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Year Old Girl Pity And Fear
1,094 wordsWhen "Where Are You Going, Where have you been?" was written in 1966, it was interpreted many different ways. Many feminist and womens rights groups saw the story as an symbol of violence against women. Others believed it was a demonstration of "pure realism" and the "grotesque. " Joyce Carol Oates has never substantiated or refuted any of these claims, her only comment on the story being that Bob Dylan's song, "Its All Over Now, Baby Blue" was on her mind while writing it. No matter what view o...
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Grendel And The Dragon In Beowulf
1,291 words"In my youth I engaged in many wars" (59), Beowulf boasts to his warriors, which is certainly true. Throughout his life, he faces many deadly foes, all of which he handily defeats, save one. His story focuses on the most challenging, as well as morally significant of foes, Grendel and the dragon. These creatures reveal much about society as well as Christian virtue at the time. Even after Grendel and the dragon are defeated physically, the two monsters pose a new threat to the hero on a higher p...
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Decision Making Process South African Government
937 words(1) A virtue as described in Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus is integrity, purity, chastity, goodness, rectitude, effectiveness, force, honor, power, efficacy, quality, strength, merit and righteousness. I believe a virtue is a personal trait, which is valued and practiced by the individual. Each individual determines which personal traits, or qualities, they perceive to be virtues. (2) A value as described by Websters Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary is something intrinsically valuable or de...
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Sense Of Justice One Night
718 wordsWhen I first read "The Necklace" I hated it, and hated the author for writing such a mean little story. I was surprised that my ninth grade classmates liked it. When I reread the story in English 113, I again disliked it, and was again surprised that anyone could like such a story. Unlike the first time I read it, this time I thought about why I so disliked Maupassant's story. The reason is the storys implicit philosophical message. That message is that honesty is bad, that the world we live in ...
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One Of The First John The Evangelist
1,191 wordsThroughout the human history there have been many saints who have lived among us. They followed Jesus principles and they did Gods will. One of the earliest saints was St. John, and he lived during the times of Jesus. His childhood and his date of birth are unknown, but it is well known that he was one of the best followers and students of Jesus. St. John was the son of Zebedee, and the brother of St. James the Great with whom he was brought up to the trade of fishing. While Jesus was spreading ...
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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
1,099 wordsIn the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the appro...
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Point Of View Kill The King
1,775 wordsEveryone contains a tinge of Hamlet in his feelings, wants, and worries, and proudly so, for Hamlet is not like the other tragic heroes of his period. He stands apart from other Shakespeare's heroes in his today much discussed innocence. Is this supposed tragic hero maybe an ideal hero one without the tragic flaw, which has been a part of the formula for the tragedy since the Golden age of Greece? ; is a question that has been the field for many literary critics battles. The main, and, most ofte...
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Military Strength Western Societies
1,074 wordsAre Machiavelli s Theories Still Applicable Today? Niccol Machiavelli was an Italian politician and philosopher, who lived in the late middle ages (1469 - 1527) in Florence. He had gotten in a high political position during the reign of Soblerini, and during his work as a secretary of a ten-man council got the chance to study political tactics of Italian rulers. Unfortunately for him, when the family of the Medicis got back in power, Machiavelli lost his job, as most families in that time wanted...
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Martin Luther King Jr African American
1,047 wordsMartin Luther King Jr. : Letter From the Birmingham Jail On April 16 th of 1963, an imprisoned Martin Luther King Jr. began to write a response to a letter that was published in a local newspaper from eight clergymen. These men scorned Dr. King s protests calling them unwise and untimely. Through his letter King expressed his ideas and reasons for his actions. Most of his ideas were influenced by the philosophies taught by Aristotle. In the second and third paragraphs, Dr. King established his s...
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Mind And Body Sequence Of Events
1,242 wordsFor Materialist Theory Materialist Theory For many centuries, people have pondered upon the question if there is a relation between what we think and what we do physically. Our physical brain gives way to a mind, full of thoughts and processes, but what interaction do the two have? Materialism is a way that people consider the relations between mind and matter to be inseparable. We are physical beings and our mental reactions are just by-products of a material process. Materialism can be summed ...
