Rima 134 The Petrarchan Sonnet "Laura" - The object of many of his poems‚ Laura is a mysterious‚ far-off‚ unreachable woman that Petrarch pines for but never gets. Scholars argue over the reality of this woman‚ but Petrarch’s other writings claim that she was a real woman who refused his advances because she was married to another man. He called his distant relationship to her "an overwhelming but pure love affair." Petrarch’s writing on Laura expresses both delight and despair. It hurts when
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TOP TEN REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STUDY PHILOSOPHY 1. Philosophy stimulates one’s abilities to think critically‚ creatively‚ and enhance analytical and interpretive capacities. 2. Students with an emphasis in Philosophy generally develop an interest in self-expression and reflection and enjoy debating ideas‚ skills which provide the ability to deal with the complex problems for which there are no easy answers. 3. Instead of one particular skill‚ philosophy prepares students for careers in
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Chapter 28 – The Age of Anxiety 1) Uncertainty in modern thought a) The effects of World War I on modern thought i) Western society began to question values and beliefs that had guided it since the Enlightenment. ii) Many people rejected the longaccepted beliefs in progress and the power of the rational mind to understand a logical universe and an orderly society. (1) Valéry wrote about the crisis of the cruelly injured mind; to him the war ("storm")
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Can a humanistic model of counselling be integrated with a cognitive (or cognitive – behavioural) one? Discuss with reference to Rogers and either Beck or Egan. In the first part of this essay I will summarise the main features of humanistic counselling and the cognitive approach. Rogers used a humanistic person centred approach to therapy and I will look at his view of people‚ their potential‚ what goes wrong and what can help them to change. Egan was a cognitive therapist and I will address
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Silent Subversion in A Woman On A Roof Abstract This paper centers on the unnamed woman sunbathing on the roof of her own‚ using her indifference and silence as rebellion toward the three men ’s provocation working on another roof‚ trying to explore women ’s subversion toward the gender bias and their self-consciousness raising in the society. Key words: silence;indifference;rebellion;subversion 1. Introduction Doris Lessing
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AIMS OF EDUCATION Education has been conceived so variously in human history‚ especially in term of its aims. Chopra (2005) defines the term ‘Aims’ as: “Long-term ambitions which may or may not be achieved‚ but which provide personal motivation and direction” (p.16). Perhaps more than other aspects of human existence‚ it is education which lends a direction to human efforts through a certain underlying ‘philosophy’: “a set of ideas about the nature of reality and about the meaning of life” (McNergney
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Corruption in India Andrew Sanchez T he momentum of last year’s hunger strike by the anti-corruption campaigner Kisan ‘Anna’ Hazare currently sees India’s parliament wrestling with the formation of a national corruption ombudsman. Hazare’s campaign rests upon the proposition that the democratic ideals with which the Indian state was formed in 1947 are all too often subverted by the self-interest of public servants. Hazare’s supporters argue that this process has two primary effects. First‚ corruption
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Transnational corporations‚ CSR and the course of Maersk Roskilde University Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics Autumn 2011 Anders Buch Nielsen 1 Table of content ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION PROBLEM AREA PROBLEM FORMULATION METHODOLOGY DELIMITATIONS THEORETICAL PART A. P. MOELLER MAERSK GROUP CASES AGAINST MAERSK CONCLUSION REFERENCES 3 4 5 5 5 6 7 10 11 15 17 2 Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become the new buzzword and a key differentiator which companies
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THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD The dictionary meaning of the word ‘Absurd’ is unreasonable‚ ridiculous or funny. But it is used in a somewhat different sense when we speak of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’‚ or more commonly known now-a-days as ‘Absurd Drama’. The phrase ‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ was coined by the critic Martin Esslin‚ who made it the title of his book on the same subject‚ published in 1961. Esslin points out in this book that there is no such thing as a regular
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Essay on the increasing use of composite material in the construction of aircraft and if they will lead to reduction in operational costs The Airline Industry has its origin with the first scheduled service by the St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1‚ 1914. The plane‚ a Benoist XIV‚ conducted 1205 commercial flights across the Tampa bay in Florida‚ USA. The airline discontinued the service after
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