Notebook Repertoire

1. The introductory and concluding paragraphs are pyramid shaped paragraphs that either towards or away from a point. Middle paragraphs are focused on one single point and stays consistent.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?”(Nietzsche 2005). This quote holds a dark truth: mankind brought God to His End.

He would disagree with what Socrates chose to do in accepting death and would look at the demanor of good and evil and raise the idea that this is all dogmatic, which then should be eradicated. If Socrates’s was to leave and struggle by failing to adhere to his principals he would suffer to a degree, but in his sufferage he would become a man of greatness. Nietzsche’s ideas of good and evil being formed through religion requires for it to be gone because God is “dead” therfore meaning is found at the end of ones

-Concrete subjects are used to convey abstract feelings. The bounded feet with “marks and callouses” and the “asymmetrical cropped hair” are representatives of two different cultures. This literature device makes the essay more vivid and encourages readers to think.

Yes I do find evidence of some of Mark’s students taking responsibility for their choices, decisions and/or actions. For example, some of them finished their High School and got their diploma. They chose to attend the retreat and they participated by reading their writings and behaved very nicely. Also, Kevin was always helping around in the kitchen and being a messenger not getting in trouble. Many of the students who decided to be part of the writing class followed through by always attending and writing the best they could. We can also learned that Wong started working and went to community college once he got out just like he

Friedrich Nietzsche’s own skepticism symbolized the secular changes in contemporary Western civilization, in which he details mankind’s break away from faith into a new rule of chaos. In Book 5 of The Gay Science, Nietzsche establishes that “God is dead”, meaning that modern Europe has abandoned religion in favor of rationality and science (Nietzsche 279). From this death, the birth of a ‘new’ infinite blossoms in which the world is open to an unlimited amount of interpretations that do not rely on the solid foundations of faith in religion or science. However, in contrast to the other philosophers of his age such as Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Nietzsche deviates from the omniscient determinism of history towards a

On a hot steamy day in New Orleans, in the batter's box sweating and anxiously waiting for the other team’s pitcher to throw me a fastball, there were two outs in the last inning and the bases were loaded. The score was thirteen to ten. All we needed was for me to hit the ball far enough to get a home run. I had two strikes and three balls but I needed to get this swing to win the game. I held my stance with confidence and tightened my grip around the bat. I felt my fingers tense

“God is dead!” This statement leads to the immediate sentencing of his death. These quotes

“God is dead” this is a quote that was said by John Proctor, a character in “The Crucible” when he was in court testifying that he was not the devil. John Proctor is a middle aged man who is an outcast and doesn't go to church. He had an affair with his wife Elizabeth and Abigail wants him all to herself and she'll do anything to get rid of Elizabeth. John has a bad reputation for not going to church, plowing on Sundays, and not having all of his kids baptised. John and I have a few character traits in common such as we are both outcast, independent, and loyal.

For many Nietzsche’s proclamation of God’s death is liberating. No longer shall life be dictated by groundless superstition; we are now free to judge for ourselves what constitutes a good life. The adoption of this idea seems to allow for greater degrees of self-fulfillment. If this is the case, why is it that such a large portion of our population still upholds religion? In book four of Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche addresses one of the central concerns entailed by the abandonment of religion.

Work is one of the many personal commitments we have in life that fulfill our passion and needs. “Digging” and “Warren Pryor” are both related to work, and how having a certain occupation should be personally fulfilling. In these poems, the author portrays two different points of view. Underlying the true intention, both poems reveal the strong admiration both leads had upon their parents and what kind of work they had done. Both Seamus Heany’s “Digging” and Aiden Nowlan’s “Warren Pryor” suggest that when an individual has close relationships, they are often prone to influences, and as a result may choose their occupation accordingly.

“We rode in and out of cold showers, passing one deserted farm after another...Now and then we’d meet a solitary man or woman trudging grimly through the mud, head down, bundled in blankets like us, tired and hungry like us. Other times it might be a family pulling a cart loaded with furniture, sometimes with the help of a gaunt horse or an ox, but usually just themselves. Small children with pale, hungry faces walked along beside the carts. Worn down mothers carried babies in their arms. Haggard fathers gave orders.”

In 1882, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared: “God is Dead.” During the enlightenment period in Europe, people were beginning to realize that there might not be greater spiritual being watching over them. They began to separate church and state, so instead of theocracies, they developed governments where the laws were created based on the needs of the governed, instead of being based upon a divine power. It can be easily inferred that this belief often elicited some dark revelations, since it created a society not bound by spiritual rules. This popular philosophy also carried over into the Western world around the same time, which sets the scene of The Great Gatsby.

Nietzsche points out that morals were not given to humans by God, nor was knowledge or instinct instilled in us by God: we have created morality just as we have decided standards for "truth" and explanations for our "human nature," and so there is no transcendent external standard. If God is dead, there are no objective values and we are free to create our own values. Nietzsche says that although the death of God liberates us, leaving us free to rule ourselves, this results in a cage-like freedom: while no value is objectively "right" or "true", if we can not choose then we are not free. Nietzsche supports the individual who, despite a lack of objective correctness or "truth", makes a decision anyway, accepting responsibility for her self-created values and actions, knowing she is these actions.

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” (Gay Science, 126) This harsh statement remains among Friedrich Nietzsche’s most powerful and disturbing quotes, spoken by a proclaimed Madman to a crowd of disbelievers. After making this claim, the Madman becomes horrified by his audience’s ignorance, noting that “This tremendous event is still on its way.” This has an effect of suspending the Madman’s message in time, expanding its audience infinitely, for the event of God’s death could still be on its way. Therefore, nearly 150 years after these words were written, we must ask ourselves, does God remain dead, and has our modern society killed him? This is a haunting and disturbing question, but in many ways our society does resemble Nietzsche’s masses. However, it also resembles the Madman himself, due to its inherent individualism.