Man's Search for Meaning

Mark Stewart’s, Passing Strange, is a semi-autobiographical rock musical that apprises the story of young man’s journey to find “the real.” In this play, Stew (Mark Stewart), tells the story of his younger self traveling from his home in Los Angeles to places such as Amsterdam and Berlin to become a great artist and musician. In this production, Stew has the conviction that “the real” cannot be obtained unless he perceives and witness’s different places from around the world. I watched a filmed…

Odysseus: Son of Pain In Homer 's The Odyssey, a king, Alcinous, urges the protagonist, Odysseus, "Come, tell us the name they call you there at home [...] Surely no man is nameless [...] as soon as he sees the light his parents always name him, once he 's born" (209 • 618-622). Odysseus 's name, in fact, carries great significance. It means "son of pain," and through the course of the poem, the reader can understand how fitting this name is for this character. Odysseus, son of pain, seems to…

been put into a situation that can lead to an end to his life. The knife resembles his life’s next challenge and obstacle that could leave a permanent mark onto his identity because the “weapon would serve less to defend him than to justify the other man’s killing him” (Borges, 179). The other man wanting to fight with Dahlman is suggesting that there might be no more hope for Dahlman to live. Dahlman wants to find joy in his life and it is as though the knife answers his wish to die while he…

meant that God, being the perfection he is, chose the best world available to him, unfortunately it was a world containing evil. It seems as though Voltaire wanted to ridicule Leibniz’s philosophy so much that he chose to satirize only the literal meaning and fatal acceptance of evil of Leibniz’s…

R. Chodkowski describe two main ways of interpreting Sophocles Oedipus Rex, as far as the main theme of the tragedy is concerned; “The first one could be marked “the tragedy about infallibility or power of divinity”, the second could be labelled “the tragedy of arriving at the truth” ” (Grelka 2013). It is the view of this author that Sophocles intended a much more progressive concept for his ancient Greek audience than simply the “infallibility of divinity”, that the main idea of Sophocles work…

Since our first attempt at writing an essay in elementary to middle school, we are told the main components to writing an essay is the ‘beginning’, ‘middle’, and ‘end.’ All of which holds true today, but as we move from one grade to the next, the standards for a ‘good’ essay changes for the better. Rhetorical strategies, devices, and appeals also known as rhetoric, is what we learn in high school (Stotsky 10). The continuation of the expanding knowledge is what makes us alter our writing…

The significance of a film is greatly attributed to the atmosphere constructed for the camera. Mise en scene describes the visuality of cinema and encompasses the important elements that determine the consumption of the narrative. It is a factor that becomes ingrained in the filmmaking process and is motivated in creating an effective thematic pattern. Alfred Hitchcock is an acclaimed director known for the continuities of production style in his works. His 1958 film Vertigo utilises the…

Understanding of Learning In Class Qi Cui 1. Occam’s Razor: Occam Razor refers to a theory. The main idea of this theory is there is no need to waste excessive resources to research or judge something since fewer resources may also help to reach an ideal result (Sartre, 2003). In the management field, through applying Occam Razor theory, the company would learn to use the most efficient team…

In this course we have read the works of several Philosophers, Thoreau, Plato, Huxley, and Frankl. Each had their own style and views of life. The class is asked to choose two Philosophers that agree on an idea that is most important to us. That idea for me is living the best life a person can. So my two Philosophers are Plato/Socrates and Frankl. The second question; what is “doing philosophy is all about”, the third question is why the philosophers we have read think philosophy is…

understand things in the same way that others do. This has to do with the breach between our ideas and reality. Our perceptions are misunderstood when we interpret incorrect meaning from our senses. We are able to receive pictures, but our minds are unable to make the connections between these pictures, and the true meanings of them. Once receiving the information, we are also “unable to determine which of them [we are able to] trust”. Most humans and animals trust their instincts when faced…