Nihilism

Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 materializes a world where censorship is so strong, it influenced the near- disintegration of domesticity, the banning of books and other pieces of literature, and the absence of memory of a time where books and historically accurate facts were not so “covered up.” Domesticity went into a strong decline after literature was illegalized. People began to lose their moral values. They took up violent forms of entertainment, such as running…

"How can a human being with any claim to a sense of moral responsibility deliberately let loose an instrument of destruction which can at one stroke annihilate an appalling segment of mankind? This is not war: this is not even murder; this is pure nihilism. This is a crime against God and humanity which strikes at the very basis of moral existence. What meaning is there in any international law, in any rule of human conduct, in any concept of right and wrong, if the very foundations of morality…

Recognition as an individual in today 's western world is one of the most targeted qualities of human existence. Both financial and social rewards come to those who create unique identities for themselves and work beyond the safety of crowds. It follows that as our culture praises those who act as their own persons that their opinions and behaviors toward the supernatural would begin to diverge from any one established group, and even those groups themselves are permeated by breaking and…

Mindset & Me There are many ways to interpret the world around us - through optimism, pessimism, even nihilism - but few people stop to think about the real effect these ways of seeing the world can have on everyday life. The way a person decides to look at life can make or break his or her career, relationships, and happiness. For example, there are two groups people can be broken up into: fixed and growth mindsets. Created by Dweck, this theory states fixed mindsetters believe intelligence…

After the death of her brother Polyneices and father Oedipus, Antigone’s collective unconscious retreats into an inner conflict between life and death, paralleled in her the derivatives of her name, Anti-gone equating to against birth. Her sense of self is compelled towards in the identities of the dead, particularly exemplified in her morals embedded in her family’s honour. She becomes the epitome of the living death, whereby manifestations of love in marriage and children have been forbidden…

Annotated Bibliography: Assisted Suicide Evans, L. (2015). Nurses' attitudes to assisted suicide: sociodemographic factors. British Journal Of Nursing, 24(12), 629-632. Http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca /login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=109814321&site=eds-live Nurses' attitudes to assisted suicide: sociodemographic factors is a research article which explores the factors that influence nurses’ attitudes towards assisted suicide. This research paper was designed to create…

Often confused with death with dignity, is physician assisted death, once referred to as physician assisted suicide. Quill and Greenlaw (2008), pertaining to death with dignity, state, “The practice of a physician providing the means for a patient to end his/her own life, usually with a prescription for barbiturates that the patient takes himself; sometimes also called physician-assisted suicide.” Today, death with dignity is seen as way for those that are suffering to escape the disease and…

El Lissitzky was a Russian artist who, from 1919 to 1925, created pieces of artwork that he called prouns. But after 1925, Lissitzky switched from creating prouns, the L2 stage, to creating heavily Stalinist and propagandistic works, the L3 stage. This abrupt switch seems like a great disparity from Lissitzky’s earlier works, but Yve-Alain Bois, an art historian, claims that this switch is not as unanticipated as it seems. Prouns, though never explicitly defined, exist somewhere in the realm…

My parents grew up in the only neighborhood in 1960s Phoenix zoned for Blacks and Mexicans. That neighborhood, South Phoenix, was also the only place in 517 square miles of city zoned for waste dumps, sewage treatment, and mercury-spewing cement plants. The federal government began trying to desegregate Phoenix in the 1970s, but my parents stayed south. They didn’t have much of a choice: they were priced out of anywhere else. Right out of high school, my dad began putting in long hours driving…

Nonetheless, ownership of property does not only apply to things, but also to people such as Maria. She is an asset to the studio that employs her as an actress until she is not. Maria is also a property of Carter as her husband, at least that comes from an actor in the elevator she meets. (Didion, 23). Helen May reaffirms this sentiment of property, like any other women in entertainment business, a statement mentions “That women are nothing more but a prop” (May, 9) taken from the word “use” in…