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    Responses should be typed‚ single-spaced‚ totaling two pages. Setup with a standard MLA heading. You will print your responses and turn in hard copies. When writing your responses‚ list the question‚ then your response. Number the questions. Each response should be a full paragraph of 7-10 sentences. 1. In Egyptian Love Poems‚ is love described as a happy thing? What are some of the obstacles or barriers to love? What indications are there that love can be tragic‚ or at least threatening? In Egytian

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    Epicurian

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    Sahlstrom hall room 107 is the “Epicurean room”. Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus‚ an old Greek Philosopher. He believed that pleasure is the greatest good and the way to attain pleasure was to live modestly and to gain knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of one’s desires. That highest pleasure is also obtained by living a tranquil life and having no fear. In modern popular use‚ Epicureanism implies love or knowledgeable enjoyment especially

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    “Eleanor Rigby” and life in 60s The Beatles‚ one of the most famous bands in the world‚ have many great songs. “Eleanor Rigby” is definitely one of them. The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney. There are only two characters mentioned in the song‚ and Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie‚ and the entire story happens in the church. Eleanor Rigby picks up rice after a wedding and wearing a face the she “keeps in a jar”. Father McKenzie always writes boring words at his sermon and darns his

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    wanted to be the power house in the world. They wanted revenge from WWI when they got defeated and had to pay for the war. Germany was not happy so they needed a man to make them happy again‚ Adolf Hitler. At the start of the war Germany wanted Epicureanism happiness. They was just focused on getting the people happy and not worrying about the other countries they was hurting. As stated in “Education after Auschwitz‚” “The pressure exerted by the prevailing universal upon everything particular‚ upon

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    Gross National Happiness

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    The word happiness can be defined as a mental or emotional state of well-being. Happiness is a feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. The topic of happiness is one that has been discussed over centuries by philosophers‚ clergymen and scientists inter alia. Their arguments have been based trying to properly define happiness taking into account what its causes are amongst other things. According to philosopher’s St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas man’s last end is happiness. All men agree in desiring

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    Loyalty In Hamlet

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    traveller returns". This manifests into a contemplation of suicidal tendencies in which he rhetorically questions the "quintessence of dust" and "paragon of animals"‚ invoking conflicting ideological tension regarding the noble act of suicide between Stoicism and medieval Absolutism. Ultimately‚ Hamlet’s anagnorisis of mortal "boundaries in which human action‚ human judgement‚ are enclosed" (Mack 1956) with his truncated verse “I’ve done you wrong” posits the transcendence of filial revenge to morally

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    Roman Stoic Philosophy

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    famous stoics and what stoicism is. “The philosophy of stoicism was started in Hellenistic Athens‚ by Zeno of Citum‚ who had been trained in the philosophy of the cynics‚ and spread to Rome where it was embraced by many Romans‚ including the Republican throne in Julius Caesar’s side‚ Cato the Younger.” (Stoicism-Greek philosophy of the stoics) The Romans adopted the Greeks Gods and their philosophy. The Romans culture had a heavy Greek influence in it. The Romans made stoicism their philosophy.

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    Romanticism in Gladiator

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    John Kidd‚ III Stoical Men Block 6 In the movie Gladiator‚ David Franzoni uses stoicism to show the moral philosophy of the Romans‚ and how this philosophy affected the people and how they govern themselves. Stoicism asks the basic question‚ “What is the good life?” as well as saying there are things you can control‚ and thing that you can not. In Gladiator‚ Maximus is constantly in these situations‚ and finds out that his control over emotion is only controllable

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    breaks and needs to be completely redone. Now all her savings went to fixing her well and she cannot afford the new vehicle. Instead of being upset and grumpy over not being able to buy the car‚ Sandy just shrugs it off and deals with it. That is stoicism. Stoicism is not worrying about things that cannot be changed. Stoics are indifferent to pain and pleasure. They take the hands they are dealt and do not complain about it. As time has progress people have created theories‚ like the strain theory‚ the

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    History 101 Study Guide

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    What are the triangular indentations used for the script of the Sumerians called?[pic] Cuneiform[pic] Who was Gilgamesh‚ and which city did he rule?[pic] Gilgamesh was the King of Uruk. His reputation inspired the Epic of Gilgamesh/5th king of Uruk(2500 BC)‚ reigned 126 yrs/lugal “big man”(leader) wealthy young man‚ warrior [pic]Which technologies were used by the earliest Western civilizations? [pic] Stone‚ wood‚ leather‚ and fibers[pic]/ 1st appearance of tools (bone‚ wood

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