half full and contain enough soda to finish their meals. Looking on the positive side‚ Sarah is showing an example of optimism. Optimists believe they are responsible for their own happiness and believe that a negative event occurs rarely. Also‚ anytime something bad does happen‚ optimists think it is not their own fault‚ rather than something out of their control. Furthermore‚ optimism
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“So…what are you looking for?” The saleswoman says to me. All of a sudden‚ I see this cute shirt in the corner of my eye. Before I could even tell her what I wanted to try on‚ she looked at me straight in the eye and said‚ “I don’t think you can fit in our clothing…” I looked at her straight in the eye‚ just so she can see my disappointment and hurt. Do you want to know what I said? Okay. Yeah‚ that’s what I said. I bet that put her in her place. “So…how do you expect to fit into a prom dress
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In China‚ much research word on Hemingway has been focusing on his anti-war attitude which is shown through his works and the manhood. However‚ not much attention has been paid to the tragic vision that Hemingway tries to show in A Farewell to Arms. In this thesis‚ I’m going to explore the tragic vision from the aspects of its contents and the techniques that Hemingway employs in A Farewell to Arms. Through careful investigation and sufficient illustration and analysis‚ I will conclude that Hemingway’s
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Leibniz’s theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaire’s use of satire‚ and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world in general when men are meekly accepting their fate. Leibniz‚ a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire’s time‚ developed the idea that the world they were living in at that time was "the best of all possible worlds." This systematic optimism shown by Leibniz is
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everything. They believed this in hopes to make the world a better place to live. Voltaire is against such optimism‚ and believes that true joy can only be experienced in a world that doesn’t exist. In his book Candide‚ he uses anti-heroism as a satire against the philosophers of the enlightenment. I do not believe that Voltaire intends the reader to see the world with optimism‚ but rather pessimism. I will further explain why I believe the book draws attention to the horrific “ways of the world” throughout
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available to everyone‚ spreading the thoughts of optimism and the Enlightenment further. Diderot was important‚ but so was Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in a government with little or no laws. He thought that when people had no laws that they knew right from wrong and were happier that way. Rousseau said this in his book‚ “Discourse on the origins of the Inequality of Mankind”. His want for everyone to be happy was a sign of his optimism. Voltaire‚ Diderot‚ and Rousseau brought a multitude
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once voiced “I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind‚ furious optimism.” Any kind of success in this life is unattainable without optimism. Optimism should‚ without a doubt‚ be a priority. Optimism is the only thing that kept our students learning‚ our doctors healing‚ and our troops fighting‚ all these in hopes of a better future. Optimism is another word for faith. Optimism is just faith that things will get better no matter how bad the circumstances are. We are supposed
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Assignment: Optimism and Health Andrea Pulis PSY/220 October 9‚ 2012 Ratonya Bennett For this paper‚ I researched two peer reviewed articles which discusses the effects of optimism and psychological health. The first one that I found is called Optimism and Physical Health: A Meta-analytic Review by Heather N. Rasmussen‚ Ph.D.‚ Michael F. Scheier‚ Ph.D.‚ and Joel B. Greenhuse‚ Ph.D. It was published in 2009. The second article that I located is called Perceived Academic Control: mediating the
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Optimism as an Ideal Voltaire presents the character of the protagonist called "Candide: or‚ all for the Best" and "Candide: or‚ The Optimist." learns the principles of optimism from his teacher‚ Dr. Pngloss‚ who lives constantly in fools optimism‚ based on abstract philosophical argument rather than intangible evidence or experiment. However‚ In the chaotic world of the novel. Pangloss and his student Candide maintain that “everything is for the
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Optimism as a Theme for Candide Just as on the title‚ Candide‚ or Optimism‚ Optimism is also used as a major theme. Voltaire’s satire of philosophical optimism is one of the major issues of Candide. Throughout the story‚ satirical references to "the best of all possible worlds" contrast with natural catastrophes and human wrongdoing. According to Wikipedia‚ "optimism‚ the opposite of pessimism‚ is a lifeview where the world is looked upon the as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that
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