Essays on Ignorant

Introduction of Topic

Burden of Deep Vein Thrombosis Deep vein thrombosis is a severe preventable cause of morbidity-mortality around the globe. This disease is so silent hence difficult in diagnosing it and so it is seen as a significant challenge regarding diagnosis. The Little level of clinical suspicion and higher incidence and fatality makes deep vein thrombosis a grave concern to the world (Jaff, et al, 2011). In the United States, 1 to 2 in every 1,000 people is likely to be affect by deep vein thrombosis annually. There is also an estimation that up to 100,000 Americans scampers to ...

Alcibiades, a young man who wants to enter politics, enters a dialogue with Socrates about the qualities of a good political leader. While he believes that his education and experiential knowledge are enough to make him a good politician, Socrates proves to him that he needs to learn about the true meaning of abstract and controversial concepts, such as justice or goodness before being able to counsel others about it. In particular, Socrates shows young Alcibiades that he does not have self-knowledge and persuades Alcibiades that a man who wants to enter politics first needs sufficient self- knowledge in ...

Life back home was nothing out of the ordinary except the few occasions I was out with my family or friends on an adventure trip. It however took a turn when I landed in America and my identity was no longer a sibling, friend or a kid. I was looked upon only as a Muslim. My personal identity as a student or as an individual did not matter. Even though I dressed like a normal American, I was still shouted at and verbally abused owing to my name and my habit of going to the mosque. When I was ...

Paul Fryes discusses how the American politicians ignore the problems of the Black people as one of the largest disadvantaged groups in the world and how the Black people cannot create a response to the ignorant politicians by developing a political strategy as a group of all Black voters. As known, political parties give attention to the groups providing a financial contribution to their campaigns, the size of voters in the group, and loyalty of voters in the group. The main aim is to collect the highest possible financial support and collect most of the votes for politicians. The ...

“Madeinusa” is a film about a naive teenager who lives in a small, anonymous village with her sister and father. The film centers on two characters, Salvador, a grungy backpacker and the other is Madeinusa, who is considered a chosen girl and her father is unusually attracted to her. The plot is set against a bizarre festival, and the two main characters fall in love. The outsider from Lima is disliked by the local who fear that he will spoil the fun of their festival while Madeinusa sees an escape through him. What follows are a series of events ...

The rhetorical situation for Fredrick Douglass in his essay “learning to read” was that he wasn’t educated because in his times, slaves weren’t suppose to learn to read and write while the social rhetorical situation in my writing was that I couldn’t be educated because my mother couldn’t afford to send me to school. My rhetorical situation differs from that of the authors in the way that I wasn’t enforced into my situation by any enslavers. The author’s writing persuades the reader to empathize with the slaves while my writing persuades the readers ...

Observation Sheet

Researcher: NAME Confederate: Steven (friend) Observational time period: approximately 35 minutes Norm Broken: reading an erotic magazine in a public transport Page #_________ Assumptions – hypothesis – research question “Norms serve a basic human social function, helping us distinguish who is in the group and who is an outsider” (Wang). Because norm breaking behavior threatens the society, it was assumed that during the observation and because of its’ sexual content, there would be several people, who would be willing to express their anger. The general mass was expected to keep silent, but to initiate visible responses; and approximately 10% of the ...

Body fitness is essential to the welfare of one’s health. In fact, lack thereof compromises one’s medical status, and this could lead to the development of complications such as high blood pressure and obesity. As such, many individuals have resolved to take measures aimed at enhancing their body fitness through natural bodybuilding strategies. However, the utilization of steroids is a universal preference among sportsmen and people who want to improve their fitness. Due to the marketing strategies employed by the steroid manufacturing companies, most people are unaware of the adverse side effects these drugs cause on their ...

