February 2012
2 posts
Honesty is the Best Policy
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” -Abraham Lincoln
In my short lifetime I have heard the phrases “Always tell the truth” and “The truth will set you free”. Also as a child consequences for lying were substantially more serious than other naughty deeds.
In the...
Ethics →
A presentation over ethics and examples from Death of a Salesman.
January 2012
2 posts
The American Dream
Willy Loman’s dream is to be really successful and have a lot of money. This is not an unreasonable dream, however, he is way too prideful to ever accomplish it because if he can’t get a white collar job then he doesn’t want a job at all.
Living on a farm and surviving off the fat of the land is Biff Loman’s dream. Unfortunately he will never accomplish this because he...
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller is known for writing more than 30 plays in his lifetime! A lot of times he uses things going on around him for inspirations for his stories; for example The Crucible is about the Salem Witch Trials and accusing people of crimes that they might or might not have done. Politically this was going in in society at the time that Miller was writing this piece. Wow! That is crazy! He is...