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- 5821: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... love and peaceful protest could eliminate social injustice, Martin Luther King, Jr., became one of the outstanding black leaders in the United States. He aroused whites and blacks alike to protest racial discrimination, portray, and war. A champion of nonviolent resistance to oppress ion, he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan.15, 1929. His father, Martin, Sr., was ... headquarters in a Chicago, Ill., slum apartment. From this base he organized protests against the city's discrimination in housing and employment. King combined his civil-rights campaigns with a strong stand against the Vietnam War. He beIieved that the money and effort spent on war could be used to combat poverty and discrimination. He felt that he would be a hypocrite if he protested racial violence without also condemning the violence of war. Militant black leaders began to attack ...
- 5822: Nurture Plus Nature
- Nurture Plus Nature The classic debated topic of nurture versus nature has been, and always will be an argumentative subject in the scientific world. Some psychologists and scientists share the view that our behavioral aspects originate only from the environmental factors of our upbringing. While other opposing specialists argue the outlook in science that agrees with the naturalist idea ... the opposite views of Watson. Gesell theorized that "physical and motor growth and development is monitored and regulated by an automatic natural process"(Rathus p.13). Each of these ideas has persisted strongly in the world of psychology from the nineteenth century on into the twentieth, but now a new and united psychology world acknowledges both theories equally. It is imagined, today, that the explanation of our behavioral characteristics originates from both our heredity, and the environment in which we were raised. This report supports the theory that ...
- 5823: The Philosophy of Truth Making You Free
- ... Therefore the truth cannot make you free, because the truth can do more harm than good. Next is the statement, man is condemned to be free. That is that man is free to ruin the world. Everyone has the choice of doing something helpful or harmful in their everyday life. We are free to make others suffer and life a bit harder than it already is now. The freedom that runs ... restrict harmful behavior, the more rules are established to get in the way of enforcement. First, it is unthinkable that man can be condemned to be free. Man has made great efforts to make the world better by spreading freedom. The freedom to choose what is right for you is the most fundamental freedom that exists. Rather than being weighed down by restriction of what you can and cannot do with ... life is not decided for us. We have the freedom to make a mistake and the freedom of whether we want to learn from it. This can only free a society, not condemn it. A world does not become ruined by making those who enforce the law use a bit of human decency when dealing with those people whom have made bad decisions. Laws and regulations are made to stop ...
- 5824: Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene V
- ... all the more dramatic and tense. The audience knows what is going to happen and this scene clearly sets the path for the upcoming series of tragic mishaps to unfold at a rapid pace. The world of Romeo and Juliet is one which does not understand true love emotions. It is a world governed by tradition, desire for power, hate, revenge and fate. There is no room in this world for true love to exist for it is not accepted by the whole as a relevant motivation for the types of actions which Romeo and Juliet take. Romeo and Juliet's world of love ...
- 5825: Injustice To Kill A Mockingbir
- A world without stereotypes would mean a world without injustice. Yet, there is a long way to go until the world is rid of its injustices; for injustice has always been a part of society and will be for many years to come. Injustice, the unfair treatment of people through actions and words based on ...
- 5826: King Lear: Sense of Renewal
- ... this incident, as in the situations of Cordelia and Kent. In his blindness, Gloucester is able to experience a sense of rebirth in that he gains a new and much more clear insight of the world. Previously, he had denounced his son Edgar as villainous do to the intentional set up by Edmund, in an attempt to gain the inheritance. It is while becoming blind that Gloucester learns the truth of ... He sees the intensity of the situation and often does not want to be involved in society. In Act IV Scene I, Edgar's speech says that it is better to live in the real world and know ones relations, than it is to be false flattered or tricked, “Yet better thus, and known to be contemned/Than still contemned and flattered”(p 939 lines 1- 2). After saying these lines ... undermining all of this positive renewal and affirmation, is the disturbing fact of its illegitimacy. Lear endures an obvious sense of rebirth throughout King Lear. The rebirth of King Lear into the realities of the world is complemented by Gloucester who makes a moral decision to aid Lear, and find him amid the storm. It is in this storm that Lear is left to gradually become mad, do to the ...
- 5827: King Lear: Themes
- ... chaos. Although Lear is perceived as "a man more sinned against than sinning" (p.62), the treatment of the main characters encourages the reader to reflect on the presence or lack of justice in this world. The characters also vary in their inclination to view the world from either a fatalistic or moralistic point of view, depending on their beliefs about the presence or absence of a higher power. The theme of justice in relation to higher powers can be illustrated from ... sincerity of Cordelia's words. Thus, he puts his relationship with his daughters in jeopardy which results in a constant source of grief for King Lear. King Lear holds firm to his belief that the world is governed by the gods and in justice. Therefore he does not question the will of the gods in letting him suffer from his daughter's unkindness, but prays If it be you that ...
- 5828: The Stoics and Socrates
- ... physics, and mental science were not as yet distinguished. In the "Timaeus" (p. 30), one of Plato's writings, we find an account derived from Pythagorean sources of the origin of the soul. First the world-soul is created according to the laws of mathematical symmetry and musical harmony. It is composed of two elements, one an element of "sameness", corresponding to the universal and intelligible order of truth, and the other an element of distinction or "otherness", corresponding to the world of sensible and particular existences. The individual human soul is constructed on the same plan. The Stoics taught that all existence is material, and described the soul as "a breath pervading the body". They also ... soul became dominant. It's individuality and its strict separation with the body. In dominant thought prior to the introduction of Socratic ideas, the human soul was naught but a small part of a great world-soul; a soul that included the souls of every creature and every object upon the earth and in the universe. In this scenario the actions of a human were of no consequence directly to ...
- 5829: Hamlet: Growing Pains
- Hamlet: Growing Pains In the epic tragedy Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Prince Hamlet is entrapped in a world of evil that is not of his own creation. He must oppose this evil, which permeates his seemingly star-struck life from many angles. His dealings with his father's eerie death cause Hamlet to ... the room he needs to grow. The Hamlet that Shakespeare begins to develop in Act I is a typical mortal, bowed down by his human infirmities and by a disgust of the evils in a world which has led him to the brink of suicide. Hamlet voices his thoughts on the issue: ‘O that this too too solid flesh would melt...' (I. ii. 135). He is prevented from this drastic step ... Hamlet must determine whether the ghost speaks the truth, and to do so he must cope with theological issues. He must settle the moral issue of private revenge. He must learn to live in a world in which corruption could be as near as the person who gave birth to him. He also must control the human passions within him which are always threatening his plans. There are no more ...
- 5830: The Steam Engine
- ... the steam engine changed the face of the earth.” (Siegel, Preface) The steam engine was the principal power source during the British Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. The steam engine opened a whole new world to everyone. The steam engine maximized production, efficiency, reliability, minimized time, the amount of labor, and the usage of animals. The steam engine in all revolutionized the Eastern Hemisphere, mainly European society. What does revolutionize ... safe, reliable, and quick. (Sproule, 54) “Thanks to steam power, distance and time had lost their old links with wind, terrain, and hurrying horses’ hooves. To the dizzied onlookers, it must have seemed that the world was shrinking as they watched” (Sproule, 56) The industrial revolution that started in about 1770 in England revolutionized several aspects of life, as we know today. The reason to most of this revolutionized life can be credited to the steam engine. The steam engine was, and still is vital to the world today. What the steam engine did to the world is something everyone should know and care about. The steam engine changed the map of the world; it also changed the map of every country ...
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