Literature review: Nora Helmer in the play Dollhouse by Henrik Ibsen

Nora Helmer is one if not the most interesting character in the three-act play prose written by the great writer Henrik Ibsen. Many of the literally critics me included argue that such an immature, incredibly ignorant person can never have attained the kind of understanding or the revolutionary, amazing qualities that are represented by Nora by the time she leaves her home. While analyzing the play I noticed the creative and careful construction of the character Nora take place in the play. Ibsen has created Nora in such a way that her far sightedness and show of independence can ...

Journalism is an essential part of the society. It is entrusted with provision of information to the society, synthesizing the same information and presenting it in a comprehensive way that the members of the society can understand. Journalism also serves to investigate and find the root of an occurrence, its instigators as we as its possible repercussions in the society (Deuze, 2005). More often than not, the media is responsible for bringing up stories that stir debates among the masses. This article seeks to determine the role of journalism in the society as well as its impacts- both positive ...

Homer Jay Simpson is one of the most famous cartoon characters and very much liked by children and adults throughout the world. Children of every age are fans of Mr. Simpson and they can’t wait to see him on television. Homer Simpson is not a real life character, but a fictional cartoon character who appears in the series The Simpsons. On the television show, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, ...

Abstract

White privilege is a hidden aspect of American life that is often discussed and identified, but it still gets avoided by the white people. White privilege in prevalent in the American society; and racial minorities such as African Americans experience its negative aspects. There are many examples of white privilege that has been provided and discussed with examples. Also, the article also covers the impact white privilege has on the society and how it limits the position of African Americans in the society. The worst part of white privilege is that even though many whites have enjoyed its benefits, ...

Understanding of Miracles

Introduction A miracle is defined as an event that is not explicable by the scientific or natural laws. The event can be associated with the supernatural being God or gods of a certain society, a saint, magic, miracle worker, or a religious front-runner. A miracle is utilized to depict the beneficial happening, which is statistically improbable, but do not contradict the rules of nature, like enduring a natural disaster or a simple incident, with no concern of its possibility such as birth.

Existence of God

The existence of God is a major issue to the Catholics and they relate him to the ...

The uniform was one of the methods through which fashion was applied in the men’s bodies. This happened, especially during the World War II. Battle prejudiced the guys’ physiques were socially shaped by the substantial forces that profoundly affected not only the texture of the body and row shape, but also the castigations applied machismo and the principles applied to the body. The uniforms were able to outline the men’s body in that, those that were physically fit, others personnel could admire their hard effort they inflicted to look that amazing. The outfits clung onto their bodies ...

Historically, one of the issues that the United States has been accused of is having a lack of cultural identity that extends beyond the hamburger. Actually, the irony in that sentence is that the hamburger is not even American, which further proves this argument. What these two sentences are attempting to say is that there is very little that the United States does have compared to nations in Europe and other parts of the world that have longer histories that the Untied States does. This is not to say that the United States will not develop this over time; ...

Jane Doe

Abstract In the documentary film, “Fed Up,” there is a frightening look inside America’s health crisis involving obesity. The lack of real food in American diets is to blame. The entities behind creating this problem are the big corporations in America that manufacture these foods. These “foods” are processed foods, with high sugar content that can lead to numerous health problems including heart disease and diabetes. Advertisers are marketing processed foods made of high sugar content to young children and putting sugar into the formulas to get them while they’re young. They have people hooked on sugar, ...

1. Introduction National interests and sovereignty play very important role in the international relations. The paper will present the arguments for and against that humanitarian intervention as “national interest”, it will examine if it violates the concept of the state sovereignty and which international organization theory supports which arguments. Those arguments will be presented based on the Rwanda case. The research questions for the paper are: should state forfeit sovereignty if they fail to stop engaging in human rights abuses; who has the right to intervene; are organizations that indorse intervention able to carry out the mission; and does ...

If the political candidates in the current electoral fray were to be believed, especially from those on the right, the country is in the throes of an immigrant and religious takeover. All the social evils of the country are attributed to the outsiders. The lack of jobs, security and growth are all blames on the ‘others’. If we were to take their words to be the truth and also be swayed by our own biases we would end up being narrow minded individuals filled with hatred for things and people about whom we do not really know much about. ...

