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Articles for Oct 8

Links to the articles for Tuesday’s class.

The Role of Love in Religiously Motivated Righteous Indignation

Above is a photo of members of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church protesting against homosexual individuals and reminding us of religion’s troubled relationship with homosexuality. Although not every…

Justice Doesn’t Age Well: Using Vengeance to Restore Justice

In his novel “The Water Dancer,” Ta-Nehisi Coates tells the story about his main character’s journey on the underground railroad. In a Newscast about his novel, Coates says…

Guilty but not Guilt-Ridden: Evil, Unintended Consequences, and The Good Place

Warning: Spoilers for The Good Place Season 1-3. Seriously, you do not want this show spoiled. Imagine the following scenario: you are crossing the street, and you see…

Sad-Movie Paradox: Why We LOVE Heartbreaking Movies That Make Us Cry So Badly?

What do Titanic and La La Land have in common besides winning several Oscar and Academy awards? They have sad endings. When Rose is on the floating wood…

Blog 1 Product-Oriented Human

Blog 1 Product-Oriented Human (Please only take part 3 and part 4 directly counted as the blog. Part 1, part 2 and footnotes serve as backgrounds and clarifications.)…

Addiction: The Cyclical Consequence of Poorly Evaluated Contextual Judgements

The nature of substance addiction is painfully elaborate and impenetrable. It is the all-consuming, overwhelming desire for a permanent sensation of euphoria; one that is unattainable through naturally-sourced…

Anger as a way to position yourself “one up”? Not for minority groups.

If you were to simply google Wake Forest, or something of that sort, all of these pages about the admissions process, how beautiful and diverse the campus is,…

Can Solomon’s Concept of Grief Help Explain Rap Lyrics?: A Look at Grief in Chicago Drill Rap

The musical genre of rap has recently taken the throne as the most popular genre in the United States (Serjeant 2018). However, rap is also well-known as the…

Who Does Love Actually Make Whole?: Exploring Identity Through the Lens of Romantic Love

When reading True to Our Feelings by Robert Solomon, I could not help but to be grabbed by the idea of a romantic couple coming to form a…