Essays on Classics

The Cave

Plato’s The Cave is an allegorical story which Socrates was telling one of his followers Glaucon to explain to him the difference between a philosopher who seeks wisdom and others who aim to remain in ignorance. In the story, Socrates tells of a group of people who have been chained facing an empty wall their entire lives. They are unable to look anywhere, except the wall. Right behind them is an assembly line of items that are constantly going by which are reflected onto the wall by the light which comes from the fire that is behind the ...

The British novelist, critic and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf is considered one of the most authentic writers of England in the period between the First and the Second World Wars. Being discontented with the novels on the basis of the well-known, actual and apparent, Woolf went on her own experimental way. Walking along this path, the writer discovered a more internal, subjective interpretation of life experience, which is reflected in all of her creative works. It is also worth mentioning about the impact of such famous people such as Henry James, Marcel Proust and James Joyce on her work. ...

The clothing industry is a sector that has drawn the attention of millions of investors across the world. The industry is very competitive, most people give in to the pressure and concentrate on other lines of business. To keep up with the pace. However, one has to be all around regarding the right prices, producing unique and environmentally friendly products, and using the right marketing channels. One such company that has managed to create sustainable products. The renowned Swedish fashion company H&M in recent times became the leading corporation in the fashion industry to issue a comprehensive report of ...

Most people have only heard of the rhetoric concepts of ethos, pathos, logos, Telos and Kairos, but they do not know what they mean. These terms are used mainly by Aristotle (book writer/author) in explaining how rhetoric functions. In ancient Greek, the works corresponded with rhetorical situations (Aristotle 33). The terms are used in advertising, especially in persuading the audience. The three common basic words used in persuading are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is referred as credible or the ethical appeal (Aristotle 89). Therefore, it means convincing people based on the character of the individual, for example, in ...

‘Oedipus the King’ was written by the Greek playwright Sophocles. Though a tragedy, like many from the Greek classics, it is laden with meaning that finds relevance even today in the modern world. The story contains a riddle about a murder and how it politically affects the state. The story, in a few words, is about the downfall of a brave warrior. This theme recurs in all cultures and can be found in almost any literature in the world. Since the theme is universal, folk cultures are replete with ballads to depict such tales. With the development of literature, ...

Why do the myths, works of art and literature history and artwork concerning the Trojan war furnish such a great opportunity to engage all the major questions of life and society and of the humanities The Trojan War which is a legendary conflict between the people of Troy and the Greeks is said to have been fought for about 10 years with great influence from the gods. The myths and the arts value the Trojan War because it shows that mortals are subject to the fate decided upon them by the gods. In this case, Zeus saw that the ...

In the mid-nineteenth century classical school of political economy was in crisis, as its theory was based on the interpretation of cost values and could explain some of the pressing problems of the economy. The weakest point of the classical school was that it was poorly focused on the subject-user, for which production takes place. The opinion of the classical school was confined to the manufacturer. An exit of the crisis was found by the marginalists. This direction of economic thought emerged in the last third of the XIX century in the center of this system is subject to ...

Kwame Nkrumah’s “Unite Now or Perish” Speech As a ‘Classic’ Text in International Relations

Introduction In his May 24, 1963, speech at the inauguration of the OAU Conference in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, doctor Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, gave a stirring speech with a clarion call “we must unite now or perish.” In his speech, he advocated for a strong Union of Independent African States to form one block of states. Nkrumah was convinced that it was only through unity that African states which were getting themselves slowly off the colonial hook would achieve development or progress. According to him, with such a unity, the continent would be able to stand up ...

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There has been a major push in the past few decades towards diversity in the literary canon, which was for a long while dominated by similar voices with similar origins. This push toward diversity has taken many forms: the integration of more female voices; the inclusion of more writers of color, regardless of their origin; and the inclusion of works of literature from non-Western cultures that have for too long been ignored. This last point has become known by the name multiculturalism, and though there is agreement throughout the academic community that this addition of previously un-acknowledged voices ...

The Institutional Affiliation

History and Growth 3 Marketing Mix 4 Marketing Strategy 6 Recommendations 7 Conclusion 8

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Fast Food Restaurant Analysis/Evaluations Assignment History and Growth Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the America's most famous fast food restaurants. It was founded in 1952 by Harland Sanders, a regular cook who had no idea his recipe is about to become popular across the country and abroad. The story tells that he scratched the process of preparing chicken on the door in his kitchen. No one can affirm that fact, however, there is no doubt that the restaurant has been demonstrating the finest traditions ...

