Essay 1: Abraham Lincoln ENG 102 May 2‚ 2014 Abraham Lincoln Melungeon or Myth? Some historian believe that Abraham Lincoln was born an illegitimate child to Abraham Enloe and Nancy Hanks. It is possible that Abraham Lincoln could be tied to the Melungeon heritage through both of his parents? Many growing number of historians believe that Abraham Lincoln possess many qualities that distinguishes him as a Melungeon‚ and in fact believe that he is a direct descendant. The questioning of
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Jennifer Angelucci October 17th‚ 2006 English 10 - E Ms. Ignacio A FEW NOTES FOR ORPHEUS BY: DON BAILEY In the short story "A Few Notes for Orpheus" Don Bailey portrays the protagonist‚ Jake as an isolated‚ resentful‚ and hypocritical man. As the story begins‚ Jake is sitting alone in his room‚ living in self-isolation. He is always "telling [himself] that [he] likes [his] privacy‚ although sometimes he feels _too_ alone. The only contact Jake has with the outside world is through his telephone
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Nietzsche was a unique philosopher that had some very interesting ideas about people’s human values and personality types. In the following passage from Nietzsche‚ " .this is the image of all life‚ and from this learn the meaning of your life! And conversely: Read only your own life‚ and from this understand the hieroglyphs of universal life!" According to Nietzsche‚ I think he defines that all morality is a manifestation of the will to power. People stress independence‚ personal dignity‚ self-approval
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The Genealogy of Morals is comprised of three essays that focus on and criticizes the value of moral judgements. The first essay‚ “Good and Evil‚” “Good and Bad” contrasts what Nietzsche describes as “Master Morality‚” “Slave Morality.” Master morality was developed by the strong‚ free and healthy who had control over their own happiness. Slave morality is the feelings that the slaves adopted from being controlled by their wealthy and happy masters. These people were nicknamed the masters of
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On the Genealogy of Morality‚ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) believed that there are two types of morality mixed in the psychology of human beings (individual) and higher civilisation. This molarity originated from slavery (“will of Power”- where man was exploited by another man) in the past. Even though it does not exist in society today‚ the morality is still present. Slave-morality values kindness‚ humility and sympathy are regarded as "herd-morality" (Nietzsche‚ GM‚ and Preface 6). Master-morality
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Nietzsche’s rejection of traditional morality Zarathustra’s Prologue What does Zarathustra tell us about the challenges of leading people who have become too comfortable and uncritical? According to Zarathustra‚ he said that he did not want to be spared by their best enemies nor even the people they love. He said that leading uncritical and comfortable people within the society is hypocritical and therefore those leading such people feel ashamed of themselves. He said that such people should not
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According to Nietzsche in this section‚ the good life consists of power and overcoming obstacles. The bad life comes from weakness. Nietzsche says that humans desire power and that anything proceeding from weakness is bad. Happiness comes from an increase in power and the weak are destroyed. He believes that providing sympathy to those who display immoral conduct is worse than immoral acts by themselves. This is what he sees Christianity as and is greatly opposed to it. Concupiscence and cupidity
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For Nietzsche‚ resentiment is a feeling of anger which comes from the distinction between the good and the bad people. The “good” and “bad” were only used to separate two groups of people and associated to no moral meaning. The “good” meant strong‚ active and happy. At the same time‚ the “bad” meant weak‚ passive and unhappy. The good people were those with higher social status. The bad people were with lower social status. Such a distinction had political value in differentiating the nobles from
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alongside the “man of ressentiment” play an important role in Nietzsche’s discussion of master-morality and slave-morality. Nietzsche suggests that it was the noble man who gave definition to the word “good”‚ or what qualities qualify as being “good”. Essentially‚ the master morality arises from the self-affirmation of the noble man (§10). The noble examines themselves and the qualities that have to shape the definition of
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striking something and that the lambs of the slave morality create a conception that they are good in their actions even though they are just weak. In (Genealogy‚ I §14) Nietzsche points out how the main central value of the slave morality is ressentiment by telling a story about people in a ‘workshop of ideals’ whose lives in the current and physical world are terrible as they are too weak to change the bad situation. Nietzsche explains that they change the value judgements so that not fighting
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