creates illusion; fear makes us suspicious‚ arrogant; fear makes us seek all kinds of refuge…” (The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti‚ (1962-1963): A Psychological Revolution). Fear drives people to search for sanctuary‚ and causes a yearning for an interlude of peace. In Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence of Owl Creek Bridge”‚ fear of an imminent death warps time and reality‚ and provides a false sense of hope‚ which distracts from reality. Death’s unsettling fear surrounds Peyton Farquhar‚ the story’s
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AGAINST AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN WWI Losing lives is never a virtuous thing‚ but it is copiously worse when it could have been facilely prevented. World War I was an atrocious‚ horrific‚ and destructive experience that terrified those who unfortunately became involved. World War I occurred unnecessarily at the cost of the lives of many men and women. First we will reconnoiter why our country felt the need to become involved in the First World War. Then we will tear apart the details of damage caused
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Rex: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Michael J. O ’Brien. Englewood Cliffs‚ NJ: Prentice‚ 1968. 111-121. Print. ---. The Heroic Temper: Studied in Sophoclean Tragedy. Berkeley: U of California P‚ 1964. Rosefeldt‚ Paul. "From Strange Interlude to Strange Snow: A Study of the Absent Character in Drama." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Aug. 2002): 117(14). Academic OneFile. Gale. Web. 14 Sept. 2008 . Segal‚ Charles. "Criticism by Charles Segal." Discovering Authors. Online ed
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these adapted to new topics with great interest communicating targets and new objectives humanists. The Renaissance was based on models of Greek and Roman classics‚ and precedents from Italy and Spain‚ the Spanish drama has evolved since the interludes and morality plays and became a complex art form‚ thus taking considered as the best known as dramatists‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson‚ who wrote plays with such universal qualities of greatness‚ and that is why this drama
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artist. This sculpture stands at 25 ½ inches tall and the medium is bronze‚ a very commonly used metal. Due to the nudity you can tell this sculpture is from a time period long ago. Sculptures of this time period were typically nude; artists of this interlude strove to depict the human figure in an idealized fashion. The figure’s pose and gestures exemplify his status as an athlete and make this fact apparent to the observer. The figure is standing with his legs apart and his left hand high above his
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BIOGRAPHY OF GEORG SIMON OHM Georg Simon Ohm (16 March 1787 – 6 July 1854) was a Bavarian (German) physicist and mathematician. As a high school teacher‚ Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell‚ invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation‚ Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relationship is known as Ohm’s law. Ohm
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The Reformation: Catholicism As Madonna Ciccone once said‚ “Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.” Roman Catholicism arguably had the most decisive spiritual role in the history of Western Civilization. Its origins can be traced as far back as Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Today‚ the Catholic Church amasses over 11.1 billion members and has developed a sophisticated theology and hierarchy led by the papacy. By examining the Reformation
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occasions‚ the Spanish tried to take over our land and belongings and were unsuccessful in their attempts. Our people gathered over 7000 warriors in only a few short hours to defeat the Spanish armies. However‚ our tribe always has preferred peace. The Jesuit priests came to inhabit the land in the early 1600s. They came to convert people to Christianity. We lived together in harmony for a little over a century and many of our people converted. The relationship also brought advantages such as modern farming
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In the 1700s‚ racial superiority was rampant. For those born anything other than Caucasian‚ there were essentially no rights. France and its colonies – Saint Domingue in particular – were benefitting off the backbreaking work of the people the white Frenchmen deemed inferior. Rallying for the rights of those of darker skin tone were the Jacobins. Henri Grégoire‚ a founder of the Jacobin club‚ was a vital supporter in the movement for the rights of nonwhites. Examining the foundations of the
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As depicted in his novel Candide‚ a French satire written in the eighteenth-century‚ Voltaire stood as an indisputably witty writer. Throughout Candide‚ Voltaire targeted philosophical optimism‚ war‚ and religion: what he considered to be the ills of the world. His primary purpose in writing Candide was to oppose the philosophical theory of optimism. This anger towards optimism primarily arose as a consequence of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon. He felt a deep compassion for the thousands of victims
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