Van Helsing as a Protector: The Role of the Vampire Hunter the Present-Day Vampire Culture

Abstract The vampire culture grew out of the Gothic genre and became extremely popular throughout the world. The first and most famous representative of the vampire cast is Dracula, who first appeared as a protagonist in Bram Stocker’s book with the same name. Dracula was created as a predator that hid within his threatening castle, and attacked helpless women. The author also introduced Van Helsing, the hero who acted as a protector of women and fought to destroy the monster. However, Van Helsing remained a less popular and well-known character as compared to the monster he hunted. In ...

Islamophobia

Conclusion and Recommendations10 Work Cited .11 Islamophobia

Introduction

Targeting a certain population or set of people in the world and stereotyping them and discriminating against them is not a new phenomenon as it has been around since a long time. People and nations that have been in power, always find a way to maintain their hegemony and keep their interests and benefits alive. In the same way, different people, creeds, nations and ethnicities have been discriminated against in light of the prejudices harbored by influential people. These can spread and affect the views of other people in the same way ...

Hoff praises Pooh as the epitome of the Uncarved Block, a state of being in one’s most natural state, or simplicity. An individual is able to appreciate life and bring out one’s own natural power more while in this state; simply because one is not contaminated by knowledge which Hoff argues only seeks to confuse people. Hoff also ridicules scholars who seek to find answers to principles that disrupt the natural order of things. This disruption has caused more questions instead, and has further digressed people away from the right way. Hoff argues that scholars only seek ...

This memo offers an overview of the impact of outsourcing the internal audit function by most corporations.

Impacts of outsourcing internal audit function INTRODUCTION The last decade has been characterized by the growth of accounting firms’ consulting and assurance practices by over 20% per annum. Albeit most of the large corporations have sold their consulting divisions, one of the fastest growing assurance services for the accounting firms has been internal audit outsourcing (Swinkels 64). The Institute of Internal Auditors believes that the revenues that an audit firm generates from internal audit services is estimated to be up to 10 times that of the annual financial statements audits (Cascarino 195).

POSITIVE IMPACTS

For the organization, the idea of outsourcing ...

Living in the modern world with its deftly organized media, well-developed system of informational sources and media-transportation mechanism makes everyone excessively dependent on media and all the items designed to provide access thereto (like the internet, television, the radio and so on). However the author of the book “The bias of media” Harold Adams Innis delivers a brand new look upon media and information therein. The noted political economist looks upon media as a key pillar for cultural stability and longevity of societies. In particular, the idea of the media two-dimensional existence is worthy of attention. Innis convincingly claims ...

History is an important subject because, as Loewen puts it, “it is about us” (Loewen). We as a nation must study our past in order to understand how far our society has come, as well as learn about the future. They say that people make mistakes so that others can learn from them, and so in this regard we must learn about the examples of our ancestors and figure out our own choices based on the course of history. History has taught us about the negative consequences of certain actions, such as racism or murder, and has prevented us ...

Femicide in the U.S. and Mexico Femicide in the U.S. and Mexico This paper seeks to focus on femicide and physical violence against women in both the US and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Femicide is the act of murdering women for the simple reason that they are of female gender (Koutsoyannis, 2011). Essentially, gender inequality is one of the most long-lived social, political, and economic struggles globally. The idea that women are lesser beings just because they are females is a primitive perspective in the contemporary world where liberty and civil rights have now come of age. As such, ...

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Abstract

Many people never had the opportunity to travel. Some refuse to travel and prefers to remain ignorant of other cultures and societies. Those who do travel can sometimes still lead very ignorant lives because they refuse to accept the reality of other cultures or societies. However, some travelers can accept the reality of foreign societies and can not only immerse themselves in the foreign culture but also educate others about what they had experience. Through traveling, I was able to learn about the social issues of other countries firsthand. I also learned that many cultures have been ...

