Chapter 42 – Epilogue Rennie Rennie sat in the lobby with his coat waiting for his cousins to come pick him up. As he waited‚ he fiddled with the zipper of his coat looking back at his adventure in Iceland. He wondered to himself how he lived through such a cold environment. After waiting a while‚ I turn around to see my cousing D.J. looking at me. “Rennie!” he cried scaring me out of my pants. “Yipes! You scared me!” I replied. I’ve never seen D.J. before‚ but he has a pretty similar resemblance
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Jasean currently lives with his mother and siblings. Jasean’s sibling has delinquency or criminal record. Jasean sometimes obeys his mother. Jasean is consistently subject to appropriate consequences for bad behavior and sometimes receives appropriate rewards for good behavior. His mother always practices good supervision. Nevertheless‚ his mother clearly disapproves of his behavior. Jasean’s home features some conflict that is distressing and some conflict‚ but it is well managed by Ms. Moore’s
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Aristotle‚ Immanuel Kant‚ and John Stuart Mill all discuss their philosophical systems‚ each striving to uncover the standard that guides morality. In Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle outlines his system‚ beginning with the Chief Good towards which everything aims. The Chief Good is happiness‚ and is achieved through a life well lived. A life well lived results from performing our characteristic activity well‚ and humans’ characteristic activity is reason. Thus Aristotle uses reason to differentiate
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In Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth could be considered as a tragic hero as defined by Aristotle. Namely‚ Macbeth is of noble stature and although he has a character flaw‚ his fate is not wholly deserved. Too late‚ Macbeth realises that he has been tricked; leading the readers to pity him. According to Aristotle: “a tragic hero is a character of noble stature”. It is seen that Macbeth is a respected nobleman as he is titled “Thane of Cawdor and Glamis”. “Brave Macbeth” is a mighty warrior
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VIRTUE ETHICS IN ARISTOTLE AND KANT Aristotle was the first western thinker to divide philosophy into branches which are still recognizable today: logic‚ metaphysics‚ and natural philosophy‚ philosophy of mind‚ ethics and politics‚ rhetoric; he made major contributions in all these fields. He was born in Stagira‚ a city of northern Greece in 384 BC. His father Nicomachus was a doctor at the court of Amyntas of Macedon‚ who preceded Philip‚ the conqueror of much of Greece. Aristotle later served as
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Sherman Alexie’s composition of short stories‚ called The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven‚ clearly describes aspects of Indian culture that many people wouldn’t already know. The stories are informative‚ descriptive and interesting. Disappointment is a depressing frustrating and repeated theme throughout almost every one of Sherman Alexie’s short stories. One of the very first introductions of disappointment to the reader is when the father of one of the main characters‚ Victor‚ leaves
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All That Heaven Allows Subverts the 1950’s Woman’s Film A widow named Cary Scott‚ the protagonist of All That Heaven Allows (1955)‚ shows forbidden desires for a much younger gardener presenting many female topics that would usually go unrecognised‚ such as fantasy‚ wistfulness‚ desire and unconventional romance and this is perceived remarkably well with the narrative. Douglas Sirk‚ an auteur directs this melodrama giving this genre of film a new meaning. He enjoyed working for many studios
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In Nicomachean Ethics in the first book‚ Aristotle claims that to discover the human good we must identify the function of a human-being. He argues that the human function is rational activity. Our good is therefore rational activity performed well‚ which Aristotle takes to mean in accordance with virtue. This argument has been criticized at almost every point. Aristotle’s ’function’ argument is defined in book one of his book Nimoachean Ethics. The purpose of the book is to discover the human good
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Potlatch means ‘giving’. The potlatch was an opulent ceremony where possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige‚ by potential candidates to political offices and titles. Anthropologists tried to come up with way to understand this seemingly irrational conspicuous consumption. There are three explanations that anthropologists have given in an attempt to explain this behavior however this essay will compare two of the three namely the cultural-ecological and the Marxist
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1.4 pets or leaving everything behind to take the once in a lifetime opportunity to be with my soul mate is a difficult decision to make. However through Aristotle‚ Kant‚ and Mills I can determine the most ethical decision. I could not make a decision on staying with my current family or leaving for my soul mate based on happiness. Aristotle stated that true happiness cannot be determined by yourself or how you feel. True happiness itself is living a complete life while fulfilling a broad range
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