the god of love. Aristophanes‚ a comic poet‚ gives the first speech‚ and the second is given by Socrates. The first speech tells a humorous history of mankind and how it became “whole‚” addressing gender issues and sexuality. On a more serious note‚ the second speech addresses the origin of Eros and his use to humans. Before launching his speech‚ Aristophanes warns the group that his eulogy to love may be more absurd than funny. His speech is an explanation of why people in love say they feel
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we heal ourselves.” I have come to believe that the physical destruction of the earth extends to us‚ too. If we live in an environment that’s wounded--where the water is polluted‚ the air is filled with soot and fumes‚ the food is contaminated with heavy metals and plastic residues‚ or the soil is practically dust--it hurts us‚ chipping away at our health and creating injuries at a physical‚ psychological‚ and spiritual level. In degrading the environment‚ therefore‚ we degrade ourselves. ... The
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Under the race ethnicity and communication section of the chapter I didn’t like how the author said we communicated more with people like ourselves. Granted that it may be true for some‚ the wording seems off to me. " people like ourselves " can mean a lot more than race‚ social status and ethnic groups (as the author mentioned). By limiting " people like ourselves " to those three categories i feel as though she is saying those are the main categories that link people‚ which I disagree with. I feel
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Full of Ourselves PLUS is a prevention program centered around adolescent girls ages 11-13. The objective of this program is to teach adolescent girls‚ “to integrate eating disorder and obesity prevention programs with the goal of improving body-esteem‚ physical activity‚ and nutritional habits for adolescent females”(Reel et al. (2010) pg. 110). They did this by holding an 8-week program with 1.5 hour sessions every week‚ where they engaged in activities such as: building their own snack‚ group
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Can a woman be true to one man? Is a pure and virtuous woman anywhere on the ends of the earth? John Donne‚ a poet of the Renaissance and a contemporary of Shakespeare’s ponders this dilemma in the poem "Song" or "Go and Catcha Falling Star". Structurally Donne is unique in the structure of the poem. The poem has a rhythm and a rhyme scheme a‚b‚a‚b‚c‚c‚d‚d‚d. With lines 7-8 Donne has two word lines which add impact to those words "And find/What wind"‚ "And swear/no where"‚ and "Yet she/Will be"
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle What is happiness? The word happiness in the Ethics is a translation of the Greek term eudaimonia‚ which carries connotations of success and fulfillment. For Aristotle‚ this” happiness” is our highest goal. But the real question is‚ how do we achieve this goal? Happiness well always depend upon ourselves. Every single soul on the face of this planet sees happiness differently. While one mind might think happiness is the accomplishment of finishing
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Our Daughters‚ Ourselves – Analysis In this short piece‚ “Our Daughters‚ Ourselves” by Stevie Cameron the many feats that woman have overcome in recent years are highlighted‚ as are the many setbacks. This piece is basically a summation of a daughters life from an over-cautious parents point of view. Although this is a short piece of writing‚ it does indeed touch on some of the sexual differences that still exist in our society today such as male-dominated post-secondary fields like engineering
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One of these connotations is person versus self conflict. In “To Know Ourselves”‚ when the author says “reflect to know ourselves … ourselves who dreamt … to know this heavy heart” it signifies a loss of self and the struggle of trying to find yourself after a tragic event(273). The words “reflect”‚ “know”‚ and “ourselves” connect to searching for yourself and “dreamt” and “heavy heart” connect to losing your dreams and ideas after a tragic event
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: A Public Discourse in the Age of Bussiness‚ is a book by Neil Postman. Postman’s objective in writing this was to shed light on the role media (mostly television) plays in the medicating of the common people and their abilities to distinguish between wht is actual news and fact from what is simply amusement. Throughout his book‚ Postman attempts to distinguish between three different worlds; Orwellian‚ Huxleyan‚ and what he (Postman) sees as the world of today and the
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Not for Ourselves Alone‚ an exciting novel written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns‚ describes the story of the intellectual pair of two very determined women‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Throughout the novel‚ the author describes the many hard ships the two individuals had to face throughout their journey to bring rights to women. For more than 50 years‚ Stanton and Anthony led the battle of securing women’s rights and helped create a movement that would forever be remembered by
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