This powerful essay ... revolves around a remarkable deathbed scene in which a dying blind philosopher, Saunderson, rejects the arguments of a providential God during his last hours.

The essay revolves around the theme that the Chinese soldiers are the " most beloved people ".

In an essay on Ambler, James Fenton argued that Ambler said a decisive farewell to his left-wing period in his post-war thriller Judgement on Deltchev, which revolves around a show trial in an unidentified Communist country somewhere in the Balkans.

While contributing to various journals, he undertook investigative tramping expeditions in and around London, collecting material for use in " The Spike ", his first published essay, and the latter half of Down and Out in Paris and London.

As the name implies, the events of the essay are focused around magical artefacts: the Rings of Power, and also the history of the Second and Third Ages of Middle-earth.

In 1967 Smithson began exploring industrial areas around New Jersey and was fascinated by the sight of dump trucks excavating tons of earth and rock that he described in an essay as the equivalents of the monuments of antiquity.

In his essay " Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan " Smithson documents a series of temporary sculptures made with mirrors at particular locations around the Yucatan peninsula.

* An essay written around 160 AD, attributed to Lucian, a mock legal prosecution called The Consonants at Law — Sigma v. Tau in the Court of Seven Vowels contains a reference to the cross attribution.

Santayana influenced those around him, including Bertrand Russell, who in his critical essay admits that Santayana single-handedly steered him away from the ethics of G. E. Moore.

This book is a collection of six of Goffman ’ s essays ; the first four essays were published around the 1950s, the fifth is published in 1964, and the last essay was to finish the collection.

In May 2005 Danner wrote an essay for The New York Review accompanying the first American publication of the so-called " Downing Street Memo ", the leaked minutes of a July 2002 meeting the minutes of a July 2002 meeting of high-level British officials confirmed that when it came to the debate over whether to go to war in Iraq, " the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy ," and that the invasion of Iraq was in fact a foregone conclusion.

On some tests students are not permitted to begin responding to the question or questions in the essay packet until after a mandatory reading time (" planning period "), usually around 10 to 15 minutes.

Seventh grade ( around age 12 ) transcripts and a student essay are also factors in admission.

Although dated by the passage of time, this essay is still a core around which many others have been constructed.

* Blog essay on theories around the painting by John Haber

" Notes on " Camp "" is a well-known essay by Susan Sontag organized around fifty-eight numbered theses.

Her essay " In, around, and Afterthoughts ( on documentary photography )" ( 1981 but widely cited, republished, and translated ) has been credited with a great role in dismantling the myths of photographic disinterestedness and in generating a discussion about the importance of institutional and discursive framing in determining photographic meaning.

In reaction to Mencken's essay, " The Sahara of the Bozart ," the Southern Agrarians ( also based mostly around Vanderbilt ) called for a return to the South's agrarian past and bemoaned the rise of Southern industrialism and urbanization.

Hillgruber ’ s essay is extremely problematic when viewed from the perspective of a democratically constituted community that orients itself towards Western moral and political standards. There is no getting around the bitter truth that the defeat of National Socialist Germany was not only in the interest of the peoples who were bulldozed by Hitler ’ s war and of the peoples who were selected by his henchmen for annihilation or oppression or exploitation-it was also in the interest of the Germans.

* Global Youth Fund's This I Believe-Democratic youth charity launched its own This I Believe essay project targeting youth around the world.

According to an essay written by Brace in 1872, one crime and poverty ridden area around Tenth Avenue was referred to as “ Misery Row ”.

Popularized by T. S. Eliot in his essay " Hamlet and His Problems ", the term was first used by Washington Allston around 1840 in the " Introductory Discourse " of his Lectures on Art:

A more sophisticated approach to the issues raised by the cultural cringe, as felt by artistic practitioners in former colonies around the world, was developed and advanced by the Australian art historian Terry Smith in his essay ' The Provincialism Problem '.

The 300-page photographic essay was captured during a year of exploration around the English countryside.

