... introduces to us the term, “will to power” (GM, pg 78) with which he uses synonymously with the term, “instinct for freedom” in latter sections of the essay. Although Nietzsche never clearly defines what he means when he says, “will to power,” he provides the reader a depiction of this concept through the origin of punishment. According to Nietzsche, the concept of punishment contains an aspect that is enduring and an aspect that is fluid (GM, pg 79). In other words, the act of punishing remains the same, but the meaning of the act changes radically over time. For example, while the barbarians of ancient time may have used punishment as a “festival, namely as the rape and mockery of a finally defeated enemy,” modern morality uses punishment as “a means of rendering harmless, or preventing further harm” or even “as the isolation of a disturbance of equilibrium (GM, pg 80). Thus, Nietzsche shows that the significance of punishment is not the act itself, but the meaning that we attach to it. Because the meaning of punishment is independent of the act itself, we can essentially understand the word “punishment” as meaning anything we want, according to Nietzsche’s logic. With this, Nietzsche shows us that various interpretations, meanings, and purposes have been given to any concept that existed for any length of time which were always imposed by the different powers and authorities that master them. Therefore...
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...THE TRUMAN SHOW “We are the villains, victims, and hero of The Truman Show. And, ultimately, the only illusion we have to escape are the ones we create ourselves.” When you watch The Truman Show, a satirical social science fiction comedy-drama starring Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, you’ll get to know how powerful media is, of how it affects individual ideology and of how are you going to relate it on the issues in our society. The movie was directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. It was all about a man who unknowingly lives his life as a reality show-star until he notices. that his environment is not what it seems to be . The cottage at 31 Natchez Street served as Truman home, from where he greets his neighbors with his famous line: “Good morning…and in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night!” The show's creator and executive producer Christof is able to capture Truman's real emotion and human behavior when put in certain situations. He was able to control every aspect of Truman’s life to prevent from discovering his false reality. Until there’s such time that Truman desperately want to leave Seahaven. He overcome his fear in water and sailed away in the town with a small boat. Christof, the creator of the show did everything just to make sure Truman would not leave the town by giving order to the show’s crew to create a large storm to capsize the boat but Truman overcomed it. As Truman recovers, he reaches the edge of the...
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...This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda Success, Alone, Live All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda Before, Eyes, Dark You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda Religion, God, Yourself All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. Swami Vivekananda Everything, Kind, Secret If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. Swami Vivekananda Money, Help, Better Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. Swami Vivekananda Greatest, Anything, Others You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda Spiritual, Teacher, Soul Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda Truth, Live, Struggle The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes...
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...Christian worldview. ------------------------------------------------- The Creation account is so significant to the Christian worldview because it puts a strong belief of how this world was made of beauty in the eyes of our creator God. This is also a great just of how man was born into this world filled with love and the day deemed a very good day when man was brought into it. We are able to understand why we as man work during days of the week and then be sure to rest ourselves on the seventh day. ------------------------------------------------- Write 2-3 sentences explaining what the Fall reveals about humanity and human morality. ------------------------------------------------- The Fall reveals about humanity and human morality that God has given man the freedom to find ourselves for what we feel we are. Put faith in what is a righteous path and not fall into the abyss of darkness. Even though a sin of disobedience was brought upon us by Adam and Eve, we are able to find redemption in ourselves to find the right path and not fall prey to evil. ------------------------------------------------- Write 2-3 sentences explaining the importance of God revealing Himself through covenants....
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...sense of self, for when we live with an open mind we are no longer confined by our beliefs nor are we confined by the beliefs of others. There are numerous opportunities available to us everyday and if we don’t expose ourselves to possible changes then we can never truly grasp true education. “In fact, a green banana is waiting for all of you who leave your own centers of the world in order to experience other places”(Batchelder). Batchelder wants us to understand when we are finally in a position to open ourselves up to change we are susceptible to successes we may never of imagined. Furthermore, letting go of old habits can be a necessary change, because by doing so we open ourselves up to life supporting us more fully in ways it can best do so. If only we all could decipher Lopez’s true message in his excerpt “ I could see the sheen where I’d sat for years,” and relate to the epiphany he had when he realized “there was no reason to sit where I was”(Lopez). We would grasp being truly educated means being able to make the choice in life to move in a different direction even if it means jumping out of our comfort zones. Now and again our comfort zones are located in Petersen2 the shadows, but our main goal is to see and be in the light. As Plato said, “you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den” (Plato289). To be educated means looking beyond the shadows of what is real and what is perceived. In order to be authentic individuals who can be enlightened...
