personal‚ and universal ethical egoism (Hinman‚ page 119). There where two pieces of literature‚ Flannery O ’Connor ’s short story‚ "The Displaced Person" which has lots of characters that illustrate the different types of ethical egoism‚ Alexander Solzhenitsyn ’s novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich‚ which is basically about one character who illustrates ethical egoism‚ and the movie Gandhi which to me shows Gandhi as a rational egoist. The first type of egoism I am going to use is individual
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not exactly known‚ scholars and victims of the Gulag have estimates for the number of people in the Gulag. Solzhenitsyn‚ a well noted victim of the Gulag‚ writes in the Archipelago(a name for Gulag describing how isolated and barbaric it was in an ocean of regularity)‚ “We saw that millions of us prisoners were flowing past and knew that millions more would greet us in the camps” (Solzhenitsyn). The quote shows the utter number of prisoners inside of the camps: millions upon millions of prisoners existed
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Kropotkin wrote a great essay called “Emancipating the Serfs (1861). In that essay he gave great statistics about emancipation‚ he said that around 30 million of serfs received their freedom and around 90 million acres of land were distributed among the serfs. However‚ even though these numbers favor serfs‚ it doesn’t mean that it actually favors them. Peasants were still under obligation to their landowners‚ they were forced to pay rent for their land after two-year initial hiatus. They had to keep
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composer in Austria. Shortly after Mozart’s death‚ gossip spread that in great jealousy‚ he murdered Mozart. Even though there was no real reason for Antonio Salieri to kill Mozart‚ people soon invented one. For example‚ the famous Russian writer‚ Aleksandr Pushkin wrote a one-act play entitled Mozart and Salieri. In this play‚ Pushkin suggested that Salieri was overwrought with jealousy because
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“Seventeen and half” (11) below zero and that is a warm day in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The climate is not the only challenging part of the Gulag; the fight to survive also includes a battle with one’s self and one’s fellow prisoners. If I were in the gulag‚ I think that the virtues of fortitude and hope would help me to survive. Two virtues that I would need to grow in to survive‚ I think are humility and charity. To be humble in the Gulag and submit oneself
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Abraham Lopez History 112 – W16 4818 Note Book Writing – 508 words Week 1 – Pg. 465 – 518 Question: Who began of what we call today the “Scientific Revolution” and what was the “Scientific Revolution” in the 16th and 17th centuries? A member of the begging order founded by St. Francis‚ who was from England named Roger Bacon‚ which was born in 1214 and died in 1294‚ went around verbally assaulting people that thought they were scientists. Roger Bacon said that philosophers did not test their theories
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1. What were the main reasons for World War I? 2. What were the results of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and what happened to the Romanov family? 3. What reforms were proposed by Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata? 4. What caused the end of the Manchu Dynasty in China? 5. What were the goals of revolutionary China? 6. What was the weakness of the League of Nations? 7. What were some of the new weapons used in WWI and what was trench warfare? 8. What was
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In Donetsk’s Lenin Square‚ Yuroslav Korotenko keeps a constant vigil inside a collapsible shelter set up just a few feet away from a monolithic statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. "We stay here and save this monument and this place‚ because people in the West come this place with war‚" Korotenko says. "People from Donetsk think about peace with Russian Federation and don’t want war in our town." Korotenko portrays him self as a guardian of the square‚ in which countless numbers
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1. The cartoon suggests that the consequences of hyperinflation for ordinary Germans was that they were starving and did not have enough money to buy food because of the rise in prices. They may have had plenty of physical money‚ but it was not enough to pay for food since it had been devalued. It had resulted in people starving. The artist’s choice to use the metaphor of drowning to illustrate those consequence might be explained by the fact that the production of more money had become so much that
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are no freer than he is” (40) – a man whose mind is only subjected to the unjust oppression by the Soviet Government – his ideas of what the sun and the moon can mean is significantly repressed to misfortunes that is perpetuated by the camp. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel‚ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich‚ the sun and the moon are symbols of three ideas that were derived from the Ivan Denisovich’s experience in the Gulag camp: incarceration and liberty . Although the sun is
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