Love's Lustful Loss of Innocence Chris Isaac once wrote in his song, "Wicked Game," "The world was on fire, nobody could save me but you. Strange what desire makes foolish people do." Like the potent authority desire establishes in Isaac's lyri...

Finding Your Identity Knowing the fact that no human could be perfect, my determination to accomplish the impossible was merely unstoppable. I would never be satisfied with any of my accomplishments for they were never perfect enough. Instead of giving myself a pat on the back for the amount ...

Finding Your Identity Knowing the fact that no human could be perfect, my determination to accomplish the impossible was merely unstoppable. I would never be satisfied with any of my accomplishments for they were never perfect enough. Instead of giving myself a pat on the back for the amount ...

Lost Highway: Interpreted but Never Explained The purpose of this essay is to explain the psychoanalytic and postmodern ideals portrayed in the David Lynch film "Lost Highway." His works are, for the most part, non-linear, absurd, chaotic and emotional. Lynch takes the rawness of human...

'It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.' Ursula Le Guin A journey is an arbitrary, cyclic conduit to which no end can be foreseen. The arrival of a journey is not the end, simply a reflection on the events thus far, a pause in the eternal flig...

The Matrix: The Problem of the External World The film The Matrix addresses the philosophical problem of the external world in a manner that few have ever even remotely considered. Many people casually question what is real, and what are we actually seeing. However, few develop in depth theories...

Can You Show That We Don't Know Anything? Most people go through life without ever questioning the idea of knowledge. We all make statements every day such as 'I know X', and 'We all have knowledge of Y', yet when we truly examine what it means to 'know' some...