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Philosophy

Although the utility of so extensive a doubt is not readily apparent, nevertheless its greatest utility lies in freeing us of all prejudices. The first mediation that Rene Descartes encounters is the mediation on what can be considered and called into doubt. He explains how some years back he had been struck the shocking revelation on how many false things he had believed and were false. He establishes the connection between what the mind believes and their true nature. He explains that we should not completely believe in whatever that comes across our mind or believe on those who deceive ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a contradiction of people who are authentic such as Sybil and Henry and those who are hiding their true selves behind deceptions, like Dorian and Basil. This paper will look at the use of “smoke and mirrors” in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. “Smoke and Mirrors” is a metaphor that refers to the hiding of truth behind a veil of deception. This is a concept that is popular in Victorian Literature and helps to drive the plot as the conflict is often times essential to the advancement of the storyline.
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Gone With The Wind is a movie that was released in the year 1939, this movie has a novel version with the same name written by Margaret Mitchell that came prior the movie release. The story in this movie shadows the life of a rich man’s daughter (Scarlett O'Hara) who owns a plantation at Georgia, in essence the movie depicts or rather shows the struggles and sufferings the girl goes through in the antebellum and antibellum South. As the movie proceeds, the viewer sees Scarlett transform from an ordinary girl to an independent woman while experiencing the pre-war lifestyle of the south ...

Composed by Kate Chopin a short story Désirée’s Baby presents passage from life of a girl without a name who finds her love and her bitter end. Désirée was found by Valmondé a wealthy and aristocratic family from the antebellum South who adopts her despite that fact that Monsieur and Madame Valmondé do not know girl`s origin. She is loved and admired not only by her new parents but also by Armand Aubigny a representative of another influential and wealthy Creole family in Louisiana. It seems that Désirée is surrounded by ...

Introduction: Depiction of the ‘divine’ in religion

The depiction of the divine in a religion often indicates the true belief and rationale that the religion wants to propagate to its followers and other believers. Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world and has a stringent affinity towards the preservation and conservation of ecological and environmental elements. This notion is also evident in the depiction of the divine in all the texts and visuals related to the Hinduism. The fundamental principle on which the depiction of divinity in Hinduism depends upon is that the divine prevails in all the aspects of nature and in ...

For all public speakers and leaders of the masses rhetoric stands out as perhaps the most important tool or rather asset as far as interaction with the masses is concerned. Rhetoric represents the capability and capacity of a public speaker to inform, motivate or even persuade a given audience in a given specific situation. Rhetoric refers to the practice of effective and accurate, to pin point proportions, writing and speaking. Rhetoric is in as few words as possible the art of persuasion, and a very delicate one at that. The onset of rhetoric ass a philosophical concept and a tangible social practice can be traced ...

Gojira is a science fiction movie based on Japanese culture that was produced and directed by Toho and Ishirō Honda respectively (Tsutsui and Michiko 25). With the help of special effects specialist Eiji Tsuburaya, the director, and the producer of this film were able to exemplify the themes and consequently the main objective of this film (Johnston et. Al 12). Apparently, issues that are epitomized in the film predominantly resonate with the subjects related to the post-war experiences the Japanese people underwent particularly after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In addition, this film makes apparent the role of America ...

Response Paper

The video entitled Freedom Riders: Non-Violent Civil Right Movement (History Documentary), present the true nature of bravery and confidence that was instilled in the activists who fought for civil rights though nonviolent demonstrations. These activists fought against racial and ethnic inequality that was predominant in most parts of United States. In essence, majority of the civil rights activists involved in this protest are the minority no whites, particularly the blacks who had long been suppressed and undermined through discriminatory laws and segregation. Through these laws, most of them are alienated from high-rank jobs, prevented from accessing to quality education ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of “The Great Gatsby”, develops his characters in such a way that that they seem to contradict each other’s personality traits. Such a set up essentially allows the readers of the novel to notice and understand these characters in an almost equal magnitude. The best depiction in this set up is brought put in the two major characters in the novel, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. The two characters’ traits are hugely contradictory of each other. On one hand, Nick Carraway is a character who exhibits great development throughout the story while Jay Gatsby is a man ...

Malevolent characters are some of the most impactful and remembered characters in stories both classical and modern. They are the characters most disturbed, most though about, and most revealing. They are almost the antithesis of the main characters, exploiting their weaknesses and using them to their advantages. What the malevolent characters seek is control. In both of the plays “Othello” and “A Doll’s House” there is one character who exceeds and being malevolent. Iago and Krostad are both characters who manipulate other people in play in order to play to their advantage, as well as exposing the protagonists ...

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There are so many different settings and places throughout this novel that it is almost impossible to pinpoint just one. However, it is my opinion that the most important scene which portrays the theme of manipulation is the meeting of Valentine and Ender at Lake Brandt on earth. Manipulation is a very important theme within the text, Ender’s Game, since examples of manipulation are portrayed in at least two to three scenes of every chapter. Ender has just been transferred out of Battle School in record time, and is about to be ...

Introduction

There is genuine merit in the argument that it is in human nature to be cruel to others. This supposition is favored by the responses elicited by the various subjects in experiments conducted by Milgram and by Darley and Latane. In Milgram’s experiments, subjects were instructed to increasingly inflict electric shock pain on another human every time they failed to answer a question correctly (Milgram 60). Almost all the subjects obeyed, seemingly to maintain social etiquette or avoid disapproval from the authority figure of the instructor. In Darley and Latane, several experiments showed that people are less likely to ...

Introduction

This historical account of the Japanese internment at Manzanar traces its genesis to the World War II. The war had been raging in Europe for three years, Adolf Hitler hoping to capitalize on his war machinery to give the Axis victory. All this while, public opinion about a direct involvement of the US in the war is divided. Japan, hoping to assert its significance in global politics and to advance a claim in the Far East; joins the Axis. The US is alarmed, but an ongoing negotiation with Japanese authorities is an assurance that war is not on the cards just ...

"For the New Intellectual" writing, Rand postulates the desirability of the identity and actualization of the soul through individualism versus collectivism. This has nothing to do with politics but remains personal, subjective, and as connected to a psychological process of each person. She believed human existence as a collective limited life experience because most people live through the connectivity to one another collectively. Thus, Rand states in "For the New Intellectual" the psychological processes connected to the development of the human soul connected with individualism versus that of collectivism as best fitting a laissez-faire capitalism-based society.
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Abstract

Philosophy can be considered as a kind of social science, e.g. sociology or psychology, because early on philosophy was mainly concerned with telling the best means to live and put the society in order. In this document, we will come across life and describe it in an individual’s own perspective. We will try to learn and understand on epistemology so as to have a clear understanding of how we know anything. The paper will also look at the benefits and meaning of life at our own life perspective so as to have a good image of life. In addition, the paper ...