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Maxwell James 9/29/16 Mr. Puzzo World History (H) John Locke and the French Revolution John Locke was a French philosopher and was interested in how a citizen and a government interact together, in times of peace and in times of tension. John Locke studied government and came to many conclusions; the role of government is to protect citizen’s natural rights: Life, Liberty and property. If a government wasn’t adequately protecting citizen’s natural rights, the citizens had a responsibility to…

Humans, animals, objects: any one of these topics, along with anything else that something might see, hear, or smell, suit a compare and contrast argument. Compare and contrasts identify how ideas, people, or things share likenesses and differences. In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, one of the main characters, Charles Darnay, attempts to escape his life as a French nobleman during the eighteenth century French Revolution. Darnay’s heritage as a French aristocrat puts his life, as well…

Yazid EL Berdai Quote Essay “Comedy, in brief, is criticism… because it exposes human beings for what they are in contrast to what they prefer to be.” (Felheim) Criticism is used to expose a failure or mistake in order for it to be resolved. Throughout history, many critics were made through different styles of writing or different styles of delivery. Some critics were delivered through plays, some were delivered through speeches, some were harsh and some were funny. The most successful and…

Born in 1821, Fydor Dostoevsky was an innovative thinker that produced thoughts that were divergent from the traditional men of the 1840’s. Living against the grain and refraining from common beliefs such as serfdom, Dostoevsky paved his own road rooted in beliefs of materialism, determinism, as well as atheism. As he gained more of a voice and presented more of his opinions, Dostoevsky’s differing views ultimately led to his imprisonment and later removal to Siberia. It is evident that…

In this essay, I argue that even though “none of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace”(citace). Kant himself as well as his manifesto, The Perpetual Peace, had great influence on the concept of international organization and liberal thoughts, as we know it today. Moreover, I would like to prove that Kant conceived three fundamental liberal theories - commercial, ideational and republican liberal theories, which were introduced by Andrew Moravcsik.…

In a time period heavily guided by the contrast of thought and reason to emotion and feeling, Phillis Wheatley, author of Thoughts on the Works of Providence that was published in the late eighteenth century, employs a genre of sentimentality that would be model for writers to come. From the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, the Enlightenment Period guided life, specifically written works, with reason and sensibility in Europe. However, the mid-eighteenth century was a…

Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, initially performed in 1943 in Switzerland, spins around the character of Shen Teh/Shui Ta, playing on the possibility of goodness. Shen The is great, or possibly that is the thing that one should consider her to be, and Shui Ta is awful. In any case, the doubles wind up noticeably complex when the play contextualizes them with authentic realism, private enterprise, religion, charitableness, and the different meanings of contemporary ethical quality. The…

Anantha Murthy’s Samskara is a religious novel. The novel exposes the conservative life style of the Kannada Brahmins. It attacks the traditional and orthodox principles of the Hindu religion. Sex is an integral part in various Hindu puranas and all the Brahamines of Durvasapura agrahara lead a dull and sterile as well as passive life by suppressing their sexual desire. During his preachings Pranesacharya glorifies the amorous sexual charms of legendary Shakuntala and admires Kalidasa for…

John Stuart Mill was a British nineteenth century philosopher who believed utilitarianism was the theory that could truly define moral actions. The theory of utilitarianism’s purpose is to create the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. Mill believed that all the philosophers before him were wrong in their theories as they were looking in the wrong place. Utilitarianism, according to Mill, was misunderstood and throughout his book, he address and corrects objections…

During the Age of Enlightenment, thinkers believed in reason, liberty, and scientific methods instead of tradition and religion. Many writers published their works that stated the problems of the misuse of religion and the importance of critical thinking. Moliere was one of writers during the Age of Enlightenment, known mostly for his comedy. He was a French play writer who wrote the comedy Tartuffe, which shows the concept of religious hypocrisy, ignorance and fanaticism. In the drama, he…