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dangerous” (p. 78). The universal of the color red for human beings as a whole is not a bad or an evil, but for this particular individual, red symbolizes something bad or is associated with something dangerous. To help further explain this connection, Miner (2014) states that: “The particular reason, according to Aquinas, is the power that enables a person to attach a set of particular sensible qualities to images stored in the imagination that are directly connected with experiences of pain”…

religious consideration’ (p. 483). Pascal’s argument for this however, is that those who make the wager and are given faith end up being able to receive certain spiritual and ethical benefits they may not otherwise be able to access. Groothuis provides an example of a violinist that regardless of ability, will need a master tutor to become better. A teacher is needed and the student must believe in the ability of the teacher to teach and so the violinist can advance (p. 484). To find faith one…

John Updike’s A&P, each of the main character’s actions reveals their true intentions and purpose in the story. While Queenie may represent sin, temptation and the power of sexuality, the stern Lengel contradicts her, representing the Christian ideals of conformity and the expulsion of rebellion. Furthermore, through the use of herring snacks and skimpy bikinis, Sammy can be seen as an average man who is bored with his own repetitive life and is in need for a change. In John Updike’s A&P, the…

Performance anxiety plays a major role in sexual dysfunction. To define performance anxiety, it is when an individual “Worries about ones ability to “perform” sexually… that can interfere with experiencing pleasure during sex or even while thinking about having sex” ( Pukall, 2014, p.393). Sexual dysfunction can effect both woman and males but this essay will be strictly focused on the causes of anxiety on female sexual dysfunction. The following will be about the effects of enhancing anxiety…

From 1850 to 1914 the intimacy of a husband and wife was kept a secret. “The home was a center of secrecy. More often than not, at the heart of that secrecy was sex” (Sherman and Salisbury, 2009, p. 672). Unfortunately, in the twentieth century, the sexual activity of a man and a woman in and out of marriage is often discussed and no longer private. To see how society allowed this intimacy to become known we must look at the change in morality of the 1920’s; this can be done by examining the…

The German philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was one of the greatest thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He was known as the last "universal genius," who made insightful and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, and history. One of the significant renaissance men of western thoughts. As an inventive and noble philosopher, Leibniz is appointed with developing the…

Each individual portrays distinct actions which then helps develop their character and personality. Human nature is the different ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that tends to come naturally in humans. In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding writes a book about human nature. The boys in this book are stranded on a tropical island without adult supervision. Throughout, the story the boys show their true colors and the way that being under uncivilized circumstances reveals the darkness…

hostile stranger; it had been a normal hunger that had made me beg constantly for bread, and when I ate a crust or two I was satisfied."(p.14)Richard experiences this hunger after his father abandons him. This hunger keeps popping up in his life afterwards. He held his father responsible at the time for his hunger pangs thinking of him with a "deep biological bitterness."(p.16)Richard can only imagine eating full meals with items such as meat as a simple…

morality is relative then it may as well be made up (p.165). Because their beliefs…

looked at the “social and contextual benefits of exercise” (2007, p.90) and utilized two experiments to study this relationship. Participants were 88 female undergraduate students ranging in age from 18 to 22. Mood was the independent variable in each study. The first experiment utilized biking at a moderate speed (60%…