Nostalgia: Background: Swiss Mercenaries came down from the mountains to fight on behalf of European rulers in Distant Lands. Many of these mercenaries suffered from nostalgia. * Nostalgia was believed to be a medical disease. * Symptoms included anorexia‚ bouts of weeping and even suicide attempts. * For years‚ people believed only the Swiss were prone to it. * In 1688‚ Hofer suggested it was “a cerebral disease of essentially demonic cause” * In 1732‚ Scheuchzer said it was
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Rehabilitation vs institutionalisation The film The Shawshank Redemption addresses the process and consequences of institutionalization. Released in 1994 and directed by Frank Darabont‚ it is based on a novella by Stephen King titled Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption. Both works trace the lives of long-term prisoners in Shawshank Prison. The fictional penitentiary‚ located in Maine‚ is run by the corrupt Warden Norton and guard captain Byron Hadley‚ the former involved in money
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Bibliography: Napoleon Dynamite. Dir. Jared Hess. Perf. Jon Heder‚ Jon Gries‚ Aaron Ruell‚ Efren Ramirez‚ and Diedrich Bader. Paramount Pictures‚2004 Garabedian‚Berge. Napoleon Dynamite. 2004 Leary‚ M. A Comedy of Nihilism. 2005 GorillaMask Media. Napoleon Dynamite: Flippin ’ Sweet!. 23 Aug 2004 Bitel‚ Anton. Napoleon Dynamite. 9 December 2004
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The movie seems to be a mixture of Christianity‚ Gnosticism‚ Nihilism‚ Buddhism‚ Hinduism and several other religions. It is a very subjective analysis as the philosophical viewpoints varies from person to person’s perspective. At some points the movie is observed to be in contradiction with the basic tenets of Christianity
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Do No Harm Louis Lasagna created a modern retelling of the Hippocratic oath‚ which has the statement “I will apply‚ for the benefit of the sick‚ all measures that are required‚ avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.” This brings up the question of just how much control should a person have over their medical treatment. Does an individual get to decide what happens to them or should the medical doctor have final say on their patient’s treatment? As I have worked in
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For centuries‚ philosophers have been arguing about the free will problems. Those who believe in free will hold that humans are free to choose under every circumstances‚ while those who believe that choice is just an illusion asserts that our lives are controlled by the society in which we live in and hence‚ there is no real free will at all. I hold a moderate view points between two extremes; I believe that we are always presented with choices‚ but these choices are limited. Those who assert
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"Vem är du?" Who are you? - "Jag är Döden." I am Death A subject that forms the core theme of Agalloch quintessential‚ ginormous track‚ In the Shadow of The Pale Companion. Concurrent themes of nihilism and pantheism‚ richly ooze out of the pores of the track‚ as well. "Here at the edge of this world Here I gaze at a pantheon of oak‚ a citadel of stone If this grand panorama before me is what you call God. . . Then God is not dead" This little treatise‚ that I write today is not only about this
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The Manhattan Project and the Bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki When people hear the word nuclear bomb‚ the image of a towering mushroom cloud of destruction instantly comes to mind. This device‚ capable of inflicting an unimaginable amount of damage in a split second‚ is the culmination of the human quest for bigger and better weaponry. On August 6th an earth- shattering event happened that would change the course of the world. As a result of President Truman’s decision‚ the
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The novel Grendel by John Gardner portrays the main character‚ Grendel‚ into a different prospective compared to the poem‚ Beowulf by Burton Raffel. While in both texts‚ Grendel has been displayed as an ugly beast whom everyone runs in terror‚ in the novel‚ the author explains how much Grendel thinks like a human. Grendel from the novel is immensely different from Grendel in the Beowulf poem because of how these two characters are portrayed‚ their morals and the way they handle their death. In both
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where he uses his fashion to confront issues about women being abused‚ mistreated and made into victims by men. He plays on the stereotype of women being taken as weak and defenceless in the shadow of a man. Alexander McQueen’s collection titled ‘Nihilism’ from 1993‚ created the image that Alexander McQueen ‘has a view that speaks of battered women‚ of violent lives‚ of grinding daily existences’ (Hume‚ 1993: 29). In McQueen’s show titled ‘Highland Rape’ in 1995‚ he displayed military jackets‚ tartan
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