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In this paper, I will be explaining the main points of the essay called Philosophy and The Meaning of Life by Robert Nozick, where Robert Nozick begins to talk about how we have to understand the unquestioned assumptions and do we really want to know about the meaning of life. In his essay he talks about what a meaningful life...
Literature ReviewMeaning of LifePersonal Life
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This novel revolves around the story based on the main character from his vision and how he managed to turn his life around in his favour. The story begins with young Thomas Cromwell who is brutally beaten by his father which makes him want to flee from home to Europe in order to build the life of his own. Then...
CharacterEthicsLiterature Review
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Today we are discussing how modern texts like 10 Things I Hate about You has borrowed an older text like The Taming Of the Shrew by comparing and contrasting different elements of both stories. Characters are a significant part of both the Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You as they drive the story as a...
Literature ReviewTaming of the Shrew
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It is in our blood as humans to have the need for meaning in our life, but did we ever consider the questions; what is that meaning we constantly search in need, will we ever find it, and how? American philosopher Susan Wolf asks lots of questions but many of them concern what we should do with our lives also,...
Literature ReviewMeaning of LifePersonal Life
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Autism is one of world’s most problematic disorder in the world. 1 in 40 children are more than likely to develop that disease because of brain abnormalities in the brain structure or function. Having autism doesn’t make you weird or unlike everyone else, it makes you unique in your own special way. In a lot of families, Autism gives off...
AutismChildrenLiterature Review
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Sandel, M. J. (2015). Justice: What’s the right thing to do? New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Introduction: Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” second half follows the same formula as the first half.After exposing readers to three philosophies regarding the term justice, Sandel moves from introducing readers to the contemporary philosophies of Bentham,...
JusticeLiterature ReviewSociety
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Chronic Sleep Deprivation Chronic sleep deprivation (CSD), sleep less than 6 hrs a day over a long period of time, is a prevalent condition exiting among many adults and teenagers worldwide, which leads to various lasting effects on brain and health. This essay explores natures of a review article regarding CSD as well as the journal the article is published-in,...
Literature ReviewSleepSleep Deprivation
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There is no doubt that henry Lawsons short stories capture unique cultural perspectives and ideas about identity. Lawson uses many different techniques to depict and illustrate the outback of Australia and the bushland. His short stories helped to shape a great image of Australia during the 19th and 20th centuries. The stories illuminate the harshness and severity of the land...
Literature ReviewShort Story
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Abstract Literature is a writing measured to be as art form or any single writing thought to have intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage. It deals with nature and man’s relationship with external world. It has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose. The word 'subaltern' means inferior...
Literature ReviewShort Story
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Within the closing remarks of his outstanding work Mans Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl set the stage for which meaning-orientated therapy (Logotherapy) was to be born. For Frankl, human beings were meaning-seeking creatures; compasses tilted towards meaning; towards carrying out the appropriate activities that could help to contextualise a purposeful future, despite the inherent trials of life, or external tragedies...
Literature ReviewMeaning of LifePersonal Life
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Introduction Background In the recent decades the subsistence of refugee crisis has been on the rise. The problem of asylum seekers has become a major global humanitarian issue. This in turn has led to the issue of refugee asylum and repatriation becoming an issue of public interest and also of major political significance. This has led to major criticism made...
Literature ReviewRefugeeStudy
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The genocide of the Jews who lived in Europe by the Nazis caused the death of millions of innocent people. The term used to describe this period in history is The Holocaust. The victims who survived moved to other countries to start a new life. they survived by luck but their lives after the war were affected majorly and they...
HolocaustLiterature ReviewVictim
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Abstract This literature review looks at why religious individuals are happier than non-religious individuals and explores the mechanisms that are involved in the process. Introduction Happiness or subjective well being (SWB) can be defined as an overall increased satisfaction with life due to an abundance of positive life experiences an individual has while minimizing negative ones (Diener, 2013; Ryan &...
CorrelationHappinessLiterature Review
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Marriage is supposed to be beautiful and coping with each other. Where love is the main reason to still be together. The spouses can’t imagine life without each other. But what if it all turns upside down, death. The death of someone will impact the other and might fall into depression and sadness. In this case, it wasn’t so. The...
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The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a sci-fi type novel about a society where everyone is assigned a specific job to do and no one is allowed to have feelings or memories of anything. Society is dictated by a few people in charge and the rest of the people just go about following the rules and instructions they are given....
