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Anthem By Ayn Rand
1,648 wordsImagine a world where the individual has been repressed to the point that the word I no longer exists. Now, as hellish as that sounds, imagine that you are the only one who has the capability to break free from the iron fists that are choking you and your brothers. This is the life of Equality 7 - 2521, the principal character and narrator of Ayn Rands Anthem. Anthem takes place in the dark ages of the future, in a totally collectivized world. This culture has regressed to conditions reminiscent...
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Henry David Thoreau Walden Pond
1,041 wordsWhy was Henry David Thoreau such a wonderful writer? He had many great qualities, but the most important were his devotion to nature and writing, his desire for independence, and his experiences he encountered throughout his life. Henry David Thoreau looked to nature as the basis of life and writing. He believed that nature is the reflection of inner spiritual reality. He spent his life in search of the essentials of reality and of experiences that would bring him close to these essentials. He l...
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Sense Of Humanism In Poems
698 wordsSense of Humanism in Wordsworth's Poems One might say that the great guiding principle of the Romantic revolt was reinvigorated humanism, which was greater than any since the Renaissance. The principle dealt greatly with individualism. Humanism affected every cycle: politics, philosophy, religion and arts. Generally, Wordsworth is considered a poet of nature, and yet we could sense the doctrine of humanism in his works as well. His poems suggest that he thinks highly not only of nature but also ...
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Myths Of World View
1,890 wordsMYTHS OF THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WORLD VIEW A MYTH IS a traditional story that offers an explanation of some fact or phenomenon. Myths are neither wholly true nor wholly untrue. They may have been more true in the past than now, but people act as if they are still true, even when they no longer really believe in them. Some modem usages of the word have connotations that suggest that myths are irrelevant or wrong, but this is not necessarily so. Myths are of considerable importance to people, and ...
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Nonverbal Communication High Context
1,006 wordsStella Ting-Toomey looked at intercultural interaction, including conflict and negotiation, along with Hofstedes notion of individualism versus collectivism and Halls ideas of low and high context assumptions to come up with her Facework Theory (Cocroft, T-T Face-Japan/US). Facework refers to the ways particular communicative moves speak to the identity claims of self and other in specific social situations; and while face concerns are not necessarily focal, they are always immanent (Ting-Toomey...
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High Context Conflict Management
1,048 words... e and negative face. These terms are somewhat self-explanatory, but basically can be explained in a compromise analogy. In Facework negotiating, as in any compromise situation, the two sides give a little on each side and get a little on each side. It is during this pulling and pushing for balance is negotiation in its own. There is a median that is trying to be reached on both sides that both can be happy with, or even at least a point that is tolerable for each party involved. In face nego...
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Laurie Lanzen Harris Jersey Prentice Hall
1,087 words... with inconsistent views on the limits of involvement by a government. Later, he contradicts his principles by suggesting not at once no government, but at once a better government. (Thoreau 1705). Thoreau contends that men have lost the free will to make individual decisions regarding war, slavery, and domestic issues because government imposes on its citizens only in its own self interests. (Thoreau 1706). He states government loses its integrity when willing to consider profit over the int...
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Individualism In Emerson And Thoreau
1,164 words... t all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. In a similar way, Thoreau's main theme theme in his well-known essay, Resistance to Civil Government was the necessity of keeping our own ideas and conscience against the unjust authority: If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth -- certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or...
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World Of 1984 Winston Smith
2,013 wordsThe fictional world of 1984 is best described as bleak. In the aftermath of the fall of capitalism and nuclear war, the world has been divided among three practically identical totalitarian nation-states. The novel takes place in London, which has become a part of Oceania, the nation state comprising the Americas and western Europe. A state of perpetual war and poverty is the rule in Oceania. However, this is merely a backdrop, far from the most terrifying aspect of life in 1984. Oceania is gove...
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Lily Dyer Marry Joe Life
412 wordsLouisa faced a tough decision when Joe Dagger returns home because it seems like whatever love she had for him before he left has faded and now she views her wedding as more of a chore. If she is going to marry someone, it shouldn't be because of a decision made many years ago, it should be made because she truly loves that person and is willing to spend her whole life with him. In order for her to marry Joe, she would need to devote her whole life and way of living to suit him and his needs. It...