The term " consequentialism " was coined by G. E. M. Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

The essay quickly generated controversy within the general semantics field, partly because practitioners of general semantics sometimes saw Bourland as attacking the verb ' to be ' as such, and not just certain usages.

In a late essay on Shelley, Yeats wrote, " I have re-read Prometheus Unbound ... and it seems to me to have an even more certain place than I had thought among the sacred books of the world.

Tolkien wrote in his essay " On Fairy Stories " that the terms " fantasy " and " enchantment " are connected to not only "... the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires ..." but also "... the origin of language and of the mind.

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", Orwell derided the use of cliché and dying metaphors, which " even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent " and went on to say " But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

In England this essay, which was regarded and treated as a plea for deism, caused a great sensation, eliciting several replies, from among others William Whiston, Bishop Hare, Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, and Richard Bentley, who, under the signature of " Phileleutherus Lipsiensis ", roughly handles certain arguments carelessly expressed by Collins, but triumphs chiefly by an attack on the trivial points of scholarship, his own pamphlet being by no means faultless in this very respect.

" He also acknowledges his own shortcomings and states " Look back through this essay and for certain you will find that I have again and again committed the very faults I am protesting against.

Absurdism as a belief system was born of the European existentialist movement that ensued, specifically when the French Algerian philosopher and writer Albert Camus rejected certain aspects from that philosophical line of thought and published his essay The Myth of Sisyphus.

In 1806 he published an edition of Alexander Pope's works with notes and an essay, in which he laid down certain canons as to poetic imagery which, subject to some modification, were later accepted, but which were received at the time with strong opposition by admirers of Pope and his style.

Despite certain signs of ironic distrust in the areas of metaphysics and ontology, The Concept of the Political was, as we have seen, a philosophical type of essay to ' frame ' the topic of a concept unable to constitute itself on philosophical ground.

Gayle Rubin, who has written on a certain range of subjects including sadomasochism, prostitution, pornography, and lesbian literature as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, first rose to prominence through her 1975 essay " The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ' Political Economy ' of Sex ", in which she coins the phrase " sex / gender system " and criticizes Marxism for what she claims is its incomplete analysis of sexism under capitalism, without dismissing or dismantling Marxist fundamentals in the process.

The novels were written largely in response to the events of World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, and express certain significant shifts in Sartre's philosophical position towards ' engagement ' ( commitment ) in both life and literature, finding their resolution in the extended essay L ' existentialisme est un humanisme ( Existentialism is a Form of Humanism ), which was criticized from both sides of the existentialist fence.

Von Neumann said it was " absolutely certain ( 1 ) that there would be a nuclear war ; and ( 2 ) that < u > everyone would die in it </ u >" ( underline added to quote from: The Nature of the Physical Universe – 1979, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-03190-9, in H. Putnam ’ s essay The place of facts in a world of values-page 113 ).

The reasoning provided in the essay was that certain companies first destroy forests and make paper out of them, which is in turn used to send bulk mail.

It may also explain certain elements that are important to the essay if explanations are not part of the main text.

On October 5, 2008, Slifkin published an essay entitled In Defense of My Opponents in which he acknowledges that there is a reasonable basis for a ban on his books in certain communities.

The fragility of metadata is an important concern because much planning for improving the web ( such as the semantic web ) is predicated upon certain flavors of metadata becoming widely adopted and used with care — something which, according to Doctorow's essay, will not and cannot happen.

The networked book manifests a certain " disarticulation of the body of text " and " disaggregated / reaggregated " structure as described by Raffaele Simone in his essay, The Body of the Text.

It was the first essay in architecture ( 1521 – 24 ) of Michelangelo, who also designed its monuments dedicated to certain members of the Medici family, with sculptural figures of the four times of day that were destined to influence sculptural figures reclining on architraves for many generations to come.

In this essay, Hamilton argues that if the federal government's powers of taxation were confined to certain objects, it would place strain on those objects, especially in times of great need.