Literature ReviewNovelThe Giver
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An outsider is described as a person not belonging to a particular group' as defined in the Oxford Dictionary.' The Outsiders' was published by S.E. Hinton. It was set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s. It's about the rivalry between the two major youth groups. Their life is split into two major groups by money which is the Socs (Short...
CharacterLiterature ReviewThe Outsiders
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In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, Hansberry opens the play with a chaotic tone. The characters, Ruth, Travis and Walter were all rushing out of the house to get the day started. Through these characters, Hansberry unravels the value systems of a Black Family by allowing their family’s morals to dominate the current society’s expectations and devaluing...
A Raisin in the SunAmbitionLiterature Review
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The Novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry allows readers to examine many hidden lessons and messages throughout the story. In the book, we follow Jonas’ journey in learning the unpleasant truth about his community and his attempt to save its people before they destroy themselves. Many themes and messages are brought to light in the novel, like the negative impact...
Literature ReviewNovelThe Giver
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The Outsiders is a bildungsroman novel, written by S.E. Hinton when she was a teenager. Although it was written in the ’70s, the themes of loyalty, isolation, and identity explored throughout the novel are still pertinent to teenagers today. In The Outsiders, loyalty is a recurrent theme and a point of pride, honor, and principle for the greasers. Hinton displays...
Literature ReviewTeenagersThe Outsiders
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In the past the countries from all over the world can contact each other by dealing with them like media, that what called Globalization that is known as an open border on each other, so the question is the Globalization has an effect on sovereignty? , so that the first argument taking about the sovereignty’s External effect on sovereignty and...
GlobalizationLiterature Review
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This literature review will be looking into how Social class inequality has effects on mental health. Mental health plays a major role in society today and studies have shown that it has different factors and falls into many categories, which changes a person’s behaviour drastically. It is said that social class and poverty has a profound impact in who mental...
Literature ReviewSocial ClassSociety
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Abstract Demographic changes have led to an increase in occupational and geographical mobility in the labor markets making it a basis for the increase in discrimination at the workplace. The main reason being individual prejudice as attached to the way different individuals perceive things in different aspects of life as regards to the race, skin shading, national root, sexual orientation,...
DiscriminationImpactLiterature Review
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Intro In a society of book burners it is hard to not be ignorant and censored. These people are being censored by not the government or television but themselves. This article will cover the issues and themes of the book and the people. Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 surounds a society where books are not valued and technology is valued...
CensorshipFahrenheit 451Literature Review
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Being able to express oneself is a quality that makes a person who they are and determines what role they play in society. In the beginning of the book Montag lacks individual self-expression which is why he is clearly unhappy. Bradbury writes “Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to...
Fahrenheit 451Literature ReviewRay Bradbury
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The American culture is known to function as “The land of the free”. A land where it is possible for adjustment when it seems needed by the people. In Fahrenheit 451 It seems that it is embedded in the heads of Americans, that the outcome of tasks citizens want to achieve are more attainable if stuck to the program, and...
Fahrenheit 451FreedomLiterature Review
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Imagine living in a society where it was first established that freedom of speech and freedom of press will be protected, now imagine people stripping that away because they don’t agree with what was said or posted, it seems a bit contradicting, right? Many authors and publishers experience this when their material such as books or websites become censored because...
CensorshipFahrenheit 451Literature Review
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As society constantly evolves, burdening expectations and norms continue to rapidly develop, resulting in considerable pressure from others in the community. Gradually, In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the significant message is that expressing individuality, rather than conforming to societal norms, leads to one being truly happy. Bradbury uses Clarisse’s values contrasted with societal norms to imply that...
CharacterFahrenheit 451Literature Review
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Freedom is often defined as the power to act, speak, or think without restraint (Oxford dictionaries, 2019). It is undeniable that city life is packed with overwhelming routines and responsibilities. Thus, it is not surprising why a lot of people find ways to experience freedom such as going outside of the city or participating in activities within the city that...
FreedomLiterature Review
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Most people know what a fireman’s job is. Common knowledge is that they put out fires and occasionally rescue a pet that’s stuck on top of a tree. In Fahrenheit 451, firemen are a special group who are tasked with burning books and people who read them. Fahrenheit 451 is set in the future, in an American city that is...
CharacterFahrenheit 451Literature Review
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