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Myth of the Cave and Carvers Cathedral provide insight into parallel words. The protagonists in each story are trapped in a world of ignorance because each is comfortable in the dark, and fearful of what knowledge a light might bring. They are reluctant to venture into unfamiliar territory. Fortunately the narrator in the Cathedral is…

Loki is probably the most misunderstood of all the gods. Most people have come to see him as a most vile being, but this is a misconception. As everyone knows his actions will help destroy the gods, but there is more to him than that. What he gave to humanity as a whole outweighs what…

No other Pearl can be worth more to a story than this Pearl, but no pearl had ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as in Hester Prynne, the powerful Main Character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter”. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than…

Political and philosophical discourse Book Overveiw “It is customary for those who wish to gain the favour of a prince to endeavour to do so by offering him gifts of those things which they hold most precious.” To Machiavelli, his own most precious possession was the “knowledge of great men,” which he acquired through experience…

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin Ireland on October 16, 1854. He is one of the most talented and most controversial writers of his time. He was well known for his wit, flamboyance, and creative genius and with his little dramatic training showing his natural talent for stage and theatre. He is termed a martyr…

It seems certain that in referring to mental states, it is implicit that someone owns or is the mind in which those states are occurring. Although Ayer is right in his claim that we need not refer to the ‘owner’ of the state when we talk about the state itself, and therefore that the owner…

Altruism is used in discussions of ethics as an alternative to ethical egoism: the belief that people ought to be selfish. Altruism leads us to find a middle ground between being purely self interested and devoting our entire lives to the group. We learn that it’s not preferable to be too self interested, but can…

P.Q- What is the Buddhist and Christian concept of the “Soul”? 304 For a Buddhist, the final goal in life is attaining Nirvana. The popular Buddhist definition of Nirvana is the “blowing out” which would mean extinction of the soul and the body, following the fact that Buddhism has strongly denied the idea of immortality…

Ken Kesey’s masterpiece novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest uses many themes, symbols, and imagery to illustrate the reality of the lives of a group of mental patients. The element of control is a central, arguably the largest, and the most important theme in the novel. The element of control revolves around the two…

Looking in her mailbox one afternoon, a fourteen- year- old Norwegian schoolgirl named Sophie Amundsen finds a surprising white envelope containing a piece of paper. On it are written two questions: “Who are you?” and “Where did the world come from?”. And at the same time she is also receiving letters for a girl named…