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Happiness
<view this essay>.... Upon researching for
this paper, I came across a counter argument, which was based on metaphysics.
Immanuel Kant, in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, defends his strong
beliefs in the issue of a good will, and surfaces as MM's chief opponent on the
topic of metaphysics, The issue diminishes to a clash between emotions and
pleasures ve rses rationality and logic. Yet, what use is logic when the good
agent is miserable? Mill's stance within Utilitarianism exists as the more
favorable of the two beliefs, for happiness exist as the one intrinsically
favorable element, not an emotionless mind.
The main defender of the Utilitarian system ex .....
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How Can We Tell What Is Good Or Bad?
<view this essay>.... "purposive choice," appears to aim at some good, hence the good
has rightly been declared that which all things aim (Aristotle, 517).
Today society is not aimed at good. This society has become a "me" society.
People are thinking of "me,me,me" rather than thinking of the good of others.
This society has found it acceptable for a football superstar to be found with
an illegal drug to depart the judicial system with probation and again to play
football. This is a true example of how people today in our society live their
dreams through celebrities. People idolize immoral sport stars instead of
holding in a higher regard common everyday people, who are God .....
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Materialism In The 1920’s
<view this essay>.... she would go for bigger and better one.
Next another way Gatsby is materialistic is by the expensive fantasy clothes he wears. Gatsby intently brags about how their imported from France and the price of them just to impress people. He also is never wearing a cheap watch or suit. When he ever goes down to New York city to his lunch inns with Wolfshien or his other materialistic friends.
Gatsby also brags and over exaggerates when a person asks him where he got his education from and his money. From this he gives a person a length full excuse just to impress who ever it is. Here is an example of Gatsby over talking a subject. “I am the son of some wealthy peopl .....
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How The Media Can Effect Children
<view this essay>.... a strong influence on children. Lyrics from music also give children ideas. Children, anywhere from three years of age to adolescence, are most susceptible toward the influence of media because they are in there “observing and learning” stages of their life. Kids learn through social learning or learning through observations.
The adolescence years of a child are the most important. This is the time in their life when they learn behavior from others, most of the time being the parents or guardians. But with todays changing culture, more and more children are watching television so they can learn from it because parents are giving them the attention they nee .....
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Gender In Sports
<view this essay>.... use the sport to demonstrate their masculinity
through the smashing and bashing of each other's skulls. Occasionally, one may
find a select number of women who had to fight their way onto the team only to
sit on the sidelines and watch. It is quite probable that such girls are only
able to get onto the teams on the basis that most schools simply do not have a
football team dedicated solely to the women football athletes. This lack of
recognition for female athletes only becomes more frequent as one progresses
through the levels of competition in virtually any sport. The games of women's
teams, where they do exist, tend to draw only limited crowds at mo .....
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A Comparison Of The Status Of Women In Classical Athens And Early Christianity
<view this essay>.... in Lysistrata the women were shown as revolutionaries rising up
against the men, women in classical Greece were never like that. Aristophanes
created the play as a comedy, showing how the world might be in the times of the
Peloponesian war if women tried to do something. It was the women's job to stay
home and tend to the house, and never leave, unlike they did in the play, the
women were shown as revolutionaries rising up against the men, women in
classical Greece were never like that.
The activities of women in Classical Athens were confined to "bearing
children, spinning and weaving, and maybe managing the domestic arrangements. No
wandering .....
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My Own Micro Culture
<view this essay>.... women prefer wearing bright colors to that of light (p178). This choice is not a way to be different, it is just an adaptation to blend in with their environment. Latin-America consists of tropical regions bring a variety of exotic colors. The Latin woman usually emphasizes these exotic colors in the way they dress. The stereotype “hot tamale” (p178) was given to the Latin woman because the way they wear bright colors and show their body off. Unlike Americans the Latin women lives in a country that need not worry of preditorial men. In , women that wear flamboyant clothing and show too much skin are looked down upon; they are considered “easy”. Do to the bright .....
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Pressures Of Society
<view this essay>.... to do so. It was his decision, but it wasn't his choice.
Marty did not want to go anywhere yet he did just because his friends and family
told him so. It is not always easy to refuse such thing, Marty had to make a
decision and decided he should go out. By analyzing the pros and cons he made a
decision, basing it on knowledge and commonsense, after all going out is not a
bad thing.
But what if there is no decision? What if the person is forced to do something
that he does not agree with? This can be blamed on the pressure of society as
well, sometimes you do something that you know you don't want just because
someone is forcing you. Marty showed such behavior .....
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