International University. 5 Identify and name any rhetorical devices used by the author. If none exist‚ explain how you determined this. The author make’s a statement which is a bit too extravagant‚ " compassion will lead us to the abyss of moral nihilism." Hyperbole. Another example the author stated‚ "..spiritualistic naturalism functions without recourse to moral and worldview givens‚ seeking instead experiences that engender a sense of spirituality with minimal content‚ essence‚ and direction
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Women in Love Summary The novel opens with the sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen chatting about marriage one morning at their father’s house in Beldover. Gudrun has recently returned home from art school in London. The two later decide to drop by a local wedding‚ where they first see Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin‚ the two men with whom they will develop affairs that drive the action of the novel. Birkin is a school inspector with extremely unconventional attitudes about life‚ and Gerald is the
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Argumentative Essay Euthanasia which is also known as mercy killing has been pronounced legal in many countries in the present day world. Euthanasia involves terminating the life of patients to relieve pain and suffering; which became intolerable. Euthanasia is not embraced by everyone‚ as some people tend to go against it on the grounds of religion and morality. As much as the euthanasia process painlessly puts a person to death‚ the responsibility of deciding who dies and who
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Wartime disillusionment gravely affected Hemingway and Salinger’s views on society‚ particularly religion. Before the war‚ both authors had similar views on religion. Salinger grew up Jewish and Hemingway became Catholic to please his wife‚ but after being in war religion became a slight abstraction to them. Salinger took comfort in religion after the war‚ yet he could never settle on one‚ switching religions numerous times. Often times Salinger would refer to religion in the form of religious slurs
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Major Themes The Angry Young Man Osborne’s play was the first to explore the theme of the "Angry Young Man." This term describes a generation of post-World War II artists and working class men who generally ascribed to leftist‚ sometimes anarchist‚ politics and social views. According to cultural critics‚ these young men were not a part of any organized movement but were‚ instead‚ individuals angry at a post-Victorian Britain that refused to acknowledge their social and class alienation. Jimmy
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The Effects of Traffic Accidents on the Emergence of Psychological Disorders among Drivers of "3Rd’ Category": Private License in Jordan "A Field Research" By Ghoneem‚ Khowla Abd Al Raheem Academic journal article from Studies in Sociology of Science‚ Vol. 3‚ No. 2 Article details Beginning of article INTRODUCTION Traffic accidents are considered modern problems which are causing enormous human and material losses to many people and resulting of them many temporary and permanent injuries
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guilt and repentance‚ explores crime in both a psychological and social sense. Through the deterioration of a murderer’s mind and through the lives of both criminals and non-criminals‚ author Fyodor Dostoevsky relates a worldview born from radical nihilism and his experience in a Siberian labor camp. Dostoevsky argues that “crime” is not civil but instead moral disobedience. His prison experience provides a unique perspective on the torment of guilt and the need for atonement that serves as the backbone
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Thomas Hobbes (English – Contractarian) 1. View of the State of Nature a. Human nature w/o government is : i. Egoistic ii. Everyone “equal” iii. Equal rights to everything iv. Warlike v. Psychological Egoism – People are motivated by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain vi. Rational vii. Law of Self Preservation + reason contract 2. Psychological / Ethical Egoism a. Psych – descriptive – People are motivated by the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain b. Ethical
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After the first couple of killings he says he feels sick to his stomach‚ and regrets killing the men. However‚ after talking to the Dragon and conforming to his philosophy of Nihilism‚ he attempts to justify the killing that he does.While he is talking to the Dragon he also feels bad about scaring the men and making them suffer needlessly‚ which makes him want to repent of it. He is discouraged by the Dragon who treats this idea
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Terms and Definitions for Intro to Philosophy TERMS DEFINITIONS aesthetics alienation the study of what constitutes beauty in philosophy‚ a term indicating estrangement of people or things form what is considered their proper state. (German “fear”); a term introduced by existentialist thinkers to describe the feeling of apprehension invoked when a finite individual recognizes his existence in an infinite world‚ when he confronts the void outside his own conscious existence. a
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