Category of being

320). This at times can be conflicting; however she finds internal harmony by stepping out of the traditional boundaries and creating a new identity that includes both of her cultures. The achievement of harmony and peace between both cultures and being able to tolerate the ambiguity along with the insensitive comments by outsides is an embodiment of Gloria Azaldúa’s…

Heidegger sought to radicalize the traditional understanding of what it means to be human and the transform the ‘common sense’ approach held by the tradition by reawakening the question of the meaning of being; however, he arrived too early. Even though his unfinished edifice was successfully nailed on the door of Cartesian tradition long ago; the discussion fell, and is still falling, upon deaf ears. This split with the tradition led him to a disagreement with his old master Edmund Husserl…

available through our freedom. “Authenticity demands… the recognition that we are without excuses” (Sartre, 1966, p.34). We take the entirety of our choices into our own hands and accept all repercussions. “Authenticity implies an awareness of our being responsible for the direction of our fundamental project, of our life’s orientation” (Catalano, 1980, p.214). We cannot hand off our life’s circumstance to the context, or facticity nor can we fall to our transcendence. One has freedom and one…

account cuts off all our relations, relations that are important to us as humans, and devalues the deaths of others. Yes, the death of another cannot be representative of what my own death will be like, but that does not lessen its importance to my being. I cannot allow myself to feel entirely freed by the knowledge that my death will be unlike anyone else’s because I am not an individual in a vacuum, and my own desires and feelings are not my sole concern in life. I have family and friends by…

plays an important role in both books. One more thing that we will get into later is Loyalty, but that one characteristic is probably the main one in both stories. Now, in the research that I conducted I had come across six different elements into being an epic. I also have to add in that these elements…

People are able to take a fact about themselves, like Vincent being a faith birth, and turn it around into a different meaning or justification to their actions or lack of actions. Vincent viewed himself as Jerome entirely differently that Eugene does. Vincent is afraid that someone will notice that he is not Jerome…

days of being in captivity, it shows Ivan is very observant. By observing others, he was able to learn the English…

Tylor was born into a wealthy liberal Quaker English home in 1832. Tylor 's family owned a successful London brass factory. Edward always had an interest in society and culture. In 1855 when Tylor was 23, he decided to move to Central America after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. This is where he sparked his interest in unfamiliar cultures. His studies of the peoples of Central America led him to publish, Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern (1861). Along his travels Tylor…

When a soldier goes off to war, they are told to follow orders first and foremost. Often soldiers fight for causes deemed just by their governments, meaning the individual soldier 's opinion on the validity of the war is not considered. In a country with a draft or some other form of mandatory military service, soldiers might be forced to fight a war they do not believe in. These circumstances might lead one to believe that soldiers are not morally responsible for acts committed in war. I will…

literacy studies and continues to be an influence to these disciplines. A main part of johns Paul sarte was his novels on his work of the conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (which he describes as bad faith) and the general being and authentic way a person should live. This became the dominant theme of sarte early work…