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- 2951: The Inconvenience of Convenience
- ... the person you're desperately trying to get a hold of! Moving away from the house, we encounter the car. The car creates so many hassles all by itself. The convenience of owning your own personal mode of transportation is far ( really far ) from cheap. The duty and obligation associated with the freedom ( or restriction ) of the ability to drive creates conflicts. Then there is the daily occurrence of traffic. Is ... one else is willing to take them. You don't want to seem like the " bad guy " and deny them transportation, you want to make them feel cared for. The biggest hassle created by the personal automobile, is the wading through piles and piles of cars who are doing the same exact thing you are: becoming frustrated and late. Traffic jams are the number one source of daily stress in my ...
- 2952: Rewards In Society
- ... equality in our current society. Karl Marx believed that production is dependant on the workers material conditions present at the time. Unequal distribution of rewards may cause those people who do not experience promotion or personal gain to feel insignificant to society, resulting in a low self-esteem and a reduced level of production. I enlisted into the United States Army for three years following my high school graduation. A good ... enlistment, thoughts of committing violent crimes, and even suicide. The unequal distribution of rewards can also lead to what Max Weber called status groups , groups of people who obtain similar levels of promotion, prestige or personal gain in their workplace or community. These groups of people tend to cut themselves off from those not in their group. As a result, the people who are not included in these groups may feel ...
- 2953: Your Chemical World
- ... the importance of it. In every aspect of your house we can find evidence of chemistry. In the Vinyl siding to the roof shingles to the power that runs the very computer that I am writing this on. If peel back the skin further we can see that in every room there is also blatant hints toward chemistry’s uses in our house. In the kitchen we keep we see it ... the importance of it. In every aspect of your house we can find evidence of chemistry. In the Vinyl siding to the roof shingles to the power that runs the very computer that I am writing this on. If peel back the skin further we can see that in every room there is also blatant hints toward chemistry’s uses in our house. In the kitchen we keep we see it ...
- 2954: A Tale of Two Cities: Reversal of Characters
- A Tale of Two Cities: Reversal of Characters When writing a book, most authors are writing about an issue they have. However, other themes become apparent through the course of the piece, either consciously or subconsciously. One such theme is a reversal of characters in A Tale of Two Cities. Individuals ...
- 2955: A Farewell To Arms
- ... inner thoughts and feelings as we are with those of Frederick. The story is told through Frederick's eyes and the reader only meets Catherine through the dialogue between her and Frederick or through his personal interpretations of her actions. Catherine already possesses the knowledge that her own life cannot be dependent on another. She learned this lesson through the death of her fiance. Her love for Frederick is what her ... war for fear of losing her own stability with his death. The theme that Hemingway emphasizes throughout the novel is the search for order in a chaotic world. Hemingway conveys this through Frederick's own personal search during the chaos of World War I. Catherine has found strength within herself to lead her through life. This is what Frederick must come to realize. Through his involvement with Catherine, Frederick slowly finds ...
- 2956: A Farewell To Arms
- ... Billy says as he goes on with his daily affairs. He spends much of the rest of his life "actively disseminating that philosophy, first preaching it orally on the all-night radio program and then writing letters to the Ilium New Leader" (Bryfonski and Senick 615). But Vonnegut disagrees and "rejects the Tralfamadorian philosophy… [and] Billy's total "incapacity to understand the significance of the death of human beings" (Bryfonski and ... death he simply says: "The Son of God was dead as a doornail. So it goes" (Vonnegut 203). With his "wild black humor mixed with his innate pessimism and particular brand of compassion [in his writing], Vonnegut [goes on to] ask his readers not to give up on their humanity" (Shepard 5) either. When this is given up, the pain always stays, and "the condition it exemplifies leads men to take ...
- 2957: John Coltrane
- ... of himself as a child of God. Though Coltrane was raised in a household dominated by Christianity, and he professed to be a Christian for the majority of his life, he became dissatisfied with his personal relationship with God and felt that it could and should be intensified. Not for the faint of heart, Coltrane's master work offers a complete synthesis of his musical ability and his religious belief. Building ... of its own power." His explosive combination of spiritual energy and intellectual prowess went beyond success and even beyond music into the metaphysical. He studied Eastern religions, Islam, the Torah. He read books about mathematics, personal improvement, van Gogh, African history and yoga. His record collection included African, early English, Greek and Indian music. Adding seven bars in E minor and 23 in E major to "My Favorite Things" and playing ...
- 2958: Billy Budd: One Needs to Have Morality and Virtue
- ... done according to instruction, and deviation from that set way of thinking and operation is wrong. This way of thinking is illustrated as Melville commits what he calls a literary sin: “ In this matter of writing, resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some by-paths have an enticement not readily to be withstood. I am going to err into such a by-path. If the reader will ... done according to instruction, and deviation from that set way of thinking and operation is wrong. This way of thinking is illustrated as Melville commits what he calls a literary sin: “ In this matter of writing, resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some by-paths have an enticement not readily to be withstood. I am going to err into such a by-path. If the reader will ...
- 2959: The Artist Verses Society
- ... deaths did we discover these hidden talents and see that these heretics were perhaps geniuses in disguise. Devince arguably the most talented painter ever wrote backwards so that people wouldn't know what he was writing. He would rather have been seen as incompetent than to let people really know what he was thinking. If people had known what he was really writing he would have been branded a heretic and exiled from the painting world. A second example and perhaps one of the best was also a painter, Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh also one of the ...
- 2960: Christian Evidences
- ... way to them. They had to work out their own salvation with diligence. Buddha's religion was devoid of miracles of any kind, and he condemned the use of divination, soothsaying, and fortune telling. Direct, personal experience was the final test for truth. His approach was essentially pragmatic, concerning exclusively with problem-solving. He made a formal declaration of four "noble truths" after his awakening. The first is that of the ... he was beholding the very redemption for which he yearned and of which he had perhaps had a foretaste. Of course, there are major differences between Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism is certainly indifferent to any personal creator. According to Buddhism, creation was the result of some primordial ignorance and willfulness incomprehensible to us. This negative view of creation stems from the realization of the reality of suffering in the created world ...
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