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- 5971: The Catcher in the Rye: Evil and Corruption in the World
- ... is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book, "Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy".1 Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep he checks in to the Edmont Hotel ...
- 5972: The Comparisons of Charles Manson to Transcendental Philosophy
- ... took place. Manson and his family would gather together in a house, when generally they would sit contently and listen to Charles preach. Usually the sermon would last for an hour or two and include stories and prophecies about the revolution that Manson felt was coming. Manson called this revolution helter skelter, after a Beatles song, which he felt told about the future of our society. Manson believed that the African ...
- 5973: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
- ... s leadership took place during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Under his guidance, the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years. King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with ...
- 5974: Seeking Pleasure and Aggression Is Part of Human Instinct
- ... desires is impossible to happen, then we subconsciously live in the discontents of the civilization and pretend to be happy with the substitutes we created for ourselves. Hayy and The Island of Animals are two stories that question the roll of civilization in our life, each looked at civilization from different perspective. At the sametime, what we all see refutable is the solution that Hayy choose for himself, because no one ...
- 5975: I Believe: A Code of Ethics
- ... by forcing people who are able to fend for themselves that society can be bettered. This is not to say however that people should not help each other. For instance when a friend comes up short on the rent and needs a loan, I will give him the money. If another friend needs help moving into a new apartment, I will help. Or if a stranger is broken down by the ...
- 5976: My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence
- ... idea what it is. Perhaps it is simply to discover my calling in life while I am still young, after all I only became conscious of the utter lack of meaning in my existence a short time ago. Nevertheless, I am wholly confident that I will find something, by which, or for which to live in the near future, because as Nietzsche brilliantly stated: He who has a why to live ...
- 5977: Kanflict: How Humans Have Risen Above The Divine
- ... the fact that humans feel a contradiction in our own will. In other words, we feel guilty and awful after we have chosen the less glorious, but all the more easy and gratifying in the short term, way out called desire. This contradiction is caused by a series of things which Kant outlines and discusses in his discussion of the Metaphysical. A few of these components are: a priori, a posteori ...
- 5978: Maya Angelou 2
- ... International women's Year. Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -American woman to hit the bestseller lists with her 'I know Why the Caged bird Sings " helds the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. Maya Angelou's second achievement was in 1971 when she produced "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of water 'Fore I Die", in 1975"Oh Pray My Wings Are Going to ...
- 5979: The Existence of God
- ... this argument by first defining what God is. Anslem says that God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist, that it can not even be considered not to exist. In short, the fact that said being can not be considered not to exist, would thereby make it greater than any that could be considered not to exist. This would in all reality be the secret to ...
- 5980: Existentialist Themes of Anxiety and Absurdity
- ... so my life is an absurd contingent fact. This idea of absurdity was prevalent in the works of Pascal, who is a French mathematician and philosopher who we covered in class. When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, and the little space I full, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and ...
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