YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :John Donne
Essays 1711 - 1740
he believed that nations only come into existence when "several elements have come together, especially economic life, language an...
"one of the largest commercial successes of Steinbecks career" and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature the following yea...
in the second stanza, as well as the final, "if gentle" confrontation in the last stanza (125). These vibrantly painted verbal ima...
human rulers answers to the sands of time. The message: Power is temporary. Nature is forever. This is a common theme among Roma...
confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...
truth is that they sometimes support antiquated principles. While Dewey wrote in a time when the 9 to 5 job was a given, fast forw...
customer starts giving him hell" (Updike). The initial impression of Sammy is one of adolescence as the presence of the girls in t...
intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
fact that he had been stationed at Governors Island in New York Harbor during the war where he was doing recruiting posters (1999)...
man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...
would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...
that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
theological or church background, but who come to the book with more questions than answers, will find this book as beneficial as ...
to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...
"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...
West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...
to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...
This does not, however, imply that Berger is attempting to spark a superficial or sentimental response: despite the...
of growing social concerns. As such, the impact and theories developed about human development and growth, as well as the learning...
of common sense, then any form of control that is promoted by Mills utilitarian belief comes not from the desire to better the wor...
Gray chooses to characterize men as Martians, creatures who are competent when it comes to activities which require manual skills ...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...