...general idea of passion has a positive connotation in our society, being perceived as something that motivates us and helps us focus on a certain subject. However, Helvétius found the darker side of passion, which is quite unexpected due to passion’s association with positive essence. As a philosopher in the 18th century, Claude-Adrien Helvétius focused on the human’s mind and how we should behave as an individual who has full capability to resist temptations, thus living a “better life”. In this short essay Grand Illusions, Helvétius presents his idea of why passion blinds people and how it makes people short-term thinkers rather than thoughtful thinkers. Since his idea of passion is so different from what the society have been perceiving, it could have been much easier for him to use impactful words and try to force his idea through the readers’ minds with strong essay, but Helvétius rather chose to present his topic in a personal, easy-to-approach, but intelligible, persuasive, and coherent way which...
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...her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey argues that Classical Hollywood cinema encourages spectators to look at women and identify with men. Female stars receive the look, while male stars control the narrative and dominate space. She writes, “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness,” (205). What kind of looks, gazes, or points of identification structure (or destabilize) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)? Your response should engage Mulvey’s claims. The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film directed by Carl Th. Dreyer made in France in 1928. In Laura Mulvey's essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” she argues that the female stars receive the look, while male stars take control of film space. She also points out that the women’s role in the Classical Hollywood cinema is to satisfy the viewer and to be a passive character, i.e. being pleasant to look at. This essay will argue Mulvey's analysis such as: active/man and passive/female, a woman/actress being looked at as an attractive object and the female role in the cinema industry depicted by The Passion of...
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...DiAngelo ENG112 March 31st, 2014 In Favor of Love Laura Kipnis, in her essay Against love, touches many aspects of love. It is a sensitive topic simply because love brings out many different opinions and beliefs. The author argues the fact that in order to have a good relationship and love we need to meet creating requirements like good communication, coherence and close relationship or intimacy. It is an interesting essay. What quite caught my attention is that at the beginning of the essay, the author says “Love is, as we know, a mysterious and controlling force. It has vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. It demands our loyalty, and we, in turn, freely comply. (Kipnis 734). This is the simplest way to explain what love is about. When people realize that you really love someone we do and say things you never imagine. Love is an important part of life. Life without love is like an ocean without water. Love is not something you find on the streets or stumble on. It grows on you with time. On the essay, the author, also refers about passion. “Of course, the parties involved must work at keeping passion alive ….. (Kipnis 736). Passion can be described in two words: strong and uncontrollable. We can’t control how we feel about the people, activities and ideas in our lives. Passion unfortunately is not always a good thing especially it can make a person incompetent. Everyone has a passion of their own and their pursue it in different ways. Love can and will make...
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... The most important point that author Russell Baker, made in his title essay, “On Becoming a Writer”, was he wanted to become a writer at the age of sixteen. He said, “that coming out of high school most sixteen year’s old didn’t think about becoming a writer”. But being a writer was the only thing he had interest in. In some obvious ways of thinking he perceived writing was done by the rich but, he considered writing not to be a job that you can make a good earning from. The notion of him becoming a writer was self-explanatory because, he already thought of himself as a writer where it gives him a sense of identity. Being that he was a skillful, and talented great writer. In his thoughts of becoming a writer he was unsure that could be a passion of his. It wasn’t until his third year that the possibility of becoming a writer took hold. By then he was bored with English, and everything associated with it. Why is that? He thought the English grammar was dull, and buffing because of the assignments he did. He felt his assignments turned out to be compositions. Meaning they was leaden with lackluster paragraphs that was not appealing to the teachers once they read them. Except for one teacher Mr. Fleagle, it was an essay that he read, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti.”, that he took interest in his essays. Mr. Fleagle was describe by Mr. Baker, as a teacher who was dull and didn’t have the ability to insight his classroom...
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...Analysis of Bacon’s essay ‘OF LOVE’ In this essay, “Of Love” Bacon tries to alter reader’s understanding by pointing out the shortcomings of love by focuses his attention on three points: Love is entertaining only on stage, it is an exaggerated form of expression in literature and wisdom and love wouldn’t coexist. He starts his essay by plunging direct into the crux of his argument which is confined in a short sentence, “The stage is more beholding of Love, than the real life of man.” He in the next line articulates the Aristotelian classification of stage i.e. tragedy and comedy. He believes that only plays are capable of portraying love that is pure and gives joy while in reality love is digressive, deluding and impish in nature like siren who deluded Odysseus on his voyage to home. He strengthens his argument by the dichotomous nature of Marcus Antony and Appius Claudius, where the former became the victim and the latter was the victor of this passion because, “love can find entrance not only into an open heart, but also a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept." Bacon’s notion can be treated as a perception not as a rule to sentry emotions. According to him, Marcus Antonius, cohort of Appius Cladius, who was an “Austere and wise man”, was infiltrated by an astute passion because his “watch was not well kept”. Bacon is convinced that “Great spirits and great business do keep this weak passion”. But may we infer that Antonius was a "greater" man than Claudius because...
