One-sided argument

that the Shepard was capable of turning himself into the wind. The shepard has no faith in himself, telling the Alchemist that he doesn't know how to turn himself into the wind. While the Alchemist continues to tell him that he does, "There is only one thing that make a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.". The symbolism in this scene was the Alchemist willingly giving up the entirety of the Shepards savings. To me, this was telling the Shepard that the treasure was the Master's…

One key lighting element in a film adaptation of The Arabian Nights would be to make a definitive contrast in the lighting used in the real-life scenes between the captive princess and the king and the lighting used in scenes involving stories being told…

conspires to help that person to realize his dream” (114). What the alchemist means is that whenever a person has that strong desire and that highly anticipated motivation, nothing can stop that person from realizing and achieving his dream. This was one of the lessons that Santiago learned throughout his journey. This helped me realize that in order for me to achieve my goal which is succeeding in my academics at San Jose State University, I must have some motivation and desire. Nothing can…

Alchemist. The Alchemist reveals that one must have the courage to follow their destiny, for otherwise, they will hold themselves back from happiness. Coelho uses foil, symbolism, and personification to further develop this theme. Today’s readers can apply Santiago’s story to their own life, as a lesson to follow their calling. Throughout The Alchemist, Coelho uses foil characters to represent how Santiago’s life could be if he does not follow his personal legend. One foil is the crystal…

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” (Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist). In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a shepherd boy named Santiago is on a mission to find his personal legend. In this book, there are two themes that mainly stand out, personal legend and Faith/positive thinking. In The Alchemist, Santiago follows his personal legend. It starts with a dream that keeps recurring every night. This then leads to a curiosity to find out what it means. He…

superior being, big enough to create a supreme artefact such as the universe. Finally, David Hume likened the world to ‘one great machine subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines’. This theory however leads to the philosophy that similar effects require a similar cause. Through the thrust of Hume’s argument, he introduces us to two characters that express the argument for design; whilst a third, namely Philo, criticises the…

The argument for the existence of God will always give rise to infinitive points of view. St. Anselm (c. 1033- April 21, 1109) was distinguished philosopher, scholar, theologian and an Italian monk who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury. His thinking and writings about God and the disposition of faith has influenced and fascinated scholars and philosophers since the Middle Ages—some would even say he is the most important Christian thinker of the 11th century. In his highly…

The article H. J. McCloskey wrote, On Being an Atheist, discusses how arguments presented are proof that God does not exist. As I learned from Dr. Foreman’s presentation, Arguments for God’s Existence, there is nothing that can be proven with one-hundred percent certainty. We need not use arguments, but we should use evidence, just as an attorney in building a case against or for an accused. (Foreman, Approaching the Question of God 's Existence n.d.) Evidence sometimes is circumstantial, full…

create by their own hands, it is a natural inclination to suggest that perhaps human beings were given these skills and attributes because they were created by an intelligent being. This process of thinking gives weight to the teleological argument and the argument from design. The universe itself, and all that exists in it, seems to be no accident of nature. For something so complicated and detailed to occur, Christians can most certainly conclude that the best possible…

cosmological argument aims to study the nature and order of the universe. “‘The world cannot come from nothing’. The idea here is that the existence of the universe demands a cause, reason, or explanation.” (Davis, 1993) It is also known as the first cause argument. The argument states that we can infer the existence of God from the universe. It is an a posteriori argument which starts at experience. Cosmological arguments are made from the viewpoint of observation. The cosmological argument…