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Aristotle vs. Plato on the Dangers of Poetry

Poetry's Emotional Effect: Detrimental as Plato Claims or Beneficial as Aristotle Concludes? Speaking well about Homer; it's a divine power that moves you, as a "Magnetic" stone moves iron rings. (That's...

6 comments    poetry literature philosophy
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The Battle between Schudson and Putnam

Michael Schudson's Unsuccessful Attempts to Discredit Robert D. Putnam's Belief of a Declining Civic Society in America In "What if Civic Life Didn't Die?" Michael Schudson responds to Robert D. Putnam's "The...

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The Tragedy of Dido

The Tragedy of Dido's Furor Dido, the Phoenician Queen in Virgil's The Aeneid, is a tragic character who is a victim of the will of the gods. Enchanted by the god Amor, Dido becomes hopelessly enamored with...

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Sydney's 49th Sonnet

A Narrator's Human Flaw of Love and His Ultimate Submission to its Power Philip Sidney's 49th sonnet, describing the journey of the narrator upon horseback, is one which follows the form of the Italian sonnet...

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Yusef Kommunyakaa's "Facing It"

Yusef Kommunyakaa's Emotional Response Surrounding the Vietnam Memorial Yusef Komunyakaa emphasizes his ethnicity at the very beginning of his poem "Facing It" in the first lines: "My black face fades,/hiding...

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The Belgian Blue Cattle Debate

The Quest for Ethical Genetic Experimentation Belgian Blue cattle originated in Belgium as the product of crossbreeding between local red-pied and black-pied cattle and cattle imported from England in the...

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The Origins of Melville's Sperm Whale Expertise

The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville meticulously describes behavioral and anatomical characteristics of the sperm whale, characteristics Melville learned through the study of scientific compositions. One of...

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Viola's Voice in Twelfth Night

Vioa's Critique of Society In the brief passage in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, lines 104-122, Viola delivers a critique of society by showing that societal expectations serve as barriers to...

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Internets Impact on Society

What is Internet's Effect on Civil Society? New technology has historically had unpredictable and unprecedented impacts upon society. With the invention of the telephone in 1876, its uses were thought to be...

2 comments    technology internet television
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Your Inbred Pug

The Ethics of Creating the Purebred American Pug The American Pug has a very specific ideal appearance. Pugs which successfully exhibit this appearance are the result of intensive inbreeding and selection...

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