Justice is something which underlies our own society – without it, indeed, some people posit that there can be no such thing as society. While many people state that justice is the same thing as the law, with Plato being the most visible proponent of this theory, others, such as Socrates, hold the two to be very different things. As we shall see below, while Socrates and Plato disagree on whether or not justice and law are the same, they both agree when it comes to addressing the role that justice takes in internal adherence to the values of the ...

Compare and Contrast Classic Horror Movies to the Type of Horror Movies We See Today

Compare and Contrast Classic Horror Movies to the Type of Horror Movies We See Today

Introduction

Horror movies encompass a genre of films that are geared towards eliciting and provoking an emotional response from viewers by preying on their fear of the unknown inclined on the primal emotions. The genre of films has been in existence for an extended period estimated to more than one century (Jones, 2005). Horror movies just like any other kind in the entertainment industry have changed and evolved over time. The paper focuses on the similarities and differences of the classical horror films vs. the ...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film and one of Walt Disney' s original classics. It is based on the play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J.M. Barrie. One of Walt Disney’s greatest financial successes, the film has often been criticized due to its unfavorable depiction of Native Americans. The film and the play upon which it is based, reflect American Societal norms at the time. The film has a lot to say about the psychology of the American male and female gender roles during the first half of the ...

In a video posted on July, 22 2016 comedian Mike Ward was fined $42,000 for using a disabled child as the butt of one of his jokes. ("Political Correctness Gone Too Far? - Canada.") While it is easy to agree that Ward deserved to be fined for what could be seen as an attack on a child and a disabled person. On the other side comedians argue that political correctness and thin skin have had a negative effect on doing their comedy. This is understandable as comedy has always been a way to look at the flaws of ...

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The Red-Headed League relates the case of the red-headed pawnbroker Wilson, who became a client of Sherlock Holmes after a chain of bizarre events occurred to him, leaving him baffled. The assistant of Mr. Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, who spends a lot of time in the cellar of his pawn shop, told him about the job advertisement that was hiring only males with red hair. The job was easy and well-paid and Mr. Wilson easily landed the job, as the color of hair satisfied the interviewer from the Red-Headed League. Mr. Wilson had to work only four hours a day ...

Socrates sets off his apology by accusing his accusers of lying about him. He holds that the accusations levelled against him have almost made him forget who he really is. He persuades the crowd to look deeper into the accusations levelled against him and to listen to that he has to say. Socrates begins by addressing the first lot of his accusers. He believes that he knows why there is so much enmity levelled against him. The main reason why Socrates is hated by the young and old is that he is wise and believed so ("The Apology Of ...

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“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is worst”—Aristotle The above statement made by Aristotle emphasizes the significance of law and justice in not only maintaining order, but also help to affirm the nobility and distinction of human beings. In Thrasymachus’s account of justice, the philosopher presents his argument that different individuals and different states perceive the concept of justice differently. For the purposes of this essay, I will be focusing on 377a and 344e, while paying special attention to 338d-339a, 338a-339d, and 343b-344c. ...

Introduction

Price was and remains the main tool that provides a proportional development of production and unity of interests of market relations. Basis for analyzing the structure of the economy, its challenges, opportunities and prospects for socio-economic development is based on the identification of the essential features of pricing, determining the structure of prices, price proportions. Successful economic development of any country or subject of a market economy depends on clear and effective functioning of the price, because they reflected the entirety of economic relations and the relationship between members of social production. This is possible if the mastery of ...

A supernatural power is an extraordinary ability that exists within the universe, which causes mysterious actions that cannot be explained in any way including science. Most ancient societies give stories that are associated with the supernatural powers. In these communities, some people had the powers and in turn used them to help the community to fight against the enemies. At other times, they used their powers to their advantage, for instance, to be favored in a paranormal position. The supernatural powers have been used to justify many actions such as warring within communities. In the Josephus, Antiquities of the ...

1. Introduction – Policing and representation of the community by the Police Over the years, there have been a lot of debates on the ethical role of police, especially looking at what is termed as police brutality or excesses. While in some countries certain ethnicities have accused the police of racial profiling and hatred, in other countries extreme force has been used to disperse protesters which were associated with slaughtering of college students. If anything, such incidents alienate the police force from the general community and often create a greater law and order problem throughout the nation which often result ...

The Apology chronicles a speech given by Socrates in response to charges brought against him in Athens Greece. Socrates was brought to trial around 399 BC for a myriad of charges. This hearing was recorded by his student Plato and is believed to be the most accurate, even though Xenophon's Memorabilia gives an account of the proceedings. The modern day connotation of the word apology, derived from the Greek word apologia is defined as “a regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure” (Oxford Dictionaries). Where this definition is concerned, and with careful analysis, one cannot refer to this hearing ...

