I had once watched an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show where Oprah Winfrey interviewed women who recalled the moment they realized they should always listen to their gut, their natural instinct that warned them of for coming trouble. It is an instinct that everyone naturally has that, in a way,...

On the Outside After doing 15 years for the family Tommy Garcia was now free and wanted to get back what he had lost. As he left the gates of the prison, which had been his home for the past fifteen years, he saw his old friend Tony, standing smoking just like before. As he neared, Tony flicked...

Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our thinking of rights and responsibilities. I believe we must incorporate not only a temporal comp...

Cameronized Denver! There are no words to describe my love and passion for the city of Denver, Colorado. The mountains, the skyline there is nothing like it. No city is quite like Denver. The most important part of why I love Denver is because I was born and raised there for 7 years. I hadn'...

Self-reliance is a difficult concept; to be truly self-reliant one must do and believe only what is in their hearts. In society, there is a constant struggle with beliefs that are not the standard. Those individuals who stray from the standard are shunned thus forced caused to conform to society. Th...

Hamlet The Ultimate in Pre-Menstrual Syndrome. Was the character of Hamlet one of believability, or one of false pretense? Considering his actions from the beginning of the play, an in-depth analysis of his attributes will be needed to provide a complete and concise answer to the question. Th...

The Ethical Basis for Ecosystem Management Andrew J. Green Ecosystem Management: The Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our ...

Cloudy Morning The morning golden sky was surrounding me in a distant haze. The sun and morning haze had started to churn and mix together. I felt as if I belonged in a painting. The beauty struck me and made me catch my breath. It was like your favorite pillow; it comforted me and made my mi...

Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Parmenides Parmenides (pronounced as: pärmenidz) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and poet, as well as a leading figure of the Eleatic school of philosophy. Son of Pyres, Parmenides was born of an illustrious family in Elea between B.C. 505-515. Elea was a colony l...

The Young Philosophers Tale As you can very well see, I am young and inexperienced in philosophy. I have heard the teachers and read the books, But lack wisdom and profound outlooks. For this reason my story, which I hope will please, Is not drawn from Aristotle or Sophocles, But from p...

The wind was blowing harder then usual, but it didn't seem like it could bring anything bad upon us. The tepid rain drops were falling down from the roof onto my nose as I walked down the stairs of my old house. The stairs squeaked a little, which brought back the memories from my past, and some gue...

My childhood was filled with a bunch of moving around and learning to accept new ideas. The biggest, and probably the most difficult idea to cope with was that I would never live with the same pair of parents. My biological parents never married, and split up right after I was born, here in Baton ...

Gasping for breath and gripping the edge of the bed, Isac laid sweat soaked devoid of covers frozen in terror from the nightmare, which recently began to recur with an alarming frequency. Eyes darting wildly, searching for something, anything, which might provide some comfort for the flood of tears ...

I belief that not everything in this world needs to be proven, God for example. Not everybody believes in God even if people saw him some will still deny. We do not need to prove it, and why should we care if someone doesn't believe it. Believing in God is a personal faith and everyone is free to ...

Humanism during the Renaissance During the renaissance, there was a renewed interest in the arts, and the traditional views of society came into question. People began to explore the power of the human mind. A term often used to describe the increasing interest in the powers of the human m...

Against Still Life In the poem Against Still Life, poet Margaret Atwood fascinates us by weaving her words into descriptive feelings we can all relate too, especially women. Atwood is a well known poet and novelist who has a certain way of grabbing the attention of the reader and throwing ...

To Err is Human: Mad vs. Bad It is widely believed that all those who commit murder are insane. Many claim anyone would have to be out of one's mind to kill another person. But in the spirit of war, ordinary men and women are trained and encouraged to kill people without remorse or empath...

Mersaults' Animal Nature Albert Camus' The Stranger starts with the death of a mother, maybe. Her son, Mersault, is unsure. He is also oblivious to the concepts of marriage, God, and repentance, as well as other institutions of society. According to social law, this is reason to execute him for...

As I stood near the window-my hands resting both on the window sill and also on my cheeks, gazing towards the unknown, my mind on something, my concentration on something else, my eyes seemed to keep searching for something now meaningless, as though I am bound to find it but my weary eyes could...

Do you remember the last time you felt rediscovery in your mind? And what did the scene look like? I can always find my new self through somebody and events. In the way I dealt with different people and things, I found I had learnt a lot and was standing on a new stage of life. I think this can ...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the first son, and third of eleven children, was born in Daresbury (Cheshire), England on January 27th, 1832. Influenced greatly by his father - a noble captain, Archdeacon, Canon, and dually mastered in Mathematics and the Classics, Charles spent his childhood years un...