The Struggle of Pity What is pity? Pity is simply the concern aroused by the misfortune or suffering of others. As the emotion of pity deepens‚ it can correlate itself with sympathy and lead to compassion (Baird 1). Dante comprises this idea of pity within the narration of his characters in the Inferno. Dante creates fluctuating moralities that contrasts with the narrative tale of the sinners to the protagonist. The contrasts that are made by the sinner are reflected upon by Dante‚ he refers to
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George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion sends me a few messages that he was either meaning to get out to his readers‚ or not. After reading the play‚ I felt that he was trying to deliver the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance‚ the importance of proper phonetics in society‚ and in a way perhaps illustrates an insecurity that Shaw has within his own love life. Shaw delivers the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance while also conveying
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore‚ all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw When I first read this‚ I immediately thought that this goes back to a classical debate of being ideal against being practical. To challenge the status quo. But do we really have to be unreasonable in order to achieve progress? Being reasonable implies practicality which denotes steadiness and soundness
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Cal by Bernard MacLaverty Cal by Bernard MacLaverty tells us the tragic story about a young‚ unemployed Catholic named Cal Maclusky. He lives in Northern Ireland in an ulster where mostly Protestants live and is the son of a stubborn widowed abattoir man who refuses to leave his home even though their house had been firebomb threatened several times. Cal’s life is tough and trouble always seems to find him‚ his mother died when he was eight‚ Protestants give him a hard time and as if that wasn’t
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Bernard McGrane believes that as sociologists they have to think scientifically which means without any bias or personal preference. For instance‚ when we are think about necessity of legalizing casinos in NYC‚ we cannot have any answer influenced by personal experience like lost money there or personal preference like I don’t like gambling. We have to think objectively without any personal emotion. As to culture shock from anthropology‚ it is a individual get in to a new society which has totally
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The paper “The Self and The Future” is written by Bernard Williams. It depicts two very similar cases and stirs a discussion between whether the psychological continuity theory or bodily continuity theory is more relevant when it comes to our personal identity. Psychological continuity is a view that is based on the principle that our personal identity is associated with our thoughts and memories. Bodily continuity theory is a view that as long as we have the same body‚ we are the same person. Throughout
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itself‚ through which Tschumi proposes an architecture of difference and opposition rather than synthesis and totality. Narrative techniques—be they pictorial or cinematic—evoke the ability of fiction to produce an alternative form of critique. Bernard Tschumi was already widely known for his theoretical drawings and written texts‚ like The Manhattan Transcripts developed in the late 1970s‚ in which he transcribed aspects normally removed from conventional architectural representation‚ like the
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Living in the Moment In D. H. Lawrence’s poem "Self-Pity‚" I think he is trying to emphasize that humans‚ have the greatest ability of self pity‚ perhaps more than most animals. Humans can express more self-pity‚ self-loathing‚ and low self-esteem in very small occurrences‚ as opposed to other animals. He says‚ “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself‚” which means that we as sheltered humans feel sorry for ourselves while the wild animals don’t feel bad at all. The poem reminds me of
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This week’s case study‚ The Fraud of the Century: The Case of Bernard Madoff‚ details an elaborate Ponzi scheme and characterizes every aspect of a white collar crime. Bernie Madoff originally began carry out buying and trading stocks legally. Madoff was never registered as an investment advisor and the SEC paid little to no attention to the business he conducted (Gaviria and Smith‚ 2009). Bernie Madoff established a family friendly framework. This framework employed his wife‚ brother‚ niece‚ and
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Bernie Banton was a passionate and courageous campaigner whose life was taken away from him all in a blink of an eye. Bernard Douglas Banton or as he was known as –Bernie was born in the year 1946 in Sydney. Banton worked as an employee at the Camellia plant of Australian building products giant James Hardie & co Pty Ltd from 1968 to 1974. He was a lathe operator who shaped blocks of asbestos for the use of power stations and pipe sections. Before I go on any further‚ you might want to know what
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