Peoples Temple On November 18‚ 1978 more than nine hundred people died in one of the largest mass murder/suicides in history. The man that implemented and carried out that atrocity was James Warren Jones‚ otherwise known as Jim Jones‚ a self proclaimed Second Coming (God). His exposure to an intensely emotional Pentecostal church service influenced and shaped his future beliefs and actions. In 1960‚ despite his lack of theological training‚ Jim Jones became an ordained minister. He made racial
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Throughout my life‚ I have had opportunities to volunteer for numerous causes within my community; however‚ my years of service through Community Memorial Hospital and my high school Junior Optimist Club have helped me to uncover my compassion for others. My involvement in Junior Optimist Club has sparked my passion for youth opportunities. When founding the club‚ the intentions of my peers and I were to create an organization lead by students that provided activities and opportunities for youth
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1996 Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Mimesis As literary critics‚ Plato and Aristotle disagree profoundly about the value of art in human society. Plato attempts to strip artists of the power and prominence they enjoy in his society‚ while Aristotle tries to develop a method of inquiry to determine the merits of an individual work of art. It is interesting to note that these two disparate notions of art are based upon the same fundamental assumption: that art is a form of mimesis‚ imitation. Both philosophers
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Graw-Hill Higher Education. Bushman‚ B. J.‚ Bonacci‚ A. M.‚ Tedersen‚ W. C.‚ Vasquez‚ E. A.‚ & Miller‚ N. (2005). Chewing on it can chew you up: Effects on rumination on triggered displaced a ggression Geen‚ R. G.‚ & Quanty‚ M. B. (1977). Catharsis of aggression: An evaluation of a hypothesis. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.) Advances in experimental social psychology (vol. 10). New York: Academic Press. Abstract retrieved from Myers‚ 2007.
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strong feelings of sorrow‚ fear‚ pity‚ or happiness.He said that a death penalty is a catharsis. It’s one way of removing the feeling of injustice or satisfying the urge for revenge of the offended party.Another illustration by the author is the citizen’s feeling of relief when notorious criminals were finally detained.By allowing death penalty to punish the criminals‚ the offended party will experience catharsis or release of the unwanted feelings of unfairness and getting even. ___________
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[1]-Title‚ Author‚ etc. -The Penalty of Death -Written by H.L. Mencken‚ 1926. [2]-Thesis -The thesis of the essay is on page 395‚ and is the last sentence of paragraph 3. It states: "What I contend is that one of the prime objects of all judicial punishments is to afford the same grateful relief (a) to the immediate victims of the criminal punished‚ and (b) to the general body of moral and timorous men." -Means that in the authors point of view‚ one of the key points of punishing a criminal is
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Representation is the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. Mimesis is a concept that understands representation as a process of imitating or mirroring the real without taking into account how codes and conventions of representation impact meanings. We ourselves construct meaning through historical and cultural contexts. The artist René Magritte contrasted mimesis and representation with his painting The Treachery of Images (“Ceci n’est pas une pipe”). The
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Annotated Bibliography The Many Bodies of Mrs. Molly Marion Bloom 1. "The mimesis of metempsychosis in Ulysses" by Eric P. Levy (2002) ---- = thesis -Aquinas: Soul is body‚ there is no body without the soul‚ sould makes it exist as a body "...the soul itself if the principle of being‚ and therefore‚ once created‚ cannot not be." (2) -in this case‚ not subject to change or alteration -"As such‚ the soul (as defined in the Aristotelian-Thomist system) concerns a principle antiethical
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Introduction A feminism critique of science and technology springs out from the Foucauldian insights of the intimate relations between knowledge and power. Knowing the world is‚ through naming it‚ a way to control it‚ and it has real effects of oppression and control. Representations work on the represented‚ and thus‚ epistemology not only to an extent determines ontology‚ but by the same token it is a tool to change a world of inequalities. A feminist critique seeks both to unveil actual structures
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is a protagonist with a tragic flaw‚ also known as fatal flaw‚ which eventually leads to his demise. The concept of the tragic hero was created in ancient Greek tragedy and defined by Aristotle. Usually‚ the realization of fatal flaw results in catharsis or epiphany. The tragic flaw is sometimes referred to as an Achilles ’ heel after the single fatal flaw of the Greek warrior Achilles. [citation needed] Aristotelian tragic hero In a complex Aristotelian tragedy‚ the hero is of noble birth
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