Prudence

Celebrating Mark Twain by Alex Lee Today we take a trip back into time to commemorate Samuel Clemens, moralist and humorist who rose up from his small town roots to become one of America’s most beloved and influential writers of the 1800s. Better known as Mark Twain, he acquired fame through his travel narratives like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Samuel Clemens was born on November 30‚ 1835 on the banks of the Mississippi River in the mysterious and new Missouri. At the time, Missouri was a…

Us Against Them: Classism and Capitalism Beasts of the Southern Wild, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Gun Hill Road have an emphasis on the combative mindset between two opposing forces as distinguished by class or by capitalism, and by the structure of capitalism. In Beasts of the Southern Wild, these subjects present in duality when the inhabitants of the Bathtub are forcibly removed from their land by a “more advanced” society, and in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, it is seen…

During the 1607 to 1776, the Pilgrims and the Puritans tried to create a model society their goal was simply not end up like their “mother” country. They wanted to be different; to be better. They didn’t want to be in the “bad” anymore they wanted to move to the “better”. So they set up aspirations to go by and in this essay I will tell you what they were and how they achieved them. Their first aspiration, of more holiness of character, you might say that because they believe in God that it was…

Most people tend to not really know what they have until it's gone. They might have something or someone in their lives that is truly amazing, but they don't realize this until the person or thing is no longer in their lives. In Sharon Creech’s novel Walk Two Moons, you never the worth of water until the well is dry is an important theme that both Sal and Phoebe learn. One reason the theme of you never know the worth of water until the well is dry is a significant theme in Sal is because before…

In the early 1600s, a group known as the Puritans first sailed to America seeking religious freedom and wishing to purify the church. Puritans believed in strict limitations, predestination, and that even though all men were sinners, God was working in their lives. Eventually, the Age of Enlightenment emerged and drew people away from the church, causing a religious revival known as the Great Awakening. During this time, impassioned preachers gave fiery sermons like, Jonathan Edwards’…

On Happiness I: Kant’s view of the Concept (or Idea) of Happiness In this section, through an analysis of Kant’s Groundwork, Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals, I will demonstrate: (1) The elements of happiness and what happiness is about; (2) The concept of happiness is different for different humans; (3) The principle of happiness is the same for different humans; and (4) Why having the same content and principle of happiness for all humans is not a principle of the…

A successful leader is one that brings prosperity to a region while upkeeping good morals. They must seek to better the state of the region and keep the interests of the people in mind. Two works of literature that illustrate this theme of what makes a good leader are The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and Macbeth by William Shakespeare. In The Prince, Machiavelli uses rulers of past and present to illustrate qualities necessary in a good leader. In Macbeth, Macbeth, a valiant war hero, becomes…

The main story line of Sense and Sensibility follows the young Dashwood daughters and their mother through their lives and focuses on the two older sisters’ stories of trying to find love. What truly makes this book is the similarity in Elinor and Marianne’s stories and the contrast in their character that makes the similar story lines differ in their results. The differences in the sisters’ personalities are strengthened by the parallel characteristics between Marianne and Mrs. Dashwood which…

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Aristotle’s book, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is commenced with perhaps the utmost important segment of his novel: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as choice, is held to aim at some good” (Nic. Ethics, 1094a1-2). Thereafter, it becomes evident that the ‘good’ that Aristotle is referring to is not synonymous with the word “good’s” contemporarily conventional definition; instead, Aristotle’s use of ‘good’ seems to have an unreachable, yet vastly desirable…