ON LIFE‚ ITS ESSENCE AND REALITY Life ’s Issues and Realities; A mini-book compiled of my writings on philosophy Joseph Concordia September‚ 13‚ 2012 Preface After spending a whole lifetime studying‚ thinking‚ and working in the field of engineering and the sciences‚ and even consciously viewing a focus on the “liberal arts” as something of a waste of time‚ I have come to realize that the deeper and more meaningful aspects of life
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Paradigms in Subconscious Realities Cormac McCarthy’s novel‚ The Road‚ conveys a father and his son traveling the roads of what is left from the earth-shattering events that led to the world consumed in flames of evil and death devouring the good and humanity until what remained of mankind was forsaken to walk in the ash of morals and rationality that would mask the earth in darkness. As the father and son scavenge in the remnants of cities‚ they are faced with trials of reason‚ sordid cannibalism
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In "Araby" by James Joyce‚ the narrator uses vivid imagery in order to express feelings and situations. The story evolves around a boy’s adoration of a girl he refers to as "Mangan’s sister" and his promise to her that he shall buy her a present if he goes to the Araby bazaar. Joyce uses visual images of darkness and light as well as the exotic in order to suggest how the boy narrator attempts to achieve the inaccessible. Accordingly‚ Joyce is expressing the theme of the boys exaggerated desire through
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The insanity of the poetic speaker in “Porphyria’s Lover” Browning’s poem “Porthyria’s Lover” tells a story of a murder seen through the eyes of Porphyria’s lover- the murderer. It takes place on a rainy night‚ in the speaker’s home‚ where he sits alone in the dark until Porphyria’s arrival. She lights the fire place‚ takes off her garments and sits by her lover whispering how much he loves him. He then decides to strangle her with her hair‚ after which he lays her head once again on his shoulder
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construction of reality rather than by objective reality. In The Social Construction of Reality book‚ Berger and Luckmann also argued that society is created by humans and human interaction. Reality is not absolute and what we understand to be “real” is actually a social constructed idea. It means that reality is based on social agreement and we construct our own society and accept it as it is because others have created it before us (OpenStax College‚ 2015‚ p.91). That our perception of reality is basically
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An Analytical Essay on Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was a woman who lived in times that are more traditional; her life experiences influence and help us to understand the dramatic and poetic lines in her writing. Although Dickinson’s poetry can often be defined as sad and moody‚ we can find the use of humor and irony in many of her poems. By looking at the humor and sarcasm found in three of Dickinson’s poems‚ "Success Is Counted Sweetest"‚ "I am Nobody"‚ and "Some keep the Sabbath Going to
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plethora of courage‚ hope and strength to make it out of certain situations or to simply get by on a day-to-day basis. The poems “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” by Tupac Shakur illustrate this idea using elements of imagery‚ repetition and heavy metaphors. Maya Angelou’s work deeply focuses on the set backs encountered living in times of racial disparity. Shakur’s poem personifies a rose that fought through to grow on concrete despite all the speculations and difficulties
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they interact with the groups around them to form a sense of self. In this circumstance‚ the entity of friendship or ideally‚ belonging to a group‚ is a product of the personas own identity which is exemplified through a sense of self. The collective poetic works of Emily Dickinson explores the facets of belonging related to oneself‚ and the individualʼs identity as part of natureʼs organism. This correlates directly with John G. Avildsenʼs film‚ ʻThe Power of Oneʼ‚ which explores and extrapolates the
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This paper will define political cultural and it will also discuss three major influences on political culture in Ireland. To demonstrate this‚ this paper will explain political culture in a simple way and it will discuss the civic culture theory and Marxist tradition which will illustrate different views on the role and nature of political culture. The three major influences that this paper will discuss are socio-economic development‚ cultural evolution political experience in Ireland. The notion
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It describes the battle of love and hate‚ in which battle love is victorious. When Romeo first enters and sees the evidences of the fray between the partisans of Capulet and Montague he says: Here’s much to do with hate‚ but more with love. This remark describes the play. A deadly feud had‚ for a long time‚ existed between the Montagues and Capulets. Law could not control it. Religion could not abate it. A young Montague falls in love with a young Capulet. This love is reciprocated. It is a love
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