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    Love is Blindness

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    Love The saying ’love makes the world go round’ is accurate‚ in a metaphorical sense. Some people may disagree‚ saying that greed or money makes the world go round‚ but in order to be greedy you have to love something (or at least feel passionately about it) and the most common thing greedy people crave is money‚ even if it is to buy other things. Films are made about it‚ books and songs and poems are written‚ artists draw and paint and sculpt‚ people spend their entire lives waiting for ’The

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    The ignorance of discrimination  Discrimination is a serious issue that is unfortunately rampant across the globe. There are different categories ranging from race‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ and weight or height. Some people discriminate without knowing the true ramifications of their actions. Also not being aware of how uncomfortable and self-conscience their words or actions are going to affect others. In the stories‚ The Myth of the Latin Women by Judith Ortiz Cofer and Discrimination at

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    Pluralistic Ignorance

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    Many areas of student behavior might be influenced by pluralistic ignorance. The practice of hooking up and other uncommitted sexual relations have been influenced by pluralistic ignorance. In a 2000 study it was shown that eighty-six percent of men and eighty-eight percent of women hooked up during their college careers. This process of hooking up has become normative in recent years because students believe that their attitudes and beliefs are different from the norm. Males and females both believe

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    Theme of Blindness Sophocles was a prolific writer and his long life enabled him to have a prodigious literary output. There is always a deep philosophic content at the back of Sophocles’ plays. Men suffer in the tragedies of Sophocles‚ characterisation always charged with emotion and poetry guesstimates the growth and development of his dramatic genius. One of the main underlying themes in Oedipus Rex is blindness. Not just physical blindness‚ but intellectual blindness as well. The blindness issue

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    Ignorance Is Fatal

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    Ignorance is Fatal Imagine you are reading your favorite book‚ and suddenly it burns‚ flaming‚ eventually curls into a crisp‚ and turns to dust‚ right in your hands. You would feel horrible‚ right‚ scared even? Well that is exactly how Stendahl felt in The Martian Chronicles‚ a compilation of short science fiction stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury demonstrates his rage towards Government politics which lead to the banning and burning of books by tell a story about a man‚ by the name of William

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    Plato's Ignorance

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    are the ones that make up the society that calls out ignorance but fail to correct it. Both Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" and the Wachowski’s The Matrix illustrate that ignorance is blissful for those that have not yet gained the knowledge to obtain enlightenment but as soon as one faces reality then they can better themselves in order to free society of their ignorance. In the beginning‚ the cavedweller and Neo lived in a world of ignorance where they are stuck not knowing about the true reality

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    Importance Of Ignorance

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    are functioning properly. Knowledge and experience can be functional to people because they can use their experiences and learn what is better to do in certain situations. However‚ I believe innocence and ignorance to roles and situations are more functional for people. Innocence and ignorance helps run a cooperative society because we are blind to the unknown and continue to fulfill our roles. We will not “be hopelessly neurotic” because we will not find out that we are “confined in darkness” and

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    Ignorance Is Bliss

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    Yuliana Havryshchuk Mrs. Nayyar ENG3U 6 December 2011 Ignorance is Bliss “Ignorance is bliss” is a world famous quote from an old poem written by Thomas Grey. It highlights the inherent relationship between ignorance and happiness. Ignorance is often presented in a negative light- its positive aspects never explored. Daniel Keyes’ short story Flowers for Algernon demonstrates the possible benefits to living in ignorance‚ through Charlie‚ a man with a mental disability who has his intelligence

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    the veil of ignorance

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    Argumentatively discuss the strengths and weaknesses of John Rawls ‘Veil of ignorance’ method John Rawls was a leader in moral and political philosophy‚ a political theorist who argues against utilitarianism and communism. Rawls works with the social contract theory of Hobbes‚ Locke‚ Rousseau and Kant and argues that the moral and political point of view is discovered via impartiality. Rawls explores this viewpoint by envisioning persons in a hypothetical situation‚ the ‘original position’. The

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    Homer's Blindness

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    ‘The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.’ This is one of the infamous quotes from the renowned epic poet Homer. He was supposedly one of the greatest epic poets of all time.The inspiring poet Homer was believed to be blind. It is not definite as to whether he was only partially or wholly blind. Homer was born around 800 BCE. To date‚ seven countries have claimed to be his birthplace‚ some of which include Ios‚ Greece‚ Turkey‚ and on the coast of Asia Minor‚ and many other places along the Mediterranean

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