This article will discuss Michel Foucault’s academy theory, “I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” It will do so in relation to education and exploring schools as mechanisms of power

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Observations of an Endangered Creature

I watched her as she cowered in the evergreen shrubs. Her body racked with sobs, shaking, struggling for breath. She collapsed onto the floor, limbs sprawled at unnatural angles, her ocean eyes deep and lifeless, still staring, felt as if they were bearing into my soul. Her body fell fast and violent, as if it

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The struggle of our life

Just as you’re about to read this, some voices within you are struggling. One says skip; another says go-on. A different one even says it’d be worth reading; another counters, and says it won’t. That’s how all of life is – life is a race of struggle! We all have many persons within us struggling

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How Conflict Affects Life Stories

We structure our lives into stories to cherish experiences. This makes us the main character of our own stories. Through storytelling, we make sense of life. In this dynamic world where everyone has to undergo personal growth and development, conflict is an inevitable part of life. It makes us feel anxious and uncertain when our

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Three Haters

“La haine attire la haine.” (Hate attracts hate.) – from La Haine, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz. I don’t think I have to dispute the psychological actuality that hate attracts hate. And I don’t think anyone should. I’m not here to repeat the obvious or buttress the already known about human nature stated above. That’s not important

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What I am

The quote; “I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning,” holds true when what we are is fluid and not content in our approach and thoughts. We continue to do things

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The Love of Hate

Hate can be cultural, to be sure, as a tradition that is handed down from generation to generation without any justification, or even analytics. We hate because we can hate.  It seems that some people, in order to feel good about themselves, must articulate their presumed superiority over others in terms of extreme hostility towards the targeted person/people. 

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Hate – A Contagious Disease

In this world, on one side there are positive virtues like love, compassion, humility, honesty, etc. But on the contrary, there are negative vices like anger, hate, greed, etc. There is a saying that there are two types of dog in each human: one is the positive dog and the other is the negative dog,

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Dialectical

People can be as foreign as language. This includes me, a woman who has always felt like a lost, missing, child inside of the depersonalized body that others have insisted is hers. This has always been important to me: knowing where my roots are, knowing who I am inside of myself. I don’t think I’ve

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The Betterment of Humankind

There is in our civilization a great deal of ignorance about the human condition. The more ignorant a society is the more of its people suffer hatred. Each human being is an integral part of the collective whole. They affect the world much more deeply than is seen on the surface. Human beings are not

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Utopia: A Perfectly Boring World

Veronica Roth believes that it is the element of conflict that makes the stories we write – and read –worthwhile. I absolutely agree. But what is conflict? According to one authority on the subject, there is “no single universally accepted definition of conflict”. How ironic! Fundamentally, conflict refers to a state of opposition between persons,

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Know Yourself

Wow. Those are some powerful words. And utter bullshit. That’s someone who’s got their head in the sand. The main interest in life is not to become someone else but to become a better version of yourself. You have a foundation laid with specific skills and talents, likes and dislikes, aptitudes and attitudes. The better

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