Transcendence

An endearing novel authored by Alice Walker, The Color Purple focuses on celebrating femininity and achieving religious transcendence in spite of societal constraints. Set in post-slavery America, Walker establishes a unique dynamic between gender discrimination and racial subordination to portray the immense struggle of black women. The work is often considered a key component of the black feminist movement, revealing both the innate strength of women to endure and the power of faith to surpass…

Reflection on Vern S. Poythress “Redeeming Mathematics: A God-Centered Approach” Written by Jordan Baker, Numon Gafurov, CJ Gordon, Charlie Hubbard, and Alex Vander Stoep The Society of Brainiacs - Affiliation NWC Overview: In his book, “Redeeming Mathematics: A God-Centered Approach”, Vern S. Poythress offers a foundational interpretation for all mathematical thought. Driven by his strong love for math along with his strong love for God, Poythress argues that “God’s consistent character and…

Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray have differences in each of their philosophical foundations. However, do these two women agree that a fear of a female body has different forms of women’s oppression in Western culture? Julia Kristeva verbalizes about bringing the body back into the discourses in the human sciences, the significance of the maternal body, and about abjection. Luce Irigaray verbalizes about the “new” feminine language to allow women to express themselves verbally. Both women…

an individual’s conception of truth which is transcendent to religion but Haidt would argue that internal genes/personalities lead to the pathway of morality. Whereas James Hunter, Jonathan Haidt, and moral foundation theory are different in transcendence; they are both similar on morality and the issues of culture wars.…

Forging Community: From Segregation to Transcendence James argues that people are familiar with the segregated community in affirmative action on education and jobs but not incarceration. Anti-affirmative race rhetoric hides who is a deserving individual (19). She maintains the political agenda…

Human Sexuality in the film ‘Her. ' ‘Her’ is a science fiction futuristic love story directed by Spike Jonze that features a depressed soon to be divorced man known as Theodore Twombly. Due to his boredom and loneliness, he decides to buy an operating system a form of artificial intelligence for companionship. The operating system names herself Samantha (Scarlet Johansen) and the two fall in love as the movie advances. Their innuendos develop into a relationship in which the two engage in a…

“Successful” aging is a concept that has differing meanings depending on where you are. For example, being successful in your aging process will be quite different from North America to Botswana. Different practices will influence aging and its perceptions of being successful or unsuccessful throughout the world. Generally, successful aging is defined culture by culture. Therefore, there is no strict set of rules regarding how to age successfully in a universal light. While this has proven…

As with any developed country, government exists in Brazil to establish and enforce policy and to protect its citizens. However, a governments original purpose can become distorted in certain societies due to a competing worldview. With this is mind, we will examine the purpose for Brazil’s government and if their current worldview has manipulated this purpose. Brazil’s government is a Democratic Federative Republic with a Presidential system. The government itself is defined by the Federal…

The Situation comes in Part IV of Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and aims to explain how it is that one can be free in the face of the deterministic nature of our existence. This essay aims to explain how Sartre sees that there are aspects of existence which can be seen to restrict one's freedom, but under an ontological freedom these restrictions are nonexistent. These restrictions are referred to by existentialism as ‘facticitcity’ meaning the objective fact about the external world which are…

been wrong for “2001" because, like all scores, it attempts to underline the action -- to give us emotional cues. The classical music chosen by Kubrick exists outside the action. It uplifts. It wants to be sublime; it brings a seriousness and transcendence to the visuals. Consider two examples. The Johann Strauss waltz “Blue Danube,'' which accompanies the docking of the space…