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SCENARIO TWO: Lack of Substantial Changes In this second scenario, Europe will continue suffering the effects of the current crisis. Europe muddles through while continuing its fight toward banking and fiscal integration. In other words, the European Union will keep doing business as usual where the European Institutions will keep doing very little to resolve crisis with increasing chances to respond too late to some emergencies. In this future scenario, the southern European countries will…

Volitaire’s Use of Pangloss Optimism is a philosophy which supports the idealism that everything happens out of absolute necessity, everything happens for the best, and that we are living in the “best of all possible worlds.” In a short novel titled “Candide, or Optimism” published by Voltaire in 1759, Voltaire makes a excellent case against Optimism as a philosophical position by using a character by the name of Pangloss to portray an exaggerated view of Optimism. By the reader seeing how…

General McArthur World Artistic Sorts Matthew Bardowell 12/8/17 Paper #2 The Story of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a life account of a keeps an eye on life as a slave and how he turned into the individual he is today. This story begins with Frederick as a young man. It portrays his experience as a youngster. Frederick did not experience childhood in an upbeat home. His life was miserable and discouraging. How he transformed into the individual he managed without surrendering is…

General McArthur World Literary Types Matthew Bardowell 12/8/17 Essay #2 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography of a mans life as a slave and how he became the person he is today. This narrative starts with Frederick as a little boy. It describes his experience as a child. Frederick did not grow up in a happy home. His life was sad and depressing. How he turned into the person he did without giving up is amazing to me. “Never having enjoyed, to any considerable…

behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.’ This something mentioned in the quote can be anything; a memory left on the minds of close friends, one’s diary or notes that shows his thoughts and more. In the film “Night Train to Lisbon” a 2013 movie directed by Bille August, the main character, Raimund, decides to track down the life of another main character, Amadeu, after encountering a book that Amadeu wrote. As a professor of anicient languages who spent his whole…

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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He was born on October 31, 1451 in Genoa Italy. Christopher Columbus’s parents were middle class people. Columbus’s father was named Domenico Columbus. Domenico was born in 1414 in Genoa. Domenico was a wool weaver all of his life and he loved where he lived. Christopher’s mom was named Susanna Fontanarossa. Fontanarossa was born in 1435 in Genoa. She was a wool weaver as well. Christopher Columbus started sailing as a teenager. He would participate…

Stephen King, in "Everything you need to know about writing", gives a brief background on his experiences and how he came to know this information. King first gives a brief summary of his own article. Before he lists the steps, he gives a small introduction about how this will only help if you really listen. Then, he gives a considerable number of ideas in list form of how to write successfully. My own analysis on King's paper is that it's about a little of his past and contains some really…

Euroculture: Political and Legal Perspectives Assignment I Ziya Mert Karakaş The EU is a complex supranational entity. It is not a state or a federation and it is difficult to classify. So are the questions whether the Union has attributes of each, and if yes, what are them. The democracy, in the modern times, is a fundamental part of the state functioning and is…

Neiman examines two different historical case studies: the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Nazi holocaust. The cases present the separation of natural from moral evil. This distinction relies amidst intention, which we are held responsible, and consequences, in which we might not be. She states a common mistake is accepting the word evil and referring it to acts of inhumanity and occurrences of human suffering. The Lisbon earthquake and other similar natural events are examples of human…