Essays on True Nature

Fairy tales and folklores are nothing but the reflections of the society. Authors and artists depict the world through their lens to highlight social elements. The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter is a fairy tale built on the theme of the Little Red Riding Hood. In a very subtle way it depicts the patriarchal structure of the society and what it means to be a liberated woman. In an interesting way she has shown what a feminist means, as it brings harmony and order into an otherwise sexist and chaotic society. Carter’s Company of Wolves might not ...

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. ...

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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction used symbols and intense imagery to tap into the dark and unknown parts of human existence. Hit gothic tales sought to redefine the ultimate human experience by showing the prevalence of horror in everyday life. Normal individuals are driven to rage and madness and they get to commit the most heinous crimes without reasonable justification for their actions. In “Legia” and “The Black Cat”, Poe relies on symbolism and imagery to show humanity’s relationship with nature and death. Poe explores man’s attempt at rationalizing the irrational. This paper seeks to compare and ...

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 ...

Studies propose that although higher education is expensive, students who complete this level of education are found to be healthier earning a good salary as compared to high school graduates. Moreover, these individuals make the life of their offspring quite easier and are seen to be more productive at workplace. Due to a higher education degree, these individuals rely less on government funds and benefits. In other words, as compared to those individuals who receive a two-year associate/certificate degree, students having completed four years of college enjoy a better status, lifestyle and earn more (Kathleen, 2002). For this purpose, higher education does not ...

Introduction

Friendship is one of the things in life that we cherish and take for granted at the same time. Depending on what kind of person we are talking about, a person can either treat friendship as trash or treat it as one of the best things that has happened in his or her life. This is where we see how people view friendships. The thing about friendships though this is where we see the true nature of humans and see how they act towards it, especially when faced with different situations. The human being has two sides that, I believe, ...

OBAMA CARE

Introduction The term Obama care is more or less a derogatory term coined by the critics of the affordable care act put in place by president Barack Obama. The literal meaning of the term Obama care is quite disturbing to say the least. This is because it refers to the type of care that is more inclined towards president Barack Obama as opposed to the entire nation. The question thus arises as to the true nature of this Obama care and whether or not it favors the greater good of the nation or it is a desperate plan by president ...

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‘Subject’ Literary analysis of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen As Meyer says, A Doll’s House is a play about, “the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person”. The play revolves around the life of the protagonist Nora, who breaks away from the shackles imposed on her by the gender roles devised by the patriarchal society, and sets out to discover her true potential as an individual. The play fits the genre of a social tragedy, whereby the protagonist falls prey ...

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 ...

Book Review: Guests of the Sheik

The book entitled Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, recount the experience the author acquired during a two-year stay in a small village in Iraq. The experience incorporated in the aforementioned book is imperative essentially because offers the reader insights regarding race and ethnicity, kinship and family, and finally religion and morality. This book is accredited subsequent to the fact that the author who had the first-hand experience of events is the one who narrates these events as it unfolds. Apparently, we are predisposed to understanding the way of life in the ...

Philosophy

“Perhaps we shall find the best “Good” if we first find the function of a human being. For just as the good, for a flutist, a sculptor, and every craftsman, and, in general, for whatever has a function, seems to depend on its function, the same seems to be true for a human being What, then, could this be? For living appears to be something common even to plants. A certain life characterized by sense perception would be next, but it too appears to be common to a horse and cow and in fact to every animal. The remaining possibility, then, is some sort of ...

During the medieval periods, the code of Chivalry was in effect a moral system that defined qualities that were to be idealized by the knights. In essence, this moral system was more like an honor code of the knights; it technically exemplified their royal and exceptional stance in the society. Considering that chivalry required knights to behave in a way that epitomized good morals, I am of the opinion that; chivalry lack place in the contemporary society. Throughout the essay, arguments in favor of the notion above will be presented. In Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Chivalry is ...

Education Reform

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Inequality is an inevitable truth of our society. We see inequality everywhere, whether it’s between rich or poor, powerful or suppressed, strong or weak. What bothers Rousseau is that how and why such inequalities evolved in our society. The very first question that strikes of ‘Jean Jacques Rousseau’ is his question about inequality in two terms those are natural and political. He asks in the very first part of his work of ‘dedication’ that, he states that how equality is natural, and inequality is man-made, something that is introduced by men. Further talking about equality, he ...

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 ...

Vertical Diagram for the book Ephesians Chapter 2

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world

and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

3 All of us also lived among them at one time,

gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

4 But because of his great love for us,

God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions- it is by grace you have been saved.

6 And God raised us up with Christ

and seated us with him in the heavenly realms

in Christ Jesus,

...

Introduction

Throughout one's life, conflict plays a major role. Conflict is a kind of discord, argument or disagreement arising within the self or a group. This is what is known as internal and external conflict. Internal conflict occurs in the mind of an individual when they face two opposing issues or alternatives or when they find fault with their own actions or character. External conflict, on the other hand, happens between one person and another or group. Conflict can also arise between what is imagined or apparent, to what is the reality. For example, the characters and the text present this form of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Knowledge of the idea of emptiness is of high relevance in the contemporary society. Dalai Lama regards emptiness as the “true nature of things and events.” This essentially entails the concept of the knowledge of the existence of the parts and wholes of all objects. It is worthwhile noting that a state of emptiness never means that essentially nothing exists. However, the idea of emptiness means that things may exist, but not mainly in the way, we perceive them to do. Despite, we need to be alert not to mistake the idea of emptiness with the absolute reality as Lama ...

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 ...

The problem of moral education in Plato's dialogue "Republic" remains relevant even today. Its main theme is the definition of one of the concepts of ethics - fairness. According to Plato, the issues of education are questions of philosophy. In this dialogue, Plato appears to us not only as a philosopher, but also as a teacher of young people, who put forward an elaborated concept of education of the person in response to the needs of the time. Plato developed new moral ideals of society and man by stating that only the wisest men are able to lead the state, therefore ...

"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. 2. Rand argues in the ...

First published in 1813, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a comic novel of manners. The novel describes the trials and tribulations of the upper middle class English gentry of that time in finding love (Austen, 1813). Although not well known at the time of its publication, this novel and Sense and Sensibility, published earlier, have become highly popular during the 20th century and are now routinely seen on listings of the “100 best novels” or the “100 most read novels” (Donahue, 2013). Austen’s books are known for their feminine view of the world at a time when female ...

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 ...