nostalgically about previous experiences on a retreat when he‚ too‚ returns to the same area decades later. I‚ too‚ have undergone a melancholy similar to White’s. In the past‚ I enjoyed visiting the beach annually with my family. We stopped this tradition some years ago due to budget problems as well as illness. So‚ for the majority of my recollections‚ I view Navarre through a faded‚ childlike lens. Despite how my memories have distorted over time‚ I
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Elements of Religious Traditions In the following paragraphs‚ I will explain how religious traditions describe and encourage the relationships with the divine‚ sacred time‚ sacred space or natural world‚ and with each other. Next‚ I will identify issues that are critical. Finally‚ I will include examples of various religious traditions. Relationship with the divine Divinity is the power of having attributes and the quality of being divine. In earlier times‚ divinity was believed to give an
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Euthyphro- Plato: Defining Socrates in your own words. Socrates during a session….. Untia Daun Bigelow PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Patricia Addeso October 21‚ 2013 It seems that in the reading both Socrates and Euthyphro are both dealing with legal issues and they are discussing the differences and the similarities of their cases with one another. Socrates is a defendant in a suit accusing him of impiety which was brought against him by no other than Meletus who was not
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classical view of virtue as represented by his philosophic predecessors Plato and Aristotle. Whereas his predecessors held virtue in an ideal environment (idealism)‚ Machiavelli defined virtue in a real environment where one is judged by his actions and not by the way his actions ought to be (realism). [pic][pic] According to Plato and Aristotle good life only exists in total virtue where a person will be most happy. Plato places emphasis on the extinction of personal desires through love so that
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looks up at someone. Unfortunately‚ in Western Culture‚ kids look up at famous people; like actors‚ musicians‚ athletes‚ politicians and models. Some famous people use drugs and alcohol. Many celebrities‚ especially athletes‚ have lack of education. They send a message that being smart is like being a nerd. Another thing‚ teens want‚ especially girls‚ is to look good. Some will do anything it takes to fit in‚ to look better then the girl beside her. Modern culture is producing negative role models for
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Lottery - Tradition Tradition is endemic to small towns‚ a way to link families and generations. Jackson‚ however‚ pokes holes in the reverence that people have for tradition. She writes that the villagers don’t really know much about the lottery’s origin but try to preserve the tradition nevertheless. The villagers’ blind acceptance of the lottery has allowed ritual murder to become part of their town fabric. As they have demonstrated‚ they feel powerless to change—or even try to change—anything
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I chose to compare “A Prison‚ A Paradise” by John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Once More to the Lake” by E .B. White. There are many reasons to choose to travel; specifically for these two authors‚ it is to visit a place that has meaning to them on more than the “excursion for a day” level. They temporarily suspend their daily lives to take a trip to spend time in a different environment. Both places they choose to visit can be considered at least somewhat remote‚ secluded‚ and‚ for all intents and
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Once More to the Lake is an essay mainly about how the author/dad‚ E. B. White‚ can’t quite seem to let go of his childhood. A lot of his childhood memories are embedded within the lake and the surrounding areas‚ so he cannot help but constantly reminisce about how things were when he used to visit the lake as a child. This seems to take away from his current visit to the lake in my opinion. He does not seem to want to live in the moment but constantly makes comparisons of how the waitresses were
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Inspiration: Art Forms Increasing Culture After the Mughals arrived in India‚ a great cultural growth occurred in many different forms of art‚ such as music‚ visual art‚ architecture‚ and literature. India was already a country with many different cultural aspects‚ but the Mughals‚ of Turkish-Mongolian descent‚ expanded the realm of art even further. This Mughal art and architecture was considered an Indo-Islamic-Persian style‚ which combined different aspects of Islamic and Persian art with indigenous
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language and culture. Young men and women from the Greek city states were sent compete in the Olympic Games. Ancient Greek was divided into several independent city states (Polis). Even though Greeks thought themselves as one people‚ politically they defended their independence from each other. Relation between Greeks and Phoenicians increased during ninth century B.C.E. Geeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabets and on the other side Phoenicians made a way to the regeneration of lost art of Greeks known
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