Four Noble Truths

For thousands of years, humans have wondered what controlled their lives and determined their futures—was there a god that set out our paths before we were alive, or perhaps were we the only ones to explore the roads of life? Do we control how our existence is to be played out, or are we played by the hand of luck or a greater power from the start? Authors Malcolm Gladwell and William Ernest Henley toyed with their beliefs on this subject. Gladwell, writer of the short non-fiction titled…

The opening lines of “Meditation on the Nativity” indicate that this poem is an imaginative variation on the conventional theme suggested by the title. In the fulfillment of God’s promise to humankind, archetypal fears are assuaged; legends and fables are realized and take on specific form: “Painters’ perceptions, visionaries’ long/ Torments and silence, blossom here and speak.” Jennings does not analyze the mystery of the Nativity; she mediates on the human significance of the divine pattern…

What is play in humanity? In the excerpt “Reclaiming the Power of Play”, the author Stephen T. Asma has an overall claim on humanity’s perception of play, he has an opinion that the stakes for play are higher than what people perceive it to be. He then makes three subsequent claims to support his main claim. It is apparent that the excerpt can be broken up into three segments. The first segment consists of the opinions of philosophers on the topic of play. The second segment on the other hand,…

demands, honest messages were selected, generated, and observed 98.5% to 100% of the time. Alternatively, deception was observed 60.0% to 64.3% of the time when variations in the same situations made the truth problematic" (Levine). This research shows that most often humans lie simply because the truth would cause more problems than the lie therefore it would be easier to gloss over some parts. This kind of deceit can be seen throughout Shakespeare's comedy, "The Twelfth Night", most notably…

justified when lies have a cost, lies to protect others and relationships, and lies to protect others from harm. First of all, Lying is sometimes justified since all lies have a cost to the lair. Some people say “yes, but we shouldn’t manipulate the truth, but I disagree because you can lose a person that you will need in life. For example, Cohen says…

existence of a unicorn yet we can imagine a stallion, strong and white in colour. We can imagine a horn on its head, much like a rhino, but with the stallion’s elegance and multi-coloured like a rainbow. We have drawn from our surroundings and empirical truths to create a concept which we can all understand. In this same way, we could draw on knowledge, and imagine a being all-knowing. We could draw on love and imagine a being all-loving. By taking attributes that we have witnessed in our world…

Credibility: What Moore is Lacking in Capitalism: A Love Story A documentary is a film used to report some form of reality. This film genre is associated with the unaltered truth and as a result people often believe what they watch is fact, portrayed in a way for them to see all sides of a controversy where they can forge an opinion for themselves. However, Capitalism: A Love Story does not follow that structure. Moore believes that capitalism is a flawed system and incorporates his opinions…

The Garden of Gatsby Flower imagery is a popular trend in literature. The symbolism and imagery of flowers are greatly important to the themes and characters of The Great Gatsby. Elements of wealth, secrecy, and dying dreams are all represented by flower imagery in this novel. Symbolism of a rose majorly defines Nick Carraway. Daisy says, “I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a – of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn't he?” She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: “An absolute…

proposes that the sunlight, while it is the ultimate truth, hurts the prisoner at first. It burns the eyes that gaze directly upon it. This experience mirrors what happened in the life of Douglass. When he first is educated, he realizes the plight of slavery which “brought on another even more painful than the one of which I [Douglass] was relieved” (Douglass 165). The prisoner in the allegory was brought into the light. He was able to finally see the truth. Douglass was, in this way, also…

Correspondence Theory of Truth by Lauren E Munroe The correspondence theory of truth is the understanding that when we analyze a statement, we determine whether the statement is true or false when we compare statement(s) to objects within their corresponding world using knowledge of this world, and if those objects are performing and or visually reflecting what the statement is stating they are doing. For example, person 1 states that they are a platypus. Person 2 analyzes the truth or…