There has been conversation of whether YA books have an effect on teenagers today. Most adults do not allow their children read these novel because it deals with rape‚ sex‚ murder or violence‚ and drugs. According to Gurdon‚ reading about homicide does not turn a man into a murderer; or reading about cheating on the exam won’t make the child break the honor code. The parents care more about their child’s happiness‚ moral development and tenderness of heart. Gurdon thinks that today’s YA novels discover
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and the sublime. He wrote a book in which he talks about beauty‚ and awe. Awe has a very strong meaning‚ it’s intense‚ fear mix with respect‚ fascination. Awful is something terrible at the beginning. Beautiful vs Sublime : Beautiful Pretty‚ the concept of beauty is meant to please men’s feeling. There is this idea of nice feeling‚ of something small‚ delicate‚ something which would have the right proportion‚ which would be on the level of men‚ something that men can deal with. Sublime Sublime
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101042503 沈可榆 Sylvia Literary Theory November 12th‚ 2012 In this essay‚ I would settle on parts of psychoanalytic theories (mostly Freudian theories) and retool my understanding of the other three works‚ which contains Kant’s discussion on alienation and human condition/rationality‚ Lyotard’s postmodernism‚ and Pynchon’s novel‚ The Crying of Lot 49‚ to propose a different take on the Freudian conception. The body of this essay is constructed with theories followed by the explanation and example
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hope which the next day or the next hour might release.” -Chapter IV “During my youthful days discontent never visited my mind; and if I was ever overcome by ennui‚ the sight of what is beautiful in nature‚ or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man‚ could always interest my heart‚ and communicate elasticity to my spirits.” Chapter XIX “Liberty‚ however‚ had been an useless gift to me had I not‚ as I awakened to reason‚ at the same time awakened to revenge. As the
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Conversely‚ sci-fi has on many occasions challenged the utopian ideals that films such as ‘Back to the Future’ portray. One notable example is Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner.’ The film depicts a world in which capitalism reigns supreme. The “urban sublime” of Los Angeles
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Concept of Beauty according to the Western Philosophers “Beauty is truth‚ truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth‚ and all ye need to know” John Keats Beauty is an emotional element‚ a pleasure of ours‚ which nevertheless we regard as a quality of thing. The ideas of beauty is found in almost every culture and at almost every time in human history‚ with many similarities. Beauty was and still is a term of great esteem linking human beings and nature with artistic practices and works
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This betrayal has its source in the English literary tradition of the "cult of the sublime and the picturesque" (Atwood 49). The result is a tension between what you were officially supposed to feel and what you actually encountered in the Canadian environment - and the resultant sense of being gypped. Atwood then goes on to make her real
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mountain‚ its stark‚ majestic appearance‚ its springing forth from the darkness that has unlocked a thought process for Shelley which was hitherto accessible only in a dreamlike state. Dizzy Ravine! And when I gaze on thee I seem as in a trance sublime and strange To muse on my own separate phantasy‚ My own‚ my human mind‚ which passively Now renders and receives fast influencings‚ Holding an unremitting interchange With the clear universe of things around‚ When Shelley gazed upon the mountain
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To India - My Native Land is one of the best poems of Derozio . In this poem ‚ Derozio expresses his grief over the past glory of India . The country has lost it altogether. Time was in the past when the country enjoyed lot of the world of respect & power among the countries of the world . She was almost worshiped by others . Her greatness was accepted by all . But the present appears dark to the poet.Her former glory has disappeared . The monster of slavery had devoured everything . The poet
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Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace. Music Video Distributors‚ 2004. 5.Perrotta‚ Tom. “The Cosmic Significance of Britney Spears.” Seeing & Writing 2 (2003): 499- 504. 8.Shakur‚ Tupac. “Hit Em’ Up.” 2Pac – Greatest Hits. Interscope Records‚ 1998. 9.Sublime. “Smoke Two Joints.” 40 Oz. to Freedom. MCA‚ 1996. 10.Wallace‚ Christopher 11.Wallace‚ Christopher. “Who Shot Ya.” Born Again. Bad Boy Entertainment‚ 1999.
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