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Conscience in Literature, 2004.
Briefly examines the role of conscience in "The Lord of the Flies", by William Golding, and "Beowulf".
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 24.95
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"The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience", says J.F. Clarke. This paper proves the validity and accuracy of this statement with respect to two important fictional works, namely "Beowulf", by an anonymous author, and William Golding?s "Lord of the Flies". The paper shows that conscience is the only beacon of hope for man when surrounded by evil forces.
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"Though Grendel and his mother are strong opponents, Beowulf manages to overpower them with his strong faith in the strength of the good against the evil. Near the end, Beowulf is again pitted against a massive evil force in the form of a Dragon. Beowulf manages to overcome him but loses his own life in the process. Beowulf lives his life following his conscience and the golden principle that he firmly believed in:
It is always better/to avenge dear ones than to indulge in/mourning./For every one of us, living in this world/means waiting for our end. Let whoever can/win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,/that will be his best and only bulwark. (II. 1384-89)"
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Eminem & Dr. Dre: Guilty Conscience, 2003.
An analysis from a poetic perspective of Eminem & Dr. Dre's "Guilty Conscience."
2,283 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper analyzes Eminem and Dr. Dre's "Guilty Conscience." It shows that rap music has many common elements with poetry to the extent that it ought to be considered and analyzed as poetry. The paper dissects the song, looking closely at its language, style and themes. The writer believes that rap music has a strong poetic message which should not be ignored or stereotyped.
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"My choice of poem to analyze may surprise you as a bit unconventional. I will analyze the hip-hop music star Eminem?s song Guilty Conscience. I was initially going to choose Milton?s Sonnet VII, a poem that is more than 350 years old, contains some of the classic themes of poetry, and is written by one of the most renowned poets ever. With Guilty Conscience, my approach will be almost the equal and exact opposite. The ?poem? is a mere one-year in age, it contains some themes that do not yet seem to have been really discussed in the English literature academic community, and is written by someone whom most adults know at best as a controversial entertainer. Nonetheless, it is my opinion, which I hope to henceforth argue, that hip-hop music (also known as rap music) is another form of poetry and therefore is as valid a candidate for analysis as other poems."
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Conscience, 2002.
A look at issues of conscience through a review of "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell and "Judge Waring" by Septima Clark.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper examines what prevents or allows one from following his or her conscience. The author uses evidence from two articles, "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell and "Judge Waring" by Septima Clark.
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Individual Conscience and Corporate Authority, 2001.
Analysis of theme of conflict between conscience & authority portrayed in Aeschylus' "PROMETHEUS BOUND" & Sophocles' "ANTIGONE."
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 63.95
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T"his research examines the issue of individual conscience versus corporate authority as articulated in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound and Sophocles's Antigone. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas in each work that appear relevant to the conflict between conscience and authority and then to discuss the means by which the plays achieve sentient and intellectual impact on account of their theme.
Prometheus Bound, as the title implies, portrays the god Prometheus's punishment by Zeus for stealing from the gods the "treasure" of "all-fashioning fire" and giving it to mankind. Personified characters Strength and Violence, with the help of the fire god Hephaestus, shackle Prometheus, to a rock on an ocean shore. Prometheus stays in place for the entire action of the play, and is visited in turn by a chorus, comprising daughters.."
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Human Conscience and Dramatic Theatre, 2002.
A look at the evolution of human conscience and the history of dramatic theatre through a review of three different tragic plays.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 106.95
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This essay examines three kinds of tragedy in the history of dramatic theatre. Greek, Shakespearean, and Modern tragedies are discussed here, and analyzed in relation to exemplary tragic plays. Antigone, Hamlet, and A Raisin in the Sun are considered in relation to the tragedy that describes their composition. The differences and similarities are discussed, and the social evolution of theatrical literature is explored in the conclusion.
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Jane Eyre's Struggle Between Conscience and Passion, 2005.
