Pragmatism

Nice, D. State Party Ideology and Policy Making, The University of Georgia, 780-796 In this article, David Nice delves into party ideologies and their role in state policy decisions. Nice uses information gathered from a wide variety of research studies to assess whether or not party ideologies are reflected in recent state policy decisions. One of the studies present in this source was a Cross- national research study which found that, “ideologies of those in power were related to unemployment…

Both dimension and abstraction are common features that characters portray in their world of interaction. Characters are forced to assimilate new ways of life in order to match with their immediate surroundings while others are resistant to such changes. In East goes West, several attempts are being made to form relationships. Evidently, some of the relationships work successfully while others are not. This nature of things brings about ambivalence in the lives of characters, which leads to…

The Individual Cost of War as Represented in The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex The history of war extends nearly as far as the history of humanity and so expressions of war’s impact abound in literature. The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex, texts concerning war, exhibit similarities despite having been written centuries and continents apart. Each emphasizes that although war carries global repercussions, it causes conflict on an individual level as well. In The…

ANTIGONE, by Jean Anouilh, is a masterful version of Sophocles’ original tragedy; which delves deeply into the theme of responsibility and duty. Duty is something one is “obligated to do.” Responsibility is described as doing something one “feels is necessary,” as well as “having capacity for moral decisions and therefore accountable” (Webster’s Dictionary). The theme of responsibility and duty transcends the shallow meaning of the words themselves; it illustrates the internal driving force…

Various kinds of business around the world have become highly internationalised since the emergence of globalisation and the development of international trade. The above factors have largely enhanced both the scale and the size of multinational firms, and later on these firms have had greater capacity to gain both political and economic power. Among those successful multinational firms, however, their managers work with employees from different background, having different management styles and…

Maggie Nelson’s 2016 memoir The Argonauts explores the relationship between Nelson and her genderqueer partner Harry Dodge, both of whom are undergoing a transformation. Nelson’s change is caused by her pregnancy, while Dodge is in the process of becoming male-passing through the means of hormone injections and surgery. The book focuses on the concept of fluidity, whether this is applied to sexuality, gender or bodily changes. Nelson’s memoir builds on quotations and ideas from a diverse array…

Theology of Worship, is Blocks newest publication which is solely based on the worship of todays’ churches. In a recent interviews with Books at a Glance, Block states that he is concerned about the faulty understanding of worship and the utter pragmatism that drives much of the “worship industry” today. One hand you have “music as worship” and on the other…

humans we have always try to understand how the universe really works. How does the moon form? How does water really flow? How did the earth form? To provide some explanation on how the stars and the planet worked Nicolaus Corpernicus who was born in 1473 was an “astronomer and mathematician” he attended the “University of Cracow.” This man was so unique in his time; this was the “16th and 17th century” when scientific revolution was in its infancy. In those times the groundwork for modern…

Wolcott and Tom Head clearly comprehend how the criminal justice system worked and how it changed to what it is now. By the use of court cases, real life situations, acts, treaties and many more made the book factual, plus easier to fulfill a sense of pragmatism. In the back of the book, there’s an appendix explaining everything in depth (Wolcott and Head, 2010, p. 294). Reading this book made me understand the justice system more clearly, and to get a better understanding of it in a more…

In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky invites the reader to explore the results of fully embracing utilitarianism as a moral philosophy. The novel does this through Rodya, a character who adopts utilitarianism and acts in unsettling ways. I will argue Dostoevsky does not challenge the core premises of utilitarianism, but instead asks the reader to think about the consequences of this ideology. Rodya is both nonreligious as well as utilitarian to the extreme. Rodya is (at least in part)…