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Rizal insists on Education as the Instrumental for Social Progress. A major part to the devising of the Filipino state was Rizal’s insisting on the instruction. He considered this as basis of the reforms of the state. In his desire to better the batch of the people he saw the demand to educate them foremost….

Idealism would be a better theory for a society with highly intellectual people, and that a combination of this theory would be the best way for our society to evolve from the level of the “is” to the level of the “ought” Plat’s way to go from the “is” to the “ought” is Socratic questioning….

Mr7ro Odysseus’ long-awaited return from the Trojan War to his homeland, Ithaca, after ten years of wandering. The current action of The Odyssey occupies the last six weeks of the ten years, and the narrative includes many places – Olympus, Ithaca, Pylos, Pherae, Sparta, Ogygia, and Scheria. In Books 9-12, Odysseus narrates the story of…

In 2004, Warner Bros. Pictures released a film adaptation of Homer’s epic, “The Iliad,” which was entitled “Troy. ” The movie was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, based by the screenplay of David Benioff. Although the film credits the work of Homer as an inspiration in artfully bringing the heroic narrative of Achilles to life on…

Introduction WW1 Armistice happened at November 11th, 1918 on 11:11 and it ended war against the axis and ally power. The League of Nations later on started January 19, 1920 and was made to fix solutions. Later on they have made the Treaty of Versailles to end war completely and have everything come back. Later…

In the period preceding the Civil War, there were a number of free Black people in the North as opposed to the South where the African American population was enslaved for the most part. However, the presence of a large number of free Blacks did not translate into major political breakthroughs such as the abolition…

Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 at Genoa. Genoa Is a sea dock that was on the Algerian sea. Christopher Columbus wasn’t his real name. His real name was Christofis Colombo. When he reached the Americas they have translated It to Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus had two brothers that he was older than the both…

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I…

For my scholarly article, I chose to read Was Chaucer’s Knight Really a Mercenary by John Pratt. Throughout the article, Pratt discusses Terry Jones’s belief that the Knight was a mercenary rather than a crusader. In Jones’s “problematic analysis” he leaves many questions unanswered, which Pratt answers in his article. According to Pratt, Jones’s is…

            The culture of fear is evident in many ways, especially in politics.  The fear of a group of people can be exploited mercilessly, as can be seen in Al Gore’s article, “The Politics of Fear”, Cass R. Sunstein’s article, “Fear and Liberty”, the play The Crucible, and the film, On the Waterfront.  Most often,…