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...“The” true meaning and effects of The Passion In Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Passion (1987), “passion” as a word and an idea takes on many forms such as religious, romantic, erotic, familial, patriotic, etc. However, the most dominant form of passion in the novel is romantic passion. Romantic passion can be described as any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, characterized by love or by the idealizing of love. Winterson reveals that romantic passion is “the” most central passion of the novel through the characters of the novel, Henri and Villanelle. Henri’s patriotic obsession with Napoleon is masked through romantic speech and once unmasked and proven jovial is transformed into romantic passion for the other main protagonist, Villanelle. Contrary to Henri’s advances of romance, Villanelle focuses her romantic emotions towards gambling and the Queen of Spades. Villanelle’s literal addiction to gambling and metaphorical addiction to gambling her heart demonstrates Winterson’s non-linear and maze like writing style. Love and romance is a gamble within itself. The uncertainty and inconclusive nature of the feeling is entwined with the characters journeys and hence allows the reader to experience the uncertainty of love and the characters perspectives of love. “Passion” is deemed as romantic passion in the novel The Passion and although represented in unconventional means it is used as a façade for Henri’s patriotism, for Villanelles addiction to gambling and is also...
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...Compare the treatment of the theme of passion in Peter Shaffer’s play ‘Amadeus’ (1979) and Jeanette Winterson’s novel ‘The Passion’ (1987) ‘This conflict of sobriety versus passion… lies at the core of Amadeus’ Heinz-Stroll Passion is a fundamental theme of both Amadeus and The Passion, although each text treats it differently. Amadeus explores Salieri’s passionate love of music, and his obsession with Mozart, whereas The Passion investigates not only individual love and passion, but also the passion of all of France for the charismatic Napoleon. Both texts, particularly Winterson’s novel The Passion, suggest the necessity of passion within humanity; it is something every one of us craves in some form, and Winterson even states that ‘man cannot exist without passion’. Henri falls in love too easily and Villanelle craves the danger of a risky passion: ‘Not much touches us, but still we long to be touched’ Any person with some knowledge of Jeanette Winterson’s personal life would expect the quite particular treatment of passion apparent within her novel - she is known to have said that ‘passion is a demon’, and her personal feelings toward love are thinly veiled by the story; it is actually inspired by her affair with Pat Kavanagh - in fact, many of her novels revolve around her own personal relationships. In the book, Jeanette Winterson explores the meaning of passion itself, granting it various intriguing definitions, and challenging our perception of it. Through her...
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...Summary of “I Was a Teenage Hijabi Hockey Player” In Shema Khan’s essay “I Was a Teenage Hijabi Hockey Player” she humorously defends some of the stereotypes associated with her religion. As she begins a casual conversation about hockey over lunch, Khan notices her colleagues’ disbelief. Female Muslims aren’t expected to follow or be interested in hockey, or any sport for that matter. In response, Khan goes on to display her knowledge and passion of the Montreal Canadiens. She lists players, stats, and facts just like any true hockey fan would. Furthermore, Khan recounts playing street hockey as a child; choosing a player she idolized to play as. Lastly, Khan further shows her passion for the sport as she describes her efforts to start a women’s intramural league at Harvard. Khan concludes her essay in the present; playing street hockey with her kids as she did in her childhood. Thus, further proving her passion for hockey, and shattering a stereotype. Summary of “What We Are Fighting For” In his essay “What We Are Fighting For”, Rex Murphy clarifies the reasons for Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan. To begin, Murphy states Canada’s aid in eradicating the Taliban Government was because of our country’s alliance with the USA, as well as in retaliation of the Candians killed on 9/11. He continues on to say that in order to protect against future attacks, the afghani citizens would need assistance in building a new type of government. In addition, Murphy explains that Canadian...
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...In “The Dreamer,” Junot Diaz reflects on his mother’s childhood. Diaz’s mother lived in a Third-World country, Dominican. His mother worked on his grandmother’s farm and would not let her get an education. Although one day the county got a new dictator Trujillo, which he put into effect mandatory education to children under fifteen-years-old. Diaz’s mother tried so hard to acquire an education because her dream was to one day become a nurse. I am inspired by Diaz's essay both because of what his mother did in order to education and also because of what a mother’s abilities can go on their son. To begin with, Diaz’s essay was an inspiration to me because his mother had to go a remarkable length to get an education. Firstly, Diaz writes “Her...
