Paradoxes

In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance…

By using these paradoxes she is able to show the reader how complex and how much the soul leaves up to interpretation, much like human thought. Also in using paradoxes Emily Dickinson is able to convey a sense of humanity in a soul, something that is so elusive to one’s thoughts. By using the previously mentioned paradox the Imperial friend…

Consequently, Zeno of Elea would support and fortify these thoughts of Parmenides. However, Zeno produced paradoxes that would apparently strengthen the arguments of his teacher, Parmenides. A paradox is a contradictory statement to describe something and this has been the brand of understanding that Zeno advocated. Though these paradoxes, Zeno described the indivisibility of space. One of the famous paradoxes of Zeno is the Achilles paradox. The Achilles paradox tells the competition between…

author’s main subject is death and how hard that topic can be. Some individuals tend to be careless and do not see the potential hazards until after they cause damage while other are vigilant. The author utilizes concepts of death, sarcasm, irony, paradoxes, and symbolism throughout the short story to reveal that death may seem far but in reality it’s inevitably close. In the short story Going, the author Amy Hempel applies concepts…

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ever created (GamesRadar, 21). From historic horrific imagery to its use in media like literature and television, the horror genre has dominantly relied on audience’s emotional and physical reactions. In the book “The Philosophy of Horror, or, Paradoxes of the Heart,” author Noël Carroll recognizes the particularity of horror…

Here we are decades later in the 21st century, still wrestling with the paradoxes and theories of leadership. Well, interestingly, the concept of servant leadership over the years still draws attention among scholars, theologians, and researchers in our culture and society today. Arguably, the concept of servant leader has led debates and thought provoking question, as to whether the leader is consider servant first? Greenleaf sets the stage for his contemporary audience’s inquiry into his…

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Catcher in the Rye is a book about a boy named Holden Caulfield. Now Holden isn't an ordinary boy: He's been kicked out of multiple boarding schools; flirts with older women; and somehow managed to end up in some sort of mental hospital by the beginning of the book. Or chronologically rather, the end, it's all a flashback of sorts; it's Holden telling his story the way he sees it. But Holden's biggest issue is the idea of the word "phony,"—a word so vague and versatile he applies it to…

feelings of responsibility, guilt, and anger along the way. Tim O’Brien wants readers to understand the truths of war by illustrating the effects through personal and interpersonal experiences of soldiers and war veterans . O’Brien discusses the paradoxes of war in How To Tell a True War Story. “The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque.…