...Sebastian.E English Essay #1 There are many ways of showing courage. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” Atticus Finch describes courage as “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what”. Courage is a very good attribute but sadly many lack it. It is challenging to find people who actually have courage and don’t just say they do to get attention and affirmation from others. For most people courage is just pretending to be something that they are not. Notwithstanding there are courageous people out there that show courage in the face of trial, turmoil and pain. In the following essay I will be talking about Atticus’s interpretation of courage and which characters in the book...
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...unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye” (343). No matter how many people are in this world, whether if it is through a spiritual (religious), traditional or through an accustomed interpretation, created based out of a curiosity for life’s answers, everyone has a different way of defining what culture actually is. Taking Everyday Theology’s example of hermeneutics, one can say that culture is simply based on the art of discernment towards the disclosure in the work of how something came to be or grasping exactly what cultural texts are doing and are about. However, if a person comes from a more religious culture,...
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...Matthew Breske Professor McIntire English 1213-MW1 01 December 2012 The True Definition of Courage After reading the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, I realized, based on my own personal combat experiences and the combat experiences of Owen, the only word that could possibly describe the poem was courage. Throughout my time in the military, I have been instructed that courage is one of the fourteen leadership traits. Traits are qualities of thoughts and actions, which, if demonstrated in daily activities, help warriors earn the respect, confidence, and loyal cooperation of fellow warriors. There are two different kinds of courage. Moral courage is having the inner strength to stand up for what is right and to accept blame when something is your fault. The second is physical courage, which means that you can continue to function effectively when there is physical danger present. No matter the specific type of courage, both allow the warrior to remain calm and continue with the mission while recognizing fear, which is precisely what the young infantryman demonstrated in the poem and what Owen, personally demonstrated in combat during World War I. Growing up in the country as I did, I tend to think I was pretty much the same as other young boys that spent their lives in the country. I went hunting, fishing, watched war movies, listened to stories of World War II and Vietnam from my grandfather and father, ran through the woods while playing war with the neighborhood...
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...towards the accomplishment of a task. Throughout the world there are a lot perception, interpretation and definitions that can be formulated from the word “leadership”. And to most extent what a leader is. What is understood, is to be a remarkable leader one must possess some of these skills such as being ambitious, having a positive attitude in terms of holding their own emotions in check especially in tough situations. They must be able to step down to be in touch with their people. Setting the right example by the way they act whiles focusing on the bigger picture. They usually are well-organized they establish a clear vision and provide information knowledge and methods in realizing that vision, they are also capable or coordinating and balancing conflicting interest of all members of a group, organization or institution. Unlike management leadership cannot be taught, some may argue that leadership can be learned through proper mentoring and coaching where others may say that leadership is a rare skill that not any one individual can obtain unless they are born with it. Can we put this old argument to rest and finalize a conclusion. Are great leaders born whiles others are made? Are Great leaders born? Whiles certain leadership skills can be taught other leadership traits cannot for example intellectual courage. You cannot teach someone intellectual courage, most born leaders are usually able to withstand a lot of negative...
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...A Summary of the Terms and Types of Ethical Theories Ethics is a branch of philosophy addressing questions about morality. Ethics is divided into two different ways of looking at the morality of humanity. They are Consequential and Non-Consequential. CONSEQUENTIAL ETHICS In Consequential Ethics, the outcomes determine the morality of the act. What make the act wrong are the consequences. It says, it will be legitimate to lie in order to get out of a serious problem, such as to save a persons life. In other words a white lie is fine. So the essence of morality is determined by the result or outcome of the act. NON – CONSEQUENTIAL ETHICS In non-Consequential Ethics, the source of morality comes from something else: law, God’s law, moral law, sense of duty, and your definition of what is the virtuous thing to do. All those considerations are built into the act itself before you could think of consequences, before it makes it right or wrong. One classic example is this system is lying. Lying could be wrong because in one system, it’s a violation of the nature of speech. It’s wrong to use a lie to achieve a good end. Simply put, a lie is a lie, is a lie. Egoism – Utilitarianism – Pragmatism Egoism - Means, act in your own self-interest. Utilitarianism - Do that which is moral only if the act produces the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. There are two brands of Utilitarianism: 1. Act Utilitarianism- Do the act. No consideration of before or after...
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...and writing, but in reality, it defines a plethora of things in our daily lives. Literacy’s true definition can be found within yourself because literacy and music are related, and you decide what music means to you and what kind of music you will listen to. Regardless, whether it is listening or creating music, it inspires people to express and reflect on their emotions. The person I interviewed is a college freshman and creates electronic beats on Soundcloud during his free time. He describes himself as an introvert and a loner (Interviewee 2018). During our interview, we discussed how literacy defined as the ability to learn and understand was related to his creation of music and how it relates to his daily life. Every genre of music ignites a different emotion from the listener. Music is liberating, it is a place where you can find solace in times of need. This is certainly true for...