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Brave New World Tele Screen
1,398 words1984 Vs. Brave New World Imagine a world in which people are produced in factories, a world lost of all freedom and individuality, a world where people are exiled or? disappear? for breaking the mold. Both 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley? s Brave New World are startling depictions of such a society. Although these novels are of fictional worlds, control of the future may be subtly evolving and becoming far worse than Huxley or Orwell could ever have imagined. Each society destroys the fr...
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Crime And Punishment Unable To Reenter Society Isolation
1,574 wordsThe Crime of Alienation The massacre of 25 students at a high school in Colorado shook the nation as the most devastating and heartless crime of youth. No one questions that these murders were a crime to society, as no one questions that rape, assault, and theft are also crimes. Society has dictated and labeled these actions as crimes because they harm others. One must question, however, whether the crime lies more in what caused the action. Many works of literature have posed this idea, but it ...
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Freedom Of Choice Nineteenth Century
1,060 wordsJoseph Appleget Mr. Existentialism Appleget 1 Joseph Appleget Mr. Helle/ IB English 12 10 / 18 / 00 The Way We Live Our Lives In our individual routines, each and every one of us strives to be the best that we are capable of being. How peculiar this is; we aim for similar goals, yet the methods we enact are unique. Just as no two people have the same fingerprint, no two have identical theories on how to live life. While some follow religious outlines to aspire to a level of oral excellence, othe...
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Economic Freedom Democratic Society
2,217 wordsHow Fascism And Democracy INTRODUCTION How is it that in a country such as the United States, with a population of 260 million, people generally embrace the democratic way? What would drive millions of people to follow a fascist dictator? No one can answer these questions with absolute certainty. They are both complicated and yet very simple. In its crudest formulation, when a collective has the same belief system, then an ideology is formed. People have always tried to understand what factors, ...
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Light In August Order To Understand
3,826 wordsWilliam Faulkner is recognized by most individuals as one of the greatest American writers of all times. Though only a limited amount about his life before 1950 is known, critics such as Edmond Volpe have linked his experiences, beginning with his childhood, to many of his fictional works. Faulkner was born and raised in the South, specifically Oxford Mississippi. He lived there for most of his life and now rests there eternally. He not only learned about Southern traditions and people but lived...
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Played A Major Role Objective Reality
1,484 wordsChapter One The thesis of this paper is: Hamlin Garland uses the critical theory of veritas and other social ideas to describe the vicissitudes of pioneering and modern life. Chapter Two The purpose is to prove Hamlin Garland played a major role in describing the ideas of the vicissitudes of pioneering and modern life, by providing various examples from his essays, novels, and travels to the Great Plains. Chapter Three There are key words which are necessary to be defined before proving the thes...
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People Of Boston Scarlet Letter
1,916 wordsHester's Individualism As Present In Hawthorne's The Hesters Individualism As Present In Hawthorne's The Scarlet In Hawthorne's revered novel The Scarlet Letter, the use of Romanticism plays an important role in the development of his characters. He effectively demonstrates individualism in Hester to further our understanding of the difficulties of living in Boston, the stern, joyless world of Puritan New England. It is all gloom and doom. If the sun ever shines, one could hardly notice. The ent...
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Richard Rodriguez American Citizen
1,137 wordsThe universal growing pains that all children experience in one form or another are easily recognized in Richard Rodriguez s autobiographical excerpt from Hunger of Memory. Rodriguez s childhood was particularly unique given the fact that while he was born and raised in the United States, he was strongly influenced in the ethnic environment of a Spanish family. Although the reader is introduced to only a short excerpt from the autobiography, he learns a great deal about Rodriguez s family and hi...
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Karl Marx Marx Believes
1,410 wordsModern Individualism And Fascism Individualism Modern political thought has given a considerable amount of attention to the conception of the individuals function in modern society. In this paper, I will discuss the fascist philosophy on individualism. Using the Italian philosopher Alfredo Rocco's arguments on this topic, I will consider how Liberalism, Democracy and Socialism are closely related, while Fascism can be seen as the true antithesis to Liberalism. In this process I will review Fasci...
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Men And Women Values And Beliefs
1,675 wordsFrederick Jackson Turners text The Significance of the Frontier in American History, was and still is an important American document. In this article Turner discusses all aspects of the frontier, and what it means to many different types of people. He explains American development as the movement westward, and how we used, and what we did with the free land that was available beyond the frontier line. One of the main points that I extracted from this article is the fact that a distinguishing fea...
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