PLEASURE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Roger Crisp Roger Crisp asks whether hedonism is quite as bad as is often supposed. Hedonism’s decline Since the beginning of philosophy‚ many people have thought that the only thing really worth seeking in life is pleasure‚ and that the only thing really worth avoiding is pain. This is the view called ’hedonism’ (from the Greek hedone‚ meaning ’pleasure’). The ancients were fascinated by the view. Plato‚ Aristotle and the Stoics spent a lot of time coming
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Digital Bangladesh Digital Bangladesh is a wonderful vision that is dreamt by the government and the literate class for the technological development of Bangladesh. Digitalization has become a buzzword in the new era of information technology. We can now learn in an instant what is happening in the furthest corner of the world. The electronic transfer of information via the internet has created an interconnected world of information. Bangladesh is going to observe digital year in 2011 to mark
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In both A Seperate Peace and “A Poison Tree”‚ the authors explore how anger can change the way a person deals with a situation. Both Authors claim that Anger can seek into you and change how you act as a person. Many people deal with their anger by holding grudges against people to cope. Passage one shows how the narrator let his grudge toward his foe grow until the problem was unfixable. In the passage “i was angry with my friend:/i told my wrath‚ my wrath did end:/ I was angry with my
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Chirico 1 Christina Chirico ENG4U Mr. Cristelli March 5‚ 2012 Imagery in “Your Mouth is Lovely” Imagery‚ in a literary text‚ occurs when an author uses an object that is not really there‚ in order to create a comparison between one that is‚ usually evoking a more meaningful visual experience for the reader. In Nancy Richler’s “Your Mouth is Lovely”‚ ground imagery is used to imply the harsh voices of society that prevent
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Prior to watching the film: Pleasure Unwoven‚ I was of the opinion that addiction was a choice. After watching the film‚ I understand that addiction is a disease but I feel that choice still has an important role to play‚ because if one for example the alcoholic did not chose to taste alcohol in the first place he will not become an alcoholic. I appreciate the disclosure of Kevin McCaulley‚ the star/actor/narrator of the film; how he also said he thought that addiction was a choice. Alcohol and drugs
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between physical and attitudinal pleasure is that one is something that you can hold and grab‚ while the other is something that is in your mind. To expand‚ physical pleasure is a temporary thing. For an example: Eating key lime pie. Eating this specific pie for some people give them pleasure because it tastes good; however‚ when the consumption is complete‚ the taste eventually goes away along with the pleasure. On the other hand‚ attitudinal‚ or psychological pleasure‚ is a perpetual kind of happiness
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Environmental pollution Any abnormal change in chemical‚ physical and biological features of environment is called pollution. It means adding impurity to environment.Environmental pollution is the greatest curse of modern world. Our world is now badly affected by air‚ water‚ land and sound pollutions. The fresh air in which we breathe gets polluted by combustion of fossil fuel‚ emission smoke and gas from motorized vehicles and factories etc. A huge amount of industrial and municipal wastages are
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Price hike: unimaginable sufferings of people David Jones‚ Dhaka‚ 25 August 2012: Recently the prices of almost all essentials commodities especially rice‚ wheat‚ groceries‚ oil‚ vegetables etc. have gone up beyond the purchasing capacity of the common people. It is found in the local markets that rice sells 35-45Tk. per kg‚ flour 32-42‚ Soyabean oil 110 and onion TK 40-50 per kg. Prices of all other daily necessaries have been found to increase in the same way. The soaring price hike has
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Addiction and the Future of Pleasure Addiction is a term that’s tossed around lightly. Many people use it every day to describe their strong desire or liking for something such as coffee‚ candy‚ or sports. Although most people believe they understand the meaning of addiction‚ the real concept of it is rooted deep inside the brain. Defining addiction isn’t as easy as the understanding of how much you love sports or the fact that you can’t go a day without coffee. The only way to truly define addiction
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Bullying: Sadistic Pleasure? Have you been humiliated‚ hurt and made fun of by other people? Have they been abusing your negligence to their actions? Have you been bullied? Or were you the one who bullied? H. No. 5496 (Anti-Bullying Act of 2012): An act requiring all elementary and secondary schools to adopt policies to prevent and address the acts of bullying in their institutions. Sadism‚ pleasure taken from inflicting pain on others‚ may lead to Sadistic Personality Disorder which is a mental
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