New Atlantis By William Harvey

A Kingdom Strange by John Horn is a history book about settlers trying to establish the first English colony in America. They faced many obstacles and challenges trying to establish the colony of Roanoke.

The book “The Other America”, written by Michael Harrington, describes poverty in America in the 1950s and 1960s, when America became one of the most affluent and advanced nations in the world. The book was written in 1962, and Harrington states that there were about 50,000,000 (about 25% of the total population) poor in America at that time. The author did extensive research with respect to the family income levels to derive the poverty numbers, and used his own observations and experiences to write this book. This book addresses the reasons for poverty, the nature of poverty, the culture of poverty, the blindness of Middle Class America with respect to poverty, and the responsibility of all Americans in addressing the issue of poverty in America.

Mist of Avalon breaks through many stereotypes but also strengthens some in some ways. One stereotype that was torn down was that women are not as strong as men. This is proved to be wrong when they have Morgaine fighting men and actually being victorious. This movie also breaks the stereotype that women can’t be in power. Most women in this movie hold very high positions. For example, Viviane is the high goddess of Avalon. Also Morgaine is her second in command. Although this movie breaks some stereotypes it also reinforces them by putting the blame on a women for not being able to give the king an heir. Although in this case it really is her fault nobody knows this information and automatically blames her. These are just a few of the reasons that Mist of Avalon strengthens and breaks through common stereotypes.

Throughout the book, “The Western Place” , by Maxine Hong Kingston, there is a differential gap between the two sisters who come from two different sides of the world. A lot of differences between the two sisters and their personal lifestyles comes from one sister living in America as a Chinese-American and the other sister living in China. In the story Brave Orchid who is the sister that is brave, outspoken, and sometimes cruel sees life as a bundle of opportunities to take with no regret. However, it is different when her sister Moon Orchid comes into town from China because she is the complete opposite. Moon Orchid is rather humble, timid, and quiet while she observes the lifestyle of her sister and nieces and nephews.

Ross Gay’s book Against Which, portrays his poetry to readers allowing them to gain understanding of the cruel world that one lives in. Moreover, the unusual brutalities that people are inevitable confronted with in life. The common denominators within Gay’s poems such as violence, love, fear, and loss allows the reader to visualize characters’ transformation within his poems. In a world of calamity, Gay has created poems that portray the corporal conforming to gender and sex but also human development. Using a reader-response criticism lens, I will be demonstrating my interpretation of Ross Gay’s poems and the meaning that I believe to be a common interpretation of his work. Within, Gay’s poems, “It Starts at Birth” and Angels Out of Reach” one is able to see a pattern of human transformation. By experiencing pain, love, loss, fear, and wisdom one is able to see Gay’s characters evolve through the narrators and readers gaze. In doing so, one is able to reflect on Gay’s poems and gain wisdom themselves.

Although the 16th century was a fascinating era, many controversies concerning the Aristotelian culture took place. Particularly the Copernican system was banned and Galileo was placed under house arrest. Utterly this was not the time to provoke change in society solely because the church was considered the hegemony during this period. Likewise Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds was written by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle in 1686. Overcoming all the arguments, Fontenelle’s book was given the best seller award as it effectively delivered knowledge of the cosmos for everyone. Fontenelle arranges a remarkable conversation between a male philosopher and a beautiful Marquise. Together they speculate the universe throughout five evenings talking about the world and how it

The mind of a Royal can be the decimation or the making of a nation. Whether at the fore front or behind the curtains, it was a fierce time for both young and old alike, so being strong minded was vital. I intend this essay to set out to decipher documents to better comprehend how the Royal family thought during the 15th to the 16th century. Historians have argued during the 21st century about the state of mind of the Tudors, especially Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. I will establish why historians shouldn’t look at the sources as ‘black and white’ and should study how life events and upbringing could have caused their mental state and not a mental disorder. David Starkey, since his career began, has been notably associated with the Tudors, states ‘the man behind the myth is a phycholigical enigma’ . Through the study of primary sources, a greater understanding can be made on how Political, Social and Economic history could be affected by the thoughts processes of a Royal.

