Philisophical Essays

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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    focused on many different themes, including the relationship between light and dark, the ideas and importance of nature, the meaning of progress, the importance of detail, and the relationship between the mind and body.  He also developed many philisophical ideas concerning knowing yourself, living simply and deliberately, and seeking truth. In the first section of Walden entitled "Economy," Thoreau develops his ideas of living simply and deliberately.  He believed that "it is best to want

  • Philisophical Background of The Stranger

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    Camus’ The Stranger & Its Philosophical Background Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger, appealed to a younger European generation that was trying to find its view of life after the tragedies of WWII and Nazism. Though he eventually came to more mature notions of how a human being should act before his tragic death from a accident in 1960, Camus always believed in the ideas expressed in The Stranger that man must find his own meaning in life, separate from religious or political doctrine. While he

  • Essay on Satire - Voltaire's Candide as a Satirical Peice

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    Voltaire's Candide as a Satirical Peice The novel Candide  by Voltaire is a great peice of satire that makes fun of the way people in medievil times thought.  The book is about a man, Candide, and his misfortunes.  Throughout the book Candide has countless things go wrong in order to show that this is not "the best of all possible worlds"  Voltaire is trying to make a point through the exaggeration of the inhumanities of man in a humorous way. The story begins in a castle in Westphalia

  • Research Paper On Michael Faraday

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    I have decided to write about Michael Faraday, nicknamed the Truth Seeker. He was the third child of his parents James and Margaret Faraday. There were 4 children in their family all together. Michael was born in 1791. His parents were poor, his father, a blacksmith, was rendered unable to work, but he was very kind. His mother was also very kind and loving, but uneducated. Michael and his siblings were educated in reading, writing and arithmetic at a small school. Since the family was poor

  • The Most Dangerous Game Literary Analysis

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    gunshots, he arrives at a forest that leads into a small village. At the village rainsofrd meets general and is put in a so called game where he has to not be found by the general. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” we can see through a philisophical point of view what it means to be a human and if humans are better or worse than animals. This will be examined through symbolism and plot.

  • letter to birminham

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    that the battle against segregation has been long and hurtful. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was written with the eight clergymen as the main audience. He obtained their attention through logic, bibical references, and, philisophical references in the beginning of the letter. After obtaining their attenton king then added in the emotional cocequences of segregation. It was at that point when king was able to then gain the whole population as his audience. King wrote the letter

  • Why did Virgil Want to Burn The Aeneid?

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    Why did Virgil Want to Burn The Aeneid? Publius Vergilis Maro, known to us as Virgil, was born Oct 15, 70 BC in Northern Italy. Octavius, who had always been a friend of Virgil, became Emperor in 27 BC, adopting the name of Augustus. He made Virgil in a sense, a court poet, "although [Virgil] always retained his independence of thought and expression" (Milch 7). However it was the Emperor's initial idea, and not Virgil's own, for him to write the Aeneid. Virgil accepted the project although

  • The Company and The Nazi Party: The Lottery in Babylon

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    in 1941 by Jorge Luis Borges, The Lottery in Babylon expresses the writer's agnostic and anti-Nazi beliefs through the use of science fiction. Argentina, the home of Borges, supported the Axis powers during World War II. Borges, known for his philisophical writing rather than political writing (Laraway, 563); uses this science fiction short story to depict and question beliefs about religion as well as the use of religion as a tool by the empires of the world. The Lottery in Babylon is a science

  • Performance Art Research Paper

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    How have performance artists sought to utilise and reference the body within their work?  
Why have so many performance artists sought to specifically focus on the body as the subject of their work?     Performance art: how and why artists utilise, reference and focus on the body in their work.   200 words  x 11 paragraphs or equivalent       Introduction   This essay will explore how artists throughout time have utilised and refrecnced the body within performance art. Beginning with happenings

  • The Importance of Moderation in Greek Philosophy

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    modern civilizations and they pushed the boundaries of knowledge in several areas. However, some of the most celebrated Greek thinkers questioned the limits of knowledge and its implications. The story of Daedalus and Icarus reflects the Greek philisophical concept that restrictions should be placed on knowledge and this idea can be seen in several important woks of western literature. The Greek civilization was incredibly sophisticated, and they highly developed their government, economy, and

  • Prosopagnosia's Affect on Daily Life

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    Dale Purves. Vol. 105. National Academy of Sciences. Song, S. (2006). Do I Know You? Time. Weingarten, G. (2008). Losing Face. The Washington Post. Young, A., and Perrett, D. (1992). “Face Recognition Impairments [and Discussion].” Philisophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. (pp. 47-54) Vol. 335. Royal Society.

  • The Evolution of Leadership Over the Years

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    Aristotle's Theory of the Good Life: A Consideration of the Role of Luck in the Good Life and the Concept of Self-Sufficiency. Available: http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/haslip-aristotle.shtml. Last accessed 27 April, 2014. Cawthon, D (2002). Philisophical foundations of Leadership. New Jersey : Transaction Publishers. 45-48. Rost, J (n.d). Leadership fo the twenty-first century. West Westport: Praegar Publisher. 100-101. Malraux, A. (oct 16, 2012). 100 best quotes on leadership. Available: http://www

  • Poe: The King of Horror

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    “Why is a Raven like a writing desk?” Because Poe wrote on both of them of course! Poe is a rather fanatical character who likes to enhance his stories with things that will shock normal people. Well known as the King of Horror he weaves interesting tales that would make any normal person cringe, but he wasn’t a normal person anything but, but really. He wove experienced tales that came from the murderers mind, penned them on paper, and then published them for the whole world to read. This method