The Cosmic Race, by Mexican politician, activist, and intellectual Jose Vasconcelos, is an essay about a new race in Latin America brought about by the fusion of all other races and the society they will live in. It is an extremely influential essay in Mexico. The Cosmic Race says that America is the ancient home of the now lost Atlantean civilization (Vasconcelos 7). The subsequent Atlantean downfall spawned four races the Indian, natives in America, the Black, the Mongol, and the White (Vasconcelos 9). Latin America, already a racial melting pot, is in the perfect condition to .
Even when all seems lost, the human capacity for love and resilience allows people to keep pushing forward. In this way, Hansberry's use of symbolism serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of perseverance through difficult
6. This quote directly shows the connection between the major ideas in this books and the small stories and pieces of text that are found within this book. In this quote, the author writes, “We are at our most perfect when we have something to push against.” This sentence relates to the bigger idea in the book that competition is a prerequisite to genius. When you are competing for something, you are always at full capacity because you have a desire to do something, something to work for. When you are in this state, genius has to have a better chance of popping through because genius is a showing of the best and brightest ideas that we have to offer and these ideas can really only be unlocked when we are putting forth our best effort, which is triggered by competition.
2. In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, Kesey uses images of machinery to compare to Big Nurse, Miss Ratched, and the black boy because of the control they maintain in the ward and destroy the patients individuality. As Chief Bromden, the narrator, is thinking about over the years with Miss Ratched, he describes, “I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get to the result she want” (Kesey 29). Miss Ratched is conveyed as a robot by the Chief with how she controls and knows how to control the ward and the people in it.
In the novel, Death By Black Hole, Neil DeGrasse Tyson proves that the common assumption that the color of our solar system’s sun is yellow, is, in fact, an incorrect belief. Many people think that the sun is yellow because, “Near sunset … the blue light from the sun’s spectrum, lost to the twilight sky, leaves behind a yellow-orange-red hue…”(Tyson 293).This shows why this common misconception is not an easy thing to spot and is understandable why most people incorrectly assume the color of the sun. The actual color of the sun is proven by the fact that, “ if the sun were yellow… then white stuff would reflect this light and appear yellow…”(Tyson 293). If the sun was actually yellow then the colors we see around us would have been changed
Reynolds frequently alludes to disorganization on the cover of his book and within its text. The front cover of his book has scratch marks, color fading, and distortions of the objects on it. Usually, we intend for objects to be tidy, newly colored, and with no distortions, but the front page of his book doesn’t follow this plan, further demonstrating Reynolds' lesson. In addition, within his text, it always seems like characters’ decisions are represented as disorganized, which symbolizes how things do not go according to plan. Some of the moments Will experiences in the elevator support the idea of disorganization.
R.P. McMurphy exemplifies a modern day tragic hero in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy follows the traditional outline of a tragic hero in that he has a fatal flaw, a reversal of fortune due to this flaw, and experiences his own downfall due to his fatal flaw. R.P. McMurphy’s biggest flaw was his insubordination. McMurphy’s insubordination was exemplified when he first arrived on the ward, and demanded to see the “bull goose loony.”
The incorporation of religious themes into Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest depicts McMurphy as a Christ figure, serving to protect the patients from Nurse Ratched. Just as Jesus stands up for all people against the devil, McMurphy altruistically defends the patients of the ward against Nurse Ratched. Kesey includes the theme of selflessness to illustrate that McMurphy acts as a “martyr or saint”, defending the patients regardless of consequences that he may endure (222). McMurphy “risk[s] doubling his stay in the nuthouse” to defend the patients against Nurse Ratched. McMurphy does not care about how much time he must spend in the ward, but instead about helping the patients.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, took place in a mental hospital during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The narrator, Chief Bromden was a patient in a mental hospital for ten years. In the beginning of the book Chief was dominated by his fear of the Combine. The combine was “a huge conglomeration that controls society and forces people into conformity.” (SparkNotes Editors)
The novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, is viewed as a tragedy when tracking McMurphy’s and Billy Bibbit’s plot, however, is also portrayed as comedic when tracking the societal transformation caused by McMurphy. When observing both McMurphy’s and Billy Bibbit’s tragic endings, the novel is portrayed as a tragedy. Toward the end of the novel, Billy Bibbit sleeps with Candy, an old friend of McMurphy’s. The night that Billy spent with Candy relieves him from his stutter and anxiety. However, when Nurse Ratched finds out that they slept together, she yells at Billy, threatening to call his mother, and ultimately, reviving his stutter and anxiety.
" I feel this quote means it doesn't matter how much pain you go through. It just matters what you do after the fact especially if that something you love doing. The other thing that I feel this book was made for is that it takes place on a time where the whole world was at war with each other. There was no decisive winner at the beginning.
”(Hunger games) This go to help support the theme but no matter how or what is wrong you have to be there. “The people of the village begin together
The Cosmic Race, by José Vasconcelos, is about the new race that will arise in Latin America from the mixing of all races and the society they’ll create. It is an extremely influential essay in Mexico and still widely regarded today. In the The Cosmic Race it is said that America is the ancient home of the now lost Atlantean civilization (Vasconcelos 7). The downfall of the Atlanteans spawned four races: the Indian, the Black, the Mongol, and the White (Vasconcelos 9). Latin America, the essay argues, will be the homeland of the new Neo-Atlantean race as it already the racial melting pot of so many races (Vasconcelos 17-18).
In the book “The Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy”, a super computer Deep Thought is put to work to learn the answer to the Ultimate question of Life, The universe and everything, it takes millions of years to analyze this and suddenly blurts out the answer 42 which does not make any sense. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never actually knew what the question was. This is very much similar to the world right now: We do have all the answers readily available in the form of Peta bytes of data but we do not know the right questions to connect the dots to provide better solutions to problems as simple as choosing a juice brand to crucial cancer research. This has inspired me to pursue a graduate degree in Data Analytics Engineering at Volegnau School of Engineering-George Mason University to explore the enigmatic world of data
Not all diseases carry traits fulfilling requirements for a cure in the status quo; however, Gene Therapy provides hope for treatments with the possibility to evolve into cures for chronic diseases. With all issues there is a solution; it may not stay easily recognizable, but it exists. The specific issue of glioblastoma, an tumor found within the brain to aggressively attack cells, is a focus of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. Of the first ten patients treated within their study, one is living with a measure of eighteen months post-therapy. Two others have seen opposite effects with worsening of their condition and others have died.
