Category: /Literature/Poetry
…Despite different contexts both Aldous Huxley within his book "Brave New World" and Ridley Scott in the film "Blade Runner" explore the idea that humans feel themselves more sophisticated than the natural world, yet are able to completely sever relations…
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Category: /Literature/Poetry
…Ode To a Grecian Urn
This poem says something insidious about human nature, or at least civilization. But before I get into that, this is what I believe the poet is trying to say, and I only use the term "believe" because there are many different…
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Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
…are eating or out in public places.
Smokers have their right to smoke. It's their health they're damaging and in their view it's no worse than alcohol that's sold everywhere. However, I don't think it's fair that non-smokers have to be poisoned by others…
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Category: /Society & Culture/People
…Although the focus of this essay is to discuss how DNA technology helped our understanding of human colonisation and the spread of agriculture in Europe over the past 10 000 years, it will first look at the recent African origin theory as it is relevant…
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Category: /Literature
…My essay,"What an Animal", uses Rick Bass's "Antlers" to exemplify humanities denial and loss of it's primal roots, and the confusion that results from interaction with the last vestiges of animal instinct.
At some point in history humankind invented…
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Category: /Literature/European Literature
…been built, only to be eroded by time and forgotten. Humans have succeeded in retaining only one thing throughout their existence and that is their own human nature. We possess universal human characteristics that transcend time and place. Human nature…
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Category: /Literature/Poetry
…Do you know what human experience is?
Human experiences are ones thoughts, activities and events that shape someone in day-to-day life. For example a long distance runner one day has an accident and has to get his leg cut off. They have to change…
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Category: /Literature/English
…As Life Passes Us By
There are many phrases in the English language that make reference to and/or express warning in the shortness and importance of life. But no matter how often people hear it, generally, they don't understand. We, as humans, do…
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