subjected to reason. Application of the scientific method was one way to determine which traditions needed to be discarded to ensure that human societies and nature progressed. The purpose of this paper is to discuss why Enlightenment thinkers were optimistic about the potential for human development by examining the concepts of reason‚ progress through education‚ and the natural human spirit. Ability of future generations to reason in every
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Voice of Democracy Why I am Optimistic About our Nation’s Furure Savannah Rippy To be optimistic about something means to be hopeful and confident about it. The word optimistic can be applied to several things. Such as; a person‚ an idea‚ and to me‚ our Nation’s future. When someone is optimistic about something‚ the person‚ idea‚ or thing usually means something to them‚ and America’s future means something to me. It means a great deal to me because I live in a place where I have the freedom
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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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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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other versions of you who walk‚ talk‚ and act just like you‚ with slightly different decisions that coincide with the major difference of that world. There may even be a world in which you were your generation’s Einstein‚ or their OJ Simpson. In Candide by Voltaire‚ Dr. Pangloss states that we as a people live in the best of all possible worlds‚ when in fact there are infinite possibilities‚ some better and some worse than our own. In my project‚ I used this theory to illustrate that we do not live
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put in their two cents of their views on the matter of happiness. Alexander Pope talks about the relationship and purpose man has to the universe in An Essay on Man‚ Voltaire wrote about living in blind optimism with a false notion of happiness in Candide‚ and Samuel Johnson wrote The History of Rasselas‚ Prince of Abyssinia‚ in which the main characters are on a quest to find happiness. Alexander Pope’s‚ An Essay on Man‚ tries to answer the question many have had about happiness and how to obtain
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“Why I’m Optimistic About Our Nation’s Future” Why I’m Optimistic About Our Nation’s Future is because right now we are fighting for total equality‚ among races‚ sexes‚ religions‚ and sexual orientations. Also‚ there is unemployment that will become a thing in the past that could branch off of the whole fighting for equality point. Economy with grow like the branching from employment becoming a thing of the past. Education will become more available‚ and could be because the economy stabilized
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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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