Plotinus

Dr. Mascio has taught 14 completely distinct courses with separate preparations in the last 9 semesters, 8 in the last two semesters while carrying a 15 credit load each semester. These courses include disciplines as wide ranging as literature, etymology, history, philosophy, mythology, religion, and film. Courses not taught in the last two semesters include the following: Roots of English, Journey of Transformation, Classical Mythology, Modern Theater, and Film, Advanced Greek: Aristotle, and…

The next major argument in the world of critical analysis rests in the amount of literary references used in Donne’s work. Some critics pronounce that Donne believed in new ideas and cultivated them, using literary references as models for his own poetry. Some regard that Donne was not only learned, but used science and mythology to make a specific point in his poetry, appealing to a wider range of critical thinkers. Others disagree with both statements, saying that Donne’s success was merely…

“The poetry of The Tower period is rich because of the fullness of Yeats's life, because his style was reaching maturity at the same time as his life.”(p.193) This is how A. Norman Jeffares describes the poetry of The Tower in his book W.B. Yeats, Man and Poet. William Butler Yeats, an Anglo-Irish poet wrote the poems from The Tower between 1912 and 1927 and the collection was published in 1928. Most of these poems have a common theme: violence. Indeed, they were written during a difficult and…

St. Augustine’s Concept of Time Abstract: Augustine seeks to research the way of time by asking himself how time speaks to the psyche. He first tries to explain the concept of time through a clear and brief, temporary definition, based upon the standard thought that time has three sections. Such is established through his hypothesis that if nothing were moving, there would be no past; if nothing is somehow going to happen, there would be no future; and nothing would exist, if there were no…

To understand the process of ageing as a mass phenomenon and the attempt to break away from the existing structures of the normative and stereotypes, one needs to understand the constant tension between the personal narrative and the cultural narrative, what Hannah Zeiling calls as the meta -narrative. A life course in today’s typical gen industrial world is preeminently structured. It includes the age based transitions recorded and legitimized by the state which further authenticate certain…