WORLD LITERATURE II (ENGL 2112 FALL 2014) EXAM II REVIEW This is a comprehensive exam‚ however you will only be required to discuss these texts in specific detail: Hedda Gabler | “Araby” | “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” | “The Yellow Wallpaper” | A Night in Hell | “The Second Coming” | “When You Are Old” | Six Characters in Search of an Author | “The Metamorphosis” Types of Questions on this Exam I. Multiple Choice—select the best answer from the options provided. II. Identification—provide
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Jean Paul Sartre Sartre’s Life Jean-Paul Charles-Aymard Sartre was born on June 21‚ 1905‚ in Paris‚ France. His father‚ Jean-Baptiste Sartre‚ was an officer in the French Navy. His mother‚ Anne-Marie Schweitzer‚ was the cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Sartre was one year old when his father died. He was raised in Meudon‚ at the home of his tough grandfather Charles Schweitzer‚ a high school professor. His early education included music‚ mathematic‚ and classical literature
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Leanne Whittemore Lecturer: John McDonough ENGL 299-014 02/21/2013 Essay #1 False Hope The characters in The Glass Menagerie all hope for a better future which is filled with success and happiness. This hope flickers throughout the play and is finally put out all together in the closing actions of the play. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams‚ this sense of hope is symbolized by light. It is shown in the very descriptive stage directions‚ the specific objects pertaining to light
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Are We a Mind‚ a Body or Both? Of all the topics that are currently occupying the attention of philosophers‚ the Mind-Body problem is at center stage. It is one of the classical metaphysical issues concerning the relationship between that which is mental and that which is physical. The simple question asked is: what are we? Are we a mind‚ a body or both? The issue has its origins in the ancient dualism of Plato and since then many solutions to the problem have been offered. D.M. Armstrong s The Mind-Body
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Quan‚ 1 William Quan Matthew Piper MCWP 50 Sec 003 Consciousness: 823616/7 Annotated Bibliography: Draft 2 Due 1/27/15 Works Cited Question & Purpose: My overall question is whether Artificial Intelligence could evolve into an Artificial Consciousness‚ however‚ my in depth interests are whether cyborgs‚ half human‚ half machine‚ are possible in the next decade. Aside from the philosophical and moral issues that are brought up‚ and a slight tangent‚ I just want to know if it is possible based on Moore
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experienced both higher and lower pleasures‚ and would not willingly switch from a life of higher pleasures to a life of lower pleasures. Through controlled experiences‚ Griffen and Speck argue in New Evidence of Animal Consciousness that animals do possess some form of primary consciousness enabling them to experience these lower pleasures that Mill describes. Intellectual pleasures may be unique to humans‚ but sensual pleasures are now being examined and documented in animals. How do we‚ as humans
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quantum theory may show how our perception and reality may both be subjective. In his paper‚ Nagel argues that the analogies and theories frequently employed by scientists to explain the mind-body relationship fail because they do not account for consciousness in physical terms. Furthermore‚ no such theory can be found because “when we examine their subjective character it seems that such a result is impossible” (Negal 220). This is because phenomenon is subjective and connective inseparable from a single
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Richardson and Porter use the stream of consciousness to add depth to their characters‚ and to tell the story of their characters experiences before dying and their thoughts of their life. Answers.com tells us that the stream of consciousness is a “literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur”. Richardson’s stream of consciousness is more to the point about death; it states in short sentence bursts the action‚ the consciousness of death‚ and the pain that we
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Section A The incident happened when I was still in my halcyon days. Amy was my best friend and I am going to retell the story of a false accusation made towards her. As described‚ they were in an empty classroom and putting all their belongings in their respective bags. Amy and her team mates then went to the netball practice after packing up their belongings. In the midst of the break time‚ Amy‚ who has always been a helpful girl‚ volunteered to get her
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Problem Set – June 11th 1. How does our spatial representation of time constitute an element of consciousness? Jaynes outlines six essential features to consciousness in modern humans. The first is spatialization. This describes the ability to metaphorically construct abstract concepts in a spatial map. For example‚ think about human history from about 1000 AD to today. How did you conceive of this concept? Did you see a timeline running left to right‚ with bullet points for the Norman Conquest
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