as a list of the irreducible, intrinsic values of this reality. 1. Truth: honesty; reality; (nakedness; simplicity; richness; essentiality; oughtness; beauty; pure; clean and unadulterated completeness). 2. Goodness: (rightness; desirability; oughtness; justice; benevolence; honesty); (we love it, are attracted to it, approve of it). 3. Beauty: (rightness; form; aliveness; simplicity; richness; wholeness; perfection; completion; uniqueness; honesty). 4. Wholeness: (unity; integration; tendency
supposed to react to their masters. Du Bois 1897 Atlantic magazine essay, “Strivings of the Negro People”-later republished, with revisions, in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)-in which Du Bois spoke of an African American “double consciousness,” a “two-ness” of being “an American, a Negro; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder (Bruce 3). Du Bois uses the idea of double consciousness to distinguish issues of race. In The Souls of Black Folk, arguably
in each stick. This means, according to Socrates, that we know about "stick-ness" or the perfect "Form" or "Idea" of a stick. Since we can't know stick-ness or the perfect stick from any sticks that we have encountered in the physical world, there must be a separate reality where we have gained this knowledge (P 74b). All abstractions that we know but don't actually experience in everyday life really must exist there--Beauty, Goodness, Largeness, Equality, etc. (P 100b). [What does he teach, par
even to some extent Harry Potter, who is in truth just a shy, reserved and unsure teenager, not quite at par with the eminent hero of the classic fairytales. And so eventually the moral that Shrek delivers is the appreciation of inner beauty and looking beyond one’s outward appearances, that goodness of heart and soul resides not only in form of physical splendor but also manifests in ugliness. Nothing should be judged by its exterior. Shrek exemplifies this criterion perfectly, preaching an essential
ways of life for a plethora of different societies. From the depiction of war to governmental standing and gender relations, Polo’s account provides its readers with an up close and personal look at the lives of individuals from China, India and beyond. While these accounts are often short and to the point there are times when Polo’s description is so great that it makes one feel as though they are actually taking place in the events being recounted. The greatest example of this can be found within
saturated in sex and violence. Secondly, television has had an enormous impact on breaking down cultural borders and creating a global village in the image of Western Society. Finally, television plays a key role in perpetuating many unattainable beauty standards. Past all of the white picket fences, behind the closed doors and into the lavishly decorated living rooms of many homes in North America, one may be disgusted to discover children of all ages are witnessing acts of sexual deviance and
that only your little sister can see | Ask her about it and see if others can see it, photos of it. | The ghosts said to haunt an old house | Ask for proof from multiple people who claim to have seen it. Photo evidence? | A living dinosaur in Loch Ness | Photos or visual proof, go for a swim in the lake to find it. | A tenth planet circling the sun | Photo evidence, information about it. Send a probe to discover it. Telescope to view it | Elvis Presley | Talk to people who met him, photo evidence
be it now” This can be further demonstrated in the contrast and imagery of “To the clear red pebbles and the men of stone” to the “gaunt paddles ribbed with herringbones of watermelon pink”, suggesting that this once vibrant place has faded, the beauty of the garden has faded as time passed. Similarly, the youth and vitality of Captain Cook is juxtaposed with the moldy, incapacitated character of Alexander Home. Home is shown to decline because of his inability to live in the present. He “lived
basis of what we already know. It is time to see the connection; get an overview. As was mentioned, there were, and are, those, however, who have known about this interconnection for some time. (Known, in this case, pertains to a firm conviction beyond rational belief.) Moreover, these individuals have not only known about the things that can be seen, but also, more importantly, about the things that cannot be seen. Further still, they have long known of unseen things pertaining to the heavens,
protests, board-of-edu¬cation elections, state laws, show trials, and even Supreme Court decisions. So powerful and far-reaching is the idea that it has even led its most ardent enthusi¬asts to suggest that evolutionary analy¬sis will soon step beyond science to over¬whelm traditional ways of thinking in the arts and humanities (see Consilience, by E. O. Wilson). Presidential candi¬dates feel obliged to comment on their acceptance or rejection of the idea, and the question literally splits the