Centrality

When we think of happiness often times we think about what it takes to actually be happy. The thought of doing all the things that make you happy on one hand should satisfy and bring you happiness, but on the other some philosophers such as Daniel Haybron believe that happiness stems from a state of mind. More specifically Haybron believes that happiness is an emotional state of mind, and what that theory entails is to be happy one’s emotional condition to exhibit a sufficiently a favorable…

During my sophomore year as an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina, I was accepted into the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. I do not exaggerate when I say that this program changed the entire course of my life: helping me to fully understand my interests, altering my professional goals, and providing me with a viable path for my passions. As a first generation student, I had very little knowledge about how to navigate the sphere of undergraduate education…

Yesterday at Notre Dame Cathedral, Eastern Synod Lutheran Bishop Michael Pryse and I took part in a service commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Catholics and Lutheran adherents and others from a variety of Christian denominations joined us. The service included mixed choirs supported by the Basilica’s powerful organ, sincere prayers for Christian unity, and the tangible witness of being together in prayer. In our own way, we were living out ourselves the prayer of…

foster a ‘free-play’ of interpretations. This process reverberates Jacques Derrida’s theory of ‘differance’, the difference in the meanings that leads to a deferment of the desired meaning, the decentralization of the centre, where he negates the centrality of the text, rejects the totality of meaning and endorses the free play of meanings and interpretations (Derrida 5). This very free play can be exercised by the reader in the reading of modern texts where the writer leaves enough lacunae to…

Summary The article (BBC 2015) reports that Glencore’s loss of profits of 676 million dollars, which is due to its costs associated with paring back oil operations and falling prices of commodity and raw materials such as oil and metal resulting from a supply glut and Glencore’s biggest earner, copper, is at its six-year lows after an economic downturn in China. Application of concept This article relates to economic environment due to the constraints facing the company put on by globalization,…

In the magazine article, the author uses specific diction, imagery and personification to convey a shifting mood from a celebratory reunion with his constantly changing hometown to a reflective and disappointed remembrance, but eventual acceptance of his hometown while he was growing up. In the first part of the passage, the author creates a mainly joyful tone while writing about the place that he used to live as a child. The author writes about the lawns that “curves around” his grandfather’s…

Given the centrality of character in Shade 's Children by Garth Nix, it is no surprise that issues of identity are prominent themes in the novel. The adolescent psychological quest of discovering an identity is made a physical fact in this novel. The individual Change Talents highlight the uniqueness of the individual and provide a role for that individual within their team, while the inner struggle of the resistance leader Shade also highlights the struggle of identity, as Shade is an…

The contemplation of Mary, leads one to contemplating Jesus because of their intimate relationship as mother and son. Mary’s ‘yes’ to the angel Gabrielle, and all the events which occur after do not allow one to separate Mary from Jesus, because she not only gave birth to Jesus but watched her only son suffer and die. The Akathist Hymn, is a Greek Marian prayer consists of 24 stanzas which have a particular rhythm and pattern. Cherished by the Eastern rite, the hymn is a beautifully crafted…

Absurdism is the belief in that all human beings exist in a purposeless, riotous universe. Inside The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Camus centers to a great extent around persuading his readers of the idea of absurdism. The novel is depicted in the first person of the character Meursault from the time his mom dies to his trial for killing an Arab man. These occasions portray how human life must be comprehended by tolerating the reality of death. Camus effectively persuades his readers on his…

It is followed by the mass migration of people to urban areas from rural areas,which is their home land. They are not belonging to anywhere. In Indian scenario the footloose plebians which includes women and men, children and adults, whose existence is in a circulatory mode and they were moved to lowest strata of labor system. They are not amalgamated and hence incapable to defy oppressive working condition. They are inwardly divided by the acute competition for the available work…