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    creates a story that lasts through centuries and has been recreated in all types of entertainment‚ one has to ask why? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is possibly most perfect example of this. In Lawrence Lipking’s essay “Frankenstein‚ the True Story; or‚ Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques” he argues that Frankenstein is so popular‚ even today‚ because almost all the major ideas of the book are open to interpretation. This lets the reader take away from the book whatever he or she feels important because every major

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    war as there would be no one there to stop us. On the contrary‚ Locke believed that man would be content in a state of nature‚ that life would be the opposite of awful and we would act morally towards each other due to the social contract. Thirdly‚ Rousseau thought that if we ever found ourselves in a state of nature‚ men would turn to savages‚ but would be happy with it. In actual fact we are very unlikely to experience a state of nature in our lifetime‚ so the most we can do is to just imagine. In

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    #1 Wilkerson Anthony‚# 6 Rafi Goldsmith‚ #7 Mac Harris‚ #8 Mary Clark Logan Mrs. Ray Advanced English 10. 7th Period 21 September 2012 The Daisy Withers in the Winter In Henry James’s novella Daisy Miller‚ he contrasts Daisy Miller’s American innocence with Fredrick Winterbourne’s European worldliness‚ illustrating the devastating effects that occur when the two worlds collide. Daisy is an incredibly flirtatious and reckless young American who lacks the formal etiquette of European society.

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    James Madison’s famous paper‚ Federalist Number 10‚ defends the ratification of the Constitution by sustaining the ideas of Locke‚ Rousseau‚ and Montesquieu‚ and contrasting with the initiatives of Voltaire. The European Enlightenment influenced the movement for individualism and political independence in the United States. Enlightenment thinkers developed theories of democracy that guided the United States Founders as they shaped the new national government. The influence of the Enlightenment is

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    which there were many scientific and governmental changes. The people who discovered the advances were philosophers. Some philosophers had a bigger impacted in the enlightenment then other‚ such as Montesquieu‚ Rousseau‚ Adam Smith‚ John Locke‚ and Voltaire. I am going the talk about Rousseau and Montesquieu. In France their society system was not working. They were under a Monarchy type of government. They had three estates the first one was called the first estate (Clergy)‚ then second estate (Nobles)

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    about justice because she was also in strong favor of justice‚ equality and rights for children and women. She supported the idea that justice was essential and should be the first law and regulation established in a society. Whereas Jean Jacques Rousseau did not agree nor was he in favor of Freud’s view of justice because he felt as if justice was not a real concept and did not actually protect individuals or enforce laws. He believed strongly in the social contract theory which implied that when

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    Woodsworth‚ Barabauld‚ and Rousseau all have great poems with distinct features from their lives and the poems which include the importance of childhood. Not only was it important in some of their poems but also throughout their lives. The three authors‚ Wordsworth‚ Barbauld‚ and Rosseau all share common characteristics in their poems and lives‚ with the use of the importance of childhood freedom‚ the different influences in childhood ‚ and also the way the authors’ childhoods developed. Woodsworth

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    recounts the history of walking from the time of Aristotle‚ Plato and Socrates ‚ through the 18th and 19th centuries with the works of Rousseau and Kierkegaard to the present day perspective of how ‘the body’ is impacted by the environment in works such as Elaine Scarry’s ‘The Body in pain;The Unmaking and making of the world’. Solnit uses the works of Rousseau and Kirkegaard to illustrate the effect and influence walking has in enabling the mind to extend the boundaries of thought and permit the

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    theories revolve around a central notion of a ‘social contract’ in which society is formed through a theoretical agreement between a group of people about their moral and political obligations. This concept has been used by theorists such as Mill and Rousseau‚ to explain why the law is justified in its right to constrain the behaviour of individuals and organisations in society. Later in the twentieth century‚ John Rawls took a novel stance on the concept of the social contract‚ in which principles of

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    Cited: Marx‚ Karl. “The Communist Manifesto.” A World of Ideas.Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2010. 362-383. Print. Plato. The Dialogues of Plato. London: Oxford University Press Warehouse‚ 1875. Print. Rousseau‚ Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract. New York: The Knickerbocker Press‚ 1893. Print.

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