Beverley Naidoo's The Death of an Idealist: In Search of Neil Aggett is at once an intimate account of the author's attempt to discover a distantly known first cousin, as well as a story of the late years of apartheid. The book intertwines personal narrative with public history, to ...
Maybe I’m a hopeless idealist, but I’d like to think so. There can be so much power in writing. A spark. A sense of connection. That magical transfer of life. Recommended reading on writing like a human: How to write from the heart How to write like a human How to write with ...
American folk music is the music of the people. "Good Night Irene," is an example of a traditional folk song. That means the song is so old, no one really knows who wrote it. Huddie Ledbetter, the singer and guitarist known as Ledbelly, first recorded "Good Night Irