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- 141: The Muses Of Greek Mythology
- ... the Sphinx who learned her riddle from the Muses, Aristaeus, who learned the arts of healing and prophecy from them, and Echo, who was taught by them to play music. In Plato's Phaedrus 259c, Socrates says that locusts were men before the birth of the Muses. When the Muses were born, some men were so overcome with delight that they sang constantly, forgetting to eat or drink until they eventually ...
- 142: Benjamin Franklin: A Man of American Ideals
- ... list in response to his friend’s suggestion, and he shows determination in achieving it. “Humility” (876) does not have the same detailed description that the previous ones have, but simply with “imitate Jesus and Socrates” (876). While this seems vague and pretentious to some, it actually shows the extent of his ambition to be perfect. His goal is so broad that ordinary terms or people cannot express it. In addition ...
- 143: The Rhetorical Styles Of King
- ... Corbett 319). He overcomes the negative attributes associated with the apology, and further confirms his ability as an orator. He always stays focused on directing the arguments towards the accusations. This resembles the style of Socrates, who, in his Apology stated, I always address the individual (Smith 56). By structuring his arguments around the framework laid forth by the clergymen, he maintains the focus of what he attempts to achieve. Had ...
- 144: How The Great Pyramid Was Real
- ... The Pyramids of Egypt. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1961. Evans, Humphrey. The Mystery of the Pyramids. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979. Mendelssohn, Kurt. The Riddle Of The Pyramids. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Taseos, Socrates. Back In Time To 3104 B.C. To The Great Pyramid. Charlotte: S O C Publishers, 1990. "Wonders of the World." Encarta. Microsoft Corporation, 1993. "Funeral Rites and Customs." Encarta. Microsoft Corporation, 1993.
- 145: Ireland An Expansion Through
- ... symbolism, a large dose of Zoroastrian dualism, and some of the quiet refinements of Buddhism. (49)”. Although this would not satisfy his intellectual hunger and he would move onto studying the works of Plato and Socrates. In the end though he would come across the letters of a Jew named Paul who would show him the light of the Christian god. Thus, he would purify his soul, absolve his past sins ...
- 146: Emerson's “Self-Reliance”: Optimistic But Unrealistic For the 21st Century
- ... is that now-a-days we all want to be appreciated. We don’t look towards the future and what our actions now will lead to. We think about the present. Emerson says that Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton were all misunderstood. And every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh was misunderstood. These men weren’t appreciated during their time. They were thought of as lunatics ...
- 147: Ireland An Expansion Through T
- ... symbolism, a large dose of Zoroastrian dualism, and some of the quiet refinements of Buddhism. (49)”. Although this would not satisfy his intellectual hunger and he would move onto studying the works of Plato and Socrates. In the end though he would come across the letters of a Jew named Paul who would show him the light of the Christian god. Thus, he would purify his soul, absolve his past sins ...
- 148: Albert Camus
- ... generation during the 1950's. Camus died at the height of his fame, in an automobile accident near Sens, France on January 4, 1960. Camus's deepest philosophical interests were in Western philosophy, among them Socrates, Pascal, Spinoza, and Nietsche. His interest in philosophy was almost exclusively moral in character. Camus came to the conclusion that none of the speculative systems of the past could provide and positive guidance for human ...
- 149: Satie, Erik
- ... Pablo Picasso and Leonid Massine also collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death of Socrates. The young composers who formed the essentially Parisian group known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in 1923 one of them, Darius Milhaud, tried to found an "Ecole d ...
- 150: Review of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
- ... books, he endured the profession of a printer, working side by side with his brother, John. Being able to obtain better literature, Franklin began to write poetry. His love for knowledge drawn from writings of Socrates and Xenophobe improved his argumentative skills greatly. Soon needing his freedom, Franklin left to New York in hopes of starting a new life in a city full of strangers. He was referred to a printer ...
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