The novels taken for analysis are White Noise and Libra. The main protagonist in the novel White Noise is Jack Gladney. The work focuses on the ideas fear of death, creating false identity to survive in the society. The choice of the supermarket is significant for Jack's ultimate transcendence. It is the trope of existence throughout the novel. Indeed, the supermarket scene in the closing chapter is mystically charged as a sacred space for personal transcendence. The supermarket is the...
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Defining education According to (Victor Ordonez November 2000)Education is a social responsibility for the transmission of knowledge, skills, and culture with a formally organized structure. The development of human talents and personal characters for better citizenship. (b)Philosophy Philosophy is a well-coordinated and systemized attempt at evaluating life and the universe as a whole, concerning first principles that underlie all things as their causes and are implicit in all experience (Swimi Krishnananda) (c) Education Philosophy Is a branch of philosophy that...
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The choices we make in life all depend on the situation we are in. Choices like choosing to go outside on a sunny day or eating ice cream on a rainy day. We are entitled to decide what we want to do without being forced. Some people would think otherwise. Others would object to the view of a hard-determinist in saying that there is no free will in our decisions. Whether we believe Free Will and Determinism are similar or...
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An assignment is task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study. This is done to assess an individual during a study of a certain course. This assessment of the course involves written assignments and practical test to view the understanding of an individual. The purpose of assigning a student is for them to grasp the ideas and concepts presented in the course for themselves and to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding....
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Hero’s Journey Theory According to Joseph Campbell’s theory in The Hero with A Thousand Faces, the myth can be taken on an unlimited variety of forms. Campbell identified the basic pattern that is found within myths all around the world. This basic pattern is called the Hero’s Journey. It appears when a mythological character goes in a quest. Throughout the quest the hero endures different trials and ordeals that change her or his character from the way it used to...
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All narratives have standard structural elements of stages, a universal characteristic of all myths, legends, and even movies. The Protagonist’s Journey or the monomyth is a pattern in storytelling as studied by anthropologists and mythologists such as Otto Rank and Joseph Campbell. It is a standard stencil of a wide group of tales that involve an adventurous protagonist in a decision crisis who becomes victorious and goes back home transformed. A hero’s journey has twelve substages categorically put under three...
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People will have a lot of identities in their life. Those identities may relate to their power in many aspects. In “Jump”, Nadine Gordimer describes a conflicted experience of a white person but lives with black people for a long time. In “Homage”, which is also created by Gordimer, she describes the struggling life of a murderer who kills the president. In “Jump” and “Homage”, Nadine Gordimer talks about how changes of government influence people in different aspects. In her...
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Harper Lee, an American author known for writing a multitude of different novels such as “Go set a watchman”, “The emperor's cool clothes” and my personal favorite, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” was born on April 28, 1926 her father was an attorney and she had an older brother as well. As a child, Harper was absolutely in love with reading so I guess that explains her choice of career. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Harper reveals how her...
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The works of William Shakespeare, most specifically his plays, are cornerstones of western literature. Pieces that were merely intended for public entertainment are now considered timeless, and are still being researched, adapted, and enjoyed hundreds of years later. One of the reasons for this is the strong thematic nature of his stories. The Taming of the Shrew is a play that on the surface seems like an example of “wife-taming” literature typical of the time, but if we look closer,...
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In Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong creates a historical novel originally based on real people and events. He narrates the fall of the Han Dynasty, the rise of the three kingdoms (Xu, Wei, and Wu), and the ultimate downfall of these kingdoms. In the beginning, many warlords are introduced each battling for dominance, but three prominent leaders are the focus of the story - they are Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan. These three rise to power through their formidable...
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God's influence and contribution to the daily lives of the people of Earth realm. Each god possesses a set of unique talents and abilities that they’ve had ever since they were born. Gods like Mayari, have the ability to control the moon, Helios was blessed with the ability to control the sun, and Gods like Poseidon and Haik were blessed with the ability to control the tides of the oceans and the seas. Mayari, the daughter of Bathala and the...
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Staying in abusive relationships Gender-based violence is common in South Africa. Every one in three girls might end up in an abusive relationship. An abusive relationship is when you enter a relationship and your romantic partner shows aggression towards you. They could violently attack you, psychologically attack you or verbally attack you. Usually, people involved in abusive relationships find it difficult to leave.. People aged 12-19 have the higher rate of reported rape and sexual assault in a relationship. 90%...
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The Impact of Arthur Conan Doyle on American Culture “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” (Doyle). During the late 19th century, the Second Boer War was a major conflict in Britain. According to the official biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Doyle published many works which were inspired by the war including The Great Boer War (2019). The growing popularity of medical studies allowed Doyle...
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John Dickenson, “letter from a farmer in Pennsylvania” (1767) John Dickinson who wrote Letters from a Farmer lived from 1732-1808. He was also known as a moderate before signing The Declaration of Independence in 1776. John Dickenson was opposed to breaking away from England and believed in the rights of Englishmen. He viewed the attempts of taxation on the colonists as violations of the rights he believed he was afforded as an English man and opposed them. However, he did...
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The short poem, “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is one of his finest works that portrays the motions of love and hate, as well as passion and control. The thrilling love story is about a man who is greatly obsessed with his lover named Porphyria and all he really wants his to keep her all to himself. But the only way he feels he can keep her is by killing her. Browning’s poem shows the theme of love, social classes,...
