In the Absence of Truth

objects- the agency they hold and importance they play for us. Our urge to collect, forever juxtaposed with our urge to be free of objects which cast their agency over us. There is always a tension between keeping and letting go, between presence and absence; perhaps collecting is a metaphor for this. The domestic space, our shelter from the outside world where we keep our personal shrines or collected objects, is at the heart of comfort- home. Home which can mean so many things to us, home…

feeble grab for power because they lack the experience they need to recognize the bleak future they will face without changing their actions as he repeatedly tries to establish. The pretentiousness, they show when he confronts them with this dismal truth only furthers the givers need to release the memories to Jonas who can in turn release them to the community. Lowry’s use of imagery allows us to see into the giver’s mind and witness the interactions of the past receiver and himself. We can…

1. Deductive reasoning is that process of reasoning in which one moves from the general premise to the specific one. The truth of the conclusion depends on the truth of the premises. Inductive reasoning instead is the process of reasoning that begins with the specific then moves to the general. Abductive reasoning is an explanation of some experienced or observation of events but you cannot explain the event or do not have knowledge. It can be true or may not be true. 2. 1).…

immediate thought is that she is the murderer of Joslyn and the two teenage girls. Dr. Weber’s old job at Dunmore, the hospital for the criminally insane, makes her a suspicious character to the detectives, and even more so to the reader. The secrets, absence of emotion and her previous job at Dunmore all prove that Dr. Weber is a suspicious character in The Forgotten Girls. Mahatma Gandhi said, “The moment there is a suspicion about a person’s motives, everything…

The title of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, “Tu Do [Two Door] Street,” immediately showcases binary oppositions, rigid cultural forces that create powerful racial divisions. Two physical doors, metaphors for the racial binary that creates and perpetuates racial division and inequality in America, separate black and white humanity in a Saigon, Vietnamese red-light district. According to the poem’s text, America exports its racial binary, and its implicit white-superior-to-black, racist axiom, with…

Epicurus was an Athenian philosopher who based his philosophy on perception, natural science, the liberation of the fear of gods and death, and the pleasure that comes from the absence of these anxieties. Epicurus was an Athenian citizen but grew up on the island of Samos with his parents, Neocles and Chairestrate. When Alexander the Great died, and the Athenians were expelled from Samos, he joined his father in Colophon on the Asiatic Coast, where he studied under Nausiphanes of Teos, where he…

The agonist of "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an exemplary case of Poe's problematic narrator, a man who can't be trusted to tell the target truth of what is happening. His shakiness turns out to be promptly apparent in the first passage of the story, when he demands his lucidity of psyche and the qualities any indications of frenzy to his apprehension and over-sensitivity, especially in the territory of hearing. Nonetheless, when he completes his announcement of rational soundness, he offers a record…

point has the exponential function exceeded the linear function, it shall never do so. As anyone knowledgeable in mathematics or aware of the conclusions of the Malthusian model could tell, however, this is certainly not the case. Speculation in the absence of inductive reasoning might lead one away from discovering an imminent disaster, if one is to…

“Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.” When people become enlightened they have a self awakening that allows them to see things from a different point of view. You start to become curious and aware of everything in your surroundings. When it comes to whether people want to become enlightened or not it all just depends on your personal beliefs.…

In this paper, I will argue that Socrates argument that the tyrant will be unhappy is convincing. First, I will explain how the tyrant exemplifies injustice. Then I will explain the consequences for the tyrant of his soul. Then I will analyze Socrates argument to develop a clear and evaluation that supports my thesis. Once the appetite of the tyrant finds beliefs that consider shame to be a deterrent of an action it destroys those beliefs until there is no more self-control and only madness. A…