Introduction

- Impact of Literature on Racism

- The world has changed a lot as compared to the earlier times, but still we often find people to be distinguishing them on the basis of race and color. We all know about how the blacks were treated as slaves by the whites. On the other hand, there have been several poems and other literature written on racism and trauma. The journey of life for any individual becomes difficult once they are affected with racism (Peters 50).

- Racism and evolution that began

- Racism has been prevailing since ages, and due to ...

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people,” said Mahatma Gandhi. It is the culture of a people that gives them a sense of belonging, identity and pride of who they are. Culture is an integral part of a people and cannot be separated from them. Being passed from one generation to another, culture is indelible in the hearts and souls of its perpetrators. The centrality of culture has a number of effects in shaping the opinion, style and character of a people. It is to this effect that various groups of people have their own way of ...

As a prominent orator, author and abolitionist in (1818-95) Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He soon went on to become a world renowned anti-slavery activist at the age of 20 when he managed to escape from slavery. As well as classics of American autobiography, Douglass’s three autobiographies are also seen as important works of the slave narrative tradition. From his attacks on Jim Crow and lynching in the 1890s, and earlier on in the 1840s his abolition activities, Douglass’s work as a reformer had a wide range.

Douglass achieved fame internationally as a writer and a persuasive and inspiring speaker in the 16 ...

Councilman Kraft James who is also the chairman of the judicial and legislative investigations committee has been a frustrated man since 2008. His frustrations accrue to lack of progress in Baltimore despite the many attempts, numerous meetings and set legislature (Tim par3).Tim Wheeler, an environmental reporter in Chesapeake bay, uses Kraft’s James frustrations to describe the real situation in the city. The city has officially been declared as ‘harbor impaired’ by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

If you have not been around the city’s waterfront lately, then you would not know what I’m talking about. ...

What need theory would explain why Samuel Gibson was unhappy despite his high income?

Gibson’s unhappiness can best be explained by the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory. According to Abraham Maslow, human beings can be categorized in different classes depending on the various desires in their lives. The categories can be classified into groupings and could necessarily be ranked in a hierarchy coming up with a hierarchy of needs. In this regard, human beings are usually are in pursuit of various needs. The reception of a particular class of needs preempt the need for the next category. Ordinarily, at the ...

A. At-risk behaviors, and why each behavior is problematic.

(i) As a tenth grader, the student is faced with an at-risk behavior of low performance. This can be said to develop from the refusal to participate in class, sleeping, and defacing learning material. This behavior may contribute to lack of interest in studies leading to dropping out of school. As a teacher, the first point would be to determine why the student does not participate in class. Is it because is shy, does not know, or is just ignorant about it? From an analysis of his overall character, the student seems ignorant on education. He lacks interest in learning, and this ...

A particular feature of the literature is that it can send the author’s message in various ways and reach a target reader out of the crowd of ignorant ones. This can be often achieved through the hidden meaning inside a literary work or through irony, satire and caricature of the reality described. The aim of the present work is to compare and contrast Anton Chekhov’s play “The Proposal” and Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”. In this context, the comparison will be conducted in the framework of the depicting of the same theme of gender ...

Keys Ideas by Aristotle

The idea of causality, Aristotle “Four causes” theory shows us the different reasons for the existence of something. The four causes allow us to define what material cause is, the efficient cause, formal cause (essence) and final cause (purpose). On the subject of primitive soul, Aristotle imagines the relation of the body to reproduction and nutrition (Green, 2005). In addition, he puts his focus on the immense field of the sensitive soul. Scientists in shaping their explanations about the origin of the universe apply this theory. On the contrary, theologians apply the same theory in justification of God ...

