Essays on Paradoxical

René Magritte's oil on canvas painting The Son of Man (1964) has become a very popular visual text in a short period of time. The symbolism and unusual and enigmatic create a holistic picture of the semantic code that every viewer tries to interpret. Although the canvas contains a fairly small number of different details, as contrasted with Bosch or Rubens' paintings, yet there is a deep consisting of several layers meaning in it. The painting contains a number of visual symbols, which have already become some kind of the archetypes of modern society. The Son of Man (see ...

An example of something that was counter-intuitive

Some countries try to stimulate their economies by increasing the money supply. When people have a lot of money, you would expect them not to be poor since they can buy whatever they desire. Economists have tried to explain what happens in most countries where such policies are implemented. In most cases, it is found that people tend to become poorer despite the availability of money. The common intuition is that the economy will get stimulated, but economists describe this as a country being in a liquidity trap. People demand more than what is the productive capacity of their ...

The environmental issues have always been put in the “corner of political agenda” (Rushefsky, 215) not only in the United States but almost in all states all over the world. They have been a subject of underestimation in concurrence with other problems as energy sources and economics. Unfortunately the goals of the environmental policies often compete with each other and do not contribute to their implementation by the governments. For instance, the goal of security contradicts the goal of efficiency providing the sense of uncertainty and the possibility of different interpretations. The individual’s or entity’s liberty rights ...

Introduction

The notion of "nothing" is one of the most important and controversial concepts in the history of humankind. Its etymology is quite interesting for the consideration, as it can discover many different mysteries associated with the most important knowledge. In addition, the perception of this idea may be absolutely controversial, if one talks about it in the framework of religion and philosophy of the Western and the Eastern worlds. Nothing is everything, and at the same time, it is a lack of everything. This notion has a negative connotation; it denies everything to what it is opposed; moreover, it ...

It needs to be reckoned that the there is a difference between the sex of a person and the gender identity. In a society that is largely patriarchal in nature, the societal institutions come to impose the gender on the individual based on the sexual identity that the person is born with. However, this process of gender construction is not a natural phenomenon and can be described to be rather an imposition as per the parameters of patriarchy and its norms. As one goes through the story, All You Zombies, written by Robert A. Heinlein, one finds the exploration ...

Introduction

Everyone would like to live his or her life in the best way possible. This notion goes without saying, although there has been contemplation of the question since time immemorial. Which is the best possible kind of life to lead. As a result, philosopher and sages from all walks of life started devoting their lives to establishing the right answer. These philosophers, started writing books to demonstrate to the world their versions of how to live the good life. The two philosophers whose perceptions of living the best possible life are widely known are Plato and Lao Tzu. In ...

War and violence have been the one of the main cause of the downfall of many nations, states, empires, communities and other social institutions. There are numerous diversities in the way various groups of people look at certain situations and how their opponents look at the same issues. Several questions will be tackled such as how opposing interests lures to violence. Do individual perception and say the expectations of individuals lead to violence and war whenever they are misconceived? When does cognitive imbalance lure to war and how does it limit the growth of an economy as well as ...

Summary Article for PSY 140 2011

Summary review of Article: McTighe, S., M., Cowell, R. A., Winters, B. D., Bussey, T. J., & Saksida, L. M. (2010). Paradoxical false memory for objects after brain damage. Science, 330, 1408-1410. This article captures previous research work relating to brain damage and the previous experiments that have been done in as far as memory and brain damage relationship are concerned (McTighe et al., 2010). Vann and Albasser (2011) while citing the works of McTighe et al. (2010) defines the neural process as the mechanism that allows humans and animals to have episodic memories which are set in such a ...

Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, is a colonial narrative which discusses the brutality of the British colonialists in Africa. The plot follows the central protagonist, Charlie Marlow, as he transports ivory down the Congo River. The novel presents a number of paradoxes with regard to its presentation of imperialism. The central paradox to all imperialism is obviously the enrichment of the colonial state which is juxtaposed with the decreased amount of national liberties; when the British Empire assumed control over Africa, they ploughed money into the nation which arguably, helped to improve the African standard of living but equally, ...