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- 9511: Philosophy - Socrates
- ... At first, the connection between philosophy and death is not clear. However, as we unravel Socrates' argument backing up his claim, the statement makes a lot of sense. In order for Philosophers to examine their world accurately and learn the truth accurately, they must remove them selves of all distractions. These not only include physical distractions, but they include mental distractions and bodily distractions as well. Philosophers must get used to viewing and examining the world with out any senses. Senses merely hinder and obscure the truth. Sight for example can be fooled easily with optical illusions which occur normally in nature. Sound can be very distracting as well when a philosopher is trying to concentrate. All of these cloud the judgement, and must therefore be detached from the soul. Socrates argues that philosophers must view the world around them with their souls in order to accurately learn about it. However, by detaching their souls from all bodily functions, philosophers may as well be in an induced state of death. In mortem, ...
- 9512: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... II, however, protected Arab-speaking poets who rubbed shoulders with his own Latin writers (Lindsay 44). Bertrand de Born became famous for writing warmongering songs that ³stirred up barons and provoked kings into going to war² (Grunfield 25). Walther von der Vogelwiede attained a unique position among troubadours by transforming ³the short poem of proverbial wisdom into a political weapon of satire and patriotism² (Hering 1). Wandering troubadours sang most often ... Florence. ³Greek Literature.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Hering, Jack. The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time. New York: Hawthorne Press, 1969. Lindfors, Sven. ³African Literature.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopia. 1996 ed. Lindsay, Jack. The Troubadours and Their World. London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976. Mair, Helen. ³Chinese Literature.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Sebastian, Gerald. Music In Time. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1952. Segal, William. ³Greek Drama.² Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Speaight ...
- 9513: Black Boy By Richard Wright
- ... didn’t pay per bill on time. Wright’s emotions are dropped when he sees the ladies blood on the floor of the store. Wright could not believe so much hate could exist in the world that someone would beat someone for no good reason. In Wright’s experiences at work he learns that in the world hate is apart of existence in which if you are not the victimizer you will be the victim and Wright was one of the victims. Even going up as a victim can not prepare someone for the slap in the face that reality gives a person when they reach adult hood. Wright experiences this when he starts working in a world he sees racism to the extreme. Wrights first experiences, as a victim at work is when he works for a store owned by a father and son. While working at the store Wright can ...
- 9514: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- Many changes violently shook America shortly after the Civil War. The nation was seeing things that it had never seen before, its entire economic philosophy was turned upside down. Huge multi-million dollar trusts were emerging, coming to dominate business. Companies like Rockefeller’s Standard ... mob bosses controlled the cities, like Tammany Hall in New York. Graft and corruption were at an all time high while black rights sunk to a new low. Even after experiencing freedom during the Civil War, their hopes of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about ... moral growth. The Grangerfords were involved in a feud with an another family, the Sheperdsons. The feud between the families came as a horrible shock to Huck. Through this feud, Huck learned just how bad war and hatred could really be. This was amplified when the Grangerford family member that he had come to know well, Buck, was killed in the feud. His timely death made Huck realize that there ...
- 9515: American Dream And Gatsby
- ... to live the life of The American Dream, but fails in his battle. I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have ... As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he is liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world." (P.142). He then goes to the East Coast to pursue his dream. Through his struggle for his dream, however, he has been able to amass a fortune and climb up the social ladder. He ... Dream on the whole in which social discrimination and class divisions, spiritual voidness and hollow gaiety, and the decadence of values and ideals prevail. The novel is a great reminder that money cannot make the world go around, after all. Bibliography 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin Books, London, 1950.
- 9516: The Awakening By Kate Chopin
- ... suppression of her adventurous spirit and the lack of "fulfillment" in her relationship. Although she embraces her new found freedoms, she commits suicide at the denouement of the book due to her frustration with the world around her. Many philosophers have dealt with the question of whether to live a life of servitude or to pursue ones greater happiness. Immanuel Kant stipulates that the more people cultivate their reason, the less ... one but you. If was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream . . .Oh! I have suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence." In keeping with Kant's philosophy, Edna's life has been riddled with reason and duty, essentially giving herself away to the people around her. This devotion to responsibility causes her ... one but you. If was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream . . .Oh! I have suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence." In this quotation Edna is craving the adventure, love, and freedom that has been void from her life since her birth. Her dream, as she puts it, has truly been ...
- 9517: Beowulf As A Hero
- ... all mortal men; loyalty and the ability to think of himself last make him cherished by all. Beowulf came openly and wholeheartedly to help the Danes which was an unusual occurrence in a time of war and widespread fear. He set a noble example for all human beings relaying the necessity of brotherhood and friendship. But with a hero like Beowulf you must ask yourself, "What happed to all the heros of the world?" Well, I once herd that, "There are still real heroes, sometimes they just get lost in the headlines." Beowulf is most definitely an epic hero of epic proportions.
- 9518: Best Evidence
- ... and avenges evil by "[purging] Herot clean," (508). Just as Moses who was reluctant to die without seeing the "promised land", and Jesus who also was reluctant to die, Beowulf is "unwilling to leave this world," (738) or complete the final task at hand. Thus, Beowulf’s constituents of supernatural and religious notions and realistic portrayal of human nature create a universal appeal that proves timeless. The epic develops the nature ... dragon as well is a great evil, whose breath "[was] burning hot, poison [poured] from his tongue," (672-673). The three battles are fought at different times of Beowulf’s life, to symbolize the perpetual war men fight against evil. Beowulf previously fights various evils: "[He] fought that beast’s last battle,"(290) "Huge sea-monsters [he] killed,"(308) "Hunting monsters…and killing them one by one,"(56-158). Later Beowulf ...
- 9519: I Hate Verbal Aggression!
- ... must be a nobody, if you are my friend? Why can't you act like us? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Or can they? In an ideal world, words would not hurt, and we could easily ignore them, but this world is far from ideal. Verbal aggression is something we have grown up with. We all have felt the pain it causes, whether it was as a child on the playground being teased, or as a ... issue of verbal aggression is more serious than most people think. It hurts people. Oblivious to the fact that it can destroy someone's life, we carelessly tease and cut others down Think of the world as a big corporate ladder. Each step could easily put you ahead or behind the next person. Therefore everyone of course is trying to get ahead of the next person. In their attempts to ...
- 9520: El-nino
- ... naturally occurring oscillations in atmospheric pressure and ocean movements in th equatorial Pacific. The warmer ocean pumps more energy and moisture into the atmosphere and this in turn alters wind and rainfall patterns around the world. The atmospheric cirulation also changes when the sea-surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific rise above normal. In normal, non-El Nino conditions, the trade winds blow towards the west across the tropical Pacific ... El Nino lived up to its expectations that had been predicted. There are not any exact totals as of yet, but we have already seen the destruction it has caused the United States and the world as well. There were the mud slides in California, which stranded civilians and vacationers in their homes which forced the National Guard to come and airlift them to safety, before they became a permanent part ... In the southern states they recorded record amounts of snowfall. One winter storm dropped more snow in Kentucky and Tennessee than we saw here in Iowa throughout the whole winter. Towns and cities throughout the world have been ravished by El Nino's wrath and the worst of it could still be to come. The bottom line is the potential for dangerous weather is still a major threat for our ...
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