Benedict

Benedict Arnold comes from a line of disgraced ancestors, and he plans on restoring the family name. Headstrong, courageous, and fiercely brash, he is in the midst of the Revolutionary War when it starts. He begins by signing up as a general, and soon decides to take over Fort Ticonderoga. On the way, he meets Ethan Allen, another countryman who wants to take over Fort Ti himself. Arnold disagrees violently, and this is just the beginning of his many adventurous encounters. As Arnold rises…

In this essay I plan to clearly summaries the philosophical arguments of Benedict - Morality Is Relative, Rachel - Morality Is Not Relative, Kant - The Moral Law, and Mill - Utilitarianism. All of these arguments contain different theories of human nature being swayed by laws and morality. I will categorize which arguments focus on the absolutist view, which holds that there is exactly one right answer to everything. As well as labeling which argument leaning to a more objective side, where all…

On Thursday 15th October, my mother, father, I, and 225,000 other people watched the National Theatre Live's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. And it was bloody brilliant. Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet was outstandingly compelling, and engrossing, and stirring, and left me with my heart in my hands. I am no experienced Shakespearean drama critic, in fact I hold my hands up and admit that I am a complete armature of his works, and even struggled my way through the GCSE content for…

Benedict was able to group the whole personalities of a culture into two; Apollonian and Dionysian. Apollonian maintain stability in behavior and have control which usually is consider as normal. Apollo refers to God of sun, light which represent maturity, power and control. Unlike, Dionysus is God of wine, agriculture and nature. So personality that falls under Dionysian is ruminate loss control and engaging in unexpected activities and more (lecture, 02/16/16). It is the normal vs abnormal.…

“…exemplifies the motivations of that culture.” (1934 (1985) 147). She investigated how personalities adapt or fail to adapt to cultural norms; and through her fieldwork, Benedict was able to observe “The dilemma of the individual whose congenial drives are not provided for in the institutions of his culture.” (1934 (1985) 152) Benedict evaluated the role of eccentricity within a society, and she observed that every society possessed a unique set of values and norms. Her work emphasized the…

Is 'culture ' and 'personality ' a false dichotomy as Melford Spiro maintained? How does a person become a member of their culture? Psychological anthropology, emerging in the 1930s, questioned the relationship between the individual and society. This question became a key theme of research of so-called 'culture and personality ' theorists – a question still present within the subdiscipline today (LeVine, 2010). In positioning anthropological analysis along the two theoretical points –…

In Redcoats and Rebels, the author Christopher Hibbert reference’s in a very vivid historical context of the American revolution. Mr. Hibbert compiles large amount of historical data about two major opposing sides in the American revolution. He portrayed the British as the courageous ‘red coats’ and portrayed the American’s as the ‘rebels’. His work is complied in twenty-five short paragraphs, divided into three parts each in chronological order. Christopher Hibbert, wrote this narrative of…

Ruth Benedict was a pioneer in the field of anthropology and brought disability forward, as she studied cross-cultural conceptions of epilepsy in the 1930s. Jane and Lucien Hanks wrote a cross-cultural study that looked at social factors that influence the status of people with disabilities in variety of cultures: Native American, Asian, Pacific, and African populations; and Margaret Mead, who studied under Ruth Benedict, spoke about people with disabilities as members of the “normal” American…

In the book “Patter of Culture” by Ruth Benedict exams the concepts of cultural relativity. She careful study the differences between three cultures the Pueblo of New Mexico, Dobu of Melanesia and Kwakiutl of the Northwest Coast. By closely study how each individual group act in certain ways and different choices have been made upon the same problem between the groups. However, from her study, Benedict has found that there is a patterns of culture, which is half of her book explained the…

St Benedict was a wise man. In 530BCE, Benedict wrote a Rule for monks living communally under the authority of an Abbott. Years past and people took notice of his Rule. Today, Benedict's Rule is being followed by Christians all over the world. But how is his Rule a guide for Christian living? Benedict was a devoted role model in faith and a community leader who was ambitious to help people search for God. He taught Christians to be willing to sacrifice everything for God. The Rule of St…