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This whole debate over Taxation and Representation had become an important discussion topic for the colonists of British and the Parliament during the years 1763 to 1775. There had been an enormous difference in the perspectives of Great Britain and the American colonies. It has also been concluded that somehow the colonies did not represent themselves individually in the Parliament and therefore, correspondingly, the British taxes had also been interpreted as “taxation without representation”. First, from the American perspective, in...
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Sir Redvers Buller, was a British Army officer, which some historians argue that is to be blamed for the British failure in the Second Boer War of 1899, this would, however, be unrealistic due to the external effects that were on the attack strategies. Some of these issues Buller, was not able to address because he was unaware, for example, the lack of reconnaissance gathering before an attack is what brought the first defeat to the British, Buller was unable...
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Henry V, also known as Henry of Monmouth, is one of the most well-known kings that have ever ruled under the English crown. Henry V was made into a play from William Shakespeare, which focused on his domination of France, and the patriotic homage to the heroic king. The degree of how accurate the play is is a more complicated historical understanding for a common person to be reading. When in fact there is a lot to dig into when...
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During the 1800s, America had foreign policies that impacted its citizens. The Louisiana Purchase impacted the American citizens because it was a big purchase that helped America grow into a larger nation and the declaration of war against Mexico was another event that impacted the American citizens because it made the US go to war which could lead to positive outcomes if the US wins this war or negative results if they lose. The two events also had lots of...
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The Thing Around Your Neck (Adichie, 2009) is a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that has received worldwide recognition and has been nominated for several awards such as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2010) and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2010). In the short stories, Adichie explores how immigrants in America suffer when they arrive in the United States. Though the stories do not share the same plot or characters, they are woven together by their themes....
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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Netherlands. For her whole life, she was referred to as “Corrie”. She was the youngest child in the family and took the job profession of a jeweller and watchmaker. She and her family were Calvinist Christians in a Dutch Reformed Church. Their faith motivated them in supporting those who were struggling in life, which they did by donating living essentials to poor people in the Netherlands. In...
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In the 19th century, Americans began to explore self expression through literature. Two writers in particular, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, greatly exemplified Gothic and Romantic literature. In both Poe’s short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”, and Hawthorne's “The Minister’s Black Veil”, the protagonists reach a state of alienation through self-absorption and an incapability to realize their wrongdoings. In the short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”, the narrator lives with an old man, and becomes paranoid by the old...
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Abstract This thesis sheds light on the characters portrayals of women in Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Thousand and One Nights. In acquiring this information, we explore the different characterizations of women involved in the text and use it to assess the writers bias and conception of women. This can consist of their societal placement and their specific traits and behaviors as their roles are looked at in society. Both works represent women as lesser than standard and viewed as...
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An allegorical drama that includes the art qualities that are personified during the forth lesson about noble living is called Morality play. These kinds of plays were well known during the late 1500 and early 1600 as electronical exhibitions just to engage the groups of onlookers while advancing the need of guidelines or devout life. Regularly perform man's battle to keep away from bad habits and look for ideals Everyman is one of the cases of the profound morality play....
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This paper is basically about amphetamines. Amphetamine was discovered over 100 years ago. Since then, it has transformed from a drug that was freely available without prescription as a panacea for a broad range of disorders into a highly restricted Controlled Drug with therapeutic applications restricted to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It also loses the weight and it releases stress. Most of the people use them just to get rid of stress, of they want to be...
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There have been many cases of Western Architecture that have been destroyed in acts of war, natural disasters, or because of structural integrity failure. In this paper, we will look into why some buildings were rebuilt, how they were rebuilt, and why some buildings weren’t built the same. Other topics that may be touched on here will also be temporary buildings that have become permanent and buildings that were built to look as if they were destroyed and worn down....
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Moshing as artifact: in relation to the history of the Parthenon. Through August to September of 490 BC, a battle between Athens and Plataea against the Persian Empire erupted in Marathon, Greece; this would be the first of a further series of conflicts between Greece and The Achaemenid Empire. The battle had been instigated by the Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt, where Athens and Eretria had supported the Ionians in overthrowing the Persian rule. A second invasion of Greece...
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Paulo Freire, the youngest of four children was born on September the 19th 1921, to an economically comfortable working-class Catholic family. They lived in the port city of Recife, the capital of the state of Pernambuco. This North eastern region of Brazil was and continues to be one of the most impoverished in the country. When Paulo was only three years old, his father an officer of the Pernambuco military police, was forced to retire prematurely due to a serious...
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Abstract In a class experiment a mindfulness exercise was used to investigate the effects it would have on attention. Before the mindfulness exercise was carried out an emotional stroop test was taken by all participants and again after the mindfulness test to investigate the effects. Participants were given a mindfulness test or a relaxation test to also investigate if either exercise will make a difference. The results obtained from the experiment indicated that the mindfulness test did have an effect...
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The two related texts that I have chosen includes, W.H Auden's, ‘Unknown Citizen’ and James Mcteigue’s ‘V for Vendetta’. McTeigue's representation of an oppressed society effectively resonates with George Orwell’s ‘1984’, hence my decision to choose it as my prominent text. Through its exhibition of characterisation of protagonists, their appeals for self expression, and the strive for the collective individuality, reflects the environment Winston lives in. ‘V for Vendetta’ succinctly conveys these ideas through skillful use of setting and character...
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