To be fair to Kaufmann, none of his argument turns on the truth or falsehood of this dissonance, yet nevertheless it remains the notion that sparked this particular enquiry. ... Faust the academic and scholar is disturbed by the realisation that for all his learnedness, he knows nothing. ... Were the suicide to abandon his facile optimism and recognise that there is nothing isolated or unique about his suffering, it would lose that special quality which urges him to self destruction-(Young p128 1987). The Easter chorus, which causes Faust to stop his suicide attempt, does nothing to turn Fa...

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As Hinden notes, "The Tyrones exhibit patterns typical of families in which chemical dependency is a serious problem. ... You could see you way well enough if you were sober. (2057)" Edmund notes the irony in his father's statement, "If I was sober? ... Nothing was what it was. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. ... He is specifically in search of things being opposite from their current state, "where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself." ...

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In the poem, "Lamb", Blake assumes the role of the teacher or prophet who will lead his people by means of simple catechisms to profound truths. ... Further, the visual impact of a musical note (&) and God's own beauty is portrayed and ca ptured in the rhythm of the lamb playing in the meads. ... Powell, "The author notes that the perfect, beautiful, symmetrical, work of art (the tyger) is such a destructive animal: here Blake is identifying the idea that there, in fact, is evil in such a beautiful world but he cannot understand why". ... Blake believed that truth is ...

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Paul recognizes this truth when he states in Romans 7:18 that there is "no good that dwells in me, that is, in my flesh". ... A dying man can do nothing to revive himself. ... While this truth about the condition of man is nothing short of harsh, it is necessary to understand man's depravity in order to grasp the weight of Christ's work on the cross (Piper). ... It is essential to note here that not every person is a child of God. ... Since according to Scripture, man can do absolutely nothing on his own power to change his nature, one must now recognize the beauty of God's grac...

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There is no such thing as one truth, one justice, and one standard of beauty. ... Believers in PHYSIS said that there was one truth, one definition of what it means to be just or beautiful, and that these one truth and standards existed in the world and were just waiting to be discovered by humans. In other words, one day, if we looked hard enough, we would find THE TRUTH! ... If everyone each had a different opinion on a subject then nothing could ever be solved. ... That would be the connection between truth and dialectic. 3. ...

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The First Noble Truth states "Life is Dukkha". ... Nothing could be further from the truth. ... The Second Noble Truth explores the source of dukkha. ... And not to know the Four Noble Truths is "ignorance". ... That's the question the 3rd Noble Truth answers. ...

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Though some may ignore and reject its plea for purity, the truth still remains despite opinions of men. ... Elwell notes therefore that "the gospel is the joyous proclamation of God's redemptive activity in Christ Jesus on behalf of man enslaved by sin... Barclay notes that (1) originally, it meant "the reward given to a messenger for bringing good tidings." ... Interestingly, Thayer notes that from the Hebrew it often meant the fee given to a teacher.# It is a word that was primarily secular yet began to carry some religious meaning by the first century AD. ...

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Tom tells us he is the opposite of a magician because he shows us truth disguised as illusion. ... Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." Realism, he felt, had run its course; it offered, like the magician, "illusion that has the appearance of truth." Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... In one obvious sense, the truth behind the illusion is autobiographical. ...

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E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to...

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The entire novel is the truth of the Gospel, and "In his essay 'The Gospel as Fairy Tale,' [Frederick] Buechner notes that the life of Christ in the Gospels contains some of the motifs as fairy stories, including 'the final victory of light. ... One of the life-giving missions of the Gospel is that of truth. ... " The truth of the Gospel and the truth of the Gospel only is what will set us free. ... He goes on to say that another world through a wardrobe is "nothing more than probable.... She knew the truth, even when Edmund did not back her up. ...

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First I will note something about how news items are selected. ... John Fiske notes that 'News, of course, can never give a full, accurate objective picture of reality nor should it attempt to, for such an enterprise can only serve to increase its authority and decrease people's opportunity to "argue" with it, to negotiate with it. ... By reading the scripted news, the newsreader, dressed with sober formality in an orderly studio, and seated behind a desk (which reduces their body language), appears to speak 'the objective discourse of "the truth"'1. ... Hartley notes ...

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Manifestos decreed what truth and beauty should be. ... Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. ... And then breaks off again, with the appearance of those three fateful notes, the first dead end. ... And just changing one note can change the entire meaning of the piece. ...

