The Sick Soul William James was a powerful writer who explained many of his philosophies of religion and views on different personal religious experience in his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. Generally‚ throughout the book‚ James focuses on individual experience rather than institutional religion. Here James speaks of the “optimist” and the “pessimist”‚ also termed as the “healthy-minded” and the “sick soul”. James spends lectures 6 and 7 explaining the “sick soul” and what causes people
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The common physical beauty is what Elaine Scarry called “a symmetry of everyone’s relation to one another” in her book called On Beauty and Being Just (1999). This means that beautiful subjects or objects are evenly proportioned and ideal in all their forms. In other words‚ if symmetry is perfection‚ then beauty is perfection too. At the same time‚ as absolute symmetry does not exist- beauty is a divine feature of “chosen”. Meanwhile‚ I have my own interpretation of physical beauty. This is the idea
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History – The First and Second Great Awakenings had several things in common. They were both religious revival movements that was cause by a desire for liberalism in religion. They both appealed to human emotions to create change‚ played roles in expanding women membership in the church‚ developing new religious denominations‚ and addressing social issue such as racism and slavery. The end of World War II also put an end the era of colonialism. There were many new nations popping up that wanted to
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Leisure Reading Report Title: “God sees the truths but waits” Author: Leo Tolstoy I. Setting Town of Vladimir II. Characterization Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov- handsome‚ fair haired‚ curly.Headed fellow‚ full Of fun‚ and very fund in singing. -he had two shops and a house of its own. -lived in the town of Vladimir Makar Semyonich-accompanied of Akisonov in jail -One who killed the merchant. III.Vocabulary 1. Doze-to sleeps tightly 2. Despair-to
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and begins a trek across the Western United States‚ which eventually brings him to the place of his demise-Alaska. Jon Krakauer makes you feel like you are with Chris on his journey and uses exerts from various authors such as Thoreau‚ London‚ and Tolstoy‚ as well as flashbacks and narrative pace and even is able to parallel the adventures of Chris to his own life as a young man in his novel Into the Wild. Krakauer educates himself of McCandless’ story by talking to the people that knew Chris the
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art should look at it longer and in more detail. In a website artist quotes he is quoted interpreting art as‚ “The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” According to a very famous poet and author Leo Tolstoy he explains art as something that is studied and practiced through experience in life. He states that‚ “Art is that human activity which consists in one human consciously conveying to others‚ by certain external signs‚ the feelings he has experienced
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Abul Fazal 26 Akbar-Nama Abul Fazal 27 Shakuntala Kalidas 28 War and peace Leo Tolstoy 29 A Dangerous place D.P. Moynihan 30 Raghuvamsa Kalidas 31 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 32 Adventures of Tom Saweyer Mark Twain 33 Agni Veena Kazi Nasrul Islam 34 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carrol 35 Ancient Mariner Coleridge 36 Animal Farm George Orwell 37 Anna Karenina Tolstoy 38 Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 39 Arms and the Man G.B.Shaw 40 Around
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GEAS2103 Literary Appreciation: Term Essay Outline CUI KE JUN‚ April (13635670) Essay topic: Compare and contrast the conflicts faced by the protagonists in the two texts. Discuss how they are forced to submit to their parents. In literature‚ the conflict moves the story forward. When the story is to end the protagonist’s favor‚ the conflict occurs. It is what the major character must face with and hopefully defeat. What behind conflict is want. The author always creates situations where the characters
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“A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet.” Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton‚ 2011. 264-271. Print. Shakespeare‚ William. Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton‚ 2011. Print Tolstoy‚ Leo. “Shakespeare and the Drama.” Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton‚ 2011. 252-255. Print.
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people who befriended Chris in his journey‚ folks like Jan Burres and her boyfriend‚ Bob Wayne Westerberg Ronald Franz Explain why Chris left such a strong impression on them. 2. Chris McCandless had certain literary heroes Henry David Thoreau‚ Leo Tolstoy‚ Jack London‚ etc. Choose one or more of Chriss literary heroes and analyze what he appreciated about their work as well as what he incorporated into his own philosophy of life. (This topic is manageable just from having read Into the Wild and
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