Virginia Craft
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An Analysis of the Film Harold & MaudeA philosophical analysis of the symbols in the Hal Ashby's film "Harold & Maude", and how both Harold and Maude as characters represent both society and nature, respectively, and the struggle to affirm existence.
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Mindful ConsumptionQuestioning the "Green" trends that arose to help the environment, this examines some cheaper, easier, more mindful solutions to consumerist problems.
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Boredom and a Life of Painful DesiresAttempts at satisfying desires only lead to more pain and more suffering once the desires are fulfilled. For Arthur Schopenhauer, this is an absurd cycle that can only be broken by a denial of the will.
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False Needs, False Wants, and False FreedomPeople's creation of false needs and wants leads to a false sense of freedom which, in turn, deepens the excess of production and consumption in our society.
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Problems of Identity in Anti-Semitism and ColonialismSimilarities between Sartre's and Fanon's, drawing upon the anti-Semite's enslavement over the Jew's identity in Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" and the slavery over the colonized subject by the colonist in Franz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth".
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Language and Sexuality in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of PerceptionThis shows the importance of speech and language as well as sexuality to form & express experience, using Merleau-Ponty's examples of people who are incapable of certain language and sexual acts and how this acts as a form of escape.
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Kierkegaard's Three Existential StagesA look at Søren Kierkegaard's three existential stages (aesthetic, ethical and religious), which offer a means to cope with the anxiety and absurdity of life. Also how these contrast and complement the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Effects of Two Different Styles of Writing: Philosophical and PoeticalUsing rules of grammar, sentence structure, examples, and examination, I endeavor to show how two different styles of writing--philosophical and poetical--contribute to overall expression and experience.
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Impacts of Science, Technology and InformationPondering the question of what is the best way to solve deep-rooted problems in society and nature, we have to ask ourselves if an excess of science, technology, and information could be hurting the problem more than fixing it.
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An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Film "Notorious"A philosophical analysis of Hitchcock's "Notorious", in which significant themes and symbols mesh with brilliant elements of film in order to produce dense meanings of questioning identities in life.
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Analysis of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh SealIngmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" has innumerable meanings to infer, but I have chosen to focus on only a few to represent what I believe to be one of the film's overall themes.
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Analysis of Fred Zinnemann's Film Act of ViolenceA philosophical analysis of the film "Act of Violence", focusing on elements of lightness and darkness used by director Fred Zinnemann for a thought-provoking film.
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Social and Ecological ChangeUsing essays from social ecologists Murray Bookchin and Mary Mellor, questions of better approaching problems within human societies and of a type of "human-centeredness" in conjunction with nature are analyzed and discussed.
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Analysis of Rudolph Maté's Film "D.O.A."A philosophical analysis of Rudolph Maté's film, focusing on symbols, meanings, main characters, and interpretation of film elements. An important key element is the main character's search for truth in the midst of his certain death.