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    "I am a sort of collector of religions‚" remarks Adolphus Cusins‚ Major Barbara Undershaft ’s fiancé‚ midway through the second act of George Bernard Shaw ’s morality play‚ Major Barbara. And thus‚ the play can be seen as collection of varying religious‚ moral‚ and social ideals. The play centers on Barbara Undershaft and her father Andrew Undershaft‚ a Salvation Army Major and a millionaire arms dealer respectively‚ and there conflicting ideological beliefs. However‚ Shaw also creates the character

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    Axia College Material Appendix C Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle Matrix Fill in the matrix below‚ denoting each philosopher’s view concerning the topics listed. Write NA if there is no record in the textbook of the philosopher’s view on the specific topic. Then‚ using the information you inserted into the matrix as a guide‚ write a 350-700 word response describing how Socrates’‚ Plato’s‚ and Aristotle’s philosophies relate to each other. |

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    ON POL 311 (HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT) TOPIC A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLES POLITICAL THOUGHT WRITTEN BY OKWOR‚ STEPHEN USHIE 09/ED/EF/814 DEPT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS (POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIT) FACULTY OF EDUCATION SUBMITTED TO DR. EJERE DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF UYO‚ UYO AKWA IBOM STATE MAY‚ 2012 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLES POLITICAL THOUGHT In order to compare these great philosophers

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    TV show wanting to live his own life. Although these texts are very different in style and story‚ they both show the positives and negatives of themes like ‘the good life’‚ the perfect society and justified power‚ among many others. All while showing the personal views and opinions the authors and directors have on these themes. Not only will we look at the different themes in the book but the similarities and differences between the creators views. ‘The good life’ is something that we are all looking

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    Plato vs. Augustine on Memory Assignment: Plato and Augustine use memory in ways that are comparable and incomparable. What is the role or function of memory in their respective psychological writings? What are their differences? If they disagree‚ indicate how they would criticize each other’s work. Augustine begins describing memory as that of a house. He describes it as being a place where images‚ ideas and memories are kept. They can be accesses and stored‚ re-used and deposited as needed

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    Life is so good- Oral Author- George Dawson and Richard Glaubman Good Afternoon Ms. McCafferty‚ I made this appointment because I passionately believe that the book‚ Life is so good written by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman should be on the Carey booklist for Year 9 students. Life is so good is a magnificent part biography‚ part autobiography of a 103 year old black man named George Dawson who went to school to learn to read and write when he was 98 years old. George Dawson may be

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    `Everyman’s Good Deeds – For Life or Death? Everyman‚ in its attempt to clearly depict the importance of man’s morality‚ focuses on a faith based on works‚ however; this focus is not on good deeds already obtained but on locating said deeds before proceeding to death. It would seem‚ then‚ that it is not necessary for Everyman to reflect on good deeds he has performed but that he find a way to acquire them quickly. Unlike the Protestant view‚ which bases religion on faith alone‚ Everyman

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    place that does not exist in reality” yet (Murfin and Ray 529). The theoretical and literary genres of Utopianism which came in the wake of More’s Utopia seek to promote a “vision of ‘the good life’”‚ as Barbara Goodwin and Keith Taylor explain in their collaborative work‚ The Politics of Utopia. This “good life” is often a vision which “transcends normal idealism” and “is inevitably at variance with the imperfections of existing society” (Goodwin and Taylor 4). Consequently Utopianism cannot be defined

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    Polazzo Injustice in our Society and in Ourselves What is justice is a question that has plagued philosophers since the time of Plato when he wrote The Republic to present day. In the book‚ Plato uses the dialectic‚ between Socrates and other Athenians like Polemarchus‚ Cephalus‚ and Glacuon‚ to try and find the definition of justice. Through the voice of Glaucon‚ Plato defines justice as a compromise of sorts between advantage and fear‚ and injustice as the things that we wouldn’t

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    subversion to traditional gender performativity‚ stating: “Drag is subversive to the extent that it reflects on the imitative structure by which hegemonic gender is itself produced and disputes heterosexuality’s claim on naturalness and originality.” According to Butler‚ drag is one of many ways to resist the power structures that regulate gender identities‚ mainly through the ridiculing of normative cultural and social expressions. Drag destabilizes the “truth” of sexual and gender mainstream ideology

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