Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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modern music is terrible
People often ask me why I listen to older music, or why I don’t listen to mainstream modern music. The answer to this question is very simple; I don’t like it, its terrible. Pretty much the entirety of modern “musicians” can be segregated into the several archetypes, which itself shows a lack of originality, that…
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In the article “we deserve more from our democratic system”, Russell Brand discusses some interesting and controversial views on our current political system. Russell Brand has never voted and claims “the impact of voting is negligible”. He believes wealth-inequality and the destruction of the earth are some of the biggest problems caused by our democratic…
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Description
There were trees. They grew freely and fed on the light the air and the earth, providing energy and shelter for all. Through the wooden, organic towers you could see the sun set from over the hill in the distance, the deep golden-orange radiation split over the hill and was a great contrast with the…
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Comparison
In this essay I will be discussing how Shakespeare presents flaws in characters in his play, Othello and I will compare this to the way which Robert browning presents character flaws in his Porphyria’s lover and child Rolland to the dark tower came. I will show how Othello’s pride leads to his down fall and…
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sonnet 159 by Petrarch: analysis
In what bright realm, what sphere of radiant thought A Did Nature find the model whence she drew B That delicate dazzling image where we view B Here on this earth what she in heaven wrought? A What fountain-haunting nymph, what dryad, sought A In groves, such golden tresses ever threw B Upon the gust?…
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Death: question’s
1. Why do you think I used personification? 2. Explain the concept of the poem before the Volta? 3. Explain the concept of the Volta? D you agree with the Volta?
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Death
All things with a beginning have an end You can not escape your definite doom You run from death because deaths not your friend It’s such a short time from birth to the tomb Throughout life you feel as if your deaths slave Death is looming over you throughout life You slowly journey from womb…
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hotel Rwanda scene analysis
in the film hotel Rwanda, in the scene when Paul is driving along the river road the directer has created a lot of suspense through the use of different camera shots and effects. one of the ways he did this is by allowing you only too know what Paul knows for example when there is…
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Angles
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Allegory practice
1 He woke up, ate some toast, washed, put his cloths on, He took them last of his medication, and went to school. the medication was a red, tasteless pill and he didn’t need a drink to take it he had been taking it for a long time, in fact he had been taking this…
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