Cynic

Hellenic refers to the people who lived in classical Greece before Alexander the Great 's death. Hellenic Greeks were isolated and their civilization was termed classic because it was not heavily influenced by outside forces. Hellenistic refers to Greeks and others who lived during the period after Alexander 's conquests. They differ from Hellenic in territory, culture, and political systems. After the collapse of Mycenae around 1100 B.C. and Dorian invasions, the Greek Dark Ages ensued and the…

Voltaire, author of the short novel, Candide, employs exaggeration in order to satirize the optimistic thinking of pre-enlightenment philosophers. Voltaire’s cynic point of view is clear throughout the novel as unending horrors befall the main character, Candide. Pangloss, Candide’s mentor and teacher while he lived with his uncle in Westphalia, is the source of the novel’s main idea of optimism. On the other hand, Martin, his traveling partner later in the novel, represents everything that…

The Death of a Dream How far are you willing to go to achieve your dreams? Become a criminal? Lock yourself away from the rest of the world? Even live in an illusion? Just how much are we truly willing to sacrifice? Well, two novels try to show us just how far a human will go through two very complex and tragic figures. Jay Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby” By F. Scott Fitzgerald, a wealthy, suave but mysterious gentleman who wanted nothing more than the love of a woman to complete his…

Massacre River is a novel about the "Parsley Massacre" " perejil" which is mainly centered around a young couple who falls in love. They are, the Dominican Pedro Brito and his beautiful Haitian wife Adèle who both live in Elias Piña. This is a city located close to the massacre river boarding between the Dominican Republic and The Republic of Haiti.This novel makes reference to the massacre or genocide happened in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The president Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered…

Sociology professor and founder of the Communitarian Network, Amitai Etzioni, in his rhetorical argumentative essay, Working at McDonald’s, explains the lack of skills acquired in the work force for teens working at large fast food companies like Taco John's, KFC, and McDonald’s. Etzioni’s purpose is to inform parents of the lack of skills developed in large fast food chains. He adopts a traditional tone in order to convince parents of today’s teens, the lack of developing the skills in the…

In the sphere of film discussion often you hear people openly say that modern films are all remakes, sequels or prequels that have no soul or imagination. I wholeheartedly disagree with this sentiment, but the wide release film schedule would definitely prove contrary. Which is why filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro are so indispensable to the modern film ecosystem, they’re constantly churning out these original concepts with boundless imagination. This is a guy who, on a constant basis, creates…

Disadvantage of financial incentives There is the assumption for Pay-for- performance method if health care workers get paid to do something, could they do it more often to get an extra charge? This assumption is so obvious it is not so often questioned, there is fact, it is not always true. Experimental evidence from both social psychology and econometrics showed that usually when an activity driven by internal motivations, such as professionalism or pride in the quality of work one achieves…

“The Grasshopper and the bell cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata is a short story which is told by an isolated narrator who looks in on the situation before him and then communicates to us in the first person. Kawabata makes use of this narrator to communicate themes of alienation, lost love, deception and the nature of time. Themes such as these are very relevant in the lives of ordinary, everyday people and carry much weight in them. The fact that Kawabata is able to capture so much reality in the…

In Voltaire's Candide, two opposite characters are introduced to readers, Pangloss and Martin, the first demonstrating an optimistic perception on life, however the second represents a pessimistic perception on it. Both of these characters represents a diverse point of view of thought, applies his own ideas and beliefs to the world, and tries to persuade Candide of his own angle that he sees life from. This essay will compare and contrast both of the perceptions and how Candide reacts to both of…

Colonialism is a method that was used by the Europeans in order to gain political power over weaker countries by occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically (Knox and Marston, 2016). Many counties have been affected by colonialism thus imprints have been left on those countries; Uganda is one of the countries that fall under this category. This essay will focus on the impact the colonialism had on Uganda, especially in terms of religion. It will mainly focus on the effect that…