Lisbon

My understanding of the book Candide by Voltaire was deepened through the IO presentation of the book. The discussion included the enlightenment period, different variety of philosophers and the social classes in France. The enlightenment period begins with the scientific revolution. During the revolution, many unusual philosophies made its debut, and people think that those philosophies are going guide people into a more preferable life. Apparently that’s not true, because in the novella, the…

Magellan was the son of Rui de Magalhães and Alda de Mesquita, members of the Portuguese nobility. At an early age he became a page to Queen Leonor, wife of John II (reigned 1481–95) and sister of Manuel I (reigned 1495–1521), in Lisbon. In early 1505 he enlisted in the fleet of Francisco de Almeida, first viceroy of Portuguese India, whose expedition King Manuel sent to check Muslim sea power along the African and Indian coasts and to establish a strong Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean.…

sound of a male voice narrator explaining the great significance of the city Casablanca in the French ruled Morocco. Many people want to break free of the dangers of Europe to escape to America .However, the popular outlet of departure was Lisbon and getting to Lisbon was no easy task, so many people made risky journeys to the city of Casablanca, seeking the exit visa .The people leaving Europe would do whatever they could to obtain a visa to make their way out. This all was happening during…

sister’s steps a year later. The reader, left only with assumptions and blurry, idealised memories of the narrator, is not able to fully discover the reason behind sisters’ act, which triggered numerous researchers to investigate the novel in depth. Lisbons’ suicides were interpreted…

The findings of Kari O’Grady about traumatic events and how victims’ spirituality is affected reinforce the Cherokee response to the New Madrid earthquakes as well as the renewal of the Catholic faith after the Great Lisbon disaster of 1755. O’Grady’s collaborative article "Resilience Processes During Cosmology Episodes: Lessons Learned from the Haiti Earthquake," with James Orton, in the Journal Of Psychology & Theology discusses the influence of traumatic events on…

traveling with the wind, and it is nearly impossible to travel against it. “For instance, because the winds in the Northern Atlantic Ocean follow a clockwise pattern, the duration of a round trip with a clipper ship from Lisbon to Cape Verde would be similar to that of a round trip from Lisbon to Salvador. With the steamship, the former trip would require only half of the time needed for the latter trip.” Many economists attribute an increase of…

Candide’s mentor and philosopher of the barons castle, Pangloss is Voltaire way of satirizing Leibniz’s idea that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. The main point in Leibniz philosophy is that God created the world so it had to be perfect, and if we perceive something bad happening its because we don’t fully understand God’s plan. Pangloss like most characters in the story is not believable, but rather he is a distorted and exaggerated representation of Leibniz designed to…

upbraid for his miserable state. This contentedness of Candide is struck one more time, after Lisbon is struck by an earthquake. As the sages of the country try to ransom humans to save themselves from the earthquake, Candide notes “terrified” and asked that “if this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like (Pearson and Davenport, 2008). In both Candide’s homelessness and the Lisbon earthquake, he…

been around, but in our world today they have been in so much more common for people’s illness’s and death. In the five, ten or even 20 years, I hope my nursing career will have come true. I hope to graduate with a bachelor degree and come home to Lisbon, ND and work in the North Dakota Veterans Home. I already work there as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and have been there for about a year and a half. It is a wonderful facility with great pay and benefits as I work for the government. I…

monarchy and oppression by lauding the benevolent monarch of El Dorado and the freedom his subjects enjoyed; he also criticized the oppression of speech and thought, as well as the dangers of superstition by including the tale of Candide and Pangloss in Lisbon. Based on this evidence, the only possible conclusion one can arrive at is that Candide is a representative piece of Enlightenment literature that effectively communicates many ideologies associated with the…