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(Song, p. 4) Note that this connection is simply made through lying in the grass and listening to ambient sounds, not through forcing song or voice to fill what isn't really empty in the first place. This is the first key connection between Whitman and Rilke's ideal of the self, as Rilke also believed that humans had to stop focusing on what we think the world is, and start noticing the truth: Yes, the springtimes have needed you. ... Whitman mentions on p. 47 of Song of Myself, Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid. . . ....

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Precisely what makes him powerful as a king incapacitates him for seeing the truth about himself and his kingdom. ... In this essay, I will examine largely the second half of King Lear, and trace what happens to Lear when he learns the truths to which his position as king initially blinded him. ... In many accounts of the play, Lear's education is presented as an unequivocal good, as if there were nothing problematic about his experience. These accounts in effect present private life as simply superior to public life, suggesting that Lear has everything to gain and nothing to lose when ...

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Antigone bids her to go back to bed; the sun is up, and she can do nothing today. ... She asks Haemon to hold her with all his strength. 3.1 Summary Breathless, Antigone tells Haemon that she would have protected their son against everything in the world, and that he would have feared nothing. ... Ashamed, Antigone implores him to tell her the truth. ... The guards heard nothing, only discovering a kid's shovel on the scene. ... It has nothing to do with melodrama. ...

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is never infallible and that methods and truths must constantly evolve. ... Galileo wrote:By the aid of a telescope, anyone may see that all the disputes which have tormented the philosophers through so many ages are resolved at once by the unmistakable evidence of our eyes, and we are freed from wordy disputes upon this subject, for the Milky Way is nothing else but a collection of innumerable stars planted together in groups? ... By the employment of this tool, Galileo was able to demonstrate many fundamental truths of the Universe. ... It is important to note that in 1585 Galileo wrote th...

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Abstract Benjamin Franklin stated "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.... "12 He notes elsewhere that "Fire by its very nature would either consume sinners thrown into it or else torture them endlessly.... "19 Universalists claim that it is their teaching alone that does justice to the truth that God is Love and that it is only their view gives that God the final victory over sin and death. ... "21 The report continues on and notes that universalism becomes increasingly acceptable to a pluralistic, multicultural society and gains t...

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There are a few things to note about this guy, since he's pretty revealing in the way he goes about this poem. ... The Realist When you start a poem with "If I should die," then you're already confronting a cold, hard truth that most people would rather not think about. ...

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Cadoche kept on walking figuring there was nothing to be alarmed about. ... When the Authorities discovered Catherine's body there was writing on the wall which read, "THE JUWES ARE THE MAN THAT WILL NOT BE BLAMED FOR NOTHING", was this a confession of some kind, a false accusation? ... Let the truth be known that we may never find out his true identity. ...

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SCENE SUMMARIES AND NOTES Act I, Scene 1 The play opens late at night on a street in Venice. ... Notes In this second scene, Othello is introduced in person for the first time. ... Hearing her words, her father admits defeat, knowing there is nothing else that he can do; but he openly disclaims his daughter. ...

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In the sentence prior to this I want you to take note of the fact that I said "two positive statements." ... Dissonance is a conflict in tonality between notes. ... Greeks knew nothing of being ashamed of theirsleves but they did know what shame in the eyes of others were. ... But I must say that I find great humor in the second definition because it is so close to the truth about Socrates relationship with the citizens of Athens. ...

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That's all, nothing else... That's all, nothing else... Only this, and nothing else (30). ... It's just the wind and nothing else!... He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). ...

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As a bridge between the employer and employee sections, I would like to make note of the Nazi German slogan, "Arbeit macht frei, or "Work will make you free", posted over the main entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. ...

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We will find some truths to help us understand and grasp the content of what the word of God says. ... If you want to know the truth, he is afraid to go home. ... The Mosaic law clearly stated that he was to have nothing to do with them. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ...

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(Walsh 1969, 13) It was his opinion that anyone that attempted to describe moral life in a concrete way and left out aspects of the background, would be giving a one sided account that doesnt give light to the whole truth. ... There should be nothing optional about them and must be the same for all citizens. ... Hegel does a better job of requiring that moral people must follow laws and fulfill contract agreements, yet still does nothing in the way of bridging the morality gap. ...

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