Dick Gregory is one of the most well-known black comedians and social rights activist who became popular because of his biting humor in criticizing racial prejudice. He is also a nutrition guru and a health entrepreneur advocating change of diet as a catalyst of better living. “Born into poverty, a circumstance he frequently used as the basis for his humor, Dick Gregory attended Southern Illinois University, where he ran track and was the University’s most outstanding athlete in 1953.” (Clovis 539) Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory began his career in the national comedy scene during the year 1961 in The Playboy Club in ...

Reality involves the manner in which events occur in a practical scenario. Fiction incorporates perception of occurrences without considering their ability to take place in the manner explained. Imperatively, these explanations can merit constituting the broader aspect of opinions. In literature world, the determination of an explanation as being truth or fiction depends on its comparison with the happenings in the real world scenarios. In a given piece, the involvement of fiction focuses on the purpose of emphasis as well as the depiction of extremes within the boundaries of possibilities in each situation. The reality is contrary to the fictional aspect ...

Not so long ago, I went to the book store and happened to pick up “The Best American Short Stories 1982” since I had always been a fan of John Gardner. I was excited to read the stories in the book, but I was surprised to learn that it contained short stories from several authors. The one that particularly stood out was Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral.” Carver had apparently been longing for critical acclaim for quite some time, which he received after his collection containing this story was published. Considering the remarkable characters, dialogue, plot, and the theme of Carver’ ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Presidents Compared: Reagan and Obama A Chicago tribune article published in the year 2011 states that Obama and Reagan are differently similar. Both these Presidents, though Reagan took office nearly three decades before Obama, have many remarkable similarities. They both came in when the country faced a severe economic crisis, and they both inherited wars- Obama the war on terror; Reagan the cold war & Iranian hostage crisis. They both were expected to do miracles both in the economic and war front, and when they didn’t meet expectations, many political observers were disappointed. Though both of them were ...

Critical Analysis of the Readings: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Critical analysis of the reading Lia Lee and her family originated from the Hmong tribe, which is an ethnic group located in China and Laos. The Lee family was among a number of families that were displaced in the height of the Vietnam War. After her epilepsy diagnosis, Lia Lee found her herself in the middle of a cultural misunderstanding between her family and doctor events which led to them destroying her brain (Fadiman 1997). The book does not discuss mainly Lia’s illness as much as it discusses the western and cultural medicine and how each group viewed illnesses ...

Sex and sexuality education is an important part of growing-up, and every adolescent should be engaged in timely conversations on the topic, otherwise he or she may face the danger of staying ignorant or misinformed. The hazard lies not only in the possible disappointments in oneself and a partner, which may cause the establishment of patterns of dysfunctional relationships, but also in becoming susceptible to serious problems, among which are the unplanned teenage pregnancy, problems with social adaptation, acquired mental disorders, sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDs and many others. While some schools give their students superficial knowledge about sex and ...

The world today is surrounded by the many resources of information that are dedicated to increase the knowledge of individuals with regards particular matters that they may want to know of. The internet has been among the many portals where such presentation and exchange of information occurs. Relatively, through the years, the internet has been realized to have a great impact on how young children learn. However, not everything that the internet offers could be considered helpful. One particular harm that it presents to children of young ages is the overflowing information about adult-defined topics including sex and relationships (Kaplan, ...

Sector 1: Analysis on Real Estate

The survey ha 190 questionnaires issued to the people in real estate and the result findings shows that only a few women were interested real estate as men were leading with 60%. More of the surveyed people were Arabs with the majority of staff being youths. Those in the real estate seem to have been schooled properly as about 70% are graduates and above. The real estate seem to be doing well as the most people are paid above 5000diarham. A larger percent of 70% were not informed about the social environment accounting resulting to over 65% of the people ...

Cyber-hate

Cyber-hate is an offence of propagating hate majorly through the internet. It is rampant in the 21st century due availability of devices which enable access to the internet such as smartphones, tablets and computers. Cybercrime has become such a thorny issue that combating it has become the main agenda of many a government. The social websites were also invented in the 21st century. Cyber-hate is so important a topic since it addresses the issues at stake and pertinent to the human race, the shortcomings that come with them and probably considers recommendations for combat of such vices. Cyber-hate can cause trauma ...

