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Ayn Rand: Human Existence
Words: 1314 / Pages: 5 .... gifted with superior reason, is capable of understanding, interpreting, and using this reality.”
Because most people in today’s world feel a moral obligation to help others, whether truthfully or not, they go against what Rand encourages people to do. However, there are some people in the world today, especially in the U.S., that all they do care about is themselves. Their primary goal in life is to gain money, and earn a successful career that will entail them to live a happier, more enjoyable life. These people are determined and positive and obstinate, in Rand’s eyes. This type of person is becoming more and more apparent in today’s e .....
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Candide 2
Words: 1571 / Pages: 6 .... Voltaire offers sad events that are disguised with jokes and witticism, and the story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life. The story deals with irrational ideas as taught to Candide about being optimistic, versus reality as seen by the rest of the world.
The overwhelming theme that is presented throughout the story is optimism. Out of every unfortunate situation in the story, Candide, the main character, is advised by his philosopher-teacher that everything in the world happens for the best, because "Private misfortunes contribute to the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the more we find tha .....
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“Case Study: ‘I Still Do My Job, Don’t I?’”
Words: 598 / Pages: 3 .... below adequate job performance. This could be too big of a problem to remedy with a stern talking to. If there were one or two “Bad apples” in a good bunch, you might have a chance to bring them up to par with a private conversation and some peer pressure from the “Good guys.” But, when the whole bunch is bad, the task may be too large.
Assistant Manager, Phillip Tate, dated an employee. This we can work with. Both General Manager, William Bonney, and Manager, John Aston, should have a meeting with Tate and the employee to explain company policy (both, Bonney and Aston, need to be present to enforce the severity of the issue). Close mon .....
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Beowulf
Words: 1218 / Pages: 5 .... my word make good my promises. To your Geat-friends now will make you come with counsel courage for their hearts through long comfort years”(1706). The Geats need someone to believe in and who would believe in someone with low self-esteem or someone who didn’t believe in themselves. The people need assurance and they found that assurance in . reassures his people that the Dragon will be dealt with and gives them courage to withstand this threat. “ I lived in my youth through hard war-moments--- now here I am ready battle weary king battered with winters for final glory-time if that grim hall burner will come to meet me from his mound of g .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 7
Words: 663 / Pages: 3 .... to act respectably and not act like trash. The Ewells’ in this story are just above the colored folks only because they are white. Most people look down upon them resulting in avoidance. This caste system exists because in Maycomb it is the way things have always been. Class structure promotes a sense of security for the people, and that’s the way the people want it to stay.
Since this story takes place in the 1930s there is also a prejudice towards women. Men believed that women were the weaker sex, and not equal to a man. A prime example of this is when the men believed they should protect their women from Tom Robinson because he .....
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Albert Camus: People's Inability To Act And Schindler's List
Words: 711 / Pages: 3 .... I believe that Albert Camus is correct, people are under a vale
of impotence when it comes to the tragedies of the world, and that people can
easily overcome this inability and reverse their fate, or let the “Gorgon”
devour them. Camus's beliefs can be proved through the use of examples from the
movie Schindler's List.
Oscar Schindler, the movie's main character, is, in the beginning of the
movie, not actually aware of the full extent of the killing of Jews and the
powerful anti-Semitic outlook of his comrades. His ties relating to the affairs
of the Nazi party and his loyalty to his country shield him from this knowledge.
Thus, it can b .....
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The Orestia
Words: 730 / Pages: 3 .... of justice, it upheld the advantages of reasonable fairness.
The supporting rationalization, I listed above might not have been taken into Athena’s consideration of this matter; however, one must consider the practical application of the verdict. This application ceased the Taleonic nature that had befitted the House of Atrius. Although it is difficult to imagine that this action was in the interest of fairness, the applied perspective that the outcome was more important the means, supplied the burden of proof for this acquittal.
Many parallels between modern American juris prudence and that applied in Orestes case can be illustrated, with a pri .....
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Summary Of Hamlet
Words: 639 / Pages: 3 .... that Claudius had indeed murdered King Hamlet by pouring poison in his ear. Hamlet is further enraged and plots of how to revenge his father's death.
In his anger, Hamlet seems to act like a madman, prompting King Claudius, his wife Gertrude, and his advisor Polonius to send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet and figure out why he is acting mad. Hamlet even treats Polonius' daughter Ophelia rudely, prompting Polonius to believe Hamlet is madly in love with her, though Claudius expects otherwise. Polonius, a man who talks too long- windedly, had allowed his son Laertes to go to France (then sent Reynaldo to spy on Laertes) and had .....
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The Joy Luck Club Essay - Amy
Words: 685 / Pages: 3 .... other family. Promises are very important in Chinese tradition. With every decisions made her life is already made for her. "Huang Taitai hurried me upstairs to the second floor and into the kitchen, which was a place where family children didn't usually go...I missed my family about stomach felt bad, knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged." (Tam 1989, pg.49) Being in arranged marriages will not be about love and trust but just to be their as a long life wife.
During Lindo's first marriage, her husband treated her as a slave more than a wife, because he did not even care about Lindo's feeling, and he was not take any respo .....
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Beowulf Vs. Mcmurtry
Words: 721 / Pages: 3 .... I couldn't at first, but then I had the chance to read Beowulf and that passage changed my mind.
The only way the people in Beowulf's story could get into heaven was by earning fame. They needed to prove themselves strong, immortal, and have a song made about them to prover that they are, in fact, worthy of a spot in heaven. "And Beowulf uttered his final boast: 'I've never known fear, as a youth I fought in endless battles. I am old, now, but I will fight again, seek fame still, if the dragon hiding in his tower dares to face me."
Not only are war and football alike in game, but they are alike in name. "The family resemblance between footbal .....
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