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Anthem: What are Your Rights?
My first thoughts on the novella “Anthem” by Ayn Rand.
Sophie’s World: How to Make a Difference
About the implications of philsophical novel “Sophie”s World” for humanity and everyday life.
Why The Study of Poetry is Still Wildly Relevant Today
Is poetry dead? Is it useful only for old men longing for the past and tweenage girls longing for their junior high “bf”s? Not so! The study of poetry enhances writing skills, teaches clarity of thought, improves reading comprehension, and fosters ingenuity. What abilities could be more practical in a competitive business world?
Descriptive
I open the book, feeling the lustrous plastic undamaged by time. Looking back at it, I notice the book is formatted heavily like a textbook. It is divided into different essays, like chapters of a textbook.
The Apology and Its Tragic Elements
A glance at Plato’s famous work detailing the trial of the great philosopher Socrates. Plato criticizes artistic forms of writing, but doesn’t “The Apology” use the same basic building blocks as a traditional Greek tragedy?
Quotes and Reflections: The Myth of Sisyphus, Part 2
The second set of reflections and quotes from the Vintage Classics translation of the Camus text.
Quotes and Reflections: “the Myth of Sisyphus”, Pt. I
Quotes and personal reflections from and regarding the essay by Albert Camus. This is from a Vintage paperback in translation. I believe that the translator is O’Brien, but the text is secondhand and the ntroductory page is ripped out.
