Posts under ‘General Essays’

I was asked, today, “Is this your first bachelors degree?” today by a classmate in a class that was canceled for the next couple of weeks so the professor can do one-on-one interviews with the students and so that we have an extra, what, hour and twenty minutes twice a week to work on our [...]

I had a couple of girls, many moons ago, tell me that all stories can be distilled down to their essences and that would always result in a love story. Now, as a somewhat well read individual who ranges all over the stratosphere of writing when it comes to what read, I happen to know [...]

I could sit here and lie to you, tell you that I believe that television is bad. That watching television erodes the mind and destroys a person’s cognitive sense of self and well-being, and that it destroys lives. I do believe that TV help cause children, who remain unmonitored, to become fat and lazy and I believe that video games and the internet have the ability to add to this phenomenon. However, I find that saying, “TV and Video games lead to uncreative and lazy children,” is like saying, “Guns kill people.” I don’t believe that the gun, itself, is going to go on a murderous rampage, nor do I believe that TV or video games, by themselves, are going to make children fat and lazy. Guns require someone to become weapons of death just like TV and video games require someone to become fat and lazy.

I’ve gotta say, I often don’t care a whole lot how a movie does come Oscar time. Most movies that receive Oscars don’t really deserve them for any merit that I can see and, therefore, don’t deserve my notice. For the most part, movies in general, and Hollywood specifically, have fallen so far from what [...]