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...society. Weber saw four types of actions which are commonly committed within society; rational, this includes logical plans which are used to achieve goals, traditional-customary behaviour, this is behaviour which is traditional and has always been done; he also saw effectual actions, this includes an emotion associated with an action and value-rational actions, this is behaviour which is seen as logical by an individual. Weber’s discovery of these actions can therefore be seen as useful in the study of society. Weber discovered these actions by using his concept of verstehan, a deeper understanding. However, some sociologists have criticised him as they argue that verstehan cannot be accomplished as it is not possible to see thing in the way that others see them, leaving sociologists to question whether Weber’s social action theory is useful in the study of society. Max Weber saw both structural and action approaches as necessary for a full understanding of human behaviour. Adequate sociological explanation involves two levels; the level of cause explaining the objective structural factors that shape people’s behaviour and the level of meaning which understands the subjective meanings that individuals attach to their actions....
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...Education that is significant to life nurtures integrated human beings and not success seeking ones. My intention in writing this paper is not to accomplish another academic goal. I write with feeling for you and me and the world around us. I feel deeply about us changing who we are and the world we live in. I believe in the power of transformation that we can bring about in ourselves as humanity. Our transformation begins with honest self-knowledge. You and I need to get to know our selves. You and I are not separate. We are one. We can understand each other if we start by simply accepting and knowing each of individual selves. When we do that, we naturally extend to understand each other and the world around us. We then begin to see our integration and deep connection with all of life. This sense of integration, of being one, leads to all rightly compassionate action. Compassionate action ends the chaos, confusion and violence we live with today. You and I as adults, have to do this hard work on our own. However, that does not need to be the case for our children. I believe that there is a kind of education that can nurture self-aware, integrated beings. This kind of education is significant to life and deeply connected with natural living. It is in contrast with mainstream education that is disconnected from real living. In this paper, I claim that our current mainstream education approach is aimed at bringing about success but that success is not the fulfilling end result...
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...questions, one opens one’s mind to many possibilities? The power of creating new possibilities comes from the magical effect that questions have on our lives. The kinds of questions we tend to ask ourselves consistently have an effect on the quality of our lives. If you ask yourself “Why is my life a mess?” you will get lots of information about why your life a mess. If you ask yourself “Why do I always cry because of love?” you will get lots of information about why you always cry because of love. By doing this again and again, you will see an adverse effect or the opposite of the results you desire, partially because you will start associating yourself with your mistakes and thus decreases your self-esteem. One of the major differences between people and their outlook on life is the questions that they consistently ask themselves. If this seems like a strange observation, it may be that you have been underestimating the power of questions to change your mindset. Questions have the ability to change our focus in an instant. Asking the right questions can be change our mindset from a limiting one to an empowering one. Our personal view of reality is connected on what we focus on and questions are of the fastest ways to shift to an empowering and resourceful mindset. We are all in habit of asking ourselves questions every day, most of the time were not even aware of their effect. Our minds love it when we ask ourselves questions. Questions...
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...Attitude and thoughts are factors on how an individual interacts on a daily basis. These ideas can be good or bad but either way it affects how we act towards people and ourselves. In some cases we have to take a step back and analyze the reasons why we act the way we do. There are ways we can do this by writing how we feel down, having someone analyze us, or taking surveys. The LSI survey is a way we can see where we fit in amongst other individuals. This survey helps assess our personality characteristics and other traits according to how we interact in society. I took the survey to see where my personality traits rate with other people. I will go over the results and how a person can learn and change from them. The LSI survey is a circle that is broken in many parts. There are 3 areas that the circle is broken into which are satisfaction needs, task orientation, and security needs. The primary part is the satisfaction needs whereas the backup tells you what causes these traits. When it comes to the scoring of the survey I had my highest in the constructive styles 1, 2, 11, and 12. These help with self-enhancing thinking and behavior that causes satisfaction. Number 1 is the humanistic encouraging The Humanistic-Encouraging scale measures our interest in people, our tendency to care about others, and our ability to encourage them to improve. Humanistic-Encouraging people are accepting of themselves, and accept others for who they are without any issues. I believe...
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...God’s identity refers to God's character and His various characteristics. God is part of the Trinity, meaning that He is three-persons in one being. God's identity not only impacts how we live and how we think of ourselves in the world, but it also shows us what it means to be truly human through Jesus' humanity, leads us deeper into the way of Jesus through the Holy Spirit, and influences the way we view ourselves and others. It is important to remember that we are made in God's image. This belief allows us to see ourselves as the children of Christ and live knowing that we are created perfectly in the eyes of God. Genesis 1:27 in the Bible states that: “...God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27, NRSV). God's identity is our identity because we are made in his image as a near perfect reflection. He always loves us, and we are supposed to be conscious and aware of God’s love and put our faith in it. The belief that God created me allows me to live my life knowing that God created the world and I this way for a reason and that as long as I have faith in Him everything will work out. We discover our true identity the more closely we are drawn to Him through our understanding of Jesus' humanity...
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...HUMANITY AS A VIRUS The human being is one of the most progressed species in the world, with technological evolution as one of the biggest ways in which we can see how intellect is shown as one of the ways of measuring evolution. Where even intellect is measured on the grounds of how one is more intellectual advantaged and gifted than the other, IQ or intellectual sizing as, I might call it. We see evolution as, the strive to achieve perfection, this even includes the technological point of view, where the hardware, software development and their optimization are the key links to making equal to advancement in the world pushing for perfection even with the birth of AI. Your Motorola C133 is as good to you as a dead monkey that can learn to throw a baseball, no offence. As much as the bases of evolution are true, it is the human’s ground of perfection that are really staggering. This is; evolution cannot be better than the creation of the human or Homo sapiens species. The way humanity sees itself, like the perfect end to the evolutionary trail and it cannot get any better than it except for the eventual improvement of the species itself, thus giving the assumption that humanity is better than “animality”. This even gives the perception that humans have dominance over other forms of life, which is even pushed by religion and culture. Are we that in over our heads? Humanity is a dream of noble perfection and what some of us can say is spiritual entity which man hides under. Humans...
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...They do not see how since 2012 our demographic has grown drastically more anxious and depressed as a whole (Schrobsdorff), and they do not see the issue of teens like 16-year-old blogger Morgan Levy sitting in hospital beds with caffeine dependences and low blood sugar; this has all been normalized (Levy). In fact, if you walk around Eastview complaining about your sleep deprivation you’ll likely be received with laughter, “oh, I only got two hours of sleep, thank God for coffee”. But this is a highly dangerous mentality to have. According to the National Sleep Foundation, only approximately 15% of high school students receive the proper 8 hours of sleep every night (“Teens and Sleep”). By saying this statistic, we are stating that the other approximately 85% of high school students are at risk of heightened aggressive...
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...Sergio Hurtado 2/8/15 ENGL 846 Hidden Curriculum Odds are if you're like most Americans your probably not bathing in swimming pool oodles of money and you have to work hard to obtain what you got. And if that be the case? It is for most of us, then you probably went to a basic school, to have a basic experience that made you as basic person as everyone else so you could fit in everyday basic society! Well you can actually organize the different educational options into 4 classes. And judging were you stand on the economic ladder decides where you're education is obtained! Knowledge is truly power and some schools don't want to see you thrive as a powerful being, because you'll pose a threat to the status quo. According to Freire's article the education working class citizens obtain is referred to as the banking method. Because it reflect to him a model of how the bank works, such as, P.76 "The teachers task is to organize a process which already occurs spontaneously to fill the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge " Almost as if each individual is worth money, and what they are to society is a small corporation or bond, so whether your filling up classrooms, courtroom, prisons, colleges, its all good grits and gravy, the government is getting its money's worth from us, and they're making sure we're following the rules, like the "good citizens" they want us to be. I'm sure if you do have enough money it would...
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...create the world through our interactions. Our interactions are based on the meaning we give to situations and we can convey this through symbols like language. G. H. Mead – The Role of Others – Symbols vs Instincts Symbols versus instincts: * Animals are guided through instinct whereas we are guided by our responses to the world in the form of meanings we attach to significant things. * We create the world by attaching symbols to meanings we have attached. The symbol of putting a finger to your mouth, comes with the meaning ‘to be quiet.’ * There is an interpretive phase between a stimulus and our response to it, i.e. we see the above gesture, interpret it and we are quiet. Taking the role of other We interpret others actions by putting ourselves in their shoes and understanding it from their perspective, seeing ourselves as they see us. As young children we internalise...
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...circumstances. In my opinion Faith in a higher power is one of the most important things needed in the traditional 12-step process. So therefore if you do not believe in any kind of higher power the 12 step programs are probably not for you. If your faith is important to you, you may need to find a program that will allow you to really embrace your beliefs. For many people, a traditional 12-step approach works for them, but others need to focus on a more tangible way of focusing on their recovery. The 12-Steps are more than just a way for some people to stay sober. They’re a map for living life as a whole being in their interpretation. They consist of the universal spiritual principles like tell the truth, treat others as you’d want to be treated, monitor your failures, apologize for them and make things amends if you can do so without hurting others. The Steps provide tools for living a full, satisfying, meaningful life. These steps mean admission of alcoholism, it’s a personality analysis and catharsis, adjustment to personal relations, dependence upon some higher power and working with other alcoholics to better themselves together. Step one: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable” Is an admission on the alcoholic’s part that they do in fact have an addiction to alcohol and need to abstain from use of alcohol. Step two: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Submission of the...
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