Not only this, but Brave New World is more relevant to the modern world as it encapsulates the gathered feeling of apathy and aversion of feelings among the people in the real world, as apposed to 1984 which slightly refers to this attitude. The people in Brave New World live in a world free of negative emotions due to the elimination of families, religion, and books. Back in the Condition Center the Director explains the burden such institutions brought upon the people of the past, reasoning, “What with mothers and lovers, what with prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey,what with the temptations and lonely remorses.. they were forced feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopeless individual…
Under the Manual of Arms from 1764, the Georgia Continentals lacked uniformity and discipline. The Continentals changed to Von Steuben's manual in 1777 and it improved their combat effectiveness. Steuben’s hands-on style of training helped the army become a more skillful fighting force and at the same time gave the army new life. Von Steuben’s manual stream lines the 1764 Manuel to make the doctrine more effective and efficient. The Georgia Continentals utilized three types of infantry.…
Joyas Voladoras What keeps us going is the same thing that can cause us to stop. Author, Brian Doyle, in his essay Joyas Voladoras talks about the natural properties of the heart. He molds his discussion to surround the topic of how precious life is. Doyle, through shifts in views and use of syntax, implies that our hearts are made to be so strong yet can be broken at any minute. He easily connects to the reader and is able to pull at their heartstrings.…
In the following passage, the character Frank McCourt experiences three different moods about and towards the same person. McCourt feels cautious, confused and afraid. The literary piece involves those three moods that are integrated into the book. The moods are all different but connected back to the character and the passage. The change of mood in this passage was through it’s language…
Now that Heidegger has established one can encounter the nothing through anxiety, one may analyze more deeply a response to the question “what is the nothing” and also to the connection between the manifestation of nothing in anxiety and beings as a whole. However first, it is important to note that though one can encounter the nothing through anxiety, we are not able to willfully experience the nothing. Additionally, anxiety reveals the nothing, but does not control it. Moreover, just because we’re not always anxious, doesn’t mean its presence isn’t felt. We are constantly exposed to this withdrawal and slipping away, of being faced with our finitude and the causing of entities to lose their significance.…
Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” stresses that becoming indifferent is the most indifferent thing that can happen to a person and their surroundings. He supports his claim by first defining and describing indifference talking about how it can be described as many things, but ultimately indifference is the end. Wiesel’s purpose is to warn his audience against the dangers of indifference and its effects on the world. He establishes and apprehensive tone for his audience due to the traumatizing events of his past.…
The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis are novels based on lectures given by the author that pursue the theme of man lacking empathy. Within the first book, The Abolition of Man, Lewis describes the importance of basing all judgments we make on what he calls the Tao: the conception of human behavior that, historically and in different moral traditions, has been considered good. As an emotion is not a judgment, it can be said that emotions and feelings do not respond to logical reasons—yet, they can be reasonable or unreasonable. Lewis states that “the heart never replaces the head; but it can, and must, obey it” (The Abolition of Man 19). Therefore, if Aristotle says that the aim of education is to get the student to have predilections and aversions for what corresponds, “the duty of the modern educator is not to cut down forests, but to irrigate deserts”, that is, the way to help the student to defend oneself properly against false feelings is to inculcate fair feelings (The Abolition of Man 13-14).…
And the third is the meaningful life: it may not have high moments or blissful immersions, but it is packed with purpose.” (158-163). John desperately seeks to show emotion is the true key to happiness, while the mindless promiscuity and drugs the world state endorses only fulfil engaged happiness. He believes without knowing life’s ups and downs or sorrows and…
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Compassion Many different interpretations of the word compassion exist. For me, compassion involves a deep feeling of sympathy and sorrow for another human being or animal who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a wish to help them. Although it is strongly related to altruism and empathy, compassion is something different - it is an immense feeling of ‘suffering’ together and then doing something about it. However, in the history of philosophy, compassion was often related to pity. Mariette Willemsen wrote that compassion is a “neutral term for a feeling that is often called pity in the English tradition [...] and Mitleid by German philosophers” (Schopenhauer and Nietzsche) (p.182).…
5). Aristotle introduces the concept of happiness in relation to the motive and purpose present for decision-making and choices. Happiness is associated to the good that ‘choice’ and ‘knowledge’ partially…
How is it that we are able to distinguish the feelings we have? When we feel anger there has to be a time where we did not feel anger and instead felt calm. When we feel happy it is because we are not suffering in that particular moment. One feeling cannot exist without the existence of a polar opposite feeling. In Ursula Le Guin’s…
Description and Process of Psychometric: Hermann Ebbinghaus started the scientific study of memory by publishing a book entitled Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology in 1885 ("Ebbinghaus | in Chapter 06: Memory | from Psychology: An Introduction by Russ Dewey", 2016). Ebbinghaus purposed an experiment where he decided to use himself as a subject where the experiment is closely related to short term memory recall. He presented himself with items to memorize, waited for a precise amount of time, and then tested himself to see how much he can remember and this basic procedure is still used in most research in memory.…
Taking a stylistic approach breeching on a film within a film, The Truman Show explores human life from the perspective of life as art and entertainment. The Truman Show revolves around a man, Truman Burbank, whose life is broadcast worldwide twenty-four hours a day. He has been the star of his own show since he was born but has absolutely no idea that his life is staged and televised. Truman comes to the realization that his life is a lie and leaves his false reality to join the real world (Weir). When human life becomes something to be observed as entertainment, it develops an aura.…
Hazlitt’s 1826 essay, On the Pleasure of Hating, employs clever anecdotes to deliver an effective message on how hatred is a basis of life. Hazlitt suggests through his writing that he believes that hatred is a driving emotional force in the world whether we like it or not. This is suggested through his alternative use of in his essay, he utilizes rhetorical ideals to frame and exemplify his ideas on how hatred is a driving social ideal. He does so efficiently and effectively as he is able to connect early with the audience and share his thoughts on the topic. He uses anecdotes to help show his emotions and thoughts on the subject as well as some logical ideologies that he discovered in his day to day life.…
In the following, Barack Obama´s victory speech, which was held in November 2012 after being re-elected as President of the United States of America, will be analysed. Generally, one can say that Obama sends a message of shared values and hopes by using rhetorical devices and structuring his line of arguments in a way that establishes a connection and a feeling of togetherness and involvement in his actions in the audience, for example by the usage of pronouns like “we”. Now, a closer look will be taken at the line of argument.…