The Stranger: Quote Analysis Expansion
.... parry to this social thrust, Meursault’s lawyer is given an extremely difficult role in this novel; he is forced to attempt to not only understand Meursault, which he cannot, but he also has to portray Meursault to the world as a creature of normal society, which is impossible, since the idea that Meursault is representative of the whole of society, falls no where near the reality of the situation. Meursault’s faceless lawyer, crippled by Meursault’s honesty and chastised by his own floundering in the muddy waters of what is and is not socially acceptable behavior, acquires the symbolic role of a society that desperately lon .....
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The Importance Of An Education
.... job with limitless opportunity for growth. From the excellent introduction to the health and science, my knowledge attained from college will lead me into a successful career path in the medical field. Upon recieving a college degree, my life-long dream is to engage somewhere in the medical field.
Aside from advancing my career, I plan on working hard in preparation for a family in the future. I want to be able to have a family without financial stress and worries. By planning ahead, I also want to insure my children with a college education of their choice. I need that education to accomplish all of the goals that I have s .....
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The Allegory Of The Cave
.... realm of reasoning and understanding. "The Allegory of the Cave" symbolizes this journey and how it would look to those still in a lower place. Plato is saying that humans are all prisoners and that the world is our cave. The things which we perceive as real are actually just shadows on a wall. Just as the escaped prisoner ascends into the light of the sun, we accumulate knowledge and ascend into the light of true reality, which symbolizes ideas in the mind. Yet, if someone goes into the light of the sun and beholds true reality and then proceeds to tell the other prisoners still in the cave, they laugh at the one who has .....
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Being Unprepared
.... I was in high school, I was in the band. We lost a competition last year because we had won it the year before, and were cocky enough to think that we could just go down and win it again. We didn't even work that hard in practice for this reason. When we got to the competition, we lost it. We didn't only loose it, but we lost it by a large point margin. If we had prepared ourselves better, we may have been able to win it.
Then comes the subject that every student knows well: tests. I have taken, and failed a few tests because I didn't study. I have also gotten lucky, and passed them with a good grade. I recall a story of .....
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Defending Against The Indefensible: Understanding Communication
.... reflection someone else’s definition.” He wants people to realize that definitions are not god given, and that to question the validity is acceptable. Upon looking in a dictionary at any word you will see that all have several meanings. The same may apply to our lives, while one definition may apply to you another may not.
The ability to question a definition is a crucial part of communication. For example: in the practice of law a case might call for someone to define the freedom of press, and that very definition may mean two completely different things to two different people. Postman’s first principle was one that I .....
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The Things They Carried
.... in Sydney, Australia. Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid-April. Because it was SOP, they all carried steel helemts that weighed 5 pounds including the liner and camouflage cover. They carried the standard fatigue jackets and trousers. Very few carried underwear . On their feet they carried jungle boots which were 2.1 pounds and Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr Scholls foot powder as a precaution against trench foot. Until Ted Lavender was shot, he carried six or seven ounces of premium dope, which is a necessity, f .....
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Antigone: The Structure Of Classical Tragedy And The Theme
.... Antigone and reminding her of all that has gone wrong in the past. On line 48, Ismene pleads, "Think of our father, dear Antigone, And how we saw him die hated and scorned…And how his mother-wife, two names in one, Knotted a rope, and so destroyed herself…Our brothers fought each other to the death…" In her attempt to dissuade Antigone, Ismene reveals that Creon has demanded no one touch the body of Polynieces, Antigone’s brother, and death is the consequence for such action, justifying statements made at the beginning of the play. Creon has chosen to defy the laws of the gods concerning proper burial in order to make a scap .....
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Plato Versus Aristotle
.... to politics makes Aristotle more in tune with the modern world, yet he is far from modern.
Plato's concept of what politics and government should be is a direct result of his belief in the theory of forms. The theory of forms basically states that there is a higher "form" for everything that exists in the world. Each material thing is simply a representation of the real thing which is the form. According to Plato, most people cannot see the forms, they only see their representation or their shadows, as in the simile of the cave. Only those who love knowledge and contemplate on the reality of things will achieve understanding o .....
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The Black Death
.... tried to be the great shelter I once was. No matter how tight I shut my windows and doors. No matter how I wished them not to leave the house. I could not keep the plague out.
I remember when it all started her in London. The whole family was out when I first heard about this killer. I was anxiously waiting there return when the man from the house that sat next to me was informing one of his friends on the death of Mr. Robinson the store keeper. He informed the man to keep quiet about the whole situation until he could go over and diagnose the man. His friend replied in a curious manner wondering why his friend looked so worr .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... When they almost ran him over Oedipus attacked them killing the bodyguards and his father, thinking that they were highway bandits, and by doing so he unwittingly fulfilled the prophecy. When he realizes this he is devastated. This really contributes to the theme, that you cannot escape your past. The fact that he killed a king and his father no less, is a major factor in his exile later in the story.
When he discovers that King Laios was his real father he sees that by not running away that he could have prevented this whole catastrophe. This just goes to show that hindsight is always 20/20, Oedipus saw this and realized .....
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Romulus And Remus
.... him, began to lay the foundations of the city of Rome. He plowed a furrow to mark where the walls would be. But Remus mocked him, leaping over the thin furrow and saying that Rome's enemies would be able to get over its walls just as easily. Romulus was so furious he struck his brother dead. The city was built. It had a ruler, but no citizens. So Romulus declared Rome's sacred grove to be a sanctuary, and it soon filled with outlaws and fugitives, whom Romulus welcomed as his subjects. But there were still no women. So Romulus organized some games and invited his neighbours, the Sabines. While the Sabine men were enjoying themselve .....
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Oedipus Rex As The Tragic Hero
.... he could have avoided his misery, "And how can I help dreading my mother's bed?"(35). But where would the story be then? "Declared that I should one day marry my own mother and with my own hands shed my father's blood"(36), as a so-called prophecy and decree carved in granite by Apollo himself.
Throughout the story, there were circumstances that led you to believe that there was no possible way that Oedipus could have killed his father and married his mother such as, "What, did Polybus not beget me?"(36). It was thought a fact that Oedipus' real and true father was Polybus. The audience is truly informed when the .....
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