An examination of Jane's internal struggle in the final section of "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 31.95
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The final portion of the novel "Jane Eyre" presents the protagonist with a number of choices where she is forced to weigh matters of conscience versus her passions. This paper considers the last few chapters and discusses whether conscience or passion wins. It also analyzes how her fight between conscience and passion contributes to the novel as a whole.
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"Feeling her perception of Rochester's voice to have had some mystical provenance, Jane immediately returns to Thornfield, discovering only a burnt-out ruin where the beautiful manor once stood. Once she finds Rochester-who was injured in the fire which killed Bertha and now lives in a smaller house in the woods-he confirms the supernatural nature of what she heard just before rejecting St. James' proposal. Rochester proposes marriage to her, and she accepts. Now that Bertha is gone, there is no impediment to Jane's and Rochester's marriage. They are married in a quiet ceremony and live as equals. As was her decision to share her inheritance with her cousins, this decision is one where her passion and her conscience coincide."
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"Beloved" and Conscience, 2004.
This paper reviews Toni Morrison?s ?Beloved?, focusing on the character Beloved.
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This paper explains that Toni Morrison?s ?Beloved? is a history, memory, and the terrible shadow of the character Sethe's past. The author believes that Beloved is the physical manifestation of Sethe's guilty conscience because Sethe?s desire to protect her children from the horrors of slavery overpowered her humanity; she brutally murdered her baby and buried it under the headstone, "Beloved". The paper relates that Beloved disappears when Sethe is reconnected to the community because she can finally accept her guilt and reattach herself to her conscience, the part of her that Beloved embodied.
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"Sethe is relieved, because for her, ?the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay" (52). However, Denver is upset, because Paul D has driven away her only friend, and has begun to come between her and her mother. As a peace offering, Paul D takes Sethe and Denver a carnival, which makes Denver realize that a life with a man around instead of a ghost might not be so bad. But Sethe?s consciences refuses to be banished so easily, and just as things are looking up, it returns to disrupt things, this time in the form of Beloved."
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Double Conscience in Blues Music, 2002.
A paper which examines the underlying meanings in African-American blues music.
1,627 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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Blues music has been considered an important and popular music genre in the history of American music. The paper discusses one of the most important and significant characteristics of blues music - the fact that it illustrates double conscience, wherein an underlying meaning can be found explicitly or implicitly in the song?s lyrics. Examples of themes are the social and personal experiences of the African-Americans in their lives as slaves of the white American society and as laborers in most Southern cotton plantations. The paper examines how the social and personal relevance of blues music to the black Americans is evident in many works of literature depicting black American slavery such as Frederick Douglass' , ?Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.? The paper also analyzes three Blues songs to show how the theme of double conscience - ?Strange Fruit? by Billie Holiday, ?No Education? by Lightnin? Hopkins, and ?Black, Brown, and White? by Big Bill Broonzy.
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"Meanwhile, ?Black, Brown, and White? by Big Bill Broonzy is a song that generally discusses certain issues about discrimination among people who have different physical colors: the Blacks, Whites, and Browns (or the mulattos, as they are commonly called). Broonzy?s song utilizes colors as the primary aspect that distinguishes the privileges that an individual should have. All throughout the song, the line, ?? if you is white/ You?s alright/ If you?s brown/ Stick around/ But if you?s black/ Hmm, hmm, brother/ Get back, get back, get back? is repeated after every stanza, to further reinforce the fact that among the physical differences of people in the world, the Blacks are considered the most unfortunate of all, denied the opportunity to obtain a good job, to receive a high salary, and to enjoy the simple leisure and joys of life. Once again, the song utilizes narrative description as a way to illustrate and extend the message of discrimination to black Americans because of physical appearance and the issue of injustice and unequal treatment among people of their race (African-American)".
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Edgar Allan Poe: Guilty Conscience, 2006.
