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- 10331: Aristotles Views On Human Action
- ... of compulsion a bit harder to understand and explain. I feel that this may be due to the fact that Aristotle himself found the concept difficult to put across. There seem to be, in Aristotle's view, differences in what compulsion can be. There is the compulsion that Aristotle described as a strong agent in nature (wind) or that of being physically without the power to resist (as with a mob ... actions, we have to refer to the moment of action; was there a choice to be made. This becomes a bit more clear when we turn it into an equation: [involuntary action (throwing the ship's rations overboard) + compulsion (terrible storm and a sinking ship) + motivation (staying alive) + choice (will I or wont I?) = voluntary action]. Choice implies that the principle of motion is in the agent, so the action is ... Praise or blame may be bestowed on the agent, depending on what was done and for what reason, but more often than not the agent receives forgiveness. Just as it is a stretch, in Aristotle's view, to call the wish to stave off evil or pain a compulsion, it is "absurd" to propose that so could it be a desire for the "pleasant and noble", things done for those ...
- 10332: Emma: All Human Beings Are Judging
- ... four stories about four condemned women, and they were all either condemned by social conventions or restricted by them. Coincidentally, they were all works of male writers. How can a man fully understand a woman's desires or dilemma? The answer is that they probably did not, and that they it is inevitable for them to look at women from a man's point of view. Flaubert saw Emma's desires as tedious and superficial wanting caused by the influences of romance novels, and she was condemned for breaking the moral codes. However, Flauber did acknowledge the fact that it was society's moral ...
- 10333: House Made of Dawn: Religious Names
- House Made of Dawn: Religious Names Throughout N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn, there are many religious references, mostly Catholic names. One must wonder why the story of a Native American's struggle to return to his cultural roots would be laced throughout with Catholic references, especially predominantly Catholic character names. However, these same religious characterizations go far in giving the reader a structure for understanding this ... Adam and Eve. In the Book of Genesis, it says, "Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. In the course of time … Cain was very angry, and … Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let's go out to the field.' And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him" (Genesis 4:2-3,5,8). This image of Abel as the helpless victim ...
- 10334: My Oedipus Complex
- ... on his best blue suit, and Mother was as pleased as anything. I saw nothing to be pleased about, because, out of uniform, Father was altogether less interesting…", this shows another Santa connection, kids aren’t interested in Santa Claus if he is not in his big red suit. Now for Santa himself, also known as Larry’s Father. He went away to the war, where he was alone, he didn’t have his wife or his son to give him a hug when he went to bed. For some one to spend that much time alone when they know they have a family and people ...
- 10335: George Washington Carver
- ... his mother, to Arkansas. After the war, Moses Carver learned that all his former slaves had disappeared except for a child named George. Frail and sick, the motherless child was returned to his former master's home and nursed back to health. The boy had a delicate sense of color and form and learned to draw; Later in life he devoted considerable time to painting flowers, plants, and landscapes. Though the ... refused to admit him because he was black, Carver enrolled at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, where he studied piano and art, afterward transferring to Iowa State Agricultural College (Ames, Iowa), where he received a bachelor's degree in agricultural science in 1894 and a master of science degree in 1896. Carver left Iowa for Alabama in the fall of 1896 to direct the newly organized department of agriculture at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a school headed by the noted black American educator Booker T. Washington. At Tuskegee, Washington was trying to improve the lot of black Americans through education and the acquisition of useful skills rather than through political alarm; he stressed submission, compromise, and economic development as ...
- 10336: Stylistic Analysis of the Opening Page of Dracula (Children’s Version)
- Stylistic Analysis of the Opening Page of Dracula (Children’s Version) Dave Rouse This version of the classic novel, Dracula, is aimed at children, in my opinion between the ages of 8 to 12. My reasoning for this is that the language used requires quite ... a rustic village, probably Bistritz, which is mentioned in the text as where Jonathan Harker, the subject and author of the diary, stays for the night. It is a colourful picture, which attracts the reader’s attention, and has the effect of setting the scene and putting an idea into the reader’s mind that the story is set “a long time ago”. For children, it is important that this is clarified at the beginning, so that they do not expect modern items, but “olden” things and ...
- 10337: Bunker Hill , Battle Of
- ... This is how the battle to be known as Bunker Hill began. On June 17, 1775 the Battle of Bunker Hill took place. It is one of the most important colonial victories in the U.S. War for Independence. Fought during the Siege of Boston, it lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause. This battle made both sides realize that this was not going to be a matter decided on by ... did what their revered Generals instructed them to carry out. On June 15, 1775 the American colonists heard news that the British planned to control the Charleston peninsula between the Charles and Mystic Rivers. Bunker's and Breed's Hill on this peninsula overlooked both Boston and its harbor, thus making the hills critical vantage points. In order to beat the British to the high ground, General Prescott took 1,200 of his ...
- 10338: Dignity Of The Human Person
- ... the human person is worth something. If you take the catholic representation of this you could back it up in the sense that all people are created in the image of God. Therefore a person’s dignity passes through any kind of social classes. A human person is both a political and an economical being so their dignity transcends to both the political and the economical fields. But what is man ... it to serve all evil found in his heart. Man judges rightly when he thinks that he is superior to everything else, except God, because of his pure capability to think and reason. In man’s history he has achieved many victories and still he searches for more truths. In the depth of man’s soul he finds a law that he cannot understand and doesn’t know where its from and still this law holds him to search out good and avoid evil in his life. This law ...
- 10339: Analysis Of Heart Of Darkness
- Marlow s contemplation during his journey through the Congo In one of his novels, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad depicts the tale of a man who reflects upon the meaning of life as well as all of ... he finds himself in. At one point in the storyline, Marlow and his crew depart towards the station where the enigmatic Kurtz resides. An interesting aspect of this portion of the adventure is that Marlow s crew is mostly composed of cannibals. Upon realizing how famished these natives are, Marlow contemplates how incredible it seems that the cannibals have restrained themselves from giving in to their hunger and eating the European men onboard. It is this speculation that will be the topic of discussion in the following paper. Marlow s thoughts and perception of the native tribe will be examined in order to provide a more concise understanding of his analysis of the cannibals. During their trip towards Kurtz s station, Marlow describes the ...
- 10340: A Rose For Emily 3
- ... when she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. You're directed toward the battle language - "vanquished, horse and foot" and in recalling the early images of Miss Emily in her 30's. The first scene features Miss Emily "two years after her father's death" and shortly after her sweetheart deserted her as the town interferes after townspeople complain about "the smell." Four townspeople reduced to the roles of nighttime prowlers, "slunk" around Miss Emily's house and "sling" lime. Creeping away, they see Miss Emily silhouetted in the window, "her upright torso motionless as that of an idol," ever dominating the community. The narrator goes into great details to ...
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