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    Hegel is committed to dialectical progress of time, and he is a determist. He believes that history follows a specific path that is predetermined by the purposeful movement through time. Nothing happens by chance according to Hegel, which eliminates things happening by chance yet contingency does consist in the world. Therefore, he believed that if anything did happen by chance it did not matter. Hegel seeks the first principles of nature, and does not judge through objective facts or outside…

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    Logotherapy

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    more-or-less marked degree of existential vacuum. Among his American students it was not 25 but 60%. The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom. In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to…

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    we want to own certain things. Consequently, we experience boredom or depression if we do not struggle towards our goals or do not have the object of our will. Shortly after we succeed, we lose our will and forget about it even though we may have spent years of suffering. Eventually, we make new goals and the cycle repeats itself. That is why Schopenhauer felt that life is meaningless because our choices are either struggling or boredom, both of which result in suffering. At some point, I…

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    everyday activities. Last, is the boredom that is caused by her isolation and imprisonment. There are many other causes that lead to the narrator to breakdown, but these are the main ones. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a nervous event that hurts her throughout the story. Towards the end many factors make it worse for her, like the wallpaper that is in her room. Her room was first a nursery and…

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    Kierkegaard Vs Nietzsche

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    morality, Christianity, and many other aspects of the society he lived in. In Kierkegaard’s first work Either/Or, he uses fictional characters by the names of A and Judge William to preach the aesthetic and ethical mode of life. “A” is driven by boredom. All his actions are driven by the need to stimulate pleasure and avoid monotony. Ethics and consistency drive the philosophy of Judge William. These ways of life couldn’t be anymore different. However,…

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    gives us an insight of what life was like in the trenches, and the experiences the soldiers have over the two days before the start of the offensive. Their time is filled with sentry watch, drills, and cleaning the trenches anything to keep away the boredom of waiting for an attack from the Germans. The recruits are young boys who are very naive and are commanded by Second Lieutenant Harte. Because of their naivety, the platoon takes many causalities like when Billy’s brother looks through a…

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    Fidget Spinner

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    A craze that hitting a millions of people in the world. Many people are using this spinning toy called Fidget spinner that can ease you from boredom. Is it helpful or harm to people? Is fidget spinner can be a stress reliever? Addictive, fascinating and easy to use toy, that's what fidget spinner is. Fidget spinner is a palm-sized toy that spins with the slight flick of a thumb. It easily distracted a individual to pay attention to the endless and strangely calming motion of the object.…

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    the social conditions were much less advanced than they are now which caused many struggles. These jobs were terrible for the reason being that they involved classifications which include social outcast, health and safety, urine and excrement, and boredom. The Roman Gold Miner is an example of a miserable job during that time period. This is due to the fact that it involved lots of men working together in extreme hot and cold weather conditions, carrying big heavy…

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    not disease a person’s brain, drugs will alter their brain for a time but the drugs do not have control over the person’s brain. Drug addicts have the ability to fight the urges in their brain when they feel the need to use. Also when stress and boredom have a role in a person using drugs that is not usually a characteristic of someone who has a disease. Drug addiction is a problem in the world today, but classifying it as a disease off the brain is only giving people an excuse to fall back on…

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    or would it have a more negative impact? I believe that having school year round would be more valuable to have. Having school year around could help by: not being as hard to forget information, more time to understand lessons and help cure less boredom in the summer breaks. First, having school year round could help students to not forget information from the previous year. For instance, whenever I come from summer break I always seem to forget most of what was learned. When I come back to…

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