An exploration of some of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper explores the works of Edgar Allan Poe,by looking at the man behind the book. The author specifically centers on the two most famous works of Poe, "Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" by examining the attitudes of the characters and how they are portrayed and what message the books are trying to give.The author concludes that with the similarities and differences between these two main works of Edgar Allan Poe, it is easy to see why Poe is considered one of the most controversial writers of all time and why has been criticized and also had much honor.
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"The task of the narrator begins with careful planning, but in the end his guilty conscience creates his downfall. For seven days, the narrator watches the old man while he sleeps. The narrator's comments show his confidence and courage in his plan to kill: "Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers - of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe 810). The narrator's comfort in his evil act continued even when the police came to check on the old man and investigate the loud noises neighbors heard the night before: "I smiled,-for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome" (Poe 813). However, the narrator's mind is quickly consumed with guilt, which creates his figment of the imagination of hearing the old man's heartbeat from under the flooring."
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Shoes for Social Conscience, 2006.
A discussion regarding how alternative culture makes us into corporate toadies.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay explores the culture of culture jamming via Blackspot sneakers and how this sales campaign reveals that the self-identified socially conscious are possibly competitive consumers rather than social care-takers. This discussion focuses on the media coverage; promotion and marketing materials of the Blackspot sneakers recently deemed "one of the 12 hottest urban brands" as an example of a consumer product that represents the counterculture in the sum of its parts.
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"In an early publishing of an article in Forbes magazine, Adbusters' Blackspot sneakers were discussed in terms of their unrealistic ability to take on mega-brands such as Nike. Still, and as noted in the article, Adbusters has managed to sell 20,000 pairs since 2003 (Whelan, n.p.). Even with the cost of manufacturing, this sales figure can easily be worth up to a half million dollars in profit over three years; not bad for a small alternative magazine outfit in B.C. Interestingly, to even entering in this conversation, one must acknowledge that Adbusters has become part of the mainstream culture, where concerns of sales and marketing are central topics."
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The Decay of Macbeth's Conscience, 2002.
This paper discusses Macbeth's character.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses that in studying Macbeth's character; one can discover what remains still is an unparalleled portrait of a good man going evil because of his unchecked ambition.
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Civil Obedience and Moral Freedom in Political Thinking, 2004.
Discusses the conflict between civil obedience and moral freedom (free will and personal conscience) in the discourses of Henry Thoreau, Martin Luther King, and Plato.
863 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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The theme of social dysfunction through civil disobedience is thoroughly discussed in political discourses written by famous philosophers and writers like Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, and Plato. This essay analyzes and studies the similarities and differences among the literary works of these three writers, relating their works to the main theme that studies the conflict between civil disobedience and moral freedom (through free will and personal conscience). The texts that are presented in this paper show a comparative analyses of the writers? works, in which the stance that Thoreau's and Luther?s works promote is individual free will and personal conscience, as compared to Plato?s pro-government stance in his literary work, ?Crito?.
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"Thoreau and King?s stance regarding the conflict between civil disobedience and moral freedom differs with that of Plato?s pro-government/State stance in Crito. Influenced by 19th and 20th century radical thinking, Thoreau and King conduct a more humanistic, yet rational argument for civil disobedience. Plato, on the other hand, subsists to the belief that Laws imposed by the government should be respected, using Law as its subject to bring back the ?social contract? agreement, where civil disobedience is equivalent with ?overturning? this social contract agreed upon by all members of the society."
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Heidegger's Well-Wrought Urn, 2007.
An analysis of the terms "conscience" and "know-how" as Aristotelian modes of disclosure as discussed in Martin Heidegger's "Plato's Sophist".
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines Martin Heidegger's view, in his essay "Plato's Sophist", of the Aristotelian concepts of "conscience" and "know-how". The paper points out that Heidegger delimits these concepts as modes of disclosure, to reveal the manner in which their deliberation of beings relates to their agent and his experience of "being in the world". "Know-how" concerns itself primarily with the production of objects as form, which are then removed from its sphere of influence to realize their being through proper use. "Conscience" takes as its object life itself, and its dileberations of "excellence" are integrated into the agent. The paper maintains that, according to Heidegger, this creates a transparency of action and "being in the world" (Dasein) that must constantly reassert itself to resist life's natural tendency toward concealment. The paper concludes that the fundamental difference between these two modes of disclosure can be seen in their relationship to "excellence" and the manner in which their products are manifested.
