Prudence

~ We were on high alert, looking through the window all the time. ~ We kept cautioning each other along the perilous journey. (Alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution/ a warning against danger or evil; {Dictionary.com} ~ A red alert was issued in the Mediterranean and all soldiers went to battle stations and remained on full alert.( if soldiers are on full alert, they know that a situation is dangerous and are prepared to act…

Vita of Life of Leoba: Gender Roles during the Charlemagne Dynasty The Carolingian hagiography “Life of Leoba,” written by Rudolf of Fulda, exemplified gender relations in early medieval Frankish culture and society. Rudolf of Fulda in the vita of Leoba depicted the expected roles of women during the ninth century. The main purpose of Rudolf’s vita was to prove Leoba's worthiness of sainthood and to set a precedent for all Christian women to follow; furthermore, through overcoming the…

John Stuart Mill was a philosopher who believed in the principle of utility. Utility, as used in the text, is the principle that states morality comes from happiness and pleasure. Also known as the greatest happiness principle, utility seeks to find the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people. Although some philosophers might not agree with Mill, he believed that progression and experience plays a huge role in morality. To begin with, lets discuss the basic model for Mill. We are…

Catherine in her home, Lady Catherine directly tells her how she is inferior due to her social class and that she will not be able to marry outside of it. She emphasizes the importance of Elizabeth having high status as she says “honour, decorum, prudence, nay interest, forbid it … your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be mentioned by any of us” (Austen 336). But Elizabeth does not let this change her opinion of herself or her ambitions as she replies “I am resolved to act…

Wilfred Owen was one of the most significant poets of the First World War. Owen encompassed the cruel conditions faced by soldiers and observed the true nature of the battlefield. He expressed his ideas through his compositions in a variety of poems such as ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth.’ Owen’s perspectives on human conflict were initially represented throughout his encounters amid ‘The Great War.’ Owen’s poetry moves from traditional formulaic forms to a more violent…

Elizabeth feels that Charlotte’s opinion of marriage is not exactly like her own, she thinks that "when called into action, Charlotte would rise above practical necessity, prize affection above status and choose consensual admiration over social prudence". Instead, to her dismay she feels Charlotte "had sacrificed every better feeling to…

Name Tutor Course Date Bowie’s Concept of Business and Environmental Care The effort to try and define the true nature as well as the force of the responsibilities of any business to the environment surrounding continues to face a graven stumbling block. This is as a result of the absence of a consensus concerning the basic nature of general environmental responsibility. If simply defining the responsibility of an individual to the environment is usually problematic, how is it possible to…

Outline of Sacramental Narratio Baptism Name: Abeer Aman Introduction: Baptism is the first Sacrament of initiation and opens doors to the other sacraments. It is through Baptism that a living person enters into divine life. As CCC#1213 explains that this sacrament is a doorway where a person enters life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua). It enables a person to exit sin and enter the grace of divine life, hence, incorporating in the faith community as a Church and becoming followers of…

Machiavelli’s Prince seeks to recruit and educate a ruler in the art of ruling. His ideal rulers are founders, men who created a fatherland and were not afraid to sacrifice lives and their self-interests for the common good. Machiavelli stresses that a ruler needs to appear virtuous while using vices when necessary to achieve positive results. Machiavelli teaches the ruler to divide his self. “It is essential, therefore, for a Prince […] to have learned how to be other than good, and to use or…

If one hundred people, were asked what does it mean to live the good life, no two responses would be exactly the same. Even though everyone’s response would be different, many of the responses would most likely include being happy. Similarly to how people’s responses would differ if asked the original question, everyone would have their own definition of what happiness means to them because certain words mean different things to different people. Many of the authors that were covered in class…