Philosophical Essays and Term Papers
Fascismgained popularity because many intellectuals, artists, and political thinkers in the late 19th century began to reject the philosophical emphasis on rationality and progress that had emerged from the 18th-century movement the Enlightenment. These two trends had many effects. For example, new ...
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Biography Of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17,
1706. He was the youngest son in a family of seventeen. His father was a
salesman of candles and soap. Because the Franklin family was poor, Ben
wasn't able to get much education. When he was ten years old, his father
took him ...
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Heart Of Darkness: Ignorance And RacismJoseph Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual
responsibility, and social justice in his book Heart of Darkness. His book has
all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting,
escape, suspense, unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on ...
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ReligionsWhen studying history, both in a professional and academic sense,
we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods.
Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of human nature,
a bond that forms from continent to continent, human being to human being.
Is there a ...
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Marijuana: The Untold StoryCannabis has been one of the most controversial and most misunderstood genus of the plant kingdom. Used for a number of things including clothing, paper, fuel, food, and medicine, marijuana seems to be a wonder crop. However in 1937 due to some of its medical and chemical properties, U.S. ...
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Ralph Waldo Emersonwho was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston was known as, "the leading member of the group of New England idealists known as the transcendentalists." [Benet- 17] His father, editor of the "Monthly Anthology" - a review of literature, and pastor at the Unitarian Church in Boston, died in 1811, when ...
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Karl Marx Biography And Synopsis of Views
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known ...
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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"The consensus was that the poem's speaker is attempting to persuade "His Coy Mistress" to have sex with him. The speaker seems frustrated, impatient, and to feel a sense of urgency in pursuing this goal.
Some students argued that the speaker's words are mostly empty rhetoric--that he doesn't ...
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American Involvement In The Cuban RevolutionThe revolution in Cuba was not a result of economic deprivation, nor
because of high expectations in the economy, it was the political factors
and expectations which evoked the civilians to revolt. The Cuban economy
was moving forward at the time before the rebellion but the dominant
influence ...
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Candide-Purposeful SatireCandide - Voltaire's Writing Style
In Candide, Voltaire uses many writing techniques which can also
be found in the works of Cervantes, Alighieri, Rabelais and Moliere.
The use of the various styles and conventions shows that, despite the
passage of centuries and the language differences, ...
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Glory: A ReviewGlory captures the heroism of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the first black
regiment in the Civil War, the Massachusetts "Fighting" Fifty-fourth. An
extremely talented cast and crew earned three Academy Awards (cinematography,
sound and supporting actor) and five nominations for their work in ...
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Karl Marxwas born on May 5, 1818, in a place called Trier in Prussia. His parents were of Jewish descent, however they did not practice Judaism. In 1824 Karl's father adopted Protestantism. Marx attended the university of Bonn and later the university at Berlin, where he studied in law, while majoring in ...
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The Absurd And CamusThe Absurd is a much misunderstood philosophical category, primarily due to its sense of linguistic finality both in French and English. To use the expression "that's absurd!" brings with it an automatic negative judgement and a feeling that all further discussion is thereby closed.
For Camus, ...
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Astrologyis the science of certain cryptic relations between the celestial
bodies and terrestrial life. It is considered an art and a practical science.
It lays no claim to be what used to be called an exact science, but studies
certain predispositions or tendencies in human life, which are ...
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Voltaire And MachiavelliThe novel, Candide, by Voltaire, is a scathing, satirical criticism of the world. It is a product of possibly the greatest philosopher of the Enlightenment. The novel examines many aspects of the world, which Voltaire found to be troublesome. These different aspects include everything from ...
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Free Will Vs. Fate In The OpenThe Open Boat, by Steven Crane, demonstrates fate vs. free will. In this story the characters are subject to contemplating how their fate is being determined, however free will cannot be dismissed as a contributor to their situation. The fine line between fate and free will, if it exists, is ...
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History Of The Far EastBuddhism came to Japan in the sixth century AD, it was the world's first religion since it originated in India and developed in China. Japanese culture was undeveloped, there was no real literature, or historical records and laws, also the arts and sciences were almost totally undeveloped ( de ...
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Great ExpectationsThe very title of this book indicates the confidence of conscious
genius. In a new aspirant for public favor, such a title might have
been a good device to attract attention; but the most famous
novelist of the day, watched by jealous rivals and critics, could
hardly have selected it, had he ...
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The Chain Of ArtCubism was one of the strongest art movements in the 20th century that gave birth to many other movements such as futurism and suprematism. The Forefathers of this revolutionary way of painting were Pablo Picasso and George Braque. Although it may have seemed to be abstract and geometrical to an ...
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The Life Of Deadheads And Music Of The Grateful Dead"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
In 1967, Timothy Leary persuaded America's youth to “tune in, turn
on, and drop out.” ...
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