Pragmatism

In The Criminological Imagination Jock Young’s main argument is meant to criticize the overly quantitative and positivist nature of modern criminology and point out the limited qualitative imagination within the discipline. Young considers his book a success if he can “create a moment of hesitation and contribute somewhat to the growing skepticism with regards to the widespread desire to quantify every aspect of the human condition” (p.ix). Young describes how criminal justice scholarship has…

Thomas Jefferson was a well-educated man at his time, such as Benjamin Franklin in the colonies. By the age of nine he had already began to study Latin, Greek and French. Thomas Jefferson is a Federalist and his opponent Alexander Hamilton is an Anti-Federalist. A Federalist is someone who supports the community to create a social government and an Anti-Federalist is someone who does not trust the community and wants to make a national government. Thomas Jefferson made a big impact on the United…

On September 17th of 1787, a group of men to whom we call “The Founding Fathers,” wrote one of the most famous documents; The United States Constitution. The goal when writing the constitution was to help better American lives by creating a set of Ten Amendments that grant basic rights to all citizens. The Founding Fathers essentially took pieces out of other famous documents like those of The Magna Carta (1215), The English Bill of Rights (1689), and The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom…

Comparison of Machiavelli’s behavior of known Politicians According to Niccolo Machiaville, he himself felt he was the most widely-read of the Renaissance thinkers. He retired from public service in order to become a writer and felt he was a Florentine politician. Shortly after his early retirement he was able to accomplish his dream and in 1513 he wrote his best known work, entitled The Prince, Principle II. In his book his main focus was on the way a good ruler or prince should perform. He…

A Postcolonial Interpretation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” Analysed passage: Page 26 “In the library I found, to my great delight..” - Page 29 end. (Penguin Classics Reissue) Post-colonialism is the discourse that reflects upon and reacts to the legacy of colonialism and imperialism within literature and culture. In the late 1800’s at the time when Dracula was written, there was a growing sense of cultural decline within Britain - many feared that people were losing sight of what it truly meant…

“I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now” (Wiesel, 68). Neither Elie Wiesel nor Primo Levi survived Auschwitz without bearing both mental and physical scars from the time they spent at the concentration camp, and yet both men differed in how they reflected on their experiences. Wiesel offers a…

The ‘lost chance’ argument for Sino-American accommodation was undermined by the ideology of both parties. There never existed a chance in 1949 whereby the United States could detach the People’s Republic of China from the Soviet sphere of influence. Chinese diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union were too intimate despite the tensions that arose between Mao and Stalin throughout the late 1940s. The cultural and historical context that the Chinese Communists evoked when dealing with the…

highly integrated with his religious thoughts, so an understanding of one is important to understand the other. Milton’s political views in all his works have been expressed quite cleverly. They are a smart blend of biblical exegesis, political pragmatism and his influence of classical sources is also evident, which come to fullest expression in Paradise Lost. A certain kind of political intensity and friction is felt through all his poems, especially Paradise lost. If we read Paradise Lost as a…

Incidental to these, Gurney (2007) identified five (5) qualities of good teaching which are: a) Teacher knowledge, enthusiasm and responsibility for learning; b) Classroom activities that encourage learning; c) Assessment activities that encourage learning through experience; d) Effective feedback that establishes the learning processes in the classroom; and e) Effective interaction between the teacher and the students, creating an environment that respects, encourages and stimulates learning…

The complexity of human action is based on simple presumptions. For both sophist and philosophers, many of their driving convictions and beliefs stem from one small, in comparison to the greater picture, objective that although sometimes may be intangible, offers the most profound realizations when put into perspective. When contrasting these two extraordinarily different groups of people, in the eyes and opinion of Plato, sophists are the opposite of true philosophers and true thinkers.…