... self-mastery. Nietzsche was one of the most intelligent modern thinkers of his time. Many of his writings were describing the change in society and religion. Nietzsche believed that because of all the changing lifestyles and the new technology people were loosing the meaning of life. His ideas relate closely to those of Buddha, Plato, and Aristotle in believing that, “self-mastery was the key to transcending the confusion of modern thought. “ (Par. 4) being in touch with one’s self, according to Nietzsche, was the greatest quality one could posses. Nietzsche believed that in order to achieve this a person had to obtain a balance of two parts of his mind, Apolloniani ...
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... is always concerned with his appearance. He always wants to keep up the appearance of a sweet, gentle person. Polonius appears to be a man who loves and cares about his son, Laertes. He speaks to his son with advice that sounds sincere but in reality it is rehearsed, hollow and without feeling. Polonius gives his advice only to appear to be a good father. The reality is he only speaks to appear sincere as a politician, to look good rather then actually be good. Polonius even ends his speech to his son by saying: "And borrowing dulleth th' edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst no ...
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... along, so he cries for help. The man said ‘Dear, dear!’ ‘What a foolish boy you are! Now how did you get into such difficulties? Surely you knew that the water was too deep for you. Did your dear father and mother never tell you not to go into deep water until you could swim? Now if you were a strong swimmer like me, and so he went on preaching at Tom until the poor boy was almost drowned. But Tom managed to find a place where the water was not so deep, and was able to scramble to the bank. Lesson of this fable is, A helping hand is better than a sermon. Another example of friendship is THE LION AND THE MOUSE. One hot day a lion was sleeping under a ...
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... it was written. Memoir appropriately comes from the Latin word for memory. The focus is usually on the writer's experiences with a person, place, or event. In comparison to a journal, the main difference lies in the intended audience. A journal is for the writer only, while a memoir is written with the purpose of communicating the memory to others. In 'Finishing School' by Maya Angelou, she writes a memoir to tell of her upbringing as a black child being taught white female etiquette. Here, her intentions of the piece is to give an understanding of what it was like for her as an underprivileged slave child to interact with her white peers in the 1930's. Writer ...
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... California, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, and Washington (Manning 54). With this in mind a teacher in this state must understand some important facts about the education of a young Native American. According to Manning Native American students function at equal levels to their counterparts up until the fourth grade. After that time many Native American students fall behind their European American peers. Much of this failure is a result of feelings of isolation, rejection, and anxiety as they begin to see how their own cultural value system is different from that of their peers. "These feelings contribute to alienation, poor self image, and withdrawal. (Sanders ...
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... that ambiguities themselves are significant and may point to the invisible core of life. Tan may weave elements of Taoism into the narrative to locate the "invisible core" of Chinese women's culture, of the immigrant family--and of the novel itself--within apparent conflicts or ambiguities. Tan's use of Confucianism may reveal her hypothesis of how a women's version of that patriarchal ethico-moral-ritual tradition might be passed down from mother to daughter and carried to America. Just as in the Confucian ritual system, very little of the mother-tradition in the text is told explicitly from mother to daughter: ritual actions are supposed to be observed, absorb ...
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... a Trojan, judged Aphrodite the fairest over Hera, and, after her daughter Hebe was replaced as cupbearer to the gods by a young Trojan boy, she was quite resentful towards Troy and its people. Obviously she sided with the Greeks and would stop at no length to express her will. Scheming and manipulating she even dared to trick her husband, King of the Gods. Hera, along with Athena, who was also passed over by Paris, is seen as the chief divine aid to the Greeks. Being the god of the sea, Poseidon was another strong supporter of the ocean-faring Greeks. Whenever Zeus turned his back Poseidon tried to help the Greeks in the fight ...
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... this Enobarbus speaks very freely of his view of Cleopatra, even if what he says is very positive: ...her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot be cunning in her; if it be she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. (I, ii, 147-152) After Antony reveals that he has just heard news of his wife's death, we are once again offered an example of Enobarbus' freedom to speak his mind, in that he tells Antony to "give the gods a thankful sacrifice" (I.ii.162), essentially saying that Fulvia's death is a good thing. Obvious ...
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... Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather than an engineer, Taylor’s vision of the computer as a communications device proved to be a revolutionary idea. He found his chance to realize it when Xerox’s chief scientist Jacob Goldman persuaded his superiors to launch a basic research facility along the line of AT&T’s famed Bell Labs. Xerox management, more interested in marketable products than in pure scie ...
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... Twist also experienced a great amount of abuse. For example, while suffering from starvation and malnutrition for a long period of time, Oliver was chosen by the other boys at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner one night. After making this simple request, "the master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3 The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliati ...
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