The word “prodigal” originates from Latin roots that together mean “to drive forth.” It signifies the quality of one that drives forth his/her money by spending with reckless abandon, which is present in the Biblical parable the ”Prodigal Son.” A father has two sons, the younger desperately impatient to receive his inheritance. So, the prodigal son demands of his father to receive his inheritance before he passes away. In other words, the son diminishes the tragedy of his father’s eventual…
At first when I read it, I felt as though Crane was declaring that the whole experience eventually had no point by any stretch of the imagination. The men couldn't be mediators of what we can never really comprehend or clarify. Toward the day's end, every one of the survivors could truly clarify and decipher is that regardless they had not any more comprehension of why they needed to persevere through the trial or how the experience truly changed them. When I read the story, I felt that the men…
Over the past few decades, the treatment of each individual's’ interests by society has been improving. However, there are still events that shake and concern many. During the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament, which was held in Indian Wells, California in 2001, currently ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis, American professional tennis player Serena Williams faced a most discriminatory audience and distress as a result. Much like Richard Wright, Williams dealt with racial abuse and pressure.…
Officials from the Swiss Tennis Federation had stated Federer was a pretty good player and there was little to criticize although he was sometimes temperamental. At the age of fifteen he had already won five Swiss national junior championship titles. Roger Federer was one of the world’s best tennis player and strived for perfection. Roger Federer at the very young age of three-and-half years old could hit the tennis ball over the net. At the age of four he could hit twenty or thirty balls…
15 More Photos Of Danica Patrick That Define Hot The argument can be made that Danica Patrick is the single greatest female sports star of all time. After achieving wild success in the male-dominated industry of stock car racing, Patrick used her star power to enter the world of entertainment, a move many believed would blow up in her face. However, Patrick, as she so often does, proved the doubters wrong and quickly established herself as a talented actress before moving on to enjoy similar…
will be discussing are made up of those supporting ‘classical’ theism and those supporting ‘free will’ or ‘open’ theism. Classical theism, which has been the chief view held by Christians for many years, states that God is immutable, impassable, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient which includes knowing the future perfectly and all of the decisions that…
purchase, due to budget constraints. Kenneth Goldsmith, in his essay “If it Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist,” bemoans the lack of quality material available to those who need it. He tells the story of how one of the readers of Ubuweb, his open-access website, was surprised at the difference between the amount and quality of the content in her library (which is in a small Texas town) compared to the materials on Ubuweb. This shortage in resources in libraries, he believes, is due…
to have a positive outlook not only on life, but on myself. This essay gives me a chance to explore the parts of myself that I am proud of and examine the people and events that have shaped me. Three words I would use to describe myself are logical, open-minded, and responsible. Everyone is logical to some degree, but I consider it to be part of my identity because I find that I make most decisions using my mind rather than my emotions. I most likely developed this way of thinking from my dad.…
culture, and all are able to reach a wide audience. Springboarding from increased communications between people across the world, open source projects are able to use crowd-sourced labor to produce software, including entire operating systems. In the first video, they lampoon outsourced technical support for items people have become dependent upon. In the world of open source, end users are more often than not encouraged to both seek out answers from the community and tinker with the software…
“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…