Rene Descartes The Passions Of The Soul

Coetzee uses complex sentences that makes you stop and think. He is passionate and writes so vividly one is left in a daze. His writing strikes deep within our hearts and is very memorable. The quote I picked shows a beautiful example of his complex and powerful writing. The writing is on a deeper level and is forcing his readers into haunted places of their own minds.

Golding has used many different literary devices, showed progression of characters and incorporated different themes to give his writing a whole new and deeper meaning to it. By incorporating new themes into the novel, Golding was able to influence readers to use their imagination and think beyond the text as well as connect his readers to real world experiences to his writings. Golding has become one of the most influential writers of his time and has been ranked one of the top 50 British writers since 1945. Golding is most well known for his novel, Lord of the Flies and was later awarded a Nobel Prize in

One of the most well-known works of literature without a doubt is Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case.” The story is famous because of the richness of writing that Cather employs in making a formidable story one that can help people understand the current times and the world in which we live in especially regarding naturalism and regionalism. This is an interesting story with twists and turns about a young Calvinist man, whom because of circumstances of life felt he does not belong to this life. Paul’s life is filled by people who push him to the limits and make him feel unwanted, among these are; his abusive father, the uncaring teachers and also his classmates that have greatly misunderstood him (Cather and Schlenk 19). It would be justified to say that this is a classic case study on temperaments.

Name Professor Institution Course Date Argumentative essay The novel, `` flowers for Algernon’’ is an exciting fictional story. The main character in the novel is Charlie who is mentally retarded person who has been involved in a remarkable operation which has led to increase of his I.Q. The story in the novel is too interesting the material in it is so original.

“These are the times that try men’s souls” is from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, a pamphlet that brought a great impact to the people during the American Revolution. And over here in France, the recent times have indeed tried all men’s souls, and it was all started under Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre could have been taken for any hard-working young man in his earlier days. He devoted his time to his studies and strived to become superior to his peers.

One of the main ideas in Unwind is the heartland war. When reading this book, time and time again the heartland war comes up. Clearly

Hence, he enjoyed writing so much he was able to do it very fast. For all these reasons, King uses passion to overcome

While in Rome, Carneades attracted great recognition from his fluent speeches on subjects related to philosophy. It was here that in Cato the Elder ’s presence, he presented his numerous orations on justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential figures of the American civil rights movement. Famous for his prowess with words, King was known for writing powerful texts throughout his life. Two of his most famous compositions were his “I Have A Dream” speech and his “Letter From Birmingham Jail”. Although King uses many styles of writing effectively, his writings with pathos are the most prominent. Since “I Have A Dream” uses more pathos than “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, “I Have A Dream” was more effective at inspiring change.

PSYART.com) Pre-modern day gothic writers wrote about psychological issues hundreds of years before professionals addressed mental illnesses, by extension shows that gothic writers helped popularize and influenced the study of psychology. The connotation of the word "gothic" carries the stigma of the emotion melancholy and the grotesque. ("Stigma, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/190242. Accessed 16 November 2017.) Humanitarians and those alike tend to believe that the Gothic genre is to showcase the darker side of people, the subconscious being of humans.

Overall, 1938: Hitler’s Gamble was an informative and enlightening book that handles the escalation of a brutal conflict. The book encourages the reader to wonder, to ask questions. MacDonogh’s work is thought-provoking, fascinating, and terrifying. Still, there are criticisms, including the massive level of detail involved. Giles MacDonogh’s research has led him to become somewhat of an expert on the subject, and he writes as such.

While reading the book “God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World”, I found a sense that while the book had very interesting and questioning connections with a variety of passed inquisitions and where or how there are similarities to our modern time. Which is explained greatly by Murphy, functioning as a guide to the readers, offering a tour of the Inquisition’s nearly 700-year-old. I also found that Murphy did a great job in defining and explaining in detail the various gruesome instruments and acts of torture through history and showing similarities and same techniques used today. My the one problem I had was I found it an overall amusing to read, but personally until the first 3-4 chapters the book is quite difficult to digest and connect with, but as the inquisitions began to be more modern era I could relate and see the points and connections that were being made. I found that Murphy’s focus was to demonstrate how the mind-set and some machinery of the Inquisitions are unpreventable products of the modern world that later surfaced in Stalin’s Russia,

In 1668 the world 's first reflecting telescope was built by a well known scientist, Isaac Newton. Although Newton accomplished many things in his life he also faced many struggles growing up. Not only did Newton invent the world 's first reflecting telescope he developed the three laws of motion, discovered many new facts about gravity and had many other accomplishments throughout his lifetime. Isaac Newton is often referred to as one of the most influential scientists. He and Albert Einstein are almost equally matched contenders for this title (The Doc, 2015).

Carr has written multiple books on topics of technology and its effects on the human race. Carr has written for many credible sources such as The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Wired, Nature, MIT Technology Review, and many others. He holds a bachelor 's from Dartmouth College and master 's degree in English and American Literature and Language, from Harvard University, it definitely tells us how much of an education Carr has worked for. The book likes to challenge what we think is true and backs up its statement with sufficient research and evidence.

The human race has gone through many extravagant eras and ages. From the space age to the Victorian era, humans have seen civilizations fall and revolutions ensue. Possibly the most well known era was the age of the Renaissance. The Renaissance was an advanced age fueled by an infatuation for art and literature. People began to focus on the concept of individualism, and portrayed that in their art.