Essays about Culture Page 300

The precise complexities of the world constantly amaze me every day. The intricacies involved in everyday life are astounding. These microscopic details are so vast that there can be no other reason for their origin except for a divine creator. Frequencies are one of these details, more specifically their healing capabilities. Everything on earth has…

Tony Robbins once said that “only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment”. True fulfillment is a state of being that everyone craves, something that makes them feel complete and truly at peace. Hinduism, a major religion and the one represented in the Mahabharata, focuses…

St. Anselm of Canterbury was between the age seventy-six and seventy-seven when he died. He was born around the year 1033-1034 in Aosta, Lombardy and died on April 21, 1109 in Canterbury. St. Anselm contributed to the philosophical system and tendencies of Christian thinkers known as “Scholasticism” (Pieper, Josef). He also contributed to the discovery…

Based on the story The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey displays how history can be misinterpreted through a simple twisted reinterpretation from the person that holds the power at the time. This book as well as The Historian’s Craft by Marc Bloch are readings that bring awareness to possibilities that require a bit of research…

In the 16th century, a councilor to King Henry VII called Sir Thomas More wrote a book called Utopia, making the look and workings of a functioning society where everyone was elated or content. Utopia is a location where there is no conflict because everyone is content with what they have, a place where necessities…

Would an ethical egoist agree that the U.S. should provide funding so that all families who would otherwise be homeless or live in substandard housing can live in adequate housing? Why or why not? (Be sure you state and explain the ethical egoist principle and go through the ethical egoist reasoning process.) Ethical egoism is…

The Columbian Exchange, initiated by Christopher Columbus’s 1492 journey and known as the “discovery” of America, marked a new historical period. It involved the global exchange of plants, animals, diseases, ideas, and technology between the Old World and New World during a time of exploration, discovery, and colonization. This exchange impacted both Europeans and Native…

Food has always been a large part of Mexico’s identity, dating back the the early Mayan and Aztec civilizations. Mayan and Aztec civilizations were advanced societies in a number of fields such as mathematics, astrology, science, and arguably the most important: agriculture. As a result of agricultural advances and systems, these civilizations had highly developed…

Ethical egoism is, “is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest (internet encyclopedia of philosophy).” While some may think ethical egoism is similar to rational egoism it differs in the means…

Deadly illnesses swept throughout Europe and Asia destroying everyone infected and took an emotional toll on those who were spared. The Bubonic Plague, also known as “the Black Death”, was a devastating disease that was transmitted through fleas jumping from rodents to humans. It wasn’t bias in who it infected and those who were infected…