...we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible. "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..." "My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and...
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... The End Of The World As I See It When I started to form tiny fractions of memories, China’s booming economy, its open-door policy, and big social reforms began taking places as it leaped into the 2000 millennial. All these changes lead to a more vivid and intermixing culture where novel lifestyle, alternative thoughts, and "non-traditional" religions like Christianity can thrive. I was lucky to be standing at the crossroad where China started to embrace different cultures and various religions. Thanks to the opened-up culture atmosphere, I was exposed to the clash of cultures between western ideology and traditional Confucianism thoughts. The word “apocalypse” was not even in my dictionary previously until Hollywood introduced it to me in the most dramatic ways I could possibly imagine, and ever since my speculation of the Apocalypse never stopped evolving. From more unrealistic predictions involving in zombies, Godzilla, and DNA-modified prehistoric killer dinosaurs, to more practical speculations like nuclear war and ozone depletion, I was constantly updating my Apocalypse view. With my increasing understanding of the mechanism of how the world functions as a whole, I realized that a global hot war is imminently possible since politics can exert a strong influence on the global situation. In a sense, the transformation China experienced was a direct result from the power of politics. In this essay, I will establish the following hypothesis: The world is going to end with...
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...I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I started a joke Which...
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...I haven't willingly written about darkness. I wrote an essay about it once but restricting my words to 500 was torturous. It is a topic I have thought about on many occassions and which means a lot to me, I cannot limit my art and expression to 500 words. The darkness is never ending. It is constant and thus its absence is comfortingly permanent. It will always be there, in its complete and utter lack of presence. The darkness is addicting. It is empty and devoid of all life. It is also by definition devoid of all pain. There is no pain in the darkness. There is no happiness in the darkness. There is no anger in the darkness. There is no love in the darkness. There is nothing in the darkness. The darkness can become a home to you. It can hold you in its black tendrils and swear to keep you safe for all eternity. All you have to do is give up your emotions. Just give them up and everything will be gone. Well, everything except boredom that is. The darkness is empty. Nothing happens in the darkness. It is merely an absent, silent guard that surrounds you and keeps you in its grasp. Don't get me wrong...I don't hate the darkness. It saved me when I was so angry i felt I could explode, when i was so sad I thought I would shatter into a billion pieces. But it...
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...with I say your name And it's written all over my face Tell me does it make me crazy Well, maybe I got somethin' that I can't explain And the beauty of it never changes It's got me wrapped up I'm all caught up I can't help but say I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet No I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl in a crazy world I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl for the whole wide world to see (See, See, See) And when my ears start hearin' what people say Hurry up find love cause times tickin' away Well, I'm not bein' lazy I'm just waiting for Still waiting for the right boy Cause I only want to listen to your voice So I'll be listenin' Always listenin' to you everyday Cause I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet No I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl in a crazy world I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl for the whole wide world to see Your name in lights My biggest dream My all in all You're all I need Hand in hand with the master of all creativity And I won't stop until I know All my facebook friends and foes Look at me and only see one thing I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet I can't...
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...Christ the Coming King Steven Collier Crown College Abstract In this paper I will discuss the different views on the second coming of Christ, the rapture of the church, how the second coming of Christ affects missions, and I give an exegesis of Revelation 20:1-6. I will also discuss why I believe the pre-millennial view is the correct view concerning the return of Christ. There are three schools of thought in the area of the thousand year reign of Christ. They are the amillennial view, postmillennial view, and the premillennial view. Those who believe in a amillennial view do not believe in a literal or an actual future kingdom of peace and prosperity here on earth that will last one thousand years. Those who hold this view tend to view Scripture in a more figurative way than a literal way. They believe the thousand year reign of Christ is symbolic of the church age between the resurrection of Christ and His return. Most amillennialists believe that a spiritual form of the Kingdom of God is present now. Amillennialism reject the idea of a rapture. They believe good and evil will increase in the world as God’s Kingdom parallels the kingdom of Satan. They believe Satan is bound but yet evil increases. They believe when Christ returns the end of the world will occur with a general resurrection and a judgment of all people. They believe Christ will never reign on earth in a literal way but the Kingdom of God exists on earth in the...
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...metaphysics which is also referred to as the Theory of Forms explains that there are two sides of the world of Forms. One of them is separated from the reality and one of them is the reality of the world. (Moore, pg 38) Aristotle was Plato’s student and he disagree with Plato’s believes. He was the first philosopher to explain what existence and essence is (Moore, pg. 63). One of Aristotle’s strongest arguments against the Theory of Forms was his Third Man argument. He explains that there must be a third thing or person to tires together a Form (Moore, pg. 65). Plato and Aristotle have excellent views of Theory of Forms and the Third Man argument; however there are points I agree and disagree with. Plato was one of the most important philosophers. Plato spends most of his life living in Greek. He was the first metaphysics thinker Theory of forms was one of Plato most important idea. He believed that we are living in two worlds; the world of appearances and the world of ideas. The appearances world is the world we are living in where we can touch and see around us. Our senses help us guide us in the visible world. In the ideas world, we can only sense it with our thinking. The intelligible world is in our mind, we control what the intelligible world looks like. The material world is a shadow of the real world of the form. Therefore according to Plato we are living in two worlds. (Moore, pg 35). One of Plato’s main illustrations of the Theory of Forms is through the use of...
