Siddhartha: Overcoming Misfortunes Of The Past
.... gone through not
seeing his son again. Siddhartha's son, too, was separated from his father.
Without dealing with this situation, the distance between father and son would
never be reconciled. Thus the situation Siddhartha had with Brahmin would be
repeated.
The quote can also be interpreted as a metaphor for time. Obvious
recurrences can be noted in time, suggesting that time repeats itself. Instead
of a river, another symbol can be used for time, perhaps a pool. According to
this quote, things repea .....
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Silence Of The Lambs: The Battle Between Two Evils
.... Dr.
Lector is not able to take control of his evil because of the way his distorted
mind thinks. Although his mind is distorted, it is still a very powerful mind
which he uses to see into the minds of others. He gets into their heads and
plays with their minds, internally torturing them. He is a sick man and needs
therapy and constant care in a hospital because he is too sick to help himself.
On the other hand, Dr. Chilton is capable of changing, if only he could realize
his evil ways. He is blinded .....
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B.F Skinner's Waldo Two: Positive Change In World Through Manipulation Of Behavior
.... has gone wrong. He wants no part in the
quest for individual freedom. If we give up this illusion, says Skinner, we
can condition everyone to act in acceptable ways.
Skinner has a specific prescription for creating this utopian society.
He declares that all that is necessary is to change the conditions which
surround man. "Give me the specifications, and I'll give you the man" is his
simple yet remarkable message. He claims that by controlling what a person's
environment is, it is possible to cr .....
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Tale Of Two Cities: Roots Of Revolution
.... it did. It is presumable that the reason that the French
revolution was so bloody is that it was so long in coming. The rage and hatred
just kept building and then it finally popped. Like blowing up a balloon, it
will pop and all the air will gome rushing out at once after too long but you
can let the air out gradually through the place where you blow it. If the
nobility has lessened the oppression and created more humane environment then
they probably would not have lost their heads. The strength an .....
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Technology In A Brave New World
.... their God, Henry Ford, produced the Model T. They have taken
this technology and exploited it for their own benefit. They have created with
their hands without using their head or heart. Scientists toy with the embryos,
cutting off oxygen to those predestined to become lower caste members. Those
chosen to work as rocket plane engineers were in constant rotation during the
embryonic phase of their life. "Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in
mid-air is a tickish job. We slacken off the circul .....
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The Canterbury Tales: The Perfect Love
.... why not die trying to win her.
The ironic fact about the relationship between the two knights and Emily
is that Emily does not wish to marry either of the knights. she expresses this
in a prayer to Diana, the goddess of chaste, " Well you know that I desire to be
a maiden all my life; I never want to be either a beloved or a wife." This is so
ironic because Arcite and Palomon are about to kill each other for her love and
she doesn't want to beloved by either of them. She enjoys the thrills of maiden
ho .....
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"The Republic" By Plato
.... have two lifestyles one,
being just in front of the eyes of the society and two being the unjust man
invisible unable to get caught. Glaucon say this proves that people are just
only because they find it necessary.
Adeimantus another philosopher and Socrates elder brother brought up
the fact that we should take a look at the kinds of things people actually say
when they get praised justice and condemn injustice. Adeimantus explains by
saying that fathers tell there sons to be just because of .....
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The Allegory Of The Cave: Turn Around
.... puppets. He
listens to the exotic, wonderful, and large words whispered in his ears by the
puppeteers. He would naturally turn around, or perhaps even stand, but chains
bind him to the ground, and the puppeteers have servants who hold his head in
place. One day, a situation arises where he finds that the chains are broken,
and he stands. This is against the will of the servants, but they have no
physical power over him, if he does not allow it. He turns round and sees the
fire and the puppeteers an .....
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Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment: Raskolnikov's Mathematical Evaluation Of Moral Dilemma Presented To Him Exemplifies The Empirical View Of Utilitarianism
.... notion of deliberating about the act of murder in such a
mathematical manner. He might contend that Raskolnikov's reasoning, and the
entire theory of utilitarianism, cannot be used to judge morality because it
rejects individual rights and contains no moral absolutes.
A utilitarian bases his belief upon two principles: the theory of right
actions and the theory of value. These two principles work together and serve
as criteria for whether or not a utilitarian can deem an action morally right.
First, th .....
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Gogol's The Overcoat: A Whisper Of Changey
.... against Gogol.
Akaky himself is used as a symbol of the Russian people. The communists
were against any sort of free-thinking, and respected any man who performed his
duties without question. Akaky is described in the story as being a quiet,
hard-working man. He keeps mostly to himself, having very little to do with the
outside world. His entire life centers around his profession. Akaky's life
changes only after he buys his new overcoat. The overcoats in the story
symbolize different governments. .....
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Farewell To Manzanar
.... to justify this view, and therefore Jeanne Wakatsuki, just a child,
was now seen as a monster. Her father was immediately arrested and taken away,
being accused with furnishing oil to Japanese subs off the coast. And now,
Jeanne left without a father, her mother was trapped with the burden of Jeanne's
rapidly aging grandmother and her nine brothers and sisters. Too young to
understand, Jeanne did not know why or where her father had been taken. But she
did know that one very important part of her .....
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Stanley Renshons' High Hopes: Clinton's Actions
.... It is therefore deeply embedded in the
foundation of psychological functioning" (38). The three elements of character
that Renshon states as being the "core" factors of a persons character are:
ambition, character integrity, and relatedness.
Ambition is a strong element is one's character which can be defined as;
a persons achievement and self regard. I tend to disagree with Renshon, when he
states that their is a danger with ambition, it "reinforces their sense of being
special… it may fac .....
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Imperial Presidency: Overview
.... of the imperial presidency. He provides a base for his argument with
an in-depth view of what the framers intended and how they set the stage for
development over the next two centuries. An issue that Schlesinger focuses on is
the presidents ability to make war. The decisions of the founders in this area
would have a huge impact on the power contained in the office of the president.
The consensus amongst the framers was that the president, as Commander in Chief,
had the ability to defend the United States .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Jack And Roger
.... cut her throat, bash her head in!". Jack's decapitation
of the dead mother pig proves that he is no longer the Jack that could not kill
the pig but a much more blood-thirsty one that only wants to kill and not be
rescued. Although Jack is not satanic like Roger, he loses all sense of reason,
he is nevertheless a killer. Jack tries his best to do what is best for the
boys but his power hunger actually makes the situation much worse: "The chief
snatched one of the few remaining spears and poked Sam in th .....
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Lipset's American Creed
.... that the Founding Fathers had an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality
towards the issue of slavery.
While Huggins understands why the Founding Fathers may have elected to
ignore the issue, he hardly thinks that it was a good idea. "It encouraged the
belief that American history-its institutions, its values, its people- was one
thing and racial slavery and oppression were a different story" (Huggins xii).
He reinforces this idea by looking at the historical perspective that was
prevalent in America unti .....
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