David Baron’s “The Beast in the Garden” primarily follows the life of Michael Sanders, a biologist working mainly in Boulder, Colorado. Michael’s mission throughout the story is the study and prediction of the dangers of urban cougars. Living in a city of staunch environmentalists, Michael’s attempts to sway public opinion is a daunting task. As it would seem, the majority of Boulder environmentalists value cougar’s lives over human lives. Michael Sanders is a middle aged biologist, originally from a small town in Tennessee.
“You should have said, ‘I didn’t do it,” (Myers 138). In the novel, Monster—written by Walter Dean Myers—follows the life of a sixteen year old boy Steve Harmon who is a suspect of felony murder and robbery. Throughout the story, we see several journal entries from Harmon who reveals weakness through his words but not his actions. Clearly, if someone were to show weakness during adversity, there would be negative consequences in the future.
One may say that McCandless’ violent childhood is what caused his downfall. McCandless may have even had the right idea, separating himself from his family, but due to his fragile state of mind he may have gone to too much of an extreme. He ended up taking the policies and principles of transcendentalism too far, which is really what resulted in his death. A concept that transcendentalism goes strongly against is materialism, a principle that may have saved his life. He was so anti materialistic in fact, that he refused to even have a phone or form of communication, this ultimately could have saved his life.
The two most stimulating examples were those of the couple in Mexico, and the dogfish and sonnet that helped illustrate Percy’s theories of the “symbolic package” and the “educational package”. He explains that humans need to overcome loss and struggle of the passive consumer to transform into a society of great individuality. If society can overcome this loss and struggle, the idea of “The Loss of Creature” will be no
“The Loss of the Creature” is a strong essay written by Walker Percy who expresses his vision of the world by claiming how a prepackaged idea over something, can potentially create a different outlook of what the individual sees. This essay supports the idea that Percy presents with the “loss of sovereignty” and how we digressed as a changing economy. Percy presents many examples how one needs to be lost to encounter through different symbolic complexes. Percy believes people need a true experience to get rid of all the social biases one has already heard. The loss of sovereignty is another part of this essay which creates a symbolic complex.
The book I chose to read was Monster by Walter Dean Myers. This is one of the required readings listed on the young adult book list. I always had an interest in Walter Dean Myers books which I read in junior high and high school. This book was a really great read and I can almost relate to him in many ways. In the year 1999, Walter Dean Myers has introduced the readers to a young man name Steve Harmon.
Lyniya Davis Mrs. Juhas and Mrs. Mitchell 3rd and 5th 2/10/23 Title: Monstrous People Jared Harris- The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other. Steve Harmon is a 16 year old boy, who grew up in a bad and harsh environment named Harlem.
This explains how a person would prefer technology over another person. Technology never responds negatively towards a person, unlike how a person can act negatively towards another person. This is why Mildred and most of society prefer technology than anything
Also, I like how this book points out that the most uncommon people are the most successful. Barker refers to uncommon people as "Hopeful Monsters" which are individuals who deviates radically from the norm in a population because of a genetic mutation that confers a potentially adaptive advantage. For example the book mention Michael Phelps as a hopeful monster. His upper body is too long, legs to short, hands and feet to big, and he has gangly arms. In fact, he doesn’t seem designed to move well on land at all, but Phelps’s collection of odd traits makes him uniquely suited to being an awesome U.S. Olympic swimmer who has won the most awards than any swimmer has won in the world.
In “Defense of Technology” Andrew O’Hagan talks about how technology is making life get better as time goes by, technology is improvement and improvement like never before. Every part of our daily life
Sovereignty is so easily lost because many people surrender it. When a well respected person’s opinion conflicts with yours, too many people bow out and accept a theory contrary to what they would initially think, citing their own ignorance as an excuse. As soon as sovereignty is lost, the consequence is the inability to form original thoughts. A person becomes conditioned to absorbing the theories of others as fact and considering their own ideas as moot. This quells the flow of free-thinking in individuals which Percy says is a very dangerous thing.
It is a source of society that wants to point you to a view of how to act in a certain way and that these networks would permit a reputation for yourself. Moreover, one of the literary devices that he uses are metaphors, for example, he compare technology and traditional interaction and how it eventually controlling us. Another example is a hyperbole where he compares to Adam and Eve in line 26. As a result, technology is a negative influence on us because it separates individuals from
The author also illustrates the image of technology that how people are using without interacting each other. I agree with the author’s point that technology has a huge impact on our
In conclusion, technology can have negative impacts on today’s people in many ways. It is harmful to people’s well-being, makes people lose physical connections with those around them, and it makes students disregard their work. Technology is everywhere in today’s society. These devices can be so harmful to people without them even knowing it. People should be more aware of what technology can do, and try their best not to depend on
"Technology is like art. It is a soaring exercise of the human imagination". Like everything in this world that has its good and bad effects on us, technology does too. How we use technology is important in determining what results it would bring us. Nowadays, technology is heavily used for educational purposes.