INTRODUCTION

When most people think of Ancient Rome, they imagine great marble statues, sky-soaring columns, and men and women dressed in draped togas. However, there is one name that is eternally synonymous with this Ancient era, Julius Caesar, the great and incredibly powerful ruler, whose reign would end with his assassination, by his friend and peers. Most people’s interpretation of Julius Caesar comes not from history, but from the imagination of the William Shakespeare, in 1599, within the pages of his play titled, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” (Layson and Zurcher 1). Many people see this play as a pointedly ...

In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire outlines his concept of banking education: the notion that, ‘knowledge is a gift bestowed by those (teachers) who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those (students) whom they consider to know nothing. (2014, p.2) To Freire, banking education is problematic as it, ‘negates education as a process of enquiry,’ (2014, p.2) through the assumption that each student is completely ignorant. He asserts that: ‘Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students’ (Freire, 2014, p. 3) In the following essay I ...

Graham Greene’s novel, The Quiet American explores themes such as love, politics, ideals and engagement through the characters both major and minor. The three major characters in the novel, Pyle, Fowler and Phuong are in a way representative of their countries at that time. The way each looks at the other brings out the basic conflict between them. Pyle stands for everything that is the idealistic New America, heroic, nosey with a savior mentality that wants to usher in democracy in countries that do not really welcome it. Fowler, the ageing journalist is a character that is symptomatic of the ...

English:

Never let you go is a book by Kazoo Ishiguro. It is based on a narration by one of the characters in her life presently as well as that of her past. It dwells upon the aspect of organ harvesting from clones developed and raised in England. The narrator is Kathy, who cares for the donors. She is aged thirty-one years at the time and has been a carer for twelve years. However, after a few months she will become a donor herself. She is exquisite at her job, and this keeps her working for a longer time, unlike other carers. However, the job becomes ...

Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" is a short story about the dangers of technology, and the necessity of ecological consciousness. The short story uses powerful imagery and metaphors to drive home its central points of the consequences of mankind's meddling with nature. The leitmotif of the short story, the so-called butterfly effect, leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the story's meaning -- as well as mankind's vain and ignorant struggle to conquer his environment, at any cost. The butterfly effect was first discovered in 1961 by meteorologist and mathematician, Konrad Lorenz. As a part of a weather prediction, Lorenz ...

Censorship would be defined as the accepted means of controlling information that would have otherwise been circulated to the general public. It was practiced under the explanation that there were fundamental institutions that needed filtered information. Protection of information that were deemed to be unfit for consumption by all and sundry were always filtered under the pretense of morality. It was achieved by examining information either in newspapers, audio systems, audio visual machines, films and even movies. Those ideas found in media to be offensive were either altered of deleted altogether so that the ugly parts did not reach ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the answers to specific questions. The specific questions derive from the reading of four (4) specific dialogues of Plato that are included in the first volume of his dialogues. The essay is structured in such a way that each answer to each one of the questions covers the main thematic core of each question. The four (4) dialogues used as the starting point of the following questions are Ion, Menon, Apology and Crito. - In Ion, Ion claims that his skill at reciting and explaining Homer’s Iliad and ...

Plato’s primary argument for Socrates to defend himself against accusations of disrespect of the gods, as well as Athenian youth corruption, is that Socrates’ critics are merely scared of him because they do not truly comprehend what he is arguing. The lack of substantive criticism of his work is the chief means by which Socrates seeks to discredit his own opponents. Socrates’ implementation of this defense is quite strong, as his own ability to intellectualize his material makes his opponents look foolish. However, there are still some missteps that prevent it from being a perfect defense, such as the overbearing ...

