Are Higher Pleasures Unique to Human Beings? John Stuart Mill argues in Utilitarianism that higher pleasures are unique to human beings. Higher pleasures are those pleasures that require some minimum of cognitive capacities to enjoy. More specifically‚ higher pleasures are intellectual pleasures while lower pleasures are sensual pleasures. Mill argues that animals are not capable of experiencing higher pleasures because animals are not aware of their higher facilities; animals lack the conscious
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“accidental” death of Pino Pinelli‚ an anarchic railway worker‚ in the play Fo writes about real life events in a political framework. His central message undoubtedly revolves around his desire to incite a will to act in his audience. As asserted by Joseph Farrel in his introduction to Nye’s adaptation of Accidental Death of an Anarchist‚ “it was no part of Fo’s scheme to be unduly subtle in his approach or intentions” and‚ as Fo himself has said‚ his aim was to provoke “laughter with anger”. The central
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Name ProfWRT 150.18 26 October 2013 The Importance of Reading Mark Twain once said that “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” Reading is one of the most powerful skills sets a person can have‚ yet almost all students who have access to good books‚ shamelessly take little advantage of them. Children who are growing up in the digital age are reading less and less‚ but can we blame them? The children of this era are growing up immediately immersed
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AESTHETIC READING: READING FOR APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT Aesthetic reading is for entertainment. * Reading to explore one. * In Aesthetic reading‚ the reader’s attention is centered directly on what he likes through during his relationship with that particular text.” * Non-academicals purposes of reading. Aesthetic Stance is for experience * Recreational reading. * Fulfills an important function in lives. * Reading for pleasure or aesthetic reading‚ been described as “the
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A Semiotic Analysis of The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers‚ which was produced in 1966 and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo‚ is a film which explores the Algerian struggle for independence between 1954 and 1962. The film is constructed using a documentary style and was filmed on the actual locations where events unfolded. The Battle of Algiers is an example of neorealist filmmaking which purports to give an objective‚ realistic account of the battles waged between the FLN (National Liberation
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Because both my parents came from China‚ I took Chinese. But I cannot read or write Chinese and barely speak it. I love my North American citizenship. I don’t’ mind being called a "banana‚" yellow on the outside and white on the inside. I’m proud I’m a banana. After all‚ in Canada and the United States‚ native Indians are "apples" (red outside‚ white inside); blacks are "Oreo cookies" (black and white); and Chinese are "bananas." These metaphors assume‚ both rightly and wrongly‚ that the culture
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The Cracker Barrel Restaurants John Howard King’s College‚ London Discrimination against lesbians and gays is common in the workplace. Sole proprietors‚ managing partners‚ and corporate personnel officers can and often do make hiring‚ promoting‚ and firing decisions based on an individual’s real or perceived sexual orientation. Lesbian and gay job applicants are turned down and lesbian and gay employees are passed over for promotion or even fired by employers who view homosexuality
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Today‚ I will talk about an ancient city of China---Langzhong. My purpose in giving this presentation is to show you detailed geographic features of Langzhong‚ and recommend this famous place to you for travelling‚ so this presentation will have two parts‚ that is geography and tourism. Different from big modern cities‚ ancient cities can offer tourists an incredible variety of special sights and activities. This city is often referred to as a famous historical town. It’s one of the best preserved
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conscious whether we use any strategies to read effectively. In general terms‚ reading is not different from other learned human abilities such as driving‚ cooking‚ playing golf‚ or riding a bicycle: the more you do it‚ the more fluent and skillful you become. Usually‚ teachers are concerned with the developing in their students the ability to read‚ but how much attention do teachers pay to develop a habit or love of reading in their students? There are some questioned raised from time to time in my
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February thirteenth‚ 1976. (141) Addressing the symptomatology of trauma in his book‚ Beyond the Pleasure Principle‚ Freud describes the case of a little boy who‚ traumatized by being abandoned by his mother‚ reenacted the scene of the trauma over and over and over again. So striking was the event for Freud that it forced him to reconsider his original‚ relatively unproblematic idea of the pleasure principle‚ which had indicated that people who experienced traumatic events would avoid them or any
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