Introduction

The essay will compare the skepticism of two ancient philosophers concerning popular religious, spiritual and superstitious beliefs. The first philosopher we will look at is Lucretius who was a well-educated Roman popularly known for his poem “On the Nature of Things.” The second philosopher is Wang Ch’ung who was born in China and studied at Loyang academy in the capital. He is said to have had remarkable memory and gained a lot of knowledge in Chinese literature. The two philosophers did not believe in the religious beliefs and came up with arguments to convince the masses that they ...

Sydney Opera House is an art center in Sydney city, Australia, located on Port Jackson, New South Wales. Danish architect Jorn Utzon made a design in 1957 – 1973. In 2003, for the project of Sydney’s Opera House, Jorn Utzon got the highest international architecture's honor – Pritzker Prize. In 1956 the government of New South Wales announced an open international design competition. For this competition a special independent jury was called. Broad specifications were provided by a competition brief, a cost limit and design parameters were not specified because the main purpose was to attract the most talented designers.  ...

Introduction

Virtue ethics are the theories that gives importance to our moral values that effect our mind and our character. It not only helps us to decide what is rightness or wrongness in our decision but also provides a guidance to be a good person that we wish to achieve .Virtual ethic was prevalent from the time old civilizations started. The philosophers always guided the rulers and the common people to follow the path of virtue ethics. Among the famous philosophers whose ethics are followed till date are Aristotle, father of Greek philosophy and Confucius, father of Chinese philosophy. Virtue ...

12 Angry Men is a film about a jury consisted of twelve men all of whom have their own system of beliefs which is hard to change. They are members of the community and are supposed to reach a verdict because they are jurymen. The legal system has flaws which is why the jurors need to decide about the guilt of the defendant. The defendant is an eighteen-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed and killed his father although there is reasonable doubt that he did not commit this crime. The juror Number Three is the man who looks for answers ...

Neoclassical art fundamentally depends on an agreement with a group of work that has achieved significant status. Neoclassical artists were comfortable and familiar with the classics and synthesized the traditions to a new form in each of their work as opposed to repeating work in lifeless reproductions (Palmer 2011, 16). Each neoclassical work selects some models among the various possible classics which best suit their intentions. Some of the major neoclassical arts are paintings by Jacques-Louis David and Gilbert Stuart. Various neoclassic and naturalist works demonstrate the blending of inspiration of the past with relevance to contemporary life. Among ...

This paper is to research the nature of documentary films, their history and theory. Documentary films are movies with close-to-reality plots. The themes of documentary films are often thoroughly chosen and arranged according to the unknown things of the world. The documentaries give the audience the lessons and warning about the peculiarities of the arrangement of different things. Many components of the films are analyzed through the impact they carry along with background voices and meaning of the scenes. These components are timbre, gender, texture, tone etc. They have connotative meanings similarly to those which modes of documentary films ...

Trans-World Flight Center, John F. Kennedy Airport (1956-1962)

Opened in 1962, the Trans World Flight Center of the John F. Kennedy Airport is one of the finest structures belonging to the Organic Modern Period that emerged in the mid-20th century.1 What makes this style truly remarkable was the fact that it is based on neo-futuristic designs as well as embodying strict adherence to geometrical proportions, the creation of functional space for the passengers, aircraft, employees, and maintaining harmonious interaction of the structure in its environment.2 The structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, a notable architect and one of the prolific figures that proposed designing the concept of ...

Intensified Research of Ridley Scott

Intensified Research on Ridley Scott There have only been a handful of filmmakers who had been able to stand out from the crowd of great film personalities that ever flourished in Hollywood. These filmmakers may not be the ones who made the most popular film in the world or the ones who made the most critically acclaimed or commercially successful films yet. Instead, these people are the pioneers that proved how significant movies can become for popular culture by influencing almost a couple of decades of filmmaking and/or lifestyle choices. Works of this handful of filmmakers, hailed as classics ...

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According to John Arend, Mike Benkert, Audrey deFilippis and Saretta Tillmaand, when the Commerzbank building opened its doors in 1997, the “53-story” edifice became the one of the “tallest” buildings located in Europe (1). Nevertheless, the edifice’s distinctiveness did not come from its height, but, rather, it came from the way in which it combined “form, inventiveness, and technical expertise” (Arend, Benkert, deFilippis, & Tillmaand 1). The design and construction of the Commerzbank saw the “[b]reaking away from the American model of deep-planned, air-conditioned structures” that have a “central service core” (Arend, Benkert, deFilippis, & ...

The Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest pieces of literature because of Chaucer’s story-telling techniques. He weaves together various stories and characters to create this memorable tale that continues to be studied and examined throughout the ages. However, some of the pilgrim’s tales are more engaging to the readers than other ones. For instance, the Knight’s Tale is filled with courtly love, jousting and war scenes, as well as the time honored knight’s code. It can be considered a tale of courtly love as well as an epic due to its writing style. Despite ...