According to Professor MacFadyen, in the 17th and 18th century, a loss of faith in the existing forms of religious and political organization went hand in hand with empirical thought and scientific discovery. Given this social context, there is a distinct difference between the kind of exploration that William Shakespeare’s character Hamlet engages in, and Christopher Columbus’ exploration of the New World. Hamlet is an explorer in the sense that he searches for a novel understanding of life and death, one that stretches beyond the already established laws of life and death formulated by religion and the church. Empirical thought relies on forgetting religion and, instead, focusing on scientific knowledge, the observable events actually happening

Good morning, today I will be talking about Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Eragon is set in Alagaesia is about a boy called Eragon who lives and works in a farm with his uncle Garrow and his cousin Roran. He finds a strange object in which he thinks is a stone but turns out to be a dragon’s egg. Soon the dragon hatches and he names it Saphira. The egg belonged to the evil king Galbatorix and tracks it down and sends his servants the Razac to retrieve it. His servants go to his uncle’s farm and they kill Garrow and burn down the farm however Eragon and Saphira managed to escape.

“Good sense is the best shared-out thing in the world;” (FTNT 2). In his Discourse on Method, Rene Descartes becomes one of the first philosophers of the early modern age to lay out some of the key aspects that would later come to define the Scientific Revolution. Much like the religious revolution, brought about by the Protestant Reformation, that ultimately forced a general paradigm shift and radical worldview change in European society, the intellectual or Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century gave Western civilization a set of new, never before seen concepts which have proven to be a decisive, fundamental part of modern Western thought. Discourse on Method provides a concise review of Descartes’ important thoughts as one of

The first of Bacon’s idols: The Idols of the Tribe, identify the shortcomings within human nature referring to the idea that the issues man deals

Have you ever found yourself gazing up into the nights sky wondering how the constellations got their names? Perhaps you wondered where your grandfather got all of his old stories from or where certain concepts and names originated from. There’s a good chance that myths and legends are behind more ideas, rituals and ceremonies, and names than you’d imagine. However, it’s important to not only think about mythology as simply some aged old fables with no place in our hyper logical and fact driven society today. In the introduction of “The World of Myth” by David Leeming, some light is shed on the lesser known ideas on Mythology. Some interesting aspects about mythology Leeming touches on is that they are a reflection of the belief and value

In this paper I intend to examine the rationalist philosophy of Rene Descartes and fundamental empiricism of John Locke’s philosophical arguments, in particular their ideas relating to the science of man, his identity and attempt to explain distinctions between the two. As I lay the framework of my argument it is important to understand the precepts that serve as the underpinning for the views considered by Descartes and Locke respectively. Rationalism and empiricism are two modes of thought that have been adopted within epistemology, the branch of philosophy devoted to studying the nature, sources and limits of knowledge. In fact, other than the ties to epistemology the two schools of thought are very plainly much like Descartes and Locke, the direct opposite of each other. Rationalism is the belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. Empiricism on the other hand is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke. While John Locke convincingly asserts and defends the empiricist’s belief that sense perception is the main source of knowledge and thereby personal identity. My views regarding consciousness and self are in

Voltaire was a rebellious and radical thinker, whose sharp wit and pointed satire drew the ire of critics who say he disrespected the orthodoxy of church and state, and won the respect of a growing rationalist movement that had emerged out of the public sphere in Europe between the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Voltaire is known today for being a philosophical powerhouse, whose writing is the stuff of legend, for most of his life he only wrote plays, poems, and novels. It wasn’t until he was almost forty in 1733 that he published his first major philosophical work, “Letters Concerning the English Nation.” This was a series of letters that describe the customs, cultures and great men of England, and even though his praise for England, a country “where all the arts are honored and rewarded,” and where one could think “free and nobly without being held back by any servile fear,” may be overblown, they are important nonetheless, because it highlights the virtues that an Enlightened society should strive for. (114) In many ways these were not so much love letters to England, as much as they were a call for the rest of Europe to progress in the rationalist movement that England had set the tone for.

In the early eighteenth century England witnessed the peak of the tumultuous changes that is presently known as the Age of Enlightenment. Trapped deep within the chaotic changes of politics, religion, art and social mores, Alexander Pope proved a master at exploiting these changes circumstances in order to become an admired poet. (page 558, Wilson)