My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence I am the representative embodiment of my nihilistic culture. I am narcissistic‚ insatiable‚ petty‚ apathetic and I am above all an emotional invalid. Yet‚ up until very recently‚ I was not consciously aware that I was guilty of having any of these wholly pejorative attributes‚ because I had unconsciously suppressed my inherent will to attain a meaningful existence‚ in favor of the comfort and security that complacency and futility provide. There
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WIKIPEDIA: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24‚ 1919)[1] is an American poet‚ painter‚ liberal activist‚ and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry‚ translations‚ fiction‚ theatre‚ art criticism‚ and film narration‚ he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)‚ a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages‚ with sales of over one million copies. Contents 1 Early life 2 World War II 3 Columbia University & The Sorbonne 4
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Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Salman Rushdie ’s Fiction Daniela Rogobete Today everything that derives from history and from historical time must undergo a test. Neither cultures ’ nor the consciousness ’ of peoples‚ groups‚ or even individuals can escape the loss of identity that is now added to all other besetting terrors nothing and no one can avoid trial by space. (Lefebvre in Burgin‚ 1996: 23) Space and its recontextualisation‚ its metaphoric representations
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Introduction: McDonald’s in China McDonald’s is considered as the most successful and largest restaurant chain in the world. In 1990 McDonald’s opened its first store in Shenzhen China. In 1992‚ McDonald’s Beijing outlet was opened. There are more than 800 McDonald’s outlets in China today. This paper aims to analyze the importance and the extent to which culture affects the operations of McDonald’s in China. The impacts of the Chinese culture on the operations‚ policies
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Athens in the Time of Pericles Religion‚ Death and Burial Pericles lived from 495-429 BC. During this time‚ religion was inextricably linked with Athenian society. It contributed to a lot of Athenian culture and the many aspects of religion were depicted through buildings‚ artworks‚ festivals and every day rituals. Gods and Goddesses In Greek mythology there were 12 main gods‚ that were prayed to and worshipped by the Athenians. It was said they lived on top of Mount Olympus. They resembled human
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Chicago: Chicago‚ 1969); Nietzsche: A Critical Life‚ Ronald Hayman (Oxford U.: New York‚ 1980); Beyond Nihilism‚ Ofelia Schutte (U. of Chicago: Chicago‚ 1984); Nietzsche ’s Zarathustra Kathleen Marie Higgins (Temple: Philadelphia‚ 1987); Zarathustra ’s Dionysian Modernism‚ Robert Gooding-Williams (Stanford U.: California‚ 2001); Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Honest Athiesm‚ Dishonest Pessimism‚ David Bernam (in Willing and Nothingness. Schopenhauer as Nietzsche ’s Educator‚ ed. Christopher Janaway [Clarendon:
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Greek Literature GREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries‚ the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry‚ tragedy‚ comedy‚ and history‚ Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspired‚ influenced
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120 Days of Moral Deterioration: Pasolini’s SALÒ in the Misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality “Because we’re not their masters‚ even the most bizarre manias derive from a basic principle of refinement. Yes‚ old buggers. It’s a question of delicacy.” -The Bishop‚ in SALÒ or the 120 Days of Sodom “No festivity without cruelty; such is the lesson of the earliest‚ longest period in the history of mankind – and even in punishment there is so much that is festive!” -On
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Chapter One Origins and Antiquity: Myths‚ Legends‚ and Epics The geographical origins of Western literature lie in areas as diverse as the Middle East‚ the Mediterranean‚ the central European forests‚ and the northwestern coasts‚ each of which produced a body of oral histories‚ myths‚ and legends‚ many of which were subsequently written down. They have been drawn on by writers since the emergence of a Western literature culture in ancient Greece. Stories have been used as entertainment‚ as origin
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Writing about Shakespeare promotes a sympathy with extremes. One such extreme is the impressionism of a critic like A. C. Bradley‚ when he tries to hold together‚ synoptically‚ Feste the fool and Shakespeare himself‚ both as actor and magical author. Bradley notes that the Fool in Lear has a song not dissimilar to the one that concludes Twelfth Night1 and leaves Feste at the finish-line. “But that’s all one‚ our play is done …” After everything has been sorted out‚ and the proper pairings are arranged
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