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...Beowulf Essay The ideal hero, thats funny to think about, because they seem to always let you down in the end. The true meaning of a hero is someone that you can follow, not a ‘“don’t do what I do but do as I say” kind of man. A hero/heroine refers to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice that is, heroism for some greater good of all humanity. This definition originally referred to martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence. Roma Chatterji has suggested that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching, thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two. One reason for the hero-as-self interpretation of stories and myths is the human inability to view the world from any perspective but a personal one. The word hero/heroine is sometimes used simply to describe the protagonist of a story, or the love interest, a usage which can conflict with the superhuman expectations of heroism. The larger-than-life hero is a more common feature of fantasy (particularly sword, wizards and epic fantasy) than more realist works. Christianity traditionally has emphasized humility as its main form of heroics. To illustrate that no virtue can possibly be perfectly acquired or continue...
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...Symbols of faith final paper Biblical Numerology Backstage | The world is composed of complicated mathematics. We often speak of its ability to expose and explain a number of beliefs and scientific happenings. Truth is, it has found itself to be both the ‘chicken and the egg’ to most arguments. Numerical significance can be both a proof, demonstration of an idea, or it can be the reason for the thought, concept, or philosophy. By definition, scholars believe that numerology is the placing of meaning on numbers in the Scriptures. Numerology is by no means restricted to Christianity, even though we choose to make it our focus for the purpose of this paper. Numerology attempts to explain the reason why God used numbers as he did, and what he was potentially trying to tell us. Thorough analysis and interpretation efforts have taken place along the years, in other to find meaning behind this scientific, most often philosophical, symbol use. “The Pythagoreans made number games philosophically respectable, and the great authority of Plato raised mathematics into theological realms. But at the lowest level, numbers remained magical.” The fall of the Roman Empire, caused a challenging transition for many, especially in terms of religion. From Paganism to Christianity, many had to look for a meaning, and be convinced, or understand, regardless of doubts that a new religion was to emerge. The early years of Christianity revolved around strong thinkers who were...
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...DaHari Morgan-Parker Owens Eng IV-5 18 March 2015 The Fall and Rebirth of Satanic Verses An alternate definition for censorship is the conscious attempt to prevent the human mind from expanding its capacity to understand and retain information. It is an insult to human intelligence and basically a way of saying “you can’t or shouldn’t be able to handle what is presented.” The official definition of censorship is “the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive determined by government, media outlets, authorities or other public institutions. Censorship occurs in the literary world when as small as a group of housewives files a complaint against the work for a simple a reason as 3 curse words in the span of 3 chapters. Once that complaint is filed it then goes to an appointed committee which reviews the work and determines the public is allowed to ingest the content presented by the author and his novel. As this process is hardly justifiable partly due to the fact that it takes such a small proportion of the population to enforce as opposed to the lengthy but respectable process of say getting a bill or new law pass; the act of novel censorship specifically is hardly an acceptable process of deciding if a book should be permitted. Satanic Verses, a novel which caused a large debacle overseas due to its perceived harsh criticisms of a certain religion, fell victim to this process but on a larger...
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...obstacles flowing towards them in the path called reality as they are forever linked to their past and their mistakes. The Great Gatsby, as told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, tells the story of a young man fruitlessly striving to overcome the societal barriers to be with his true love: a married Daisy Buchanan. As two separate entities written in different time periods, the novel The Great Gatsby-written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925-and the movie The Great Gatsby-directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013-converge and diverge on several topics of utmost importance from the plot originally created by Fitzgerald. The illustration of different types of love to exemplify societal differences and the focus on various aspects to provide subjective interpretations of the loss of one’s dreams vary between works, yet both agree on several key literary factors to communicate the central messages of the story line. Dreams, especially the American Dream, are discussed throughout the plot and each work chooses its own focus to emphasize in order to convey whether goals are crushed due to society or because they are not meant to be achieved. The movie takes the core of the plot as Gatsby to manifest the idea that some dreams are not meant to come true and should be relinquished. For example, Nick and Jordan’s tangible romance is never shown as it is in the novel because this could take focus off of Gatsby and Daisy’s impossible love story. Again, Nick is relegated from narrator to main character as...
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... Approaches to Psychotherapy and Existential Theory Psychotherapy is an official term that normally goes by different names: counseling, treatment, psychiatric therapy, even head shrinking. They all mean the same thing, and have a common goal. Psychotherapy seeks, through the use of trained professionals, to help individuals improve their mental health using a variety of different approaches. A much more comprehensive definition can be found in the textbook Discovering Psychology, Fifth Edition, which states that psychotherapy is: “The treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage understanding of problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, or relationships” (Hockenbury, 2011). The etymological meaning, is derived from the Greek words “ψυχή (psycho)”, meaning “breath” or “life”, and “θεραπεία (therapy)”, meaning “service” or “healing”. This is the definition I prefer, as it sums up in few words what the practice of psychotherapy entails. While psychotherapy has a primary goal, it is achieved in a variety of techniques. The most...
