The Bare Necessities

In Books II-IV of Plato’s Republic, Socrates creates an ideal polis, and in doing so finds justice in the soul. The two foundational principles of the ideal city that Socrates creates are self-sufficiency and one-person-one-art, referred to today as specialization. Individual people are not self-sufficient, so the citizens of the city must take up a profession and trade with each other. Socrates and his companions are successful in their search for justice, and are able to reach the answer by…

individuals with higher income, in America, for example, have greater opportunities to pay for services like dentists, annual physical check-ups, or even safe drinking water. Those with higher incomes can afford to take care of themselves beyond the bare necessities and pursue education, which will continue to let future generations acquire knowledge and good-paying…

Can books remove readers from their natural environments? In books, people can encounter a world of adventure much alien to the current realities of today. Washington Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle” contains multiple elements of Romantic literature: primitivism, imagination, and escape from civilization. While the present world features many complex technologies and customs, Rip Van Winkle’s world appreciates the primitivism of mankind with feelings of uneasiness with women, childlike…

In the early seventeenth century, and throughout the course of Shakespeare’s career, who a woman was revolved around a man. A woman could assume one of three roles: virgin, mother, or widow. Women were expected to be pure for their husbands, bare his children, and otherwise be absorbed by him. If perchance she did outlive her husband, her respect would die with him while also granting her brief financial freedom, however subjecting her to social rejection. This societal development was linked to…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn When there is a variety people, whether they’re real or fictional, living in different circumstances will cause their attitudes or interpretations of life to differ. No two people see things the same way which means they are going to be affected differently. In the books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Into the Wild, these differences in attitude are expressed through the actions of the characters and the results of those actions. Having different…

Welcome to Class 105, our kindergarten class. I am Ms. Cooper. I hope that we will have a great fun, safe and educational school year together. Each year our class has a Community Resource Program that benefits all of the children in our classroom. Additionally, this wonderful program receives helps from individuals in our community. This Community Involvement Plan is to ensure that all of us, the educators, parents, children and community have reliable information about each program so we can…

The thing that goes bump in the night, the boogey man, the monsters that hide under beds and in closets; they were the terrors of our childhood. We spent many nights cowering beneath a mountain of blankets afraid of the possibilities that lurked in the darkness of our bedroom. We were afraid of the dark. Terrified of the ominous blackness that allowed our imaginations to run unfettered, conjuring images of killer beasts in our closets and hairy monsters under our beds. Just picturing the…

Disadvantages of using Standardized testing as a measure of knowledge Standardized testing was thought to be a measure of student knowledge for years, and were used to assure that teachers were teaching effectively and students were retaining what was being taught. These test scores were compared to students from across the Nation. The student range extended to students from private schools with a lot of money and students from state funded schools. The information gathered was used to…

Creating a novel where the ending is pretty clear from the start can be challenging to keep readers engaged. However, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao still manages to create a fascinating novel that readers want to complete, even if Oscar’s death was inevitable. Much of the credit goes to the author’s creation of the narrator and how he shapes him into a unique character. Junot Diáz has created a main narrator, Yunior, that uses self-consciousness and a conversational style of language…

most powerful, but upon the most vulnerable. Why? As the super-rich, become progressively moreso, why does their responsibility to the stability of the system not increase? (Kendall, 2013, p. 236) Why is the burden to provide at least the bare necessities to the less fortunate not shifted to the most capable? The top 1% own 42% of the nation’s wealth; 35% of that belonging to the super-rich (Kendall, 2013, p. 237). The highest reported federal income tax rate is 39.6% according to documents…