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Term Papers on English
Philosophy - Davide Hume
Number of words: 2817 - Number of pages: 11.... Hume grouped perceptions and experiences into one of two categories: impressions and ideas. Ideas are memories of sensations claimed Hume, but impressions are the cause of the sensation. In other words, an impression is part of a temporary feeling, but an idea is the permanent impact of this feeling. Hume believed that ideas were just dull imitations of impressons.
Hume also attacked the idea of casualty. This idea states that for all effects there is a cause. Hume said that even though the cause preceded the effect, there is no proof that the cause is res .....
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Oedipus
Number of words: 514 - Number of pages: 2.... the prophecy, and still when he came to Thebes and became a king married an older lady. It was his choice, even when he knew there was a danger of him to know mothers bad, he made it.
' quest for truth was his choice. When the Teiresias tried not to reveal the truth, The was the one, who made the priest to talk: "This city gave you life and yet you refuse to answer! You speak as if you were her enemy. … For God's sake, if you know, don't turn away from us! We are pleading. We are begging you. … You will not tell? You monster! You could stir the stones of ea .....
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Michel De Montaigne On The Edu
Number of words: 1017 - Number of pages: 4.... as "the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness" (119).
The methods used to achieve Montaigne's ideal education are a mixture of the ability and talent of the tutor; the individual attention paid to a student and the well-rounded nature of the curriculum. Montaigne asserts that a pupil is only as good as the skill of his tutor. The ideal tutor in Montaigne's eyes would be one that is more wise than learned, having "a well made rather than a well filled head" (110). The tutor should not have the student repeat what is told to him, as the goal of t .....
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Longfellows Optimism In Writin
Number of words: 708 - Number of pages: 3.... hopeful exclamation that “Life is real! Life is earnest!” In the next line he says “And the grave is not its goal”. Longfellow feels you don’t live to die. Death is not the point of living a just life. Lastly in this stanza, he states, ”Dust thou art, o dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul”. Our bodies will turn to dust but the soul will live on. He feel there is an afterlife and we are here forever in spirit. But what we do with our time on earth is what makes us eternal because we are remembered for how we lived our lives. (Lines 5-8, pg. 302) .....
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To Build A Fire - Significance
Number of words: 576 - Number of pages: 3.... a tree blots out the fire and the character realizes "he had just heard his own sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the reader in this scene. The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm up so he can build a fire to save himself. London writes, "a certain fear of death, dull and oppressive, c .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
Number of words: 639 - Number of pages: 3.... Lee has portrayed two characters as Mocking Birds. The first of these is Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is a Negro living in Maycomb who becomes notorious when he is wrongly accused of the rape of a white woman. Atticus knows that the battle will not be an easy case to win, but decides to represent Tom Robinson, as he says that he couldn’t hold his head up in town or tell the children what to do.
Tom Robinson was a harmless member of society who never hurt another human being and because he tried to help Maybella, who he thought was in need, was blamed for th .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Number of words: 1003 - Number of pages: 4.... Henry, Dorian's own attitudes and behaviors, and Basil's enthusiasm which gives symbolism to the painting.
Despite being a pure and inexperienced man at first, Dorian's decadent actions during the story are prompted by the theories of Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry's attempt to influence Dorian is responsible for many of the wrong choices Dorian makes. Initially unadulterated by society, Dorian's views change when Lord Henry tells him that he is presently at the peak of his life. Basil Hallward recognizes Lord Henry's tendencies and tells him not to "spoil" h .....
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Comparison Of Daniel Sonnet 6
Number of words: 1347 - Number of pages: 5.... rather an idea of the kind of love that is so powerful, so heavenly that it is unattainable. Daniel tries to prove that his mistress has a love so powerful and deep that it can only be an idea. When many people think of an idea of love that is perfect, many would say that women of purity and beauty would be the perfect woman. Daniel states this thought when he says "Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes." Here Daniel says that his mistress is pure, innocent, and beautiful. He is asking the reader to find a woman that perfect. There also seems to be r .....
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