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- 991: Social Criticism in Literature
- ... inferior and insignificant, as illustrated when he threw a gold coin to the child's devastated father as compensation. The Monsieur the Marquis revealed his true sentiments to his nephew: "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. . . fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip. . ."(Dickens, 123) Dickens makes it abundantly obvious that the aristocrats are to meet doom, with symbolic references to fate and death. For ...
- 992: Fuch's "The American Way of Families": Is the Dream Really as Sweet as Apple Pie?
- ... don't agree with Thoreau or Emerson on the importance of independence. From the experiences that I have had with my family I believe that life is much more fulfilling at home by living the philosophy, "Give a little, take a little." This Fuch's essay almost made me believe that no love existed in the American family; that life centers around one's self. if this were true the word ...
- 993: The Trickster
- ... a good specimen for the archetype. In Star Trek man is a constant voyage to better himself through knowledge, using science and reason as their Gods (like Freud, they are a product of the enlightenment philosophy). Q is as close as one can get to a God in the eyes of the 24th century human. He is a being that exists in a different continuum than man, but in the human ...
- 994: The Importance of Literature vs. Science
- ... life to your theories. It's just a matter of whether life is the cookie cutter or the dough. Imagine a world without literature. All your Literature courses in school are replaced with social sciences: philosophy, psychology, etc. Would people be the same? No doubt life would be a great deal less interesting, as our minds would not be as stimulated. The world would also be a more closed place, and ...
- 995: Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience Through Imagination
- ... his self owner. Emerson contained the ability To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men , and that in itself is a philosophy which made him stand out from many, and made him an individual. Emerson clearly states in Nature, being in your natural surrounding, the wilderness, is the key to happiness. But fails to recognize that not ...
- 996: The Accounts of Eros in the "Symposium"
- ... laid down beside Poros and became pregnant with Love (Nehamas & Woodruff, pg.48) This makes Love unique. Love is good, though, because he is a lover of wisdom, that is, he pursues the notion of philosophy. But, he is in between wisdom and ignorance (Nehamas & Woodruff, pg. 49), according to Diotima, which is much different an account from the other speakers. Phaedrus had placed Love at the top of all gods ...
- 997: Lord Byron's "Darkness": The Faithful but Fated Dog
- ... his obliviousness to the inherent doom, is the lure and power of the Byronic hero, and in this case the faithful but fated dog. The faithful but fated dog is the embodiment of Byron's philosophy of life and the fate of the world. "Darkness" is, in Byron's eyes, the only possible outcome of life and the world itself. This oblivion is both painful and inevitable. It is not, however ...
- 998: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... to cast away the blind belief about conventional ways, tradition, accepted values almost dehumanizing and to plunge into the unknown rarness of nature to discover life's meaning for oneself." He sums up this transcendental philosophy through the mysticism of nature, "We need the tonic of wilderness, - to wade sometimes in marshes where the bitter and the meadow - hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to small the whispering ...
- 999: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... that "there are six questions
which should be asked at the beginning about any doctrinal work: what is its subject, its form, its agent, its end, the title of the work, and its branch of philosophy. (Aligieri 120)" Now we need to have a closer look at the way Dante regards a text to understand how some compare to Plato's concepts. Dante was heavily influenced by Christian theory and thus ...
- 1000: The Problem of War and Peace
- ... to Do Unto Others As You Would Want Others To Do Unto You could be developed into a world peace theme program and taught in schools world-wide. This simple verse has become my personal philosophy of life for dealing with individuals and groups within my own family, school, and community. I believe that this verse can be used to develop an educational peace program for my generation because it teaches ...
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