Beautiful Observations There are many objects we look at every day, but have you ever stopped to really look at the meaning behind these objects? Recently, I did just that. There is a shadowbox picture that hangs in my sisters bedroom that I covet. I say covet because my mother gave it to my sister Tracy on her 21st birthday and I was jealous. Why not me, I thought. Inside its beautifully carved wooden protected home is several gorgeous details that captured my attention and made me wish
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Effi's Creative Frustration Trickery. Taboos. Punishments. All are common and frequent in the unfortunate history of female characters and protagonists. Eve bites the forbidden apple and forces mankind out of the Garden of Eden. Hester Prynne commits adultery and, marked forever by the brazen scarlet letter on her bosom, is shunned by her community. It then comes to no surprise that Effi Briest, the ambitious wife of a successful baron, is ostracized after her youthful affair in the novel Effi Briest
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become Godlike and purified of all evil through the study of the “good” in beauty with self-control. Plato, on the other hand, believes that to understand beauty you must use self-control to resist the desire to possess what one may first see as beautiful to fully know the true nature of beauty. To Plato, one must learn to become a mirror image of that, which brings him desire through observation, rather than become pure or godlike as Plotinus believes. “There is no greater good than this that either
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been viewed as an incentive for those who aspire to the holy life. The Buddhist concept of aesthetic is a beauty of things that are imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. The cultivation of the right attitude to aesthetic is very important. A beautiful object itself is not goodness or rightness per se. Buddhism advocates aesthetic experience to a higher mode of living; it should be instrumental for moral development. Thus it is the distortion of perception that has to be rid of by perceiving objects
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is the best kind of government? How much power should the government have? What kind of people should be in power? How involved should the common citizen be in government... Aesthetics: What is beautiful? Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder, or are there some things that all cultures find beautiful? What is the purpose of art? How can a piece of art be successful or valuable? Does beauty matter... Social philosophy: How should humans behave in a society? Do people give up certain rights when
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Introduction: Have you ever wanted to create something beautiful? The answer is most likely yes because it is human nature to want to make inspiring things with ones mind. The same as you all, I also strive to create amazing things weather it be small stories only I think I would like or bigger and more ambitious ideas as in ways to improve human happiness through entertainment. In the time we have i’m going to introduce myself to all of you about my personal interests, my goals for college, and
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or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” On the other hand, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as, “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.” Based from these stated definitions, which is a more appropriate meaning of beauty? Where and how do these perspectives come from? From these descriptions about beauty, we can say that beauty has various meanings to people and media mainly
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live; some people at the time are buried a live because they are in comas, but everyone think they are already dead. Both the title and the plot of his 1844 story"The Premature Burial" illustrate this fear of his, alcohol destroys his life and his mind but eventhough he continues to drink. Although these direct ties can alone prove that Poe's life is reflected in his works, more evidence is provided about his life in his stories. He thoroughly incorporates psychology into many of his stories, which
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attracted by internal beauty. They do believe that appearances are generally deceptive. Beauty is the essence of life but internal beauty is the essence of the soul. Nobody knows if a person with a beautiful face may have an ugly heart? The face as well as the appearance does not speak out anything in mind. External fades with the time, but internal beauty stays with you forever. Your thoughts, your characters, your behavior with people make up your internal beauty and build up your beauty with the
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Why do people act the way they do? A simple question, but a vital one if you are interested in understanding the reasons for why a certain group of people have a particular culture – the values, beliefs, underlying assumptions, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a group of people. In order to have a more tangible, stronger grasp of the underlying causes that influence the actions of people, a firm grasp and study of the liberal arts of a country is extremely helpful, if not necessary. Consequently
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