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- 10921: Two Brands of Nihilism
- ... existence will appear, at least, if not more life denying to Nietzsche than the Christian. Schopenhauer If one understood a fundamental project of Nietzsche as a will to affirm life even in the face of great tragedy, Schopenhauer stands in stark contrast. It is beyond the scope of this paper to determine where exactly Nietzsche would be siuated with respect to his cosmology, and the notion of eternal return. But to ...
- 10922: Edna Pontellier Wants To Swim-
- The Awakening by, Kate Chopin Edna Pontillier Wants to Swim Edna Pontillier is a woman playing the role of the wealthy New Orleans housewife. She has a generous husband, children, financial stability, and a great deal of friends. What she also has, unfortunately, is a kind of generic happiness that is the result of such a conventional society. Edna begins to change, and like a small chip of ice breaking ...
- 10923: Emma Jane Austen
- ... snob. The main theme of the novel is about developing relationships and the principles of society in which we live. The central character in 'Emma' is depicted as a powerful young woman who has a great deal of authority with her peers, whom she dominates throughout the novel. Emma lives in an elegant and affluent society. She is very egotistical and is so busy telling everyone else what to do she ...
- 10924: The Stoics and Socrates
- ... the soul became dominant. It's individuality and its strict separation with the body. In dominant thought prior to the introduction of Socratic ideas, the human soul was naught but a small part of a great world-soul; a soul that included the souls of every creature and every object upon the earth and in the universe. In this scenario the actions of a human were of no consequence directly to ...
- 10925: Obasan
- ... they were gathered, collected, and assigned quarters in the ghettos of Europe. Personal belongings - from clothing and precious jewels to sacred texts and gold-capped teeth - were stolen by the Germans. The Japanese lost a great deal, too, but where the story of OBASAN and the Japanese differs is the conclusion, the ultimate loss: no Japanese were executed.
- 10926: Comparing Survival Concepts and Situations
- ... tree to eat. Now weeks have passed, he makes a primitive bow and arrow to shoot quarrels and fish for more filling dinners. One day a horrendous tornado hovers over his shelter and destroys a great portion of it. Through this the tail of the airplane tips out of the water and Brian realizes that there is a very important survival kit inside the plane. He retrieves the emergency kit and ...
- 10927: Essay On By The Pricking Of My
- ... sure was Tuppence. Albert suggests to Tommy that there may be a clue in the desk that they received from their passed away Aunt and sure enough there is. Even though the book has a great plot there seems to be too many characters to keep up with. I had to keep turning back to before pages to see if this character had already been introduced before. It seemed to get ...
- 10928: Betrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy
- ... should help us to avoid. Disagreement and debate between the adherents of rival theories is, moreover, essential to the health of philosophy. Just as many major advances of science are catalysed by war, so the great intellectual insights are sparked by discussion. If there were universal agreement on one philosophical theory, then all further thought would be rendered useless. (See p.319, Small World by David Lodge: "
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- 10929: Evolution Of They Dystopia
- ... Brave New World outlines the mindless suppression of an ignorant society through the mechanical brainwashing of a world overrun by technology. From Huxley's birth to Brave New World's inception, the corruption of a great communist government had not yet occurred. While it was an unnerving fable in its time, the chilling future foretold in Brave New World lost plausibility with the development of a debauched communist government. George Orwell ...
- 10930: The Only Truth Existing
- ... truth, may be proven wrong at any time. And what we actually know, may not be the truth after all. Truth may also be refuted through the identified appearance or sense of an object. A great modern philosopher, Bertrand Russell's, idea of appearance and reality explains that perception of a table and its distribution of colors, shape, and sense, vary with each point of view. Commenting on the distribution of ...
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