Edmund Burke

The insurgency is blamed for catastrophic attacks aimed against Somali nationals and foreign aid workers. In June 2006, members of Al Shabbab kidnapped four western aide workers and more than a dozen Somali’s. (Article, Fall of Mogadishu Leaves US Policy in Ruins, The Guardian 2006). This incident greatly affected the presence of aid workers in Somalia and has resulted in the African Union amending its policy on sending western aid workers into Somalia. Shabbab has also carried out car bombing…

Perception and War War is a difficult subject to think about. Images of it are hard to look at and described as gruesome or gory. It seems strange that disagreements between countries are solved by sending people from each state involved in the dispute to fight each other and “die for their country.” Huge amounts of money have been spent to find new and better ways to kill people – maybe a single person, as is often the aim of an unmanned drone strike, or a large number of people, with more…

The French Revolution was an important revolt for French society. It was a time of social and political tension from 1789 until 1799. The French Revolution changed history as we know it through radical and liberal ideas. This revolution started the global decline of theocracies and absolute monarchies while changing them with democracies and republics. The French population was upset with high taxes that the government had implemented to try to pay debts from the Seven Years ' War and the…

The Romantic era (1780s - 1830s) was a movement of rebellion against the artificiality that was synonymous with Neoclassicism and industrialisation. Through idealistic tendencies, the Romantics sought a transcendent existence in response to the inauthentic state of their human experience. Through the glorification of nature, the exemplification of the power of imagination and freedom of emotional expression, composers profoundly engage with elements of the authentic human experience. Samuel…

Although we think that religion is a personal decision, and we can adapt it to how we feel and what we believe, modifying it to our beliefs or ideas can cause serious consequences. As said by Edmund Burke, “Religion is the foundation of civil society.” Traditionalist conservatives believe that societies only develop good social systems from a prolonged process of cumulative growth. In this understanding, Linda Raeder tells us that social systems are developed through a complex process…

According to Edmund Burke in his treatise, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful the sublime is "the strongest emotion that the mind is capable of feeling" and it is caused by the idea of pain and danger: not actual pain or actual danger, but the idea of experiencing themes. In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly sublime nature plays a big role. This essay will argue how nature is wonderfully restorative and refreshing for the soul and how removing it…

INTRODUCTION: Energy is an important factor for the human body in everyday life. No matter what the human body is doing, whether it is eating, sleeping or running, it needs energy to perform these activities. “Energy fuels your body’s internal functions, repairs, builds and maintains cells and body tissues, and supports the external activities that enable you to interact with the physical world” (Writer). There are five reasons the body needs energy to survive. The first reason is basal…

1. Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women is the story of Susan Burton, a woman who overcame many obstacles and tragedies, spent time in prison, and became a leading figure in the justice reform movement. Burton takes readers along on her journey during which she realized that a racialized structure of control has infected America for decades. She details her abuse, her struggles, her addiction, and eventual recovery. Self-loathing and shaming…

In modernized societies, it is not the material objects or tangible aspects of human societies that distinguishes one from another, but what do are its values, symbols, interpretations and perspectives. (What is Culture? CARLA) . Edmund Burke gave the most interesting definition of culture that was later second by Raymond Williams too; he stated culture is “customary differences” which means that it is not created on the basis of similarities but on the basis of differences between…

Akshat Seth Prof. Alok Bhalla Romanticism Of Diatribes, Revolution and Pacifism Reflections on the reconcilability of Shelley’s ideas of radical change and pacifism through a look at his first long poem Queen Mab with respect to the socio-political context of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It is somewhat ironic to state that Shelley, ‘the true child of the revolution’1 was also a pacifist. Ironic, since the very French Revolution which is cited by most as one…