Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
.... and morally-through participation' in the life of the state."4
Machiavelli generally distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity,
when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5
Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises
the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their
word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not
feel that a Prince should mistreat the c .....
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Political Allegory In The Book Animal Farm
.... Animalism was a theory concocted by the Old Major a Pig. In "Animal
Farm" the pigs were personified as the smartest and the best among animals.
The Pigs take control of the farm. The two major idealists Snowball and
Napoleon have conflicting ideas. These ideas break snowball away from the rest
of the group and make him leave Animal Farm. This lets Napoleon have total
control. They set up a set of rules called the seven commandments. In the
beginning everyone followed these rules such .....
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Power Shifts In Intergovernmental Relations: A Result Of Fiscal Federalism
.... government to dominate the
states; recently, however, reforms have begun to return power to the states.
Policies and precedents of the New Deal centralized power in the
national government. To remedy the devastation of the Great Depression, it
assumed a more direct and prevalent role in the lives of the people. Congress
passed the 1935 Social Security Act, providing retired persons pensions and
benefits for the unemployed and disabled. In addition to Social Security, the
government also established .....
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The Eucharist: Summary
.... -it is the most commonly received sacrament, most pivotal of 7
-as a community, we celebrate the presence of christ in the eucharist
-bread: basic food for most people/closely assoc with nature
human work
Vestements
-white/purple/black robe
Words
-"Do this in Memory of Me."
-"This is my body, which has been given up for you."
BY: MARK HARNUM
Presented to: Mr. DiMaio
Thesis: The Eucharist is a sign of Jesus' death, and how He ga .....
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David Korten's "When Corporations Rule The World"
.... is needed as never before"
(269).
Corporations have not always been as big and powerful as the are today.
Through economic globalization they have become very powerful. "Corporations
have emerged as the dominant governance institutions on the planet, with the
largest among them reaching into virtually every country of the world and
exceeding most governments in size and power" (54). Prior to the Civil War,
owners were personally responsible for any liabilities or debts the company
incurred, .....
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Never Cry Wolf By Farley Mowat
.... be. He discovers that they are in fact
a very efficient and resourceful and have their own distinctive culture. For
example he discovers that they in fact have a symbiotic relationship with the
caribou in that they keep the caribou population strong by hunting down only the
sick and weaker members of the herd. This leads to a situation where the
strongest caribou survive and thus the herd is made stronger. As well they
have their own social orders that ensure peaceful co-existence with one another
ins .....
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Myths In Human Civilization
.... book review. The author of the book, Phyllis Burke, writes of Gender
Identity Disorder or GIS that effects both male and female children. A child
labeled with GIS occurs when the child is not confirming to appropriate gender
behaviour. For example, if a boy wants to play with dolls and dress up as the
opposite sex. Burke reveals that at a young age all children in the gender
socialization process are encouraged to play with gender appropriate toys and
roles. If the child does not conform to these role .....
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Kahlil Gibran
.... who tells people about different subjects which are all related to
subjects in everyday life; for example love, hate etc.. The book also contains
a series of illustrations created by the author himself. The book is based
slightly on fiction, but the topics discussed in the poetry are all very
realistic. If a person read the poetry today it would still be relative to the
things happening around us. The poetry is in composition form, and a major part
of the book contains dialogue.
Summary
In the fi .....
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Night By Elie Wiesel
.... the true horror of the
holocaust. Every page gave deeper and more horrifying details of this
extermination of the Jews. In my opinion, it could not have been written any
better.
What was my reaction to this book ? Disbelief. I truly could not
understand this extermination unless I was there. It showed me a new degree of
inhumanity. Furthermore, even though I am not jewish, I have obtained a new
hatred toward the nazis due to this book.
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Hosea
.... of the Israelites adultery to God by
worshipping idols and other God's. Hosea marries Gomer and they have a son.
God informs Hosea to name the child Jezreel because he is going to punish the
house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel. Later they have a daughter and God
tells Hosea to name her Lo-Ruhama which means, not loved, in Hebrew. Once again
Hosea and Gomer have a son that God tells Hosea to name Lo-Ammi which means, not
my people, in Hebrew. Chapter one ends with God describing how the .....
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The Chosen: Chaim Potok's Look Into Human Nature
.... and Danny's baseball team idea, Danny
and his father never speak. This situation causes Danny a great deal of
emotional pain, a pain which he is unable to comprehend his father's reasons for
inflicting. His father feared, and with reason, that if something were not done,
Danny would never find his soul. After many years, Danny finally understands,
and accepts the reasons for his father's silence, and is in many ways grateful
for its success.
History is rich with individual, and broad examples .....
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Tradition: Lost And Kept
.... die from the drought either. In the tribe, it was customary for the Chief
to have several wives and children. The Chief married five wives and the fifth
one brought him a daughter. Another tradition that was shown in the story was
the explanation of how Oganda (the chief's only daughter) received her name. Her
name meant "beans" because her skin was smooth, very much like the skins of
beans. A last example of tradition is the sacrificing of Oganda. She is
scheduled to be sacrificed to a lake mons .....
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What Drives A Man
.... .. is the imitation of an action that is erious, has
magnitude, and is complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories,
each kind brought in separately in the various parts of the work; in a dramatic,
not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to
accomplish it catharsis of such emotions"
Aristotle, Poetics
Okonkwo is a tragic hero because he is superior to the regular people of the
tribe, "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even .....
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Virgil's Aeneid
.... Turnus by striking him in the leg. With his sword to his chest
Turnus makes a last request for his body to be returned to his family, as Aeneas
is considering the request he notices that Turnus is wearing the sword belt of
Pallas and the stoic ways of Aeneas leave him as rage, fury, and anger run
through his body. He kills Turnus in anger and dedicates his death to Pallas.
This loss of control and act of violence is the opposite of stoicism and the way
Aeneas had been portrayed the rest of the epic .....
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Plato's Republic
.... and rivals is the most
miserable of men--a theme to be further developed in The Republic (Cornford xx).”
But here, Plato was referring to the politics of his time, and critics who
sided with Crito believed that The Republic was Plato's way of introducing a
political system in which he would feel comfortable supporting (Plato 204).
Conversely though, The Republic itself is summed up this way:
Well, one would be enough to effect all this reform that now seems so
incredible, if he had subj .....
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