Your Weekly Dose of Sawyer

     Humor- defined as something that creates amusement and induces laughter. However, something that you find funny may not be found as funny to someone else. Therefore, the circling question is, what do you find funny? What is your sense of humor?      Personally when asked this question, I could not give you one answer. But after thinking on this question, I came up with the fact that I tend to laugh or even make jokes about things that aren't always "appropriate" or sensitive towards other's feelings. With this being true, I would say that I define my humor as "warped" or even a bit of dark humor. However, at the same time, I could also find myself laughing at something so simple, such as a video of a kid tripping and falling. So, why do we laugh? And why does something that could make me laugh so hard til I cry, not make someone else laugh at all? I am not saying that this a definite answer, but I do believe that a lot of your humor and what you find f...

Identity, defined as the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing. If we, not only Oedipus, look for identity elsewhere aside from our physical attributes and beliefs, then this definition is not the whole truth. So in turn why does one search for identity? And is our identity something that can be considered innate or do we have to distinguish it ourselves? In the work of Oedipus, we see the idea of “identity” called upon as a driving force for many of his actions throughout the text. However, what even is this driving force that makes him feel the need to know his background or where he came from? Oedipus displays this desperate search to find out who he is, where he came from or who he’s “supposed” to be and he searches for these answers by digging into the truth of his origins. But again, why does one search for identity, what’s the point? What comes with one knowing their full identity? Just a feeling of satisfaction or does one search because the...