A Collection of Wise Sayings "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliot "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." -- Vaclav Havel "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now -- when?" -- Hillel "Come my friends, 'tis not too
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examine 5 reasons why it is important for all persons to adopt the philosophic mindset. We will end by providing an overview of the different branches of philosophy. Tasks Read and take notes from chapter 2 of Philosophy: Critically Thinking about Foundational Beliefs, “Why is Philosophy Important?” As you read, make sure you understand the following points and questions: * What is meant by the philosophical mindset? A philosophical mindset is an attitude or approach to life that involves
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is set in the Victorian Era, a time where a woman’s body and the rights to it were not her own, they were either her husband’s or father’s, or the government’s. This time period was one of sexual oppression, especially for women. Women were either both pure and innocent or a wife and a mother, if not, she was considered a whore and scorned by society. Those who did partake in pre-marital sex were left unable to be married due to their lack of purity and the shame it would cause
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Prelude : Story Teller: (Forever In Love: Sax Instrumental) Cupid and Psyche is a story about love. It is also about beauty, truth, and goodness, for these are three aspects of love: and it is about death, the hereafter, and rebirth. Its simplicity touches our hearts, and at the same time tantalizes our minds with hints of teachings that youth experienced during the higher degrees of initiation. It deals about human consciousness, with its fall from on high, its captivity in realms of material illusion
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the artist. The critic translates impressions from the art into another medium. Criticism is a form of autobiography. People who look at something beautiful and find an ugly meaning are "corrupt without being charming." Cultivated people look at beautiful things and find beautiful meanings. The elect are those who see only beauty in beautiful things. Books can’t be moral or immoral; they are only well or badly written. People of the nineteenth century who dislike realism are like Caliban who is
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got to be the most beautiful man I have ever seen. Why on earth is he devoting all his attention to me when he could have anyone in this room?” The fact that he chose me to engage with that night made me feel like a princess. His words describing my beauty shook my soul and lifted my feet. I felt as though I was floating above myself, looking down on the man that I knew would change my life. I had no idea that allowing this kind and gentle man to sweep me off my feet would nearly cost me my life.
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THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Click here to jump to the Table of Contents COPYRIGHT © 1993 by Adobe Press, Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. The actual sonnets of William Shakespeare are public domain. The design and electronic implementation of this book, however, are copyrighted. Reproduction of this electronic work beyond a personal use level, or the display of this work for public consumption or viewing requires prior permission from the publisher. This work is furnished
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1. Literature of the 17th century. John Milton. “Paradise Lost”. John Bunyan. “Pilgrim’s Progress”. The peculiarities of the English literature of the 17th century are determined by the events of the Engl. Bourgeois Revolution, which took place in 1640-60. King Charles I was beheaded in 1649& General Oliver Cromwell became the leader of the new government. In 1660, shortly after Cro-ll’s death, the dynasty of the Stuarts was restored. The establishment of new social&eco-ic relations,
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similarities are evident. Plato writes about philosophy through the mouth of Socrates, illustrating indirectly through a lengthy dialogue his own ideas and opinions. As a contrast to this method of narration, Machiavelli writes The Prince as a letter of personal advice to Lorenzo Medici. Within his work, Machiavelli makes numerous recommendations that have earned him the label of a heartless and cruel man. Plato, on the other hand, makes much of his discussion about the true nature of philosophy and the
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When Mary Shelley’s mother dies of “puerperal fever on September 10, 1797, she left her newborn daughter with a double burden: a powerful and ever-to-be-frustrated need to be mothered, together with a name, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, that proclaimed this small child as the fruit of the most famous literary marriage of eighteenth-century England” (Mellor 1). Mary‘s childhood is filled with a desperate need for love and affection as her father, William Godwin “found it easy to express his obvious
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