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Boys And Girls Girls And Boys
1,529 wordsYou cant play with He-man, hes not for girls! This phrase still echoes in my mind as I reminisce about my childhood playtime. As I reached for a He-man action figure from the toy box, I was handed a Barbie doll or a My Little Pony figurine. At that time, I was too young to realize the great chasm that gender had created for such a simple task as playing with toys. However, looking back, it becomes clear that gender, itself, plays a key role in the everyday lives of boys and girls. In Barrie Thor...
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Garden Of Eden Kubla Khan
1,336 wordsKubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the most enigmatic and ambiguous pieces of literature ever written. Allegedly written after a laudanum (an opiate) induced dream, the author claims to have been planning a two hundred to three hundred line poem before he got interrupted by a man from Pollock, after which he had forgotten nearly all of his dream. This may have been merely an excuse, and the poem was scorned at the time for having no poetic value, one critic even going so far as to...
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Samuel Coleridge Kubla Khan And Materialism
1,515 wordsSamuel T. Coleridge's Kubla Khan is a poem of two opposing ideas: materialism and imagination. In the poem, Coleridge presents imagination and emotion as the means to achieving pure pleasure and creating paradise. He does this by depicting two separate creations of a pleasure dome. One, made by Kubla Khan (a Chinese emperor in the 13 th century), was founded on materialistic greed and was created in physical reality, infecting an already present paradise in nature. This now contaminated paradise...
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Turned Upside Hell Dante
402 wordsIn Dantes Divine Comedy, there are countless references to all forms of sins and the punishments of those who committed them. Dante goes into great detail when describing these sins and their consequences. Each punishment is perfectly fitting to the crime itself, so that the sinner deserves exactly what he is facing. Dante gains an immense amount of knowledge in conversing with a few of the souls that are forever trapped in Hell. When Dante descends to the second ring of the seventh circle to th...
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Web Thursday Nov Web Thursday Nov 4 1999 Hades
1,164 wordsHumans are scared of what they don? t understand, and so in a way to try and understand the world around them, humans made up gods. Gods are a simple way of answering any question, and humans all throughout history have made up gods and / or supreme beings such as the Greeks did. The ancient Greeks developed a religion and beliefs about the world that we now call Greek Mythology. Mythology is a body of myths for a particular culture, and the study and interpretations of such myths. Myths though ...
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Faith In God Nietzsche
1,785 wordsKierkegaard? s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Kierkegaard? s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Truth? ? ? ? Soren Kierkegaard puts forth a unique form of existentialism. He chooses to use the questions of subjectivity, objectivity, and the search for truth, in existentialist thought as a means for the justification of his faith. Through this he comes up with one of the purest definitions of what faith really is. The question is then; can he through his discussion of? the paradox of ...
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