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"The characteristic of excellence ( ) finds its expression differently in (know-how) and (conscience), revealing a primary distinction between these two modes of disclosure. While both direct themselves toward the becoming of beings which 'may be otherwise', stands beside ( ) its productions, whereas integrates its productions. Excellence ( ) is to manifest the perfection inherently possible to beings, which requires a degree of certitude. T finds this possible, within its limits of disclosure, while can never have such. Though the authentic being of an object is inaccessible to because it does not participate in its use, perfection of form ( ) may be reached through its fundamental methodology. As a set of principles drawn from a multiplicity of experiences, the process of trial and error creates a certainty that the form ( ) has achieved its maximum potential. As with the scientific method, the more experiments that reinforce a theory, the more accurate a representation of reality it is assumed to be. Any error results in a reworking of the theory to include such information, therefore increasing its accuracy ( ). "But in the case of , on the contrary, where it is a matter of a deliberation whose theme is the proper Being of Dasein, every mistake is a personal shortcoming". Errors do not open up the possibility of a higher degree of knowledge; rather, they are a complete corruption of proper being. Every deliberation of is in the form of an either/or proposition: it cannot have an end ( ) of excellence ( ) because it is excellence ( ) in its constant becoming. "The [origin] with which has to do is the action itself. And the which is taken into consideration in is the action itself". Thus, within , that which is uncovered remains uncovered through the constant struggle which orients it always toward its continuous expression in the actions ( ) of authentic Dasein. Conscience may be distorted by the desires and their usurpation of Dasein, but it can never be forgotten."
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"The Tell Tale Heart", 2002.
An analysis of the short story "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe focusing on the theme of conscience.
821 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, $ 29.95
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The writer provides a brief description of the story and shows that in the last paragraph, one can tell that the character's conscience comes into play, thus driving him to confess. The writer states that the conscience is the reason why the narrator in "The Tell Tale Heart" gave himself away.
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"Through out Poe?s story, one recognizes that the man, who is identified as the narrator, is a bit fanatical. One can tell this by the events in the story. The narrarator looking at the man in his sleep, paying close attention to his eye, and the brutal way that the narrator killed the poor man, is just mere justification that this man is indeed crazy. But no matter how mad the man is, is the truth will always come to surface in the end because ones conscience will always play a role in finding the truth."
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The Obligation of Eternal Destiny, 2006.
A review of Simone Weil and Georg Hegel's views of collective conscience and eternal destiny.
1,559 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper reviews, discusses and compares the philosophical thoughts of Simone Weil and Georg Hegel pertaining to collective conscience or the absolute spirit. The paper defines this to be where nothing need be questioned as it is the absolute truth, that we as individuals seek to determine our destiny.
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"Yet, the problem of this philosophical line, whether you believe as Weil that all men have always and will always have the eternal destiny to make sure that no one ever leaves their presence hungry or that of Hegel where seeking the eternal destiny is the work of t he collective culminating into the possibility of the individual to attain it through Christianity and philosophy, is that the collective (e.g. corporation, state) needs a eternal destiny and a collective conscience in order not to destroy the world. Though Weil may have simply been speaking out against socialism, (Bennett 42) Hegel also clearly states that the individuals are the seat of the absolute and individuals alone must find their connection to the absolute spirit and the collective conscience, that it will not be given them without work, without seeking and most importantly without Art, History and Philosophy. The charge against collective dominance, or the corporation's ability to circumvent the obligations of the individual is almost universal in philosophy, even when that is the goal, as in communism. Some would say that is the failing of communism but others would also argue that it will be the failure of the state and the corporation as well because both have the intention of circumventing the individual's responsibility to the collective, a broader collective than that of the corporation."
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