Implicit in any writer’s work are the ideologies of the culture under which the writer was raised. American culture has values, which place emphasis on the individual. In an essay like Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” the self-sufficiency is the topic explored. In other essays, like Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Changes: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” this individual autonomy from groups is an assumption that Gladwell assumes the audience would share with him when he analyzes the impact of social media on identity and it’s limitations in driving individuals to action. William F. Buckley ...

Malcom X was an African American Muslim male who converted to the Muslim faith later in life. He was steadfast in his beliefs and relished in sharing them with others. He enjoyed passing his knowledge on to the young and old, the dark and the fair. However, earlier in his days as a Muslim, he had yet to make the traditional pilgrimage known as Hajj. As he grew to know more about it, he began wanting to make the pilgrimage. Though it became evidently clear that he was unfamiliar with any of requirements to make this pilgrimage, including how to ...

"The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara is a story narrated from the first person perspective. Published in the year 1972, the events that unfold in the story play a crucial role in explaining the differences that existed in the society at that time. The narrative is by Sylvia, a black girl who was young and poor and who lived in the streets of Harlem. The time-frame within which the events were unfolding is unspecified, as the narrator reveals it was ‘back in the days’ (Cookson et al. 78). A local woman, Miss Moore, was the only person educated in that society. Because ...

Locke's belief

Introduction John Locke's attack of the fact that knowledge can come from innate principles is not entirely satisfactory. His argument is, however, convincing. He disagrees with the notion that humans are born with knowledge that is accessed through thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing and willing. Instead, he asserts that an empty mind (such as baby's or lunatics) is furnished with information by experience (Locke 1975). He contradicts the perception that people receive into their understanding through observing in themselves and that the source of ideas is solely and wholly in an individual. The people supporting this school of ...

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the young king Oedipus must deal with demons from his past and the uncertain nature of his future, as he learns the fate of the previous king and the ways in inextricably ties with his own parentage (and marriage to the former king’s bride). Oedipus Rex, being a tragedy, deals primarily with the phenomenon of dramatic irony, in which the main character does not know things that will inexorably change their point of view once they know it. Oedipus is directly contrasted with the prophet Tiresias, who is without eyesight but has a much better sense ...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver and A Good Man to Find, by Flannery O’Connor are both fictional stories. In many literary works, there are characters who symbolize how ignorant people are in the society. In a society, many people believe that they are good or perfect, yet inevitably, they have their flaws. In A Good Man to Find, by Flannery O’Connor, and the Cathedral, by Raymond Carver, the protagonists in the stories are enforced to deal with situations, which change their values and those of others. These stories talks of real life situations in the society. In the ...

BOOK REPORT

“Saint Paul the Apostle” written by Mary Windeatt in 1949 ( TAN Books) is an inspiring book not only for children but also for adults. It is one of the series of books on the lives of Saints. In 231 pages, the writer has traced the life story of the great Saint Paul, describing his adventures and perils in the sacred journey of his life. There are apt illustrations which help to visualize the circumstances of those times. This is the story of Saul of Tarsus, who later became St. Paul the Apostle. A Jew by birth, Paul persecuted ...

1. The main theme of the essay is conflict. The essay shows are conflicting perceptions between religion, science and political beliefs. The two main characters reflect the cultural and social division are surrounding the evolution battle. The theme shows a country going through a political stage where evolution in school was illegal and sensationalism was suspicious. The essay shows divided people, where some people support religious ideals and others supported the enlightened modern thought. The Christians like Bryan believed that political beliefs such as evolution were just conspiracies against Christianity among non-believers. He even went to the prosecution in Dayton, as ...

Philosophy has always been an attractive field since it involves a major history of evolution and development. Philosophy derived from the human need to explore the mystery of human life and existence along with the wish to find the principles and rules that can be applied to life. Philosophical points of views and philosophers are studied and used by humans as part of their effort to put their lives within a normal routine and a desirable orientation. There is no doubt that life could be characterized as an ongoing, constant journey that aims at finding the meaning in life and at fulfilling ...