Essays 1831 - 1860
un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
He says, "What is a man,/If his chief good and market of this time/Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more" (IV.IV.33-35). But w...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
of this world. She is saying good-by to earthly cares and experience and learning to focus her attention in a new way, which is re...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
bodie in salt water smarting sore, The filthy blots of sinne to washe away, So in short space, they did to health restore The man...
The tape shows passengers being toss around like rag dolls. With such a profound visual, Malone figures she no longer pay attentio...
and the production of goods and services enhanced, Greenspan contends that the first step in stimulating our economy should be to ...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
or genetic argument is often presented to reduce social spending on certain delinquent programs because "you cant change them, the...
should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...
will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a significant and essential ro...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
of American reaction to Japans surrender is wrong. While undoubtedly many Americans stationed in Japan still hated the Japanese be...
actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...
me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...
news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...
and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
yet durable external shell which can be peeled away to reveal the different sections. While the sections are all different they to...
Islam total control of the Mediterranean, so that -- as one Arab writer of the time put it -- the Christians could no longer "floa...
Since billions of dollars are at stake, you can bet that they are going to get it right. Kilbourne states that the average Americ...