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    insightful nature only added to his literature. Hawthorne used literary devices and wrote allegorical and parable stories that the reader could identify with and understand there was more that met the eye. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment‚” “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter‚” are all stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that possess the qualities of Dark Romanticism that dug deeper into the human heart and mind to see the negative side that all people have. Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”

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    and respectable lifestyle of upper class. Because of the apparent hierarchy‚ people had different characters in different classes‚ upper class people were more likely to behave selfish and educated (Sample‚ 2012). There were hardly any paintings painted for the middle class or worker class‚ yet the art started growing. As for the Rain‚ Steam and Speed in 1844‚

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    Rawls and the Original Position INDEX No. Topic Page No. 1. Introduction 3 2. John Rawls: A Life Sketch 4 3. The Original Position 6 4. The Original Position and the Social Contract 7 5. Nature of the Original Position 9 6. The veil of ignorance 11 7. Rationality in the original position 13 8. The maximin principle 15 9. The original position and utilitarianism 17 10. Criticism of the original position 19 11. Conclusion 21 12. References 22 13. Bibliography

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    Cited: Abu-Lughod‚ Lila. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Princeton‚ NJ: Princeton UP‚ 1998. Print. Ahmed‚ Leila. The Discourse of the Veil. New Haven‚ CT: Princeton UP‚ 1992. Print. Vargas‚ Jose Antonio. "Spring Awakening." The New York Times. The New York Times‚ 19 Feb. 2012. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. . "A Veiled Revolution." A Veiled Revolution. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.

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    back to Iran. In the bathroom‚ a woman next to her is giving Marjane strange looks when she is applying her lipstick. The student sees the similarity of the veil and the lipstick playing a similar role for women. Both are seen as an appropriate way for women to be dressed and are seen as someone who is modern. There could also be many ways the veil could be related to other sorts of objects that women use in certain countries to show that they too can be accepted in their own

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    placed him‚ he and many young black children lived in a world with possibility‚ a world without a veil. There is no confusion and no feeling of being less of a person that a white child. The struggle of balancing and finding who you truly do not exist‚ a child does not feel a personal division of their identity. Yet when the black child discovers that their lives and stories do indeed live behind a veil‚ and therefore are invisible they both gain and suffer from this discovery. These children are now

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    accept its stagnation. The elements of the church are described as oppressive with the boys needing to be ‘set free ’ from the quiet Christian Brothers ’ School. This opening paragraph discloses the ineffectuality of the Church through the portrait painted. This seeming lack of religious adherence is a contextualization of 20th century Ireland. The religious undertones of North Richmond Street are symbolically alluded to in the composition of the houses which mirror the construct of pews

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    “Larkin is a pessimistic rather than optimistic poet” – Discuss Larkin has been regarded as a pessimistic poet. Larkin surely takes a very dark view of human life. The main emphasis in his poem is on failure and frustration in human life. However Larkin is not a uniformly pessimistic poet. Some of his poems have a profoundly moral character‚ which expresses itself in the need to control and organize life‚ rather than submit to a pre-determined pattern of failure. There is generally a debate going

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    WOMEN IN ISLAM It is not a news flash that Islam has been painted as a religion that oppresses women. In fact‚ the Westerners especially are very progressive in proving this by starting to put the idea that there is no difference between men and women thus they must be equally treated. Those who are ignorant about Islam would perceive that this religion is very oppressive to women by looking at the surface of the issues that involve women’s right such as hijab‚ polygamy and inheritance. These

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    from social cooperation”. Rawls then continues to introduce concepts such as the original position which pertains to the thought experiment he calls the veil of ignorance – the original position is a hypothetical state where members of society decide what the principles of justice are. To find the original position‚ the members must use the veil of ignorance in the sense of having ignorance toward class‚ intelligence‚ strength‚ and things alike‚ in order to prevent bias and in turn create a fair

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