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ANSELM: Like Augustine, Anselm used both faith and reason in his investigation for truth. In his view, Faith comes first but reason should follow, giving reasons for what human beings believe. Anselm’s monks asked him to write a model reflection on God in which everything would be proved by reason and nothing on the authority of Scripture. He replied with his “Monologion”. It contains three proofs of the existence of God, all of which are based on Neoplatonic thought. The first proof moves from…

"Volley the ball. The Ball is volleyed. Volleyball." The man shakes his head. He looks at the glaring screen of his laptop to see the insult his friend, his bromate, dared to spew at him. He rereads the tweet with a fiery rage boiling in his gut. Volley the ball. It's not that simple, it's never been that simple. A ball is not just volleyed, a ball gets spiked with a desperate need. The need that has been within us from birth, the need for survival that runs in even the most primal beasts.…

example of Tanizaki criticizing Japan as the decay of their relationship and surroundings were brought upon themselves by too whole heartedly following the example of the West. Joji is deceived by the Naomi and is made a fool. Tanizaki provides a harsh social commentary about Japan as a fool as the relationship between the United States and Japan suffered in the 1920s. Joji made his decision on marriage based off of the fact that Naomi was the closest to a Western he could ever marry: “I married…

I believe that this sentence conveys about the foolishness and vulnerability of people because of the acts of succumbing to pressure and going against one’s conscience. This sentence says, “… to avoid looking a fool”- Shooting an Elephant (pg.89). This shows us his feelings and his vulnerability. He’s easily giving in to the pressure from the Burmans to shoot when he could’ve left the elephant alone. Although, there has been evidence where he feared of the elephant, “... I should have about as…

In a lifespan, people strive for a number of different dreams. Some come to be, and some do not. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there is a gap between a personal dream and reality. Myrtle, Nick and Jay are desperate for a dream, but everyone fails to achieve their dream because of the unrealistic nature of the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald makes the American Dream look realistic and In the 1920’s, the American Dream leads the American people to believe they have all of the…

Magicians trick the brain and the eyes into thinking that something “magical” is happening. According to “Magic and the Brain” by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, cognitive and visual illusions were used by magicians to fool the audience. Using misdirection to fool the human brain, magicians draw the audience’s attention away from the secret of the magic and to the outcome (Martinez-Conde and Macknik 82). The audience will be completely unaware of how magic tricks work in this way.…

an imperialistic county where he feels as though he is forced to shoot an elephant that had escaped into a town killing a man. His thoughts were not set on killing the wild animal but under circumstances, Orwell felt as though he would be seen as a fool to the natives if he did not live up to the expectation of the natives to kill the elephant. Once Orwell shot the elephant he had to watch as it lay slowly dying, seemingly not wanting to die the elephant remained to hold on to the life he had…

of the 16th century old-fashioned but also foolish and even cruel. Shakespeare is in agreement agreed with these modern-day views when he wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Act 3, Scene 2, he speaks through Puck when the fairy says, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” (3.2.115). Shakespeare considered aspects of his society as foolish and wished to inspire change by presenting these situations to his audience. In the play, Shakespeare shows the loss of dignity one may experience when…

From “The Politics of Transhumanism and the Techno-Millennial Imagination, 1626-2030” and “The Human Condition Hurts: We’d Be Fools Not to Better It” by James Hughes, the readers are able to gain an educational and factual perspective on a very theoretical topic. The difference in the implementation of the “hook”, the jargon used, and the context in time the supporting research is based on allows for each reader to gain the knowledge required to look at human bio-technology in a more accepting…

what they symbolize, also help to develop the theme of betrayal and corruption. Fitzgerald makes it so that Tom and Myrtle’s affair takes place right before the eyes of God and under the nose of a meek man like George Wilson. “She might fool me but she couldn’t fool God.”(Fitzgerald 152). Wilson says this to Myrtle once he finds out that she has been cheating on him. Although for a long time, people disregarded God and morality, there is only so much that can happen before it is time for…