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...role of a leader, being a President, an entrepreneur, parents or teachers, is crucial for success of any tasks. The task can be as big as finding a solution for a global catastrophe such as an earthquake, or as small as solving a dispute between two people. It is the role of the leader to organize people into groups, and according to their skills to make sure they fully participate in problem-solving. They ensure peoples acknowledge the problem and work toward finding the solution. Consequently, everyone in this world requires leadership qualities at one point in their lives. Thus, personal leadership philosophy is an important tool that defines peoples’ value, behaviors and what they can do. Articulating personal leadership philosophy helps in telling others what they expect from a person. In this essay, I will develop and articulate my personal leadership philosophy, and integrate it with human resource management theories to bring up a well argued stand point. While I was working on an industrial attachment at Deloitte Company, we contracted an oil and gas company, to create and execute an email migration strategy that involved about 1500 employees at their various branches. In the initial stages, the contracted company introduced Smith, who was the project leader. While, in the workshop, the contracted company explained to everyone that, as part of their culture, leadership opportunity was open to all participants. This was intended to allow everyone to guide in the execution...
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...Questions This empirical deductive research by Ho et al (2011) tried to develop a concrete generalization of the term "job passion" especially in the work context. Job passion was differentiated from other job attitudes such as; motivation, job satisfaction, job involvement and identification, workaholism and organizational commitment. They wish to also corroborate with other research on its different types - "harmonious and obsessive passion" and to further examine the effect of these types of job passion on work performance. By examining this effect, the authors want to justify that it is enhanced through the interaction of some mental elements called "cognitive engagement (comprising attention and absorption)" (p. 32). Their model therefore, is to create a cause and effect relationship between job passion and employee's work performance. However, finding a relationship would have been appropriate than a cause and effect. Theoretical Framework The research built on various recent researches, middle range theories and assumptions to provide answers to their questions. The concept of "entrepreneurial passion" was used to develop their concept of job passion (p. 28). They conceptualized job passion as "an attitude that comprises of both cognitive and affective elements which embody the strong inclination that one has towards one's job" (p. 28). Job passion is what you wake up joyfully to do, get excited about, enthusiastic and energized for and feel refreshed and revitalized after...
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...The Responsibility Project ETH/316 May 26, 2014 I’ve chosen a short film from The Responsibility Project to write my essay. The film I watched and felt connected to was titled The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Franklin barbecue. (2012) I chose this film because their passion for chasing the pipe dream is exactly what living out the American Dream is all about. Franklin barbecue is located in Austin Texas and run by a middle aged couple named Aaron and Stacy Franklin. Their passion for barbecue underlines some key ethical organizational challenges. People are always expecting perfection and today’s generation is impatient for perfection and desires instant gratification. Barbecue is a good representative of something subjective to each of us. The barbecue flavor I might think is good might not be as good to you and your taste buds. Not to mention, barbecue by nature is very inconsistent. Aaron grew up around barbecue as his parent’s had run a small barbecue restaurant. His passion was arguably instilled at a young age and would become his dream. As he aged, he hosted backyard barbecues where he discovered that his friends looked forward to his smoked meats. Many of those friends even encouraged Aaron to consider opening a restaurant. Together, they keep their doors open until they are sold out of their product. This means that they sacrifice time they could be investing on something else. They’ve learned that barbecue is a monstrosity of its own. Environment sustainability is...
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...This essay is written about Chapter Seven, “Concentration: The Spirit of the Zone” and Chapter 4, “FUN: The JOY IN MUSIC”, to provide a reader with the opinion of the chapters and the topics discussed in both. Chapter seven explained the state of “the zone”, in which musicians can play music with grace, precision and passion beyond normalcy. In order to achieve this state, a relaxed and focused brain is the key to peak performance, as stated in the chapter itself. Written with meaning and passion, the text describes the steps and state of mind necessary to enter “the zone” while playing music. If a musician does not play and blend with their music with passion, they have not yet entered “the zone”. As the author states, a musician devoting themselves to the music they play, the musician’s muscle memory and keen senses, including touch and feeling develop, especially when they...
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...Stripped: Exposing the Erotic Allison Seals Springfield College SHS Houston HUSB 138 H1 Professor Tinsley 08/01/2014 Stripped: Exposing the Erotic “Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen” (Breathnach, 2010). In the essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde slowly unscrews the proverbial lid that has kept hidden the naked truth of the erotic for so long. Lorde’s essay, equal parts informative and poetic, is a defiant declaration against oppression, and aims to reveal and convince the reader of the truth in relation to the erotic. Using invitational rhetoric, “Uses of the Erotic” communicates themes of feminine liberation and defiance in the face of oppression. Imparting information by way of defiant declaration, the reader is offered a path to illumination. Lorde opens her essay with an introduction, or shall I say, reintroduction to a misunderstood “erotic.” Her interpretation of the erotic differs greatly from society’s, which perceives it as a purely physical sexuality lacking in emotional intimacy. Lorde defines the erotic as “a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling” (Lorde, 1984, p. 53). She conveys the erotic to the reader as a fundamental inner force of connectedness, explaining that it functions not only as a physical experience and expression, but a metaphysical...
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...that she is attracted to her professor, Mr. Harrow, a situation that leads to her being taken advantage of. Throughout the course of the plot, fires are mysteriously started and culminate with the fire Gillian starts to kill Mr. Harrow and his wife in order to avenge their diluted relationship.The critical essay “Oates’s...
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