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- 20311: Plato Vs. Materialists
- ... how much can be known about it is confronted with new challenges. The Republic discusses the nature of justice and the institutions of society. In some ways it is idealistic in that it describes Plato's ideal society. But it also deals with human knowledge, the purpose and composition of education, and the nature of science. The principle of justice is the main theme of The Republic. Plato makes a connection ... and ideal objets are also discussed in Book V. Actual objects are the objects of opinion and sensation and the ideal objects are the objects of knowledge and intellect. This distinction is crucial to Plato's Theory of Forms. There are forms of things and forms of thought, and it is the forms of thought that the philosopher is concerned with. An example of a form of thought is beauty. The ... So, the couch on the canvas is nothing but a copy of a copy of the real couch and is therefore three times removed from reality. Socrates then goes on to explain that an artist's knowledge is also third-rate. If an artist is painting a picture of a table, for example, he is copying a table that has been manufactured by a furniture-maker, and this furniture-maker ...
- 20312: William Wordsworth Biography
- ... into a comfortable middleclass family with roots firmly planted in Lake County. In 1778, Ann Wordsworth died suddenly, and then, over the Christmas holidays of 1783-1784, John Wordsworth followed. (Dome critics have attributed Wordsworth's early maternal loss and his subsequent use of nature as a "surrogate mother.") Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School, known for excellent instruction in mathematics and classics. Rather than live at school, he boarded with Ann Tyson-the revered "old dame" of The Prelude. She gave him considerable freedom to discover the power of the natural world and to begin to define himself in relation to that power. Wordsworth's college years were from 1787-1791 at St. John's college, Cambridge. He went on a walking tour with Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France, ...
- 20313: Pride And Prejudice
- Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice takes place in England during the 18th century, with an evident main them of courtship and marriage. The Bennet family consists of Jane, the eldest daughter, followed by Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. Being girls, they will not benefit from their father’s will which leads to their mother’s obsession over finding husbands for them. Eventually in the end of the novel, everyone is settled and married, however Bingley and Jane, and Darcy and Elizabeth have comfortable futures to look forward to. Similar ...
- 20314: Rembrandt
- ... the work of Caravaggio and was fascinated by the work of many other artists. When Rembrandt became an established painter, he began to teach and continued teaching art throughout his lifetime. In 1631, when Rembrandt's work had become well known and his studio in Leiden was flourishing, he moved to Amsterdam. He became the leading portrait painter in Holland and received money for portraits as well as for paintings of ... sketched over fifty portraits just of himself! During the next few years three of his four children died as babies, and in 1642 his wife died. Rembrandt made most of his etchings during the 1630’s and 1640’s. His landscape paintings are depiction’s of the land around him. One of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings was known as 'The Night Watch', painted in 1642. It depicts a group of city guardsmen ...
- 20315: Pigman
- ... audience soon learns that they are watching the story of the Pigman as it is being written. "The Pigman" would be a fun play to watch with a very serious and important theme. In John's opening line the audience gets a clear idea that Lorraine and he, have learned something from their experience with the Pigman, something important enough to write a book about while it's still fresh in their minds. John and Lorraine take turns writing each chapter of the book that is being acted out, but the audience eventually forgets that and becomes preoccupied with the story of the Pigman. The underlying idea dealt within "The Pigman" is that one's life is what they make of it, and only they are responsible for the end result. Both John and Lorraine had unloving parents. John drinks and smokes excessively, most likely avoid becoming his father, ...
- 20316: The Comparison and Contrasting of the Masters of Fredrick Douglass
- ... with Douglass. Douglass did gain a little more freedom from this fight with his master. Even though Fredrick Douglass had many masters who denied his freedom, he became his own master at the end. Douglass’s first master Captain Anthony may have been his father. Captain Anthony was not considered a rich slave owner. He owned about thirty slaves and two or three farms. This man was a miserable guy that ... Remember Douglass was very young at the time. I believe this was one of meanest men in his life. The importance of this relationship was that Douglass would gain stronger view towards slavery and it’s misfortunes. This would also drive his want for freedom. Douglass eventually becomes the property Thomas Auld of who loans him to his brother Hugh Auld. Keep in mind Lucretia could be Douglass’s sister. This was a good thing for Douglass because he would start to learn how to read and write. Sophia Auld began teaching him the ABC’s in her spare time. This went on ...
- 20317: Pygmalion
- During the time of the play, Pygmalion, classes in England were seemingly artificial. It is shown very well in Act III during one of Mrs. Higgins’s at-home days the differences between classes. Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill claim to be of the upper class and they act as if they are in the upper class to try and impress Henry ... control of her emotions later on during the conversation when she misconstrues the remark of Freddy Eynsford Hill. She starts to get like her old flower girl self and gets so comfortable that she doesn’t even realize it. Henry jumps into the conversation and stops her and she finally realizes what happens. The Eynsford Hills still seem a little bit puzzled because they have never heard a person of such ... manner. Henry goes on to explain that she is just talking the new small talk and that everybody who is anybody is doing it. The Eynsford Hills being the rocket scientist that they are don’t realize that Higgins is not telling them the truth about Eliza and who she really is. They want to be accepted so much by him and his upper class friends that they believe him ...
- 20318: Alexander the Great
- ... Zeus was his father but it is probably just a myth. Aristotle taught Alexander in his early teen years. He stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy. In the summer of 336 BC, Alexander's father was assassinated, and Alexander ascended to the Macedonian throne. He found himself surrounded by enemies at home and threatened by civilizations all over. But Alexander disposed of quickly of all his enemies by ordering ... city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of the gods and the house of the Greed lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabi¬ tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of The¬ bes brought the other Greek states into instant submission. Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by crossing the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) with ... only lost 110 men! After this battle all the stated of Asia Minor submitted to Alexander. Continuing south, Alexander encountered the main Persian army, commanded by King Darius III, at Issus. The size of Darius's army was unknown; but ancient tradition said it contained about 500,000 men but now is considered a very big exag¬ geration. The Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, ended in a great victory ...
- 20319: Biography of William Shakespeare
- ... than he and already, she was pregnant. Six months later their daughter Susanna was born. They had twins, a boy Hamnet and a girl named Judith, two years later. There are no records of Shakespeare's life during the seven years that followed, ‘the lost years'. But by 1592 he was already an established actor and playwright in London. He joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594, working as a leading actor and dramatist. By 1599 this all-male company of experienced and talented players - no women appeared on the stage until the Restoration - had built their own theatre, the Globe. Its owners were seven member of the company, including Shakespeare himself, who shared in its profits. For the next decade the Globe, on the Thames at Bankside, was to be London's chief theatre, and the home of Shakespeare's work. Many of his greatest plays were written during these ten years, and were acted there. Both Queen Elizabeth, and after her James I, showed the ...
- 20320: Crucible Act 1 Summary
- ... calling of the devil. Abigail sticks to that story until it is forced out of her. Only then does she feel it a necessity to admit witchcraft was a part of their dance. She doesn't admit she is a witch, rather that Ruth and Tituba were. The Putnam's are the next to enter the play. Goody Putnam had lost seven children to birth and her only surviving daughter, Ruth, was not able to wake, just like Betty Parris. She was among those in the forest. Both Putnam's are quick to blame a witch for what has happened to Ruth and for what has happened to them in the past. Parris still fights the idea of witchcraft but is getting closer to ...
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