Essays on Trivial

Pop Art is an art, where everyday objects are used (comics, cans, burgers, etc.) as a subject, and often included into the work. The Pop Art is the direction of the Visual Arts in Western Europe and the United States of the late 1950-1960-ies. The term “Pop Art” was firstly used by Lawrence Alloway in his critical article, but in the meaning of “pop culture”. Pop Art is characterized by the portrayal of all features of pop culture and has a powerful influence on modern life; images are taken from the mass media and especially advertising. Although critics characterized ...

Throughout history, there have been many great thinkers. They have sprawled among many disciplines, from philosophy to physics. Nevertheless, some of these have made important contributions to many fields at the same time. One of these cases is that of Blaise Pascal, who was deeply influential in mathematics, philosophy and theology. In a sense, one could say that these three disciplines were intertwined in his work. By studying the loftier aspects of the human experience, Pascal was able to bring together probability theory and his worries about the existence of God. As such, his notorious wager was a turning ...

Utilitarianism and Taxes

Taxes are an important part of most modern societies. Nevertheless, as with almost anything, one has the option of actually going through with the action or not. Some might say that not paying taxes would be acceptable, as this implies taking personal property away from one person. Nevertheless, Utilitarianists would surely agree that one should pay one’s taxes, as it would ensure that everybody’s needs are covered. According to Utilitarianists, ethics is a way to maximize the greatest amount of good among the greatest number of people, minimizing the harmful effects. Typically, taxes are not high, so ...

The Grass Dancer, a book written by Susan Power, who descends from the Native American Sioux people, fascinates the reader with the elaborateness of the plot, complex kinship and thematic saturation. Power weaves a complex story of life and relationships of a young Sioux Harley Wind Soldier living in a reservation in Dakota and struggling to regain his identity. However, the far from being one-sided or hackneyed: the author deploys various techniques to portray the story of the entire Sioux Nation through the array of interrelated characters. However, the main peculiarity of the book lies in Power’s careful ...

Rene Descartes is one of the most important Western philosophers of all time. His theory introduced many concepts that are still being debated to this day. One of his greatest contributions was establishing a more skeptical view of reality. Concretely, he believed that determining whether one was dreaming or awake is impossible, essentially because one could imagine anything in reality. Therefore, according to him, one could dream that one were experiencing reality in such a way that it would be indistinguishable from the actual world. In general, he rejected all tests that purported to clearly discriminate between reality and ...

Introduction

The long walk is a story that shows the extent to which individuals could sacrifice themselves to achieve their goals. The story also shows various motives that make individuals commit themselves to particular tasks since while others rely on sacrifices as a way of succeeding, others tend to engage in forms of self-punishment from regretful events that happened earlier in their lives. Through the characters used in the story, the concept of making right decisions is brought out meaning it is imperative for individuals to make the right decisions in life to avoid future regrets. Stephen King’s Novel ...

Summary 1

People all over the universe do have different alienations culturally. Different cultures do have varying works of art associated with them. The works of art of the different groups of people try to identify people with their respective cultures. For the case of the metis, the assumption that each culture had its own corresponding art was hard to validate (Levy, pg72). This was because many of the works found in this region could not be proved to be of metis origin. Two scholars however, found that the metis had work of art which could be identified as their own. ...

John Updike’s story ‘A & P’ was first appeared in ‘The New Yorker’ on July 22, 1961. Even now, fifty years later, it still is, despite its extreme brevity, perhaps even because of it, his most frequently anthologized short story and, one might assume, one of his most appreciated and valued. It is a story in which plot, point of view and character are intermingled.

The plot is very simple. Three scantily clad young women arrive at the local A & P, and cause a stir because they are dressed for the beach. The other shoppers are shocked, but the ...

John Updike’s short story ‘A & P’ was first published in ‘The New Yorker’ on July 22, 1961. Even now, fifty years on, it still, despite its brevity, or perhaps because of it, his most frequently anthologized short story and, one would assume, one of his most widely enjoyed and read. This essay will analyze the popular appeal of ‘A &P’ and reach a justified conclusion about why it carries on being read so widely and with such apparent gusto and interest. The ways in which Updike writes the story are important, as is Updike’s presentation of ...