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King Louis Xvi French Revolution
526 wordsMaximillan Robespierre By Monk Maximillan Robespierre is known for being the most menacing and mysterious leaders of the French Revolution. His main objective was to have France as an ideal Republic of Virtue. In the process of achieving his goals many innocent citizens were sent to the guillotine. He also created a revolutionary dictatorship in France (Carson BC). Robespierre attended college in Paris. The college was called College de Louis-le-Grand (Encarta 96). It was here, while studying, R...
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Evil In The World Billy Budd
1,353 wordsBilly Budd by Herman Melville Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy Budd, the author, Herman Melville, presents a question that stems directly from this original sin of our first parents: Is it better to be innocent and ignorant, but good and righteou...
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Lysander And Hermia Demetrius And Helena Love
897 wordsHermia Hermia, daughter of Egeus, is in love with Lysander but betrothed to Demetrius. In much the same way as other characters in Greek tragedy, such as Antigone, defy the arbitrary rule of law, Hermia challenges her fathers unfair demands, on pain of death or lifelong exile into solitary confinement. She appeals to a higher law of justice that is eternal, universal, and divinely-given, that is higher in authority than the temporal laws made by men. Her resistance to authority represents the th...
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Love Of God God
1,745 wordsObservations on the Theologies of Abelard and Heloise Analysis of the first two letters between Heloise and Abelard demonstrates the variety of theological and practical viewpoints of thirteenth century France. Interesting points of contrast emerge on examination of their views of theological authority, Abelard? s? calamities? , their entry into monasticism, and the own-er ship of the Convent of the Paraclete. Theological Authority Comparison of these letters shows a marked difference in the the...
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George Orwell Author Describes
1,724 wordsOrwell's Such, Such Were The Joys. : Alienation Orwells Such, Such Were The Joys. : Alienation And Other Such Joys Orwell's Such, Such Were the Joys. : Alienation and Other Such Joys George Orwell expresses a feeling of alienation throughout Such, Such Were the Joys. He casts himself as a misfit, unable to understand his peers, the authorities placed over him, and the laws that govern his existence. Orwell writes, ? The good and the possible never seemed to coincide? (37). Though he shows his ab...
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Duddy Kravitz Corporal Punishment
576 wordsThe Words Or The Whip? Mordecai RichlersThe Words Or The Whip? Mordecai Richlers The Apprenticeship Of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Words or Whip? The whip that a lion-tamer uses is the single most important tool that will assists him in successfully taming the lions. To demonstrate his point clearly to the beasts, he must thrash the lions with his blood-sucking whip whenever they perform an incorrect act. This is the only way that he can communicate with these low-intelligence animals, b...
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Definition Of Justice Good Life
1,008 wordsRalph Waldo Emerson once wrote One man s justice is another s injustice. This statement quite adequately describes the relation between definitions of justice presented by Polemarchus and Thrasymachus in Book I of the Republic. Polemarchus initially asserts that justice is to give to each what is owed (Republic 331 d), a definition he picked up from Simonides. Then, through the unrelenting questioning of Socrates, Polemarchus definition evolves into doing good to friends and harm to enemies (Rep...
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Believed That Man Romeo And Juliet
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Hester Prynne Committed Adultery
579 wordsThe virtue of truth and the evil of secret sin are clearly illustrated in the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The three main characters in this novel display their own honesty and sins. Hester Prynne exhibits the essence of truth and pride when she bravely faces the humiliation of the scaffold. In chapter 17, when Hester apologizes to Dimmesdale about concealing Chillingworth? s identity, she says, ? In all things else, I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virt...
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Glaucon Sarcastic Remark Pursuing His Own Self Interest City
1,547 wordsThe City of Swine By: When one looks at why Plato would have included Glaucon s sarcastic remark of calling the first city a city of swine (372 d) in his dialogue the Republic of Plato, one must understand what it is that Glaucon was talking about. To understand what Glaucon s sarcastic remark meant; and how important it was, is because there had to be more to what Plato was writing about. And that Glaucon s remark helped lead Plato s writings right into what followed. For I m sure to assume tha...
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