a French satire written in the eighteenth-century‚ Voltaire stood as an indisputably witty writer. Throughout Candide‚ Voltaire targeted philosophical optimism‚ war‚ and religion: what he considered to be the ills of the world. His primary purpose in writing Candide was to oppose the philosophical theory of optimism. This anger towards optimism primarily arose as a consequence of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon. He felt a deep compassion for the thousands of victims of the earthquake and did not believe
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“Optimism is the hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something” This is the cry of the enlightenment period. This was the hope that Kant and Voltaire so strongly desired for the future. Optimism is something that most people think that they have‚ but very few actually acquire. Optimism not only requires hope‚ but it requires action. The enlightenment period was a precursor to the revolution. Immanuel Kant believed that all men‚ if they have the freedom to think
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correlates for emotions this would then tell us additional information about what makes people happy (Klein‚ 2006). Although there are many different theories on how to cultivate happiness for everyone‚ the same few evidence keeps emerging: leisure‚ optimism and social interaction (relationships) with others. This paper is going to discuss the evidence for each of these in detail and hopefully show that psychological science has and is helping to understand what makes people happy and how we can cultivate
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acceptable for new ideas and innovations. Albania is a pragmatic culture. It implies that people believe that truth depends on the situation‚ context and time. Albania scores low in indulgence. People in this country are inclined to cynicism and pessimism. They emphasize a lot their
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and suffering‚ he maintained his optimistic views through much of the novel. Candide picked up this idea of optimism through Pangloss’s teachings. Although he did not see any good reasons to disbelieve Pangloss’s teachings while living in the Baron’s castle‚ once in the outside world‚ Candide experiences many tragic events that make him‚ and the reader‚ question the philosophy of optimism. Candide’s adventures‚ starting when he is kicked out of the Barons castle‚ clearly represented an imperfect
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good luck and psychological well-being: The mediating role of optimism and irrational beliefs. This article discusses the relationship between belief in good luck and depression as well as anxiety. Belief in good luck has been traditionally regarded as an irrational belief and the authors in the article attempt to overturn this idea. They utilize the five theories of depression and anxiety to explain this relationship that embraces optimism‚ neuroticism‚ attribution style‚ self-esteem and irrational
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I. Introduction Comparing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Middleton’s The Changeling seems to be a very unusual topic for the first sight. The earlier is a festive merry comedy and the latter is said to be a revenge tragedy‚ moreover‚ is claimed to be a later transformation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Certainly‚ if we look at the structure of The Changeling on the surface we see a plot of a conventional drama of revenge‚ but as we observe closer it becomes evident that The Changeling
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The Rise of Harry S. Truman A few weeks before his appointment as America’s president‚ Truman was the vice president to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During that time‚ “Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt‚ and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman’s to solve when‚ on April 12‚ 1945‚ he became President. He told reporters‚ ‘I felt like the moon‚ the stars
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Critical essay on “The Second Coming” “The Second Coming” from W.B. Yeats is a description that transcends the limits of poetic beauty to become a work of critical character. The poem transmits to the reader an atmosphere of chaos and destruction‚ this description chaotic of environment has a direct relationship with the cultural and political interwar period. The poem has three common themes: 1) the presentation of chaotic motion as the bustle of the World War I destruction left in its wake‚
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The fictional character that I have decided to analyze is Shrek from the Shrek movies. Some background information about Shrek‚ well his full name is Shrek the ogre‚ his age is unknown but my guess is that he is around 25-30 years old at least in human years since he gets married and has kids later on in the movie. There weren’t any legitimate answers to what his childhood looked like but according to the shrek musical‚ It is said that he was sent away by his parents because it was ogre tradition
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