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    Presentation 9/24/12 Essay #6 Jessica Brooks Pd. 2 The essay Citizen Ben: A worldly American’s Seven Great Virtues by Walter Isaacson is an essay begins talking about Benjamin Franklin. When we think of Benjamin Franklin our minds automatically turn to the story about him flying a kite in a lightening storm with a rod on to prove that lightening was electricity. This is one thing that Franklin did but he did many more as well‚ in fact it says that he was an inventor diplomat‚ writer

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    Art History Honors Take Home Exam Essay #1 Classical Greek Art is characterized by the emerging need among artists to imitate and perfect the ideal human form through idealized naturalism. The Classical period is marked by the introduction of the contrapposto position first seen in the Kritios Boy (ca 480 BC). The function of sculptures during this period was mostly to glorify gods and athletes usually depicted as male nudes. One of the most renowned sculptures of an athlete from that period

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    Chris Scheefer Cbs5150@psu.edu LAS Capstone – Global Perspective The dark side of Globalization – A new age of Global Terrorism The interdependence and interconnectedness of the new world is upon us. This new era Globalization has brought about many new frontiers and new opportunities; but this interconnectedness has a dark side. The world is now a mouse click away‚ with a global exchange of ideas and up to the minute news from anywhere

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    when the world is changing and wealth is a great power to change it with. Through the story telling of Kane’s life we are able to see how wealth changes‚ not only Kane’s ideals‚ but his actions and how he perceives the world. The corruption of idealism by wealth can be seen throughout the film‚ especially through the thoughts and actions of Kane and the other characters. For example‚ when Kane publishes his first newspaper for the Inquirer he prints his "Declaration of Principles". Jebediah Leland

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    The Main issue with J.P. Sartre’s Existentialism with both Communists and Christians seems to be that that the Communists and Christians do not accentuate enough on individualism compared to the‚ and that the world is big and hence society must be a whole and equal. Christians believe that life is a gift from God‚ and hence Sartre’s existentialism seems to undermine Christian belief that life is God’s gift‚ when existentialism tends to show reality of life which would show the depressive‚ bleak‚

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    consciousness. Initial Influences In the German Ideology (Marx 1980: 164)‚ the dominant German thought during Marx’s time‚ was one that “descended from heaven to earth”‚ was in fact embodying the school of Idealism. Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hegel were important German idealists‚ and for their idealism‚ existence does not precede consciousness‚ because we can only know about existence if we are conscious about it. Grounded in the philosophical thoughts of Kant and Hegel‚ the ideology of morality‚ religion

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    catalyst for his idealization of women. These women mentioned in this essay also display stupidity since they are fooled by Don Quijote’s idealism. On the other hand‚ Zoraida and Marcela are examples of two characters that do not submit to the idealism displayed by Don Quijote and other men in the novel. The power of Don Quijote’s creativity and thus idealism is described by Perry J. Powers: ‘Don Quijote’ …creates [for] himself‚ with the word “rocinante’…a charger out of a nag‚ and with the magic

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    Steinbeck ’s novel‚ "Of Mice and Men". The characters depicted by the author are individuals who are constantly facing one obstacle after another. The book illustrates different conflicts such as man versus society‚ man versus man‚ man versus himself and idealism versus reality. The book ’s backdrop is set in the Salinas‚ California during the depression. The two main characters include two men‚ George and Lennie. Supportive characters include a few ranch hands‚ Candy‚ Crooks‚ Curly‚ Slim and Carlson. First

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    human form. Grecian art was called Classical art because of the main fact that they were obsessed with not nudity‚ but with the idealism that is present in everything. During that time‚ Polyclitus wrote the Canon‚ which defined to artists the measurements and proportions of the human figure. By giving the artists these measurements‚ the Greeks hoped to achieve idealism and perfection in all of their present and future

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    The American dream is an ideal that has been present in American literature for a very long time. Typically‚ the dreamer aspires to rise from rags to riches‚ while accumulating such things as love‚ high status‚ wealth‚ and power on his way to the top. The dream has had different representations throughout different time periods‚ although it is generally based on ideas of freedom‚ self-reliance‚ and a desire for something greater. The early settlers’ dream of traveling out West to find land and

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