WRITE AN ESSAY OF 1‚500 WORDS IN WHICH YOU COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE TWO PASSAGES BELOW‚ TAKEN FROM BEHN’S ’_OROONOKO_’ OR THE ROYAL SLAVE AND VOLTAIRE’S ’_CANDIDE_’‚ OR OPTIMISM. IN YOUR DISCUSSION PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE WAYS IN WHICH THE CONTEXTS OF EUROPEAN COLONISATION AND EXPLORATION INFORM THE TWO PASSAGES. Aphra Bhen was a prolific female playwright and author during the restoration period of English history. Bhen herself stood by the power of the monarchy. Her book ’_Oroonoko_’
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How My Optimism Will Help Me Press on to Greater Achievements of the Future By Anish Mantri I come from a family of optimists. My parents are first generation immigrants to the USA and one value they highly regard is “optimism”. They strongly believe that one can overcome any obstacle as long as they are hopeful about the future and show resiliency to stick with the dream. My father came to the USA with $500 in his pocket and a dream to go to a top business school and succeed in corporate America
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The Evil That Lies Within Lord of the Flies is a book with far more low points than high‚ this is the choice of the author. In many novels‚ you can tell the style and feelings of the author just by reading it. Golding has a negative outlook on people and society showing through his writing. Thus‚ Golding’s pessimistic view on the characters in the book illustrates his belief that evil is an inborn characteristic. One way this is portrayed started in the beginning of the story‚ when they first got
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Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie Jim as a Representative of the American Dream and the Ideology of Optimism and Progressivism “He is the most realistic character in the play‚ being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. . . . he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.” (Williams 5) – Jim’s first introduction by Tom as a narrator is a crucial one‚ as it points to the ambiguity of Jim’s character. For the
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Great speeches offering practical solutions‚ optimism for the future and moral clarity can unify and motivate people in times of social conflict and racial division. Subsequently‚ an understanding of people and the world is developed‚ and a relationship between the voice and the audience is created. This profound level of optimism and hope can be seen in JFK’s Inaugural Address‚ and Jessie Street’s Is It to Be Back to the Kitchen? A relative distinctive voice is also significantly found in Anthony
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The characters are never victims as they triumph over adversity and inspire optimism and spirt. Do you agree? ‘Stolen’ demonstrates the extent to which aboriginal people were victimised by white society‚ and how some were able to overcome these experiences. This is represented by the stories of five aboriginal children that were forcible removed from their families due to the white Australian policy. Each character is made
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Candide by Voltaire “We must cultivate our garden” Voltaire portrays Candide as society’s journey from pessimism to optimism. Candide comes to the realization that acceptance of the life given to a person allows that person to make the best out of it. Candide reacts to Pangloss by stating that “we must cultivate our garden” meaning a person not allowing mediocrity to govern his/her life‚ but by putting forth an effort to make the lives they are given the best one possible. Following the analogy
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Optimism’s Effect on Psychological and Physical Health. Becca Rubio Abstract For many years‚ numerous studies have analyzed the effect of Optimism on Psychological and Physical health. Optimism is generally known as being confident that there is a positive outcome to any situation and hopeful for a positive life in the future. It is also believed that those who tend to be more pessimistic than others have a larger amount of stress which can ultimately cause physical illness and emotional/mental
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Voltaire’s novella‚ Candide‚ uses satire to discuss and criticise philosophical Optimism‚ the prevalent Catholic philosophy during his time period‚ the Enlightenment era. Voltaire himself was known to oppose this theory‚ and employed caricatural figures in his writing‚ such as the characters of Pangloss and Martin‚ to mock the ideas that they stand for. The old woman‚ as a character‚ is not a protagonist nor does she show up particularly frequently in the text‚ but she is significant to the theme
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“Twelve Angry Men presents the pessimistic opinion that all humans are fallible”. Discuss. Pessimism? Depending on the definition that you give to this your answer might be different ... Pessimism infers negativity of some degree. If there is "pessimism" in Rose’s message (and I think there is not!)‚ it could be seen in the uncertainty that his description of the jury room process involves - it is not perfect and open to prejudiced manipulation‚ poor governance and apathy‚ but concurrently it is
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