Essay on Thomas Alva Edison

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that happiness is the ultimate good that we strive to attain. He begins by reasoning that either we desire each good for the sake of another, that is, every good is but means to achieve another good, or that we desire at least one good for its own sake and for this good alone we desire others. He refutes the first claim of the premise by stating that, ‘if we choose everything for the sake of something else”, consequently, “the result will lead to a…

Thunderdome-esque fight to death were Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams. Alexander Hamilton was a self-made man. Born in the West Indies out of wedlock, Hamilton took it upon himself to learn about trade and eventually worked his way into the world’s elite. Hamilton’s view of America’s future was a one of a Northern-based, merchant centric empire ruled by the elite. This idea clashed heavily with that of Thomas Jefferson and…

King Henry VIII is one of the most famous kings of all time for many reasons. One of these reasons is his many controversial marriages that ended in either exile or execution. All of his wives were good-natured and well-rounded, but King Henry always found something negative about them as a reason to divorce or execute them. Anne Boleyn is well-known for being one of King Henry’s most scandalous wives for her behavior that later led to her death. When the King’s Chancellor died, Anne…

that no person differs from others. All are born with the same rights and opportunities no matter what bloodline and race they came from. This set of words originated from the mind of a brilliant writer, inventor, philosopher, and hypocrite named Thomas Jefferson, a master to two hundred slaves. He wrote the phrase “all men are created equal” (“Declaration,” 1) that will soon inspire many Americans that everyone should be treated with respect. It also states that everyone are equal in the eyes…

Early America was neither an easy place to live, nor an easy task: making a country out of nothing. A new land presented new opportunity; and with opportunity, came new challenges and surprises. With no manuscript to guide them, the early settlers took pen to pad and wrote what became history. What these writers, or rather Early American authors, wrote is what history of the modern US goes off of. And, in addition to a different terrain the newcomers had faced, the authors displayed differences…

Thomas Hobbes believes humans are born evil, their natural instinct is to be envious, violent, and narcissistic, however, by fear and reason, they are capable of preserving peace. On the other hand, John Locke believes humans are mostly peaceful, good, and…

to achieve social and political unity. Natural rights are heavily based on the entitlement of rights, whereas utilitarianism emphasises the notion of self-interest and consequentialism. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both had an influential impact on the development of liberal ideology. Due to this, the term ‘rights’ is commonly prevalent in politics.…

Marcel Mauss’s essay titled “The Gift” published in 1925, focused on the way exchange of objects between groups, builds relationships between them. He argued that giving an object creates an inherent obligation on the receiver to reciprocate the gift, thus resulting in a series of exchanges between groups, therefore providing us with one of the earliest forms of social solidarity used by humans. Mauss describes Melanesian and Polynesian peoples, gift economy as one of material and moral life, it…

The contextualisation for the expansion of America was the main reason Frederick Jackson Turner undertook his hugely influential text ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History’. It described it as a monumental event in American history as America sought to find and establish its exact culture in the modern world. They were distinctly different from their colonial past but where exactly along the way did they morph into their present day state. Turner stated that it was the press…

Shobha De has been a dynamic personality of nearly three decades; she has been the reigning deity of the written world. For years she has defined what society has been about and focused on the world of man and matters. De was born in Maharashtra on January 7, 1948; 7:21:00; 5:30 (E of GMT); 72E50; 18N58. According to Phyllis Chubb her fiery ascendant Sagittarius, as an odd numbered sign, sets the stage for an independent, open-minded, frank, generous, sympathetic, and truthful and just one…