Pacino, however, contends with a time where it is increasingly becoming the norm, but still contends with a society that can be considered moral devoid in some manners, and thus the importance of spirituality and thought is evident in both. Pacino is able to effectively portray Shakespeare’s core values in a manner that is able to best serve his context, and the values he aims to present. Within Elizabethan times, power was a hereditary property, not based upon skill, but upon heritage, but still kept in check by the great chain of being. Shakespeare’s Richard usurps this natural order, and thus brings tyranny and corruption upon the Kingdom. From the outset, Richard makes his evil intent clear, noting cynically and declaratively “Since I cannot prove a lover … I am determined to prove a villain,” revealing that power itself has not corrupted him, but the desire for it.
Key Words: Ethnography, Development, Anthropology, Post Modernism, Fieldwork. own views, one’s own cultural ethos and it is through these that he interprets the culture under study (not that they consider auto-ethnography to be the ultimate solution). Therefore the study of other cultures cannot be objective. There is bound to be bias in this search for meaning of the other culture and as such the claim of ethnographic writings about telling the truth is a fallacy. They make a clarion call for deconstruction and the need for a new understanding of representation in knowing the truth about a culture.
Composition has long been a reactionary body that changes to the forces around it. In fact it was reaction to students with weak skills in Latin and Greek that spawned the birth of writing instruction as we know it at Harvard in the late 1600s. Composition doesn’t proactively produce change in its own theory. It takes a great deal of external force whether it is socio-economic, political, gender, or underpreparedness that causes Composition Theory to reform and react to society. A confluence of “Perfect Storm” conditions foreshadows any big change in theory for English Composition because Composition follows a distinct cycle inferred by the examination of the field’s history.
Hilde Heynen, Architecture and Modernity: A Critique (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), 77-78. Fig 3. August Sarnitz, Adolf Loos 1870-1933: architect, cultural critic, dandy (Cologne: Taschen, 2003), 35. 4. Ibid., 79.
Heidegger's Critique of Cartesianism Heidegger is one of the few Western thinkers to have succeeded in going beyond the Western philosophic tradition. Because his radical criticism is believed to have fractured the foundations of modern philosophy, his thinking is usually at the center of the controversy between the defenders of the tradition and those who wish to break with it and start afresh. In the heat of this debate, the question of Heidegger's place in relation to that tradition in general and to Cartesianism in particular has been neglected. I wish to address the question by focusing on the major aspects of Heidegger's critique of Cartesian philosophy and the modern tradition. I will first show that the strength of his criticism lies in its all-encompassing penetration of the foundations of modern philosophy, running through both the ontological and epistemological channels.
Nonetheless, both articles are idealistic. In another phrase, they are morally wrong. To get a true understanding of what an essay is saying we must concern ourselves with is what the author is truly trying to convey. There are often hidden messages in writing that inexperienced readers often look over and take for granted. This is the issue that is at stake with both readings of “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift and Garret Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics.” Hardin’s essay that is serious in tone, while Swift’s offers similar views appears to be poking fun by starting at in a serious tone at first glance but in reality is far from it.
One of the major reasons why schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts is the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti-intellectualism. Regarding the topic of intellectualism, there seem to be two schools of thought. On one hand, many people believe that in order to be an intellectual individual, one should read, write, and discuss great literature and other aspects of classical education. On the other hand, there are those who believe that reading, writing, and discussing various topics that are not usually identified as “intellectual” such as cars and sports are in fact just as impressive. Graff argues that intellectualism is good, and that schools ought to encourage learners to read, think critically and write about their fields of personal interests like fashion, music or cars.
English is a language particularly rich in idioms -those modes of expression peculiar to a language (or dialect) which frequently defy logical and grammatical rules. Without idioms English would lose much of its variety and humor both in speech and writing. The background and etymological origins of most idioms is at best obscure. This is the reason why a study of differences between the idioms of American and British English is somewhat difficult. But it also makes the cases, where background, etymology and history are known, even more interesting.
Renaissance humanists approached things differently. Renaissance and medieval writers differed greatly. Medieval writers accepted pagan and classical authors whereas Renaissance humanists were skeptical of their authority, and conscious of the historical distance seperating themselves from the ancients. Medieval writers looked to the classics to reveal God while Renaissance humanists studied the classics
In the same way that the negative pole receives the current from the positive pole, the poet receives impulses from a world that is full of mystery and doubt, that the poet cannot explain, but which in his passive state of receptivity he does not feel the need to explain and can translate into art. Keats was also greatly influenced by Wordsworth during the period when the "Negative capability" letter was written but he has found fault with Wordsworth's formula of "egotistical sublime" because it talks of intellectual truths in art and gives a personality to the poet. It is difficult to establish precisely with whom an idea originated and exactly how much one writer was influenced by another. Definition: In a letter to his brothers, George and Thomas Keats, on December 21, 1817, Keats used the phrase negative capability for the first and only time. He writes: [S]everal things dovetailed (fit together tightly) in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which