History

Civil Right Act The fight for black civil rights is one that has been long and perilous, fought using different approaches by various activists. This paper seeks to look into the various approaches taken by different civil rights activists and how these approaches lead to the changes witnessed in history as well as today’s world. The first activist, Booker T Washington believed that African Americans should exploit what they had at hand thus the Phrase “casting down the buckets where they were” and this would help them find what they were searching for which was political, social and ...

Modern music and classical music: two different directions, two different fates, different range of listeners, different influences. These two genres of music are completely unlike each other. Nowadays people have their right to choose what they believe is best for them. Mostly, they are not influenced by the crowd when it comes to their personal preferences. Each person has his own tastes and it is normal. Someone is ready to listen to Mozart, Schubert and Bach for weeks, and someone finds himself in all day long listening to "Queen", "Nirvana" or Depeche Mode. But why do people refer to ...

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Introduction Honorable Members of the Platonian Jury, arts are of different categories. There are those which were invented for the sake of necessity. Some were created all for arts’ sake. Others had been made by artists and inventors whose primary aim was to uplift the spirit or to gain knowledge. Most importantly, there were those arts and inventions which not only increased the knowledge of the users but also made known the whole truth which made them free. It is in line with this that the subsequent arguments will prove to Your Honors of the Platonian Jury ...

In an article about hip hop music and its intersection with jazz, Jared Pauley writes that both genres have often flirted with each other. Over the years, hip hop artists have utilized the flavor of jazz music through sampling. In the 1980s to the mid-1990s, hip hop acts "took jazz samples to the top of the charts while others worked directly with respected jazz musicians. With the new millennium, this trend continued" (1). One artist that has continued the trend is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an emcee that has been on the scene for a number of years, ...

Helen Keller’s The Story of My life

They Story of My Life is an autobiography written by Helen Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree in arts. Her educational achievement is even more notorious considering that at the beginning of the twentieth century women had limited educational and work opportunities. At 22 and while still a student at Radcliffe College she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, which had appeared the year before in installment form in the Ladies Home Journal magazine.1 Helen Keller opened the doors to education and opportunity to many blind and disabled people not only in ...

Appreciating culture is one of the most difficult yet rewarding experiences. There are so many pieces of art across so many decades that one does not know where to start unless given some kind of guidance. I chose J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs in order to evaluate culture and its values. One of the greatest composers of all time was Johann Sebastian Bach. His music is greatly revered as some of the best even to this day. I listened to his ...

Carlo Scarpa was a prominent Italian architect previously active during the early twentieth century and one of the pioneers of modernism in architectural design. He was born in 1906 in the beautiful city of Venice, a place well-known for its old Renaissance architectures, majestic canals, and gondolas. By the time he was only two years of age, his entire family migrated to Vicenza, a county part situated on the northeastern part of the Italian peninsula. It was here that he spent much of his early childhood to teenage years; he also attended a local high school specializing in technical ...

Determining What is Good

A day before his execution, Socrates is visited in prison by his friend Crito to try and convince him to escape. Crito tells Socrates that if he is executed people will think that Crito could have helped Socrates if he was willing to give money but he did not care. Crito says that people will think he values money more than a friend’s life since no one will believe he tried to convince Socrates to escape, and he refused. Socrates tells Critos that the opinions of many people do not matter. Socrates says that the only the only ...

Modern theater – is a very complex and multifaceted phenomenon. A variety of theaters can now meet the needs of virtually any intellectual and social strata of society. Such theatrical genre as musical combines the “high” and “low” culture, reflected the public sentiment shades of different social strata, combined many elements of modern theater, and at the same time updated the classics, making it popular in a wide viewers environment. This is just one of the processes of attracting the unprepared viewer to theater arts. Important role in this also is played by the media. Following the ideology of postmodernism ...

Short stories are some of the literature read mostly by people because they are interesting and considered more educative to young and old generation (Gioia 7). Many scholars wrote short stories in the twentieth century, and one of them was Shirley Jackson, who wrote The Lottery. The Lottery is among the most favorite short stories in the History of American Literature. As narrated by Cummings (3) he explains that the function took place between 10 am and noon on June 27th in a small village with a population of only three hundred villagers. The event took place on a ...

Introduction

Life is a pause and no one knows of the time or place of the next action. No one knows what tomorrow will bring, the past however is full of memories that shape the person that we are today. People look at their state I life and react as one of two ways, as in the book they are not pleased with their state in life or the other alternative is to be completely happy with your life as it is now. Pause is powerful beyond imagination as if a shuffle playlist keeps haunting you. Because of the uncertainties, ...