How far do sources 1,2 and 3 suggest that the main obstacle to solving the Irish national problem was religion? Source 1 is from the Fenians who were extreme nationalists and Catholics meaning the source is going to be bias from the Catholic point of view. It was issued in 1867 the same year Gladstone came to power. The source begins with a quote ‘An alien aristocracy seized our lands and all material wealth and trampled on our rights and liberties’. This source tell us that the Irish believed the English Protestants had no reason to be in Ireland and the only reason they were there was as an oppressive power.
The Significance of Absence As the great Siddhartha Gautama once stated, “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” In the case of the wealthy and arrogant characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age novel The Great Gatsby, it is the absence of religion in their lives that allows them to conduct themselves in such a way that would be deemed sinful in the eyes of God. Through the novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, the reader is able to experience the behaviors of these characters and how their immoral actions ultimately affect their lives. Nick spends the summer in Long Island visiting his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, alongside her unfaithful, violent and racist husband, Tom Buchanan. Neighboring Nick is Jay Gatsby, the long lost lover of Daisy, who befriends Nick in effort to win her back. To illustrate the characters’ immoral behavior, their actions are centered in the valley of ashes.
Desire vs. Destiny: Can Humans Control Their Fate? The K’ung Shang-Jen and Alexander Pope reveal that humans have the means to live virtuously; but, they do not possess the means to control their fate. In The Peach Blossom Fan K’ung Shang-Jen explains that Hou and the Fragrant Princess have the agency to maintain virtuous lives but they lack the means to preserve their relationship. Through the various phases of the peach blossom fan, K’ung Shang-Jen depicts the couple’s temporal happiness, distress, and how providence ultimately determines their fate. In “An Essay on Man” Pope delineates the importance of living according to God’s plan, or the Great Chain of Being.
He insisted that to be classified as a religious experience the event must be transitory; ineffable; noetic and passive. Furthermore, James insisted that it was only a religious experience if the outcome was positive. Many people have found issues with the credibility of religious experiences and indeed the arguments to support them. Public records specify that records of public religious experience have only ever been reported by those of a faith or those who are agnostic- never by an atheist. Furthermore, private experiences are, ultimately, terribly subjective and will be dependent on a person’s religious stance or even their sobriety at the time of event.
The reader is plunged into a dim and melancholic atmosphere. Starting in the midst of things promotes a curiosity within the reader and seeks to contrast mood. The novel soon returns to the start of its chronological order and there reader is left to ponder how a character such as Michael Mompellion, who is seemingly likeable, can display such bitterness and contempt towards God despite his glorious reputation towards religion. It can be seen how the catastrophic nature of the quarantine that Eyam is placed in is testing of the community. We see a variety of responses but it is the inability of the majority to understand the roots of the plague that prevents them from undergoing personal transformation.
Their decision to turn away from God-despite living in paradise because of him- created the first evil and gave rise to original sin, something all humans are born with (According to Catholicism.) The misuse of free will in turning away from God leads to obsession to worldly objects such as money. It is important to note that Augustine does not believe money is evil, he believes obsession with money, and any other secular object for that matter, draws away from God and leads the soul to sin. With obsession, as is human nature, comes addiction. Augustine believed that addiction was excessively evil, and as well as being a sin, conflicted with the process of free will.
Alexie continues this method throughout this entire paragraph. With this Alexie clearly represents the destructive cultural expectation that “as Indian children, [they] were expected to fail in a non-indian world.” Sherman Alexie’s “The Joy of Writing: Superman and Me” helps us to understand the struggles that Native Americans commonly face while living on a reservation. He represents the cultural expectations for these children and young adults using advanced planning and knowledge of various writing tools. While he doesn’t say so directly we can clearly see that Alexie intends to
Conformity corrupts the individual due to societal constraints and scorn. Moreover, conforming to social institutions such as communities of opinion or religions, which offer knowledge as a gift or second hand beliefs, saps the individual the energy required to create new knowledge. As we passively accept other people's ideas, we lose our manhood becoming phantoms, Emerson writes, “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist”. Furthermore, when Emily Dickinson in her poem “This world is not conclusion” states that “... much gesture from the pulpit – strong hallelujahs roll- narcotics cannot still the tooth- that nibbles at the soul”, she asserts that established knowledge claimed by religion works as narcotics which help to silence but, nonetheless, it can not stop our need to solve the
History Essay What was the greatest failure of James II while in Ireland In this essay I intend to clearly show the greatest failure of James II during his reign in Ireland. When discussing James of England in relation to Irish history, it is impossible to do so without mentioning a few key incidents during his time in Ireland. His Catholic faith and the controversy that it brought with it is a key factor when speaking about his demise. In this essay I intend to firstly give some background information on James II and how his conflict with the Protestant nation in Great Britain led to the battle between him and William of Orange for the Kingship of Great Britain and Ireland. I also intend to discuss in minute detail the Siege of Derry because I think it is very relevant when studying James of England.
In the quote below Rand explains why she rejects religion outright, and she believes man himself deserves the attention: Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language, placing them outside this earth and beyond man’s reach. “Exaltation” is usually taken to mean an emotional state evoked by contemplating the supernatural. “Worship” means the emotional experience of loyalty and dedication to something higher than man… But such concepts do name actual emotions, even though no supernatural dimension exists; and these emotions are experienced as uplifting or ennobling, without the self-abasement required by religious definitions.