1. War: An Honorable Death or a Pointless Slaughter
Essays are pointless, in the highest sense of the word. They are completely without meaningful purpose. Nothing new is learned or introduced through an essay, nothing is gained by writing 3-5 pages of what mostly consists of utter bullshit, and nothing is accomplished by wasting hours of our childhood laboring away, both at the keyboard and on paper, to produce what people have come to term: an "Essay." If one was to look up the definition of the word "essay" then what one would find is: a: an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view b: something resembling such a composition. In layman's terms: someone's written point of view on a given subject. This has been transformed by the school systems into a method of evaluating and grading students, simply on their opinions. If one were to get technical on the subject, one would find that this is, in all actuality, violating the American bill of rights. The first amendment clearly states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech- The freedom of speech includes the freedom of opinion, and therefore, grading students on papers containing their opinions, is totally and completely unconstitutional. .
Unconstitutionality ignored, the entire system of the actual grading of these opinions is even more moronic. A student hands in a paper containing his opinion on a topic assigned by his or her teacher, pours hours upon hours of precious time, effort and mental strain into an essay of 3-5 pages, hands it in on a date assigned by said teacher, and then waits for days to receive his graded opinion back. First of all, how does this teacher know that all of his/her students even have opinions about this topic they assign? They don't, they simply assume so. Secondly, why is there a specific length allowed for one's opinion? Someone might have very little to say about a topic, while someone else might want to write an entire book on the subject.
In the big picture, as the Congo river symbolizes the chaos in the human heart, the river also represents the failure of imperialism and its pointless efforts. ... An important human side vanished as the Europeans hurt the Africans for pointless reasons, therefore tying themselves in a futile effort to fulfil their desire for ivory. The Europeans, "lost," their original intent to be successful since they never reached true happiness by gaining ivory, making themselves and the Africans uncivilized to the point that imperialism became not only unfair but also pointless. ... In addition...
The device that was used in In the Penal Colony was a pointless device. ... Likewise terrorism is a form of pointless torture. ... This comparison shows that modern terrorism and torture is just as pointless as the sentence writer in the story. ... It was a useless, pointless, message less waste. ... Generally when one thinks of torture and terrorism and other such useless, pointless acts, one thinks that there should be a reason. ...
Literary Analysis of "A Mystery of Herosim" The theme of "A Mystery of Herosim" is the foolishness and pointlessness of war. ... The hopelessness and pointlessness of war is made clear by Cranes use of the symbol water. ... Just as giving water to a dying man is pointless, a war "misses the point" by trying to solve problems by means that only kills people. ...
The pointlessness of learning the names is amplified by the fact that the men do not know how to use the parts whose names they are learning, mainly they haven't yet got the parts yet, and in the case of the "piling swivel," they will never have one. ... The poet contrasts this noisy, pointless listing of parts, with the silent garden. ... All this stuff is easy, but pointless. ...
It states: (1) There exist pointless evils that a perfect being could have prevented without thereby losing a greater good or permitting an evil equally bad or worse... (2) A perfect being would prevent any pointless evils it could, unless doing so would result in losing a greater good or permitting an evil equally bad or worse... Their flaw was mostly concerned with the language of "pointless evils" and they believed that it cannot be proved that there is such a thing. ... Rowe would say that since it appears that there are pointless evils in the world, then in reality there must be po...
School uniforms are pointless because they take away from people's individuality, some people can"t afford them, and they would make school boring. ... They are pointless and expensive and they would result in no change and no excitement in clothing. ...
Huston did not bother to add pointless stories like in the novel. A pointless story that was in the book but pointless in the film was the story with the man named Flitcraft that left his family because he so had a near death experience, it was a good choice of the film director Houston because I thought that the story had to do with the main plot. ...