The Ascent

Acceptance Would it be easier just to live in the shadows your entire life? Plato 's Allegory of the Cave is about prisoners in a cave that only know one thing, the shadows. One prisoner gets set free and sees a whole different reality than the one known true to him. The allegory teaches that what the unenlightened people see is merely an illusion. My coming out and my self-acceptance with the help of my grandfather parallels the experience of Plato 's prisoner. Like the prisoner, I learned…

he LGBT community saw many slow, but monumental changes during its ascent to the gay civil rights movement. At the start of the 20th century, homosexuality (as it was referred to at the time) was considered a mental illness and could land a person either in jail or a psychiatric hospital. As early as the 1910s, the gay community took strides in protecting themselves, while expressing and mingling with other gay people by means of inconspicuous gay clubs and bars. During this time, drag shows…

Consider Hamlet’s ascent into madness a roller coaster climbing up its first hill, gaining energy that is just waiting to unleash itself. Once the last car reaches its peak, the entire coaster speeds through the tracks with a whirlwind of kinetic energy and will not stop until outside forces cause it to do so. Confident within his mind, thrill-seeking Hamlet enjoys his ride with manifestation while still experiencing immense strife. Psychosis appears in Hamlet due to brief psychotic disorder,…

1.San Francisco, California Is there a valid argument to this? With San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate bridge, innovative Silicon Valley, and notable cable cars it is the zenith of American culture and spirit. It is also important to note that STANFORD hasn’t even been pointed out. Everything about the city screams: Improve! Improve! Improve! Another interesting fact about San Francisco is that during the Great Depression not a single bank failed. San Francisco is truly the epicenter of world…

conservation of energy, friction, centripetal force, and normal force, just to name a few. Gravity, the law of conservation of energy, and friction all play major roles in the functionality of roller coasters. A roller coaster ride typically begins with an ascent, powered by a motor, to the top of a high hill. From this point on, the ride is powered simply by gravity. At the top of the first hill, the roller coaster car possesses a lot of stored, gravitational potential energy, which…

The United States is a country born from resistance and independence. These same two factors were once the reason the U.S refrained from interfering in foreign affairs; they were also too engrossed with their own internal affairs to worry of others. Nonetheless, relentless work and commitment from reformers, politicians, and the people, built the foundation for U.S. to become the most potent and progressive nation. Isolation did not help expand the American foundation and the U.S. in no way…

in improved beliefs. Tom’s growing relationship with Uncle Brennan through the internal purification of exercise to drag Tom out of his emotional pit and mature in mind and body as his literal struggle and initial failure to reach the peak of “the ascent”, complaining it’s “a mountain”, juxtaposing with “I’d made it without even realising” where Burke manipulates the exploitation of non-linear structure to symbolise his personal growth and transition with the focus on Rugby and the building of…

During my historical visit I visited the Tennessee state Museum in Downtown Nashville. The Tennessee State Museum is an extensive historical center in Nashville showing the historical backdrop of the U.S. condition of Tennessee. Beginning from pre colonization and going into the twentieth century, the exhibition hall translates the Frontline, the time of President Andrew Jackson and the American Civil War. The historical center's addition of outfits, weapons, and fight banners from the Civil War…

governmental and communal request educated by the Enlightenment goals of opportunity and correspondence for all, established, heaps of human purpose. The Enlightenment starts with the experimental upset of the sixteenth and seventeenth hundreds of years. The ascent of the innovative science continuously undermines not just the old geocentric origination of the universe, be that as it may, by it, the whole arrangement of assumptions that had assisted to compel and control philosophical request.…

Change at one time was slow and gradual, like the carving of rock with water. However, science and the application of science-technology has made the changes happen much faster. Since the Industrial Revolution in the 1880's, we've been on a rapid ascent of technological progress. Technology has brought rapid changes that have altered our society for the better. One major change that has benefitted almost all modern mankind is the change in communication. Before the Industrial…