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    this essay, I will touch on specific concepts such as philosophical and mythopoeic thinking. Furthermore I will clarify the grounds on why the Pre-Socratics were regarded as philosophical thinkers rather than mythopoeic through their conception of humanization and rational reasoning. Firstly, in order for us to understand and distinguish the difference between philosophical and mythopoeic ways of thinking, we need to grasp their concepts. Philosophical thinking can be regarded as the primary nature of

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    For some people raising livestock is way of life. We take pride in raising animals, treating them with respect and care. Some people have animals who have a end product that requires the animal to give it’s life so we can feed ourselves. After hours of taking care of animals we harbor a great amount of respect for the animals. Farmers put their heart and soul into raising animals. People show their animals at events to be judge on quality, to learn, and develop friendships with fellow animal enthusiast

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    Class struggle novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has raised sensitive issues such as power and inequality between classes. The Hunger Games was presented as a remarkable, powerful, violent and emotionally strong novel in the anticipation branch and became a symbol of the dystopian fiction in the American literature. In 2012, a very faithful adaptation of the book, which has had enough success, into a film was made by Gary Ross. Indeed, the violence of the subject has been highlighted

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    I will prove that in Metamorphoses, Ovid warns against the dangers of pride and jealousy through his detached depiction of Daedalus’ creation of his wings and his murder of Perdix, while Riordan instead describes Daedalus’ thought processes in detail, focusing on his emotional response to his son’s death and nephew’s callousness in order to create sympathy for his character and allow the reader to better understand the inventor’s actions. Unlike Ovid who finishes Daedalus’ tale with the murder of

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    arrogance befitting their accomplishments. The motivation for this arrogance, to complete these tasks, to perform these feats, is often over-generalized to the point of inaccuracy and confusion. One must not let such misinterpretations interrupt the humanization of these characters. Through the examination of the desires and behavior of these epic heroes, we can discover an underlying need for recognition or honor. In classical and medieval western epics, the hero’s

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    In Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy runs away with a slave in order to escape the harsh lives that they live. The plot may seem simple at first glance, but in reality for centuries this book has been one of the most talked about, which include many claims over a wide range of topics that appear in the text. Racism is amongst those many topics. Many believe that Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be a completely racist novel with no second

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    Trapped in the Red Room: A Look into the Mind of the Original Mrs. Rochester “One is very crazy when in love” (Freud). Freud made this statement nearly one hundred years ago. As one of the founders of modern psychology what would he have to say about the mad woman in the attic? Was she mad, in love, suffering from hysteria, or simply a product of nature versus nurture? Neither of which were very kind to her. In Jane Eyre we as the readers are presented with a singular perspective in nearly true

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    The Use of Flashback in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V   In Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V flashback is used at key moments to comment on the action and to explain points in Henry's past, and how that past effects his present judgment. Certain scenes and lines are borrowed from parts one and two of Shakespeare's Henry IV to do this. The result is an amalgam of scenes, lines, and characters which brings about a telling expose of Henry V, and the man he was before

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    Confucian Influence

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    Confucian have a great influence in East Asia especially in China. Confucian is proposed by a famous philosopher and Saint Confucius in thousands years ago. Confucian becomes a philosophy, religion and even a way of lifestyle among people in East Asia. “If we were to characterize in one word the Chinese way of life for the last two thousand years, the word could be ‘Confucian’.”(Yao 1) Confucian’s six concepts including ren, virtue, family, harmony, knowledge, action, and ontologies deeply affects

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    The West Without Water After finishing reading the book The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell us About Tomorrow by B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud, I was left very amused yet concerned for our current climatic situation on the West, neverless I thought ever existed (2003). In this book one sees how Ingram and Malamud use not only paleoclimatology, which are “scientist who study the past climate,” but also other related fields like anthropology, to documents

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