Paradiso

Desire: that feeling or emotion which is directed to the attainment or possession of some object from which pleasure or satisfaction is expected (OED). Boethius writes in his Consolation of Philosophy that the human person is left unsatisfied by false goods and is guided by Lady Philosophy to recognize the ultimate good to satisfy his desire. Dante places himself as a pilgrim in the Divine Comedy by using descriptive imagery of the contrapasso to demonstrate the effect that straying to sin can…

The Gran Paradiso is the highest peak located entirely in Italian territory. But there are higher peaks in the Italian Alps (Italy CLIO). The natural resources are coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur)…

Paradiso, an MIT professor who directs the MIT Media Lab Responsive Environments Group, in the July 2014 edition of Scientific American discusses the increasing ubiquitousness of sensors and their potential future ability to fix gathered information upon human perception in ways that cannot be foreseen at the moment (Dublon & Paradiso, 2014). It is indicated here that in the future, these types of sensors can be implemented…

When reading The Divine Comedy by Dante, it becomes evident relatively quickly that the man put significant thought and planning into his saga. Yet, for all of his plotting, there is at least one thing that may seem to show a lack of thought. The way that Dante refers to his guides during the Comedy, Virgil, Beatrice, and St. Bernard, is incredibly religious and venerable in nature. There are some options as to why Dante might have decided to uses such language. He may have thought these…

gearing toward recovery or better coping strategies. II.D.Occupational and Social Rehabilitation Research has delineated that schizophrenia patients function poorly on examination of social cognition in comparison with the normal people (Bigelow, Paradiso, Adolphs et al, 2006). Occupational and social rehabilitation can be done in two ways; it can be addressed as a group or one at a time. These approaches focus on the social aspects and vocational skills, which may not be present or…

ganglia that degenerates is the striatum, as well as the cerebral cortex. The job of the striatum is to send “inhibitory, GABA-mediated projections on to the ventral pallidum” which then brings the inhibitory output to the nucleus of the thalamus (Paradiso et al., 2008, p. 74). Because of the degeneration in this area, there is a decrease in signals from the output nuclei, which means that they do not get to the motor thalamus or PPN to inhibit their activity (Lundy-Ekman, 2013, p. 245). To…

especially among figures of wealth and power. To speak out against this wickedness, he decided to write an epic poem, describing the evils he saw. We know this poem to be The Divine Comedy. It is divided into three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In Inferno, he describes his trek through the 9 circles of Hell, led by the famous Roman poet, Virgil. As they descend deeper into Hell, the sinners become greater and the punishments more severe. They see criminals of all kinds until they…

Canto VI of the Inferno lends itself well to the traditional format of a lectura Dantis, in which one canto is lifted from the context of the whole work, and considered as a single poetic entity. This canto is one of the shortest in the Comedy: only one other, Inferno XI, has as few as 115 lines. Canto VI can be regarded as a self-contained unit, since it holds the complete description of one circle of Hell, the third, where Gluttons are punished. The action of the canto is symmetrically framed…

Western Alps contain Mount Viso, which is 12,602 ft. (3,841m) high, and Gran Paradiso, which is 13,323 ft. (4,061m) high. Making the Gran Paradiso the highest mountain in Italy. The Second mountain group, the Central Alps, contain Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn (Monte Cervino), and Monte Rosa. The highest peaks of the ventral mountains are located within the bordering…

The Tragic Ending of Faust: An Interpretation of Faust II, Act V, Lines 11678-11829 In Part II, Act V, line 11678-11829 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragic play Faust, Faust’s soul is rescued by angels. There have been many scholars that have interpreted this scene as representing the redemption of the protagonist after a life of evil and destruction (Van der Laan, 67). That view has now largely been rejected. An alternative reading of this scene would be to deny Faust any identity at all,…