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...film covering a time span of 36 hours, reveal. The characters are portrayed in the context of several ethnic stereotypes in prevalence, even in the 21st century due to ethnic differences. To illustrate, “The predominant modern stereotypes are the violent, brutish African-American male and the dominant, lazy African-American female - the Welfare Mother (Green, 1998-1999, p. 1).” Set in a mixed society of different cultures the aim is to prompt the audience into ‘looking into themselves’ and acknowledge their own personal prejudices; they are overt or covert racists too. The 3 elements of cultures openly portrayed are the language used, the norms maintained by society, both formal and informal. As far as how many viewers actually have the courage to accept their faulty mindsets, is left to them. While at first glance, the movie appears to send out a passionate appeal about ending racism and discrimination, an in-depth probe reveals that the ‘wrongness’ of proclaiming Whites as a superior race, albeit subtly, is actually not acknowledged at all; the excuse of personal problems suffices to let them off the hook quite easily. Symbolic Interactionism Theory: It seems as if the director is in a dilemma regarding the acceptance of underlying racism and the total abolishment of existing racial tensions in the U.S. This might be better understood via an...
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...The Possible Being-a-Whole of Da-sein and Being-Toward-Death Note: Da-sein = existence of a thing—of man as a being; Simply, it is being, particularly of man in the world 1. The seeming impossibility of ontologically grasping and determining Da-sein as a whole a. Care * Forms the totality of the structural whole of Da-sein * “Being ahead of itself” * Da-sein is always after its “potentiality-of-being”; it is influenced by being ahead of itself even when there is nothing further ahead of it. * Hopelessness does not tear away da-sein from its possibilities/potentiality of its being; it is simply another way towards them. * Da-sein always lives for the sake of itself * There is always something “outstanding” in Da-sein that has not yet become real (it is merely a potentiality for its being) thus exists a feeling of incompleteness and the presence of a “nothing” * Eliminating what is outstanding (i.e. attaining “wholeness”) annihilates Da-sein’s being. Should this occur, it will never again be experienced as a being-in-the-world * ------------ b. The impossibility of grasping Da-sein as a whole 2. The Possibility of Experiencing the Death of Others and the Possibility of Grasping Da-sein as a Whole c. Death brings Da-sein to wholeness. Death is the transition from “being there” to no-longer-being-there. d. Death takes away the possibility for da-sein to experience...
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...World Mythology March 5th, 2012 Arabian Nights Essay Fantasy our Daily Determination The art of storytelling is the oldest and most captivating art form man has ever produced. Each and every one of us has been lead on a path by a story so unique that each path can only be traveled once with no chance of return or pause along the way. The reason these stories create a one-time offer is due to the mysterious element of fantasy that no man can ever lack or cease to exist. Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Though formal in definition the fantasy defined above is only the tip of the iceberg because fantasy can be created in one’s mind at a moments notice. Kieran Egan an education professor at Simon Fraser University states that, “fantasy is the most valuable attribute of the human mind; it enriches children’s spiritual development, and is the most important tool for orienting ourselves to reality”(3). This quote pinpoints why fantasy stories have been with us since the start of man and why books like “The Arabian Nights” are so popular thousands of years after there first dictations. Each story read from “Arabian Nights” has different fantasy elements in it, these elements captivate us and bring us inside the stories and are exactly what we connect to, not as a form of “escapism” but to help fuel our own determination to fulfilling our own fantasies. Many of these stories...
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...PREFACE Adam Jefferson, a divine manifest of Adam Smith's materialism and Thomas Jefferson's idealism, is our troubled modern day hero. He awoke in the middle of his life - broke and lost. A serial entrepreneur, his life was a never-ending quest for material success. At age 38, as Joseph Campbell forewarned humanity, Adam had "climbed the ladder of success, only to realize it was propped up against the wrong wall." Alone, with nothing else to lose, Adam Jefferson climbed down off of the ladder and searched for the wall of his future. This led him on a 100-day odyssey to start the ascent of his new life, an epic journey which called him across the world discussing today's challenges and opportunities with the great minds of our past - Carl Jung, Mary Parker-Follett, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and many others. An act of their collective genius and magical combustion, a psychological and sociological theory for sustainability and success was formed. Like all heroic quests, Adam ended where he had begun. Prior to his expedition, Adam had an unforgettable encounter with one of the great minds of the 20th century. One freezing, early morning on January 17, 2009, Adam Jefferson met the famed Harvard psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They walked the beach in Winthrop for hours, discussing morality and the questions one ponders in the solitude of despair. They exchange woes - "You tell me yours, and I will tell you mine."...
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