Thomas Wyatt

"The Yellow Wallpaper," best fits the literary style of naturalism. Naturalism is a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes. Characters are controlled by internal or external forces or by the environment. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the main character is being controlled by her husband, who believes that he is right in keeping her confined for her treatment of depression. She is also being controlled by her mental state, as it is…

Death Penalty "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This passage written by Thomas Jefferson and taken directly from the Declaration of Independence defines the rights the American nation is founded upon. These “unalienable” rights every American has “endowed” upon them are ones that cannot be taken away. The taking of a…

English philosopher, political economist, and liberal John Stuart Mill published one of his most famous works in 1859: On Liberty. Mill explores the innate and given liberties of people, analyzing what is the extent in which society or government has valid reasons to exercise power over its people. He argues that the individual should not be under the jurisdiction of society or government if their actions are not harming anyone but themselves. The only time society or government should involve…

Suppose there was a world in which no one had a moral compass. There would be nothing stopping someone from doing anything, as nothing would be seen as “wrong” or “right.” It would be a real life Lord of the Flies, with savagery and disorder being commonplace. But what is a moral compass anyway? The dictionary definition defines it as “a person's ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly,” but is there more to it than that? The use of moral compass can be seen almost anywhere,…

Elizabeth Hutchinson’s “‘The Dress of His Nation’ Romney’s Portrait of Joseph Brant” centers its analysis on one of the most impactful American Indian leaders of the eighteenth century, Joseph Brant. With a long, illustrious, and arguably controversial career, it is unsurprising that numerous depictions of Brant are in circulation. However, for the purposes of Hutchinson’s article she zones in one particular depiction of the figure, which serves as the foundation for her examination into issues…

If we are to support that the thirteen colonies were justified in seeking their independence from England, then we must support Catalonia in its quest for independence from Spain. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, however, would disagree. In the Leviathan and Two Treatises of Government both Hobbes and Locke support that once a group of people decides to become a society as the laws of nature would suggest, they form a political society. If these people then choose democracy as their form of…

The Opposing Philosophies of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay In the novel, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay Democracy and Development in Antebellum America, Harry L. Watson provides a dual biography about the extremely different political philosophies of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. These two political leaders’ different philosophies shaped the argument of democracy and development in the early 1800s, as well as outlined the economic, social, technological, and political dynamics during the…

On account of the state of nature Locke argues a more humane argument I agree with that all man are equal and not one has more power than another versus Hobbes who argues that it should be a “war of all against all”. A war of “all” seems more like a world of chaos, as to Locke’s argument makes the world seem like a not to shameless of a place to reside in. Though there is no perfect world to live in, his state of nature is a close representation of how to obtain a perfect equality and freedom…

In Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger asserted that it is, “above all to the drumbeat of Wilsonian idealism that American foreign policy has marched since his watershed presidency, and continues to march to this day.” Accordingly, Kissinger recognized that in Wilson’s approach America was, “inseparable from the security of all the rest of mankind,” and that the country inherently maintained the responsibility to, “oppose aggression everywhere.” Altruistic in nature, and guided by the recognition that,…

The theory of human nature or the state of nature as described by both Hobbes and Rousseau has been a philosophy that has been in constant question since the 17th century. Both Hobbes and Rousseau wrote on this topic a century a part from another and had similar yet distinct ideas in regards to the state of nature and the need for government or social contract. Hobbes ideology portrays man in a harsh and most depressing manner; his views are seen as cynical and pessimistic. Rousseau’s…