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- 861: Emily Dickinson: Individuality
- ... People like Emerson and Thoreau believed that answers lie in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, “Insist on yourself; never imitate” (McMichael 691). Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young, she was brought up by a stern and disciplined father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily ...
- 862: Dante's Inferno
- ... him if he returned. Dante spent most of his time in exile writing new pieces of literature. It is believed that around 1307 he interrupts his unfinished work, Convivio, a reflection of his love poetry philosophy of the Roman tradition, to begin The Comedy (later known as The Divine Comedy). He writes a book called De Vulgari Eloquentia explaining his idea to combine a number of Italian dialects to create a ...
- 863: Contrasting Poets Lawrence and Shapiro in Their Views of Nature
- ... flat" and "faltered at each brilliant entity - drawn like a prize from a magician's hat (Magill, 2542). He was more interested in social meaning rather than nature (Stepanchev, 485). He bean writing on the philosophy that "everything we are taught is false" (Spears, 487). "Karl Shapiro's poems are fresh and young and rash and live: their hard clear outlines, their flat bold colours create a world like that of ...
- 864: Woodstock
- ... is through love and tolerance. Loving means accepting others as they are, giving them freedom to express themselves and not judging their behaviors according to a narrow definition. This is the core of the hippie philosophy. Freedom is the leading quality in this system. Freedom to do as one pleases, go where the flow takes you, and being open to new experiences. This causes an attitude that allows for maximum personal ...
- 865: Behind the Doors
- ... 96). Rob Burt, author of the book West Coast Story, said that it was in the summer of 1965 that Jim, while on LSD, saw Ray Manzarek, whom he met at UCLA. They were discussing philosophy and poetry when Jim said he had written a few songs. After singing a few lines from one he told Ray he had a whole notebook full of them. Jim Morrison said in a later ...
- 866: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... Garcia's future wife, Carolyn Adams. These Acid Tests became the model for what would shortly become known as the Greatful Dead trip. In the years that followed, the Dead would never really abandon the philosophy of the Acid Tests. Right until the end, the band would encourage the sense of fellowship that came from and fueled the music. Throughout all the public scrutiny it was still the Greatful Dead who ...
- 867: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... are getting arguing over semantics, when the health and welfare of our future generations hangs in the balance! In conclusion, I do not feel that we can truly rely any longer on my father’s philosophy. We cannot depend on individuals, governments or nations to act in an intelligent manner, wisely or unselfishly. We need, as individuals, to become actively involved in our own survival. Perhaps if the nearly 6 billion ...
- 868: “Newton Or Leibniz, Who Should Get The Credit?”
- ... first clear statement regarding the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany on the 1st of July 1646. He was the son of Friedrich Leibinz, a professor of moral philosophy at Leipzig. although he did not have the raw talent expected of mathematical geniuses, he displayed competence and resilience in his studies. When confronted with a problem, he would work at it until he found ...
- 869: "The Beats Generation
- ... we’re a beat generation.” The remark was hardly intended to be the definitive statement it wound up being. Yet like so many other of Kerouac’s remarks, it was implanted in a deep-rooted philosophy. Inherent in his observation was an idea that symbolized the energy behind the lives and literature of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac, Holmes, as well as many others. The term ‘beat generation’ was introduced to the world ...
- 870: The Study of Psychology
- ... in order to observe the effects of a dependent variable. There are controlled groups in every experiment that is conducted. This way comparison can be made between the two groups. The foundations of psychology are philosophy and physiology. Plato, a Greek rationalist, emphasized the use of reasoning as a way to find knowledge. On the other hand, Aristotle emphasized that what we can see and touch is the only route to ...
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