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-5 posts tagged "Humanity"
Matthew Williams | Thursday, September 7, 2017
How often do you hear the words: “How are you?” A friend who recently counted was asked this question seven times on a single walk from DeBartolo to Cavanaugh, and she responded “good” every time. I think this is problematic. You’ll want to know why. Before I explain why, though, we have to agree on
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 28, 2016
As human beings, it is natural for us to be curious. At some point in our evolutionary history, we crossed an intellectual Rubicon, forever fating ourselves to perceive more than just what we needed for survival and reproduction. The result was endless confusion about the many mysteries of the world, and equally as many attempts
Susan Zhu | Tuesday, August 30, 2016
A month ago, my friend Megh emailed me with an important question. Megh, who was working in a South African school this past summer, had started a project called Words for the World. She asked the people she interacted with on a daily basis (many of them homeless), “If you could say one thing to
Devon Chenelle | Monday, April 18, 2016
Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “A Brave New World” is increasingly found to track more closely to 21st century life’s worst features than does the other great dystopian vision, “1984,” as Huxley’s portrayal of social control by consent supersedes in contemporary relevance Orwell’s depiction of steel-booted totalitarian dictatorship. Though the portions of Huxley’s nightmarish landscape most often
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 11, 2014
When I was little, I hated math. It was unfamiliar and didn’t make sense to me. My father, a chemical engineer, was assigned the task of helping me understand the concepts. Although my father is a man of great patience, I always seemed to try that patience when we would work through problems together. The