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Voltaire A History That Never Moved
1,645 words... Voltaire does not labour the point of a progressive essence behind history, other than to realise that the age he lives in is a remarkable age that must have derived from progression. This is the seminal paradox. Yet his history remains a chronology, not a progression. By no means could one assert that there are no forces that move history in Voltaire's eyes. They might lie in masses, though he does not trust revolution since revolution done in the name of reason is often executed by those l...
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Jose Arcadio Buendia One Hundred Years
1,615 wordsnote: i did not write this. Since the beginning of time, man has clung to the notion that there exists some external force that determines his destiny. In Grecian times, the epic poet Hesoid wrote of a triumvirate of mythological Fates that supposedly gave to men at birth evil and good to have. In other words, these three granted man his destiny. Clotho spun the thread of life, Lacheis distributed the lots, and Atropos with his abhorred shears would cut the thread at death (Hamilton- 43). All ef...
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