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Love has, quite unfairly, come to be associated with being happy. However, it is also one of the most reliable routes to misery. We tend to treat our sadness individually, as if it were unique and shameful. But, as this book explains, there are some solid reasons why love should be highly sorrowful at times. The good news is that, by understanding our romantic troubles and griefs, seeing them in their proper context and appreciating their prevalence,...
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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) is often described as the 'French Newton', though he lived a century later. His working life took him through the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era – during which he enjoyed various political positions – and afterwards, to the Bourbon Restoration. But his overriding importance was his contribution to science, with a remarkable range of interest and expertise including engineering, mathematics, statistics,...
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Ready to unravel the mystery of Laurie and Adaptive Attractiveness? He Has Brown Skin. in this episode I will be focusing to the fact that he doesn't have that in the movies, and I am going explore the possible reasons why Laurie has written to have brown skin in Little Women, and investigate whether or not this was intentional.
In Little Women, Louisa May Alcott wrote that Laurie has "curly black hair, black eyes and brown skin", but Laurie has never...
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This groundbreaking secondary school textbook analyses the rhetorical nature of the Five Paragraph Essay and the structure of examination essay questions. It provides students with an insightful and a comprehensive picture of the five-paragraph essay. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter one focuses on the origin of the genre of essay, and chapter two gives a description of the five-paragraph essay. The remaining chapters analyse the introduction...
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The essays in The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics have a rather special place in Schopenhauer's work, both being written as entries to Scandinavian philosophy competitions, one in Norway and one in Sweden.
'Essay on the Freedom of the Will' was Schopenhauer's response to the question posed by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences in 1839: 'Is it possible to demonstrate human free will from self-consciousness?' In a clear and confident response,...
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"A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a...
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