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    in optimism affect who we are today? We did not just spontaneously appear and start giving life lessons when we first came into this world. No‚ we built our understanding of the world from the knowledge that was surrounded around us. The ones who taught the goods and the evils of this world‚ along with teaching us the rights and wrongs‚ those are our roots. In your life and mine‚ the roots of optimism are instilled through the people that are around us. To understand our roots of optimism‚ we

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    everyone else is doing. In the stories "Candide" and "The Love Suicides at Amijima‚" it is proved that almost anyone can be a hero. This is established when people of the so called "middle class" emerge as heroes. Candide finds himself in several situations where it is necessary to be a hero. The first situation in which Candide is a hero is when he is kicked out of the castle in Thunder-ten-tronckh‚ for having a sexual encounter with Cunegund. Thereafter‚ Candide is captured by the Bulgarians and is

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    Jennifer Smith Optimism and Health PSY/220 Joshua Cohen June 1‚ 2014 The first article that I found on the effects of optimism on physical health was called Optimism and Physical: A meta-analytic review. This article grabbed my attention because it gave the research of two different groups who were studying two outcomes of optimism and physical health. The first thing covered in the article was what optimism in terms of health is. Optimism was said to be a significant predictor

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    tales from mythology‚ and literature. It is described as being interpersonal‚ impersonal‚ and religious interpretation. The central role of love is in many works that we’ve read so far. It is incredibly important in Moliere’s Tartuffe‚ Voltaire’s Candide‚ and Flaubert’s "A Simple Heart". Although different messages‚ all three of these works of literature deal with various aspects of love which includes sufficient bargain of love of both human and divine. In the play

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    finding Cunegonde. In the first chapter of Candide‚ candied gets expelled from the castle where he was living in. Candide was caught kissing the barons daughter and was literally kicked out of Thunder-Ten-Tronckh‚ which was the castle of the baron. This situation is an example of deflation. It shows deflation because Candide went from living in a very high regarded castle to being kicked out vigorously by the baron himself‚ into the street. Candide was the baron’s sister son‚ and was very respectable

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    Chapter 20: What Happened to Candide When He Visited the Acclaimed High School of Diamond Bar. While walking on the finest cleanest pavement‚ Candide knew he had arrived at the one place every human being wants to be every day. "Diamond Bar High School"‚ they called it. Never has he seen such a beautiful sight! The buildings were so beautifully built‚ and a multitude of smiling and laughing children littered the campus ground. It was at the crack of dawn when Candide followed some students into what

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    What was the historical significance of Voltaire’s ’Candide’ and it’s relevance during the Enlightenment? In his work‚ Candide‚ Voltaire uses satire as a means of conveying his opinions about many aspects of European society in the eighteenth century‚ a period known as the Enlightenment. This Age of Reason swept through Europe‚ offering differing views on science‚ religion‚ and politics. The following essay will outline the philosophical theory of Pangloss‚ a character of the novel and suggest

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    Bella Thiel Professor Darren World Literature II 5/24/2012 Do you think Candide gained Insight? I believe that while Candide lived in the castle‚ he was very innocent and naïve‚ and did not know much about the reality of life. Obviously‚ he was taught by Pangloss who is a fool acting like the world they live in is the best world and the castle as well. He did not prepare Candide well‚ so when Candide gets kicked out of the Castle‚ he takes a big hit. He grew up in the castle so of course he

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    movement‚ a Franciscan friar works as a jewel thief. and a Jew who is no different than other buys a woman for a sex slave. In Chapter Three‚ the orator (usually Catholic at that time) had been addressing a crowd about the virtues of charity‚ then tells Candide that he deserves to

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    Throughout Voltaire’s Candide and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels‚ the main characters of the works (Candide and Gulliver respectively) serve as vehicles for satire through which the authors can convey their views. It is important to note that both Candide and Gulliver serve as irons throughout the book; that is to say‚ the reader is shown irony through the actions of these characters‚ while at the same time the characters are naïve and remain oblivious to their situation (on a satiric level

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