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...experience is what leads to the development of our minds. Using our memory from the past, we now see things for what we are and not as they are. For instance, I remember when I was a child that my sister would stay quiet when she is having a bad day or when she is in a bad mood, I use that memory and relate it to the future events in a sense that whenever I see someone being quiet, I see them as if they are in a bad mood. This is because we, as human tend to classify and isolate certain ideas to our liking since we are wired to do what comforts us the most, we are likely to understand only what we expect or want to see or hear and neglects any other possible details that are not familiar to us. From another’s perspective that quiet person could simply just be a quiet person without any reason at all. Since we cannot change the world around us, we change what we believe the world to be to fit our own standards and our own beliefs and defend these through the use of our memory from the past. When I was on my holidays, my whole family went to the United States to spend our Christmas and New Years. One night, we all wanted Indonesian food, so my...
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...everybody's got a price, I wonder how they sleep at night. When the sale comes first, And the truth comes second, Just stop, for a minute and Smile Why is everybody so serious! Acting so damn mysterious You got your shades on your eyes And your heels so high That you can't even have a good time. [Pre-chorus] Everybody look to their left (yeah) Everybody look to their right (ha) Can you feel that (yeah) We're paying with love tonight [Chorus] I t's not about the money, money, money We don't need your money, money, money We just wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag Ain't about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching. Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling Wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag. [Jessie J - Verse 2] We need to take it back in time, When music made us all UNITE! And it wasn't low blows and video hoes, Am I the only one gettin'... tired? Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness Can we all slow down and enjoy right now Guarantee we'll be feeling Alright. [Pre-choru s] Everybody look to their left (yeah) Everybody look to their right (ha) Can you feel that (yeah) We're paying with love tonight [Chorus] I t's not about the money, money, money We don't need your money, money, money We just wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag Ain't about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching. Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling Wanna make the world dance, Forget about...
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...interpretation of the world around us, but each field approaches the problem differently. Philosophy attempts to understand the world through reason alone, with logic as its primary tool for progress. Aristotle's take on Plato's Forms would be a fitting example, using logic and reason to work through perceived problems in his teacher's ideas. Science takes the road of empirically examining the world around us with the scientific method, and completely discards the notion of metaphysics that the other two fields wield. Quantum Physics could be seen as an ultimate demonstration...
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...Toni Baldock 10 October 2012 The Eye in the Lens As a child, I loved looking at the pictures in the National Geographic magazine. I was intrigued by the cultural differences from around the world. I was amazed to see photographs of African woman bare breasted and comfortable with themselves. To me it has always been shameful for any women to be bare breasted because that was what I was raised to believe; that is the way of our culture. The magazine took me to many lands and showed me things I knew nothing about. This was when I became aware of the world around me. I realized I wanted to be a part of more than the town I lived in, the school I went to, or the people I knew. Through the eyes of documentary photographers I have seen the world from many different points of view, but I want to see the world in an intimate experience. I have a deep desire to engage with other cultures and capture moments that the rest of the world will be able to see through my photographs. I want to one day soon become a documentary photographer. Documentary photography is an effort to create a truthful expression of lives and cultures of our world and human actions. It can only be truthful and honest if it is left unedited and captures true events as they are happening. Hans Durrer is an author and intercultural coach. He describes photography as this: “Photography is still about the eye behind the lens. It is about being a filter, and it is about recording. It is about leaving one’s home...
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...always says to see the world and the people within it. I can honestly say my grandma is a nice person because of the different cultures she has seen. I want to grow as a person by allowing myself to see the world and the people During the fall semester I took a class called Political Belonging. There were two major themes of the class that we constantly went back to and that will help me in the future. One was rethinking everything we knew, and the other was looking at how cultures shape people. If I am accepted into the program I would like to look at another country first hand and get to know the people and the...
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...Peanut butter is green while Christmas decorations are brown and brown, and here’s no such thing as a redhead. I don’t see the world the way most people do; my whole perception is distorted. All my life I’ve wanted to understand what everyone else sees, but now that the opportunity has presented itself, I find myself hesitating. In recent years, scientists have developed glasses that allow colorblind people, like me, to see a wider variety of color. The company that sells these glasses, EnChroma, regularly posts videos of people trying the glasses on and seeing true color for the first time in their lives. Although their purpose is to encourage the audience to become a part of the experience, the videos give me pause. The profound reactions...
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...Nicholas Knight Philosophy 4 November 2015 Byrne: Skepticism about the Internal World To begin the essay, Byrne describes Descartes’ argument of skepticism in the external world. Descartes believes things are not as they seem to be, and that one cannot prove what they think they know due to the lack of evidence. He believes that if you see yourself as you are in one moment, you could really be vividly dreaming, and be ignorant to it. He elaborates in his First Meditation by saying, “that there are never any sure signs by means of which being awake can be distinguished from being asleep” (Byrne 283). Therefore he concludes he does not know if he is actually awake and sitting by a fire, and this applies to everyone. As a result I do not know that I am sitting in Langsam typing a paper for Philosophy or if I am vividly dreaming of doing so....
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...the mind’s eye then we see all the secrets of the world in front of us. Before diving into the details of words and imagery let’s have a look at key synopsis and events in the play related to our theme: * 1.1.130 Lear uses flattery test to divide his kingdom (shortsightedness) * 1.1.161 Overtaken by anger Lear says “out of my sight” to Cordelia his favorite daughter (anger) * 1.1.16 Lear banishes loyal Kent for his honesty (anger) * 1.4.9 Lear does not recognize Kent in disguise and employs him again (shortsightedness) * 1.4.200 Lear asks “Where are his eyes?” (confusion) * 1.4.204 “Lear’s shadow” is fool’s answer to Lear question about how he is (fool wise words) * 1.5.20-21 “To keep one’s eyes of either side’s nose, that what a man cannot smell out he may spy into” (Fool wise word) * 1.5.36-37 “If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I’d have thee beaten for being old before your time.” (Fool) * 3.2.1-13 “Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphorous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the think rotundity o’th’world! Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!” (rage) * 3.2.14-24 “Rumble they bellyful! Spit fire! Spout rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. I tax not you,...
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