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    Hinduism is a very complex and intricate henotheistic religion. It is mainly practiced in India and came before all the other religions in India. The most important sacred text of Hinduism is called the Vedas. It consists of four Veda texts in which the other texts of Hinduism are based around. Hindus base their lives around the four goals. Hindus divide their scripture into two categories: Shruti and Smriti. The Shruti is the primary revelation which has no human or divine author but has

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    Throughout his life Wendell Berry has made it a mission of his to educate people about what really happens to our food in the food industry‚ he has written multiple books about the subject including the essay “The Pleasures of Eating” written in 1989. He wishes to expose people to the idea that how they eat‚ affects more than just themselves. One point that Berry really tries to get through to the readers in this piece is that eating is what he refers to as‚ “An agricultural act” (227). What he

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    Epicurus‚ the founder of this happiness believed that pleasure is a great good but that we can find much more goods if we search for them. Pleasure does not ultimately come our way meaning it isn’t something we need every day. We can have the pleasure of fame and you think that those people who are “celebrities” are happy but that isn’t everyone’s case. They are people who acquire everything they have ever wanted and yet there comes a point in their life that all the riches doesn’t fulfill who they

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    Huxley explores the idea of escapism and pleasure. Support your answer with details from the novel. In the "old world" people had to deal with melancholy and abuse‚ and pleasure was received in different ways than in that of the new world. Huxley depicts this in his novel‚ Brave New World by establishing the idea of escapism and pleasure. He portrays some people as wanting to decamp from reality and explains that people in this utopian society get their pleasure from doing the same sort of activities

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    The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Early Modern England The beginnings of smoking in England constitute a new period in culture and history‚ linking smoking and drugs with medicine and pleasure. The main reason why smoking was so popular in Modern England was the health aspect‚ i.e. Englishmen believed that tobacco was medicine. Today this concept seems to be surprising because it is commonly known that smoking is dangerous to people’s health. However‚ smoking was one of the main drugs shipped

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    The pains and pleasures of being an adolescent in your country Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood; indeed adolescence is a period of physical and psychological development from the start of puberty to maturity in a person. It is also one of the liveliest parts of our existence whereby in a certain way we write the first pages of our life. In Mauritius‚ adolescence is considered for people between the ages of 13 and 18 and comprises important factors such as education‚

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    Choose one every day and one literary text. Using at least two analytical techniques from E301‚ analyze and compare your two texts in terms of their creativity and literariness‚ drawing on material from both parts of the module. In this paper I will analyze and compare a literary text and an everyday text‚ in terms of their creativity and literariness. I chose Philip Larkin’s (1964) poem‚ ‘Self’s the man’ (see Appendix‚ Text 1)‚ as the literary text for analysis because it is not only smooth and

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    In the article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema‚ published in 1975‚ Laura Mulvey‚ a British film critic‚ has set out the concept of visual pleasure named scopophilia (Mulvey 485) and explained its presence in Hollywood cinema. She points out that this scopophilia is taken from “the pleasure in using another person as an object of sexual stimulation” (Mulvey 487)‚ explains that when men looked at women‚ men as the subject can get scopophilia by looking at women in the object position. In contrast

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    Relating the pleasures during experiences‚ Mill thinks this method can’t be applied. A better way to arrange his arguments and scrutinize them is dealing with them as overall experiences instead of finding means to value on every instance the particular pleasures. In evaluating pleasures‚ the 5th element is to study the pleasures that result from the specifically human faculties qualitatively higher to those from animal appetites‚ but it’s practically hard to gather proofs. Mill here has 2 categorizations

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    virtues‚ which will be described later in this paper. Happiness takes a great stand from pleasure‚ because pleasure is just the outcome of doing things in the right way. In his book‚ Aristotle claims that children can never achieve happiness‚ because they can´t rationally see things in different ways and come up with a conclusion which is the best way to act in different situation. Though they can´t have pleasure because It´s the reward when doing something good and

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