Benedict

Anthropologist Franz Boas is well-known for promoting the concept of cultural relativism. Meaning, practices, beliefs, and ideas within a certain culture make sense within that culture. As an outsider, certain beliefs or practices of cultures that are different from our own can easily be misunderstood or interpreted incorrectly. Although cultural relativism promotes the idea of respecting and understanding the beliefs and practices of different cultures, when does a certain practice/belief…

Benedict Arnold “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” Betrayal happens a lot through history. It happened in the American Revolution by a man named Benedict Arnold. Benedict Arnold betrayed America to help the British. Although Benedict Arnold switched loyalty and is known as a traitor in the American Revolution, his betrayal of the Patriots did not matter in the end. Benedict Arnold a hard life when he was young. Arnold was born in Norwich,…

Throughout history, the world of politics has been continually rocked by salacious scandals which distract from a politicians’ ambitions and place magnifying glasses on their moral character. Benedict Arnold and Andrew Jackson are no different. Each man rose to prominence during the tumultuous period of the American Revolution and both witnessed as their resolute pursuits for power, respect, and, most importantly, honor, helped manufacture their societal disgraces in the aftermath. These…

By: Christina Vo Saving a life is impressive especially with our country’s first president, Lydia Darragh was the one to save George Washington from the life threatening sneak attack. If it was not for Lydia’s courage, she would not have saved George from this death, along with hundreds of his soldiers. If you’d like to hear more, then you should continue reading this passage. Lydia Darragh lived a pretty average life before the Revolutionary War. Lydia was born in Dublin Ireland in 1729. At…

How can you find serenity in life? Searching for peace can be a difficult task when everything around you relates to violence. In Williams Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning”, Sartoris Snopes is constantly overwhelmed by fear, agony, and despair because of his father’s practices of violence not only against his family but also the law when burning the barns. Peace is essential for human development; it gives a sense of tranquility and seclusion from oppression. Throughout the story Sarty deals…

The definition of a character that is masterless in Shakespeare’s Richard III is someone who lacks a role of the great chain of power descending from God. By this definition, power, then, must fall from God. Therefore, anyone who believes power flows from man is automatically masterless. Using this argument, Richard is masterless from his opening soliloquy to his death. This fact also helps justify Richmond claim to the throne. Richmond becoming king restores the great chain. This is also…

Benedict Cumberbatch was an unquestionable highlight in the play. His stage performance was enlivening, plausible, and zealous. He was not too depressing as the typical cynical on-screen Hamlet, nor was he too melodramatic. ]Benedict Cumberbatch performed just as Hamlet directed the actors to perform the play used to unmask the truth of king Claudius’s sins; a perfect combination of accentuating the theme of appearance versus reality. He performed Hamlet’s soliloquies with unfathomable passion…

types of actions and beliefs that would fall into those two categories, respectively, varies widely among various societies and cultures (Benedict 318). Basically she claims that there is no objective standpoint from which one can judge an individual’s values as inferior or superior to one’s own. After discussing the highly variable nature of normality, Benedict goes on to link normality and morality by saying that “The concept of the normal is properly a variant of the concept of the good. It…

1) Define a. Moral nihilism- choosing to believe there are no morally right or wrong viewpoints. b. Ethical relativism- choosing to believe that there is no universal moral truth. Whether an action is right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the society in which it is practiced. c. Hard universalism- the idea that there is one universal moral code, an ethical view something is either right or wrong. d. Moral subjectivism- moral views are merely inner states in a person and that they can’t be…

for similarities our own groups, a nation and its people look for the same. Benedict Anderson’s theory of nationalism takes a step outside of the classic political frame and focuses more on the social aspects of how a nation becomes nationalized. It is no wonder that Anderson’s idea of the “Imagined [Community]” is applicable to a country the same size and far more densely populated than the United States. While Benedict Anderson contends that capitalism and vernacular in print are the two major…