10-5-11 Does Voltaire’s Candide connect to Modern Society? The tone and theme of Candide‚ a classic work of literature‚ make the novel relevant to today’s modern world. These two elements of the story bring the classic to life for new generations to relate to as they read it. The satiric story unites a new generation of modern readers to a historical past as they identify with both the theme and tone of the novel as a whole. The tone of Voltaire’s highly satirical work is humorously hopeless‚ and the
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Antigone is still relevant in the world today. The characters in this play are very relatable. One characteristic that often shows up is hubris‚ which is also known as pride. Because many people can relate to Creon’s hubris‚ Sophocles’ Antigone is still relevant today. In Antigone‚ Creon’s hamartia is his pride‚ which can more accurately be called hubris. For example‚ Creon says‚ “Who is the man here‚ / She or I‚ if this crime goes unpunished?” (Sophocles Scene 2‚ 82-83) In this quote‚ Creon feels
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Would one die for love? Think about one losing their life over another loved one. Romeo and Juliet is a relevant work for a person in modern time due to it ways of teaching one about love‚hold a grudge and also push one to much. These are always ways that Romeo and Juliet are relevant to modern society. No matter how old and out dated works of art are they always find a way to teach one. Romeo and Juliet teaches one not to jump right into love. The Romeo states “Let me be taken‚ let me put to
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Discuss Dr.Faustus as a tragedy relevant to all times. The word tragedy finds its origin in Greek spirit‚theory and mythology in the word tragedia. Tragedy tends to bring to mind the thoughts of pity and sympathy. According to Aristotle‚ the famous Greek philosopher emotions of pity and fear are aroused while watching or listening to a tragedy. Tragedy is a play that represents a central action or plot that is serious and significant. These plays involve a main character that is a normal human
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resulting from the accounts of the natives by fellow countrymen ? My paper seeks to examine how relevant is the question of postcolonialism in those locations whose inhabitants find themselves being ‘othered’ in their own country by their fellow countrymen. Many critics hold the opinion that the question of postcolonialism is still relevant as the process of decolonisation is far from complete. And as Leela Gandhi has pointed out nationalism
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very mellow; and they kept this up for days and nights together. By day‚ London was a sight to see‚ with gay banners waving from every balcony and housetop‚ and splendid pageants marching along. By night‚ it was again a sight to see‚ with its great bonfires at every corner‚ and its troops of revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby‚ Edward Tudor‚ Prince of Wales‚ who lay lapped in silks and satins‚ unconscious of all this fuss‚ and not knowing that
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advocated. The three primary approaches currently being debated include the structural‚ information processing/cognitive‚ and life-span developmental/developmental dimensions approaches. The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences and similarities between these three broad approaches. However‚ this exposition would be incomplete without a discussion of the concept of world views (Kuhn‚ 1970; Pepper‚ 1942). An individual’s theoretical position is affected by their world views. This world view
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Shallow-water Acoustics and Relevant Physics By: Elizabeth Fortlage Underwater Acoustics is a complex phenomenon. Leonardo da Vinci simplified the concept in 1940‚ two years before Columbus discovered America‚ by saying “If you can cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear‚ you will hear ships at a great distance from you.” (5‚ p.2) There are many factors that contribute to the complexity of underwater acoustics and sonar
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William Shakespeare is still relevant to modern students today as his poetry & particularly his plays‚ they are still among the greatest ever and always will be. His work will always be unmatched in the history of the English language. Even though Shakespeare’s sonnets were written over four-hundred years ago‚ they are still relevant today because all of the ideas and issues that Shakespeare addresses in his sonnets are still relevant to people today. Shakespeare had a very good understanding of
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kinds of people. The Gettysburg Address touched several topics such as human equality‚ peace and honoring soldiers. The Gettysburg Address is still relevant today due to its motivational words towards human equality and paying tribute to war veterans. To quote the speech‚ Lincoln said "Fourscore and seven years ago‚ our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation‚ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal". Here Lincoln was saying that when our founding
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