Marx's Philosophical Writings: Alienation
.... Furthermore, he sees it as a cycle that can and
must be broken in order to allow us the full expression of our species
essence, which he describes as communal.
Marx sees material alienation as the cause of social or
psychological alienation. Material alienation he said is caused by the
existence of private property. Private property came into existence
through the (unequal) division of labor. Division of labor, therefore, is
the central idea on which Marx bases his arguments concerning the even .....
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Joyce's "The Dead"
.... does not want to be identified with Ireland.
He wants to be identifies as a citizen of the world.
His arrogance is revealed in his interaction with others. A
primary example would be the way he treats his wife Gretta as an object.
As Peter J. Rabinowitz informs one that in reader response
criticism the "…activity of reading always alters the text at hand. Unless
we are limiting ourselves to reading in the sense of uninflected recitation,
reading is never a passive activity to which the re .....
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Miracles, Dreams, And Empowerment: A Brief Therapy Practice Note
.... therapy, the clinician must relate to the
client in a certain way. He/She treats the client as being able to make
his/her own decisions, and he/she forms a good relationship with the client.
The clinician's use of questions is also important in this process.
Empowerment-based practice is tied with solution-focused therapy.
Something used quite often in this practice is called “the miracle
question.” The clinician asks his/her client this question, allowing them
to visualize their future, and .....
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Persuasion In Patrick Henry's Speech To The Virginia Convention
.... support his "call to action" to the learned group of
men at the Virginia Convention, Henry had to provide substantial proof
endorsing his position. While an appeal to their emotions would rouse them
against the British for the moment, emotions are short-lived and their
endurance would depend on proof. Henry asks, "are fleets and armies
necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?" "what means this martial
array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?" By using the
literary device of the rhet .....
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Kantian Philosophy
.... formula.
The initial stage of the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical
Imperative requires that a maxim be universally applicable to all rational
beings. The next logical step is then to apply the second stage of the test.
The second requirement is that a rational being would will this maxim to
become a universal law. In testing this part, you must decide whether in
every case, a rational being would believe that the morally correct action
is to tell the truth. To decide whether rational bei .....
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THe Knights Of The Round Table
.... to Britain and the court of the High-King, Arthur,
where he was re-united with his parents
Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad was called a Grail knight because he went in search for
the Holy Grail. His father was named Sir Lancelot and his mother was given
to the name Elaine. His family lived in a big castle called Camelot. They
ate what was grown by the gardeners. The food was usally vegetables and
herbs. They also kept pigs, cattle, chickens and bees. They kept all these
things inside the castle.
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"Deep Play: Notes On The Balinese Cockfight"
.... just watched the villagers interact. This is how Geertz
begins his visit in Bali. Geertz is an anthropologist and he is in Bali to
experience the culture. He and his wife are watching a cockfight take
place. Cockfights are illegal in Bali. They continue to watch the fight
and he describes the cockfight like any "layman" might see it. This way of
not interacting and seeing things from a spectators point of view, is in a
way using ethnocentrism. This means he isn't really seeing the culture as
it is. .....
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Revolutions
.... The idea that the sun not the earth was the center of
the cosmos was a dramatic change in the way people viewed their place in
the universe.
Invention such as the telescope and microscope made new scientific
discoveries possible. The printing press was a very important discovery
that made it possible to spread ideas far and wide.
Astronomy, mechanics and medicine were the areas that were affected
the most during the scientific revolution. It was proven that the planets
and the moons revolved a .....
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Romanticism
.... as an example of that human potential. They were to
follow the inner conscience, even if driven through conscience, to defy the
state. It built on the principles of individualism, self reliance,
strength and confidence to strike out on own. They were critical of
government, laws, social institutions, debasing commercialism and whatever
kept humans from reaching their highest potential. They took a PollyAnna
attitude that everything will turn out. Emerson taught "Trust thyself.
Every heart vibrates to th .....
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The Jătaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice",
.... he was the merchant named Wise.
In "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice," the Bodhisatta is a young hare. The
day before fast day, he tells his friends (a monkey, a jackal, and an
otter) how to observe the holy day. (p. 952) He tells them to sacrifice
their food to beggars, and the one who honors this will be rewarded.
On fast day, the otter steals seven fish that a fisherman had
buried while he was fishing. The otter pretends asks three times if anyone
owns the fish. No one comes forward, so the otter takes th .....
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Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
.... less a group of people, be so
consumed by the pain of the sin-filled world that they could not feel any
of the magnificence with which God had created the world? In answering
this question, Swift discovered a series of social vices and injustices
that perpetuated the painful poverty of the Irish peasantry, and due to his
resulting anger felt that it was his God-given job to do something about
them. "'What I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the
mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and ba .....
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Rumpelstiltskin
.... ( Webster's Universal College Dictionary.
New York. Gramercy. 1997). This is an element of human nature that is found
in the interpretations of this story that I read. The miller, The king and
Rumpelstiltskin all exploit the girl (Esmeralda) in different ways for
personal gain. She too uses them, as well as others around her to gain what
she wants.
The miller, in both versions tells people that his daughter has a
wonderful ability to make gold from straw so that he can become a rich man.
"It h .....
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What Is A Luxury?
.... family members. An unfavorable reputation develops for this person
and sometimes we say that the person's life revolves around his luxuries.
Personally, I have been there and experienced this kind of stupor or
addiction to a possession of mine.
I met Denny Hippchen and Aaron Steinmetz during my first year at
Shasta High School and these two young men awakened my interest in
computers. A computer has been around me ever since. You could call it a
luxury but now I am so used to using the computer that it .....
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Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
.... facing, falling before but ultimately discovering how
to master, the specific vices which beset it” (Evans 143). The second book
portrays the virtue of Temperance through the knight Sir Guyon. The Fairy
Queen ordered him to locate and destroy Acrasia's seductive Bower of Bliss.
With his companion and guide, the Palmer, Sir Guyon completes his mission
successfully, and after his encounters along the way, he becomes the virtue
of Temperance.
II. Body Section
In order for the reader to recognize the mat .....
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Comparison Of "The Devil And Tom Walker" And "The Devil And Daniel Webster"
.... meets the Devil and makes a deal before the story and plot
really develop very much. In the “Devil and Tom Walker” the story goes into
a lot of details about how his house is raggedy, ugly, and trashy looking.
No man traveling ever stops at their house. His wife hides things, is mean,
and a loud-mouth. The story describes how Tom walked through the murky
swamp and how he met “Old Scratch” unlike “The Devil and Daniel Webster”
when all the story talks about is how his plow broke, how angry he was, and
by be .....
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