...Vices and Virtues 1. What is vice? Vices are your bad or immoral habits. They are the little devil on your shoulder telling you to give into something that is considered to be wrong. Vices are usually represented by Dante Alighieri’s seven deadly sins. These include pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. These seven deadly sins categorize the vices that people are faced with every day. 2. What is virtue? Virtues are the opposite of vices. They are the moral and good habits of people. There are numerous virtues that people show some of which include honesty, responsibility, compassion and many more. Virtues are the driving force behind making the right choice to not only better ourselves but also those around us. 3. How have your virtues changed since coming to Elizabethtown College? I do believe my virtues have changed for the better by coming to Etown. I have become a more compassionate person. In high school I wasn’t really one to get tied up in the issues of others, but here I have changed drastically. I have become more open to others on what issues they are facing and I try to do all that I can to make their situation better. I also believe I have become more self-aware of my life choices more in terms of healthiness. I make a lot of smarter food choices as well as athletic choices and try and get others to do the same. I’ve also become more responsible for my work. I remember in high school I tended to put off my work and studying...
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...Throughout life there are many challenges that the world is going to see and face. Everyone is walking a different path and experiencing different types of lifestyles. The challenges that are thrown the way of individuals that are out of their control can cause a great deal of grief and hardship. Generational poverty is an ongoing issue. It is also noticed that lack of employment is striking our nation. Women in particular are facing challenges that are hard to overcome and to break the stigma of. The more knowledge the masses have of these particular issues, the better equipped they will be to fight against them and to educate the rest of the world. The difference starts with knowledge and knowledge if definitely power. The definition of pride is as follows: a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are...
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...In the epic poem, Beowulf external conflicts are easy to recognize as they are Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. As his human tendencies they are pride, greed, and betrayal. He essentially fails to show his internal conflicts as he thinks his power was given to him by god. By him being able to face his external conflicts, he’s able to realize his internal conflicts. To begin with, Beowulf is a brave soldier that is not afraid of anything. He comes across a situation that is being taking place in the Danes. A tremendous monster terrorizing the Danes for twelve years has got his attention. Beowulf’s arrival in the Dane’s is celebrated and greeted by King Hrothgar. At the mead-hall, Beowulf talks about how he will defeat Grendel head-on...
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...Seven Deadly Sins 1. Pride – Misguided Confidence or inordinate self esteem 2. Gluttony – the excessive consumption or over indulgence of something. 3. Envy - Resenting something that others may have, or what that person may lack. 4. Wrath – uncontrolled feelings of hatred or anger. 5. Sloth – Failure to utilize one’s talents or gifts. 6. Greed – excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness 7. Lust - to have an intense desire or need; usually sexually Virtue - personal characteristics promoting individual and collective well being. 1. Chastity - embracing and achieving purity through education and betterment. 2. Temperance – Practicing self-control and moderation. 3. Charity - A nobility of thoughts or actions. 4. Diligence – Having a good work-ethic and using all your talents for betterment. 5. Patience – The ability to resolve conflicts peacefully, and suppress anger/annoyance 6. Kindness - Having compassion and empathy without expecting something in return. 7. Humility – Having Modest Behavior; the act of giving respect. Seven Deadly Sins 1. Pride – Misguided Confidence or inordinate self esteem 2. Gluttony – the excessive consumption or over indulgence of something. 3. Envy - Resenting something that others may have, or what that person may lack. 4. Wrath – uncontrolled feelings of hatred or anger. 5. Sloth – Failure to utilize one’s talents or gifts. 6. Greed – excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness 7. Lust - to have an intense desire...
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...Pride is a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievement. Also pride comes from what a person might think another might say. Young and Old generations sometimes think that having pride is good but pride take away from showing who you really are. It could cause others not want to be around you. Pride comes from a person’s mind not the heart. This relates to when god told adam and eve not to eat the fruit from the tree of good and evil and they ate from that tree. Pride can also be a respectful thing to have in most situations. The word pride in itself is not an important word but its meaning implies many things. There are several different reasons people have pride. It can also be a consciousness of what is befitting or due to oneself or one’s position. Also, it prevents a person from doing what he/she considers to be beneath that specific he/she. Pride gives off negative description of one another as vain, arrogant or belittling others. This will make others get the attitude that one individual might be giving off. Sometimes pride can be in a good way. My reasoning for saying this is because pride is a building block of a healthy self-esteem. This important and necessary to give off a positive self-worth. For example, a child...
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...Coriolanus arguable has many flaws in his personality that contribute to his difficultness, one of which being pride. His upbringing contributes largely to his difficult personality and it is not due to his own nature. His mother, Volumnia, is an overbearing woman who wants nothing more than success for her son, but she only wants him to succeed because it will bring her glory and respect. Therefore she has raised him to be a strong warrior because during this time men had to be brave and physically powerful in order to gain respect and recognition. His pride stems from his ability to fight and the honor he has gained from fighting. Coriolanus’ love for war and fighting was nurtured and grown in him by his mother from when he was young, she...
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...artworks I have chosen are all of which depict the sin, Pride. The artworks “Pride, Seven Deadly Sins”, 1985 by Fiona Hall, “Pride”, 1945 by Paul Cadmus and “The Seven Deadly Sins”, 1993 by Otto Dix are all fantastic examples of artworks displaying a particular sin or all seven deadly sins. The sin in particular that I have focused on is Pride; Pride is a belief in one's abilities, selfishness and putting one's beliefs first before anything else. The first artwork representing the seven deadly sins is by Fiona Hall, in this artwork Fiona Hall has explored the sin Pride. Fiona Margaret Hall was born in 1953 in...
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...Hana Hou logo THE HANA HOU SERIES The Spirit of Aloha © 1999 Kawika Sands In the beginning A (pronounced "ahh"), the eternal light giver, created Namaka O Ka Hai (the great power of the sea). But A saw the seas were alone, so he freed the force Pele. Pele created the lands. To keep them above her jealous sister, she constantly renewed them. The people who found these lands named it Hawai`i hailing it as a place of blessed "alo" or "aloha" meaning "in the presence of A." Life in old Hawai`i was a spiritual experience. There was aloha everywhere; in the people, plants, animals, rocks and reefs. Even in the canoes and paddles and the tools used to make them. But aloha is more than a word, it's a way of life. If there is life, there is mana, goodness, and wisdom. If there is goodness and wisdom in a person, there is a god-quality. One must recognize the "god of life" in another before saying "Aloha." It means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. It's the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. It's to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable. To say "Aloha" to another with indifference is blasphemous, just as saying "Mahalo" ungraciously is profane. Therefore, when one says "Aloha" to another, one must mean it sincerely. If you are angry with someone, you must cleanse away all ill feeling before saying...
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...Pride vs. Humility The Bible teaches us that humility is a virtue worth seeking and that pride is a sin. Culture throughout history seems to disagree with this perspective. Or do they, is it just so elusive that we grow weary of seeking it and simply give up? Does the lack of humility have any profound effects on our lives? Or can we simply cease striving for a goal that offers no benefit to our success and happiness? Pride is not a new attitude. We see pride is the source of the fall of Lucifer from glory in Isaiah 14:12-17 and will ultimately lead to his demise as we read in Revelation 20:10. (HSCB) King Nebuchadnezzar was so prideful in his accomplishments in building his kingdom that God caused him to go insane and live as a wild animal for seven years. Paul addresses two cultures in the Book of Romans that struggle with their own forms of pride, the Greeks and the Jews. The Greeks saw themselves as highly cultured and everyone else as barbarians. The Jewish culture saw themselves as better then others because they were (and still are) God’s chosen people. Today’s culture teaches American’s to be aggressive, to distinguish ourselves, and to stand apart from the rest; it teaches us pride. So is there any harm in being prideful? Let’s examine just one problem that arises when we are prideful, division. Pride causes division between God and us. Adam and Eve experienced this division at the introduction of sin into the world. In Genesis 3:5-6, Satan tells Eve that...
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...Traditionally, pride was frequently and widely established as the greatest possible sin to commit. Dante’s Purgatorio demonstrates how those who have been too prideful in their mortal lifetime are condemned to the first and farthest terrace from Paradise. But through the passage of time, the negative opinions that the seven deadly sins were originally regarded with have slowly changed for the better, and pride in particular has even become a quality to be encouraged. The seven deadly sins are traditionally thought to be the be all and end all of evils that mankind should avoid at all costs, and pride is the worst one of all, being the sin that leads to all other sins. To take pride in any achievements is to sin, which would guarantee one’s...
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...people.” Listed as a synonym of arrogance, pride, defined by Oxford Dictionary, means, “a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of one's close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.” These two words are frequently used interchangeably and their definitions possess many similarities. However, they are also incredibly different and both...
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...Pride plays a significant role in my life. I nearly consider it my best friend. Pride has been there for me when I’ve had to carry my own weight and stand face to face with my problems; as if I were in a middle of a gun fight in the old west. Pride has held my hand when I stood companionless and felt as if nobody listened to me. Whether that had been walking across the stage at graduation, participating in a protest for Black Lives Matter, or in making the decision to attend school in California. Pride knows a lot of my secrets, dreams, goals, desires, and even fears. Although, very much a connotation, pride is my biggest burden and favorite blessing. It’s gotten me into trouble, but has also provided me with a plethora of life lessons that transformed me into the person I am today....
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...place inside us that belongs to God alone” (DeYoung 38). Sloth is a form of laziness, but there is a lack of love that lies behind it. Sloth is a “failed moral that was originally conceived of as acedia, an outmoded term that conveys both alienation and tedium, tinged with self-contempt. Acedia afflicted jaded monks who had grown weary of the cloistered life” (McGowan). Their sin was turning away from their moral obligations and toward selfish pursuits. Henry Ford interpreted sloth as “idleness,” opposing it to the virtue of industriousness, on the grounds that not in God, but in “work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation” (DeYoung 32). Idleness results in a prideful heart which eventually grasps onto the disorderly vice of sloth. Pride is the root of every problem we struggle with in life. A prideful person believes that they deserve more than what life has brought them. In other words, a slothful person believes that things will come easily, but are not willing to put in the effort to make changes for the better. Sloth is a deadly vice that can take over the mind and envelop the whole soul. In our friendships and relationships, sloth takes over when we do not consistently keep up with those around us. We are avoiding what it takes to keep our relationships strong, long -lasting and healthy. When times get tough, the slothful are ready to take the easy way out by escaping and easily giving up, instead of facing those hardships to overcome them. In our culture, it is quite...
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...Living the Filipino Music Today A Reflection of the Filipino-ness in Lucio San Pedo’s Music Lucio San Pedro has been known to be one of the historical figures of Philippine music. Being dubbed as the creative nationalist, his philosophy in music paved the way for his memorable career as an artist. Conferred with the National Artist Award for Music in 1991, his contributions have indeed made a mark in defining the “Filipino-ness” in music. With the onset of the Original Pilipino Music in the 70’s, Lucio San Pedro’s works have imparted a great amount of influence to the artists that soon followed suit. With his undeniably most famous work which is Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, every student of an Art Appreciation class in the Philippines would remember the great artist because of this wonderful musical piece. The maestro’s main concern during his time was what will make Filipino music distinct and different. Given his educational attainment and experiences abroad, he was able to harness his talent and skill in music which allowed him to discover the great potential of the Filipino artist. Integrating the cultural dynamism and inherent nationalism of Filipinos, he was able to infuse the rich influence of the different folk songs of the Filipino culture into the music he has crafted so beautifully and innovatively. With his creative nationalism philosophy, he was able to encourage artists to express nationalism through the creative use of folk songs. As Lucio San Pedro would put...
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...My Reaction Paper On The Interrelationship Of Language and Culture What is Language? What is Culture? How are language and culture interrelated? Language as one element of culture has a very important role in human life. Language allows a person communicating with others in meeting their needs. Thus, it can be said is the main function of language as a communication tool. This does not mean that the language has only one function. Another function is as a tool to express self-expression, a tool to make integration and social adaptation, as well as a tool to hold social control. (Keraf, 1980: 3) Culture is the whole communication system that binds and allows operation of a set of people called the public. Thus culture can be defined as a "system of rules of communication and interaction that allows a society occurs, preserved, and preserved" Culture that gives meaning to all business and human movements. (Nababan, 1984: 49) The verbal expression of culture is language as culture is the idea, custom and beliefs of a community with a distinct language that includes semantics which is everything that the speakers in a certain community can think about and every way they do things. In other words, every community with different culture has a different language. Although language and culture are not inseparable basically, it is easy to understand language has a specific culture's method of expressing ideas. Verbal language which can also be via signs and symbols or via hand...
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