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    that he would be there for others who are suffering or in distress. Cunnell believes that Masters is a good role model to men because even after being so angry and hurt to the point where it landed him in prison‚ Masters confronted his pain and emptiness and turned it into something that supported others. Anderson also refers to the idea that men have to open up and acknowledge the damage that the patriarchal society has caused them. He states that the only way to resist the patriarchy is to understand

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    misunderstanding that leads people to believe Buddhism is pessimistic or nihilistic? - People don’t understand its meaning and think it’s superficially. Most common misunderstandings are about the teaching‚ “life is suffering” “out-worldly” and “emptiness”. 6. What is the madhyamika-prasangika (developed by the monk Nagarjuna and his pupil Chadrakirti) path also referred to as? -To explore and observe; nothing exist absolutely in dependently isolation of exist for its causes and

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    everything. Socrates believed this was a way everyone should live. “Life without this sort of examination is not worth living.”(Aporia and the wisdom of emptiness‚ Socrates pg??). “Socrates modeled the ultimate peace within aporia in his confrontation with death‚ maintaining his curiosity and seriousness‚ his awe and levity.”(Aporia and the wisdom of emptiness‚ Socrates pg??) He did his best while speaking to these people that he kept the conversation serious using what he was wondering and lighting the

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    the complete opposite of life in the West Egg and in New York. Transferred epithet as well as personification is used when describing the movement of the cars. It is said that even the cars ‘crawl’ and once again‚ this stresses to the readers the emptiness in the valley. Up until this juncture‚ Fitzgerald uses cars as a symbol of power and along with power tends to co me wealth. For all the wealthy characters in the novel such as Gatsby and the Buchanan‚ a car comes

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    them. The two women are criminals‚ untrusted by society‚ but the moment they accuse those nine boys of attacking them‚ society takes the side of the whites‚ because the nine boys are of color and because “what was presumed to be the black man’s insatiable sexual appetite for white women had struck fear in the hearts of Southern whites” (Scottsboro Boys: An American Tragedy). This goes to show that prejudice takes priority when it came

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    The Journey in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” In the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor‚ the grandmother searches for grace and redemption in a world full of sin‚ racism‚ and death and finds it through faith. This takes her on a journey that proves hard and difficult and one that leads her to the one good man‚ The Lord. On the journey‚ she has racist thoughts‚ is self-indulgent‚ and puts her trust in financial resources and social manners. It is not until the end of her

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    fulfillment‚ which can be seen through eros. Human nature can be simply defined in our constant want and need for infinite. The infinite‚ for humans‚ is never being satisfied‚ always wanting more‚ the best‚ and as much as we can get of something. This insatiable drive within all of us takes us to the question of human fulfillment. Eros is not a noun but yet an action or an activity. For instance‚ eros is the longing and search for a significant other throughout our lives. By the same token‚ we search for

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    anomie. The difference between the two. Durkheim’s conceptualization of anomie is based on a general assumption about the psychological or biological nature of individual human beings. He wrote that that the human “capacity or feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss” ( 1951: 247). From his point of view‚ individual happiness and wellbeing depend on the ability of society to impose external limits on the potentially limitless passions and appetites that characterise human nature in general

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    achieved the American Dream of material success. The material success that they have accomplished has made them have very little or no concern towards their parents and siblings. In the Richard Rodriguez’s description of his family at Christmas‚ the emptiness of material success is made clear through descriptions of siblings‚ mother and his views about his family and their behavior. The imagery‚ actions and the behavior of the siblings illustrate the superficiality of the material success that

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    the spirit of an age in “The Hollow Men.” Immediately in the epigraph‚ Eliot makes a direct reference (from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) to “Mistah Kurtz‚” a man who realizes the emptiness and futility of his life on his deathbed. By using contrasting diction and imagery‚ Eliot carries this sentiment of emptiness throughout the first stanza. The first stanza begins with “we are the hollow men” and “we are the stuffed men‚” two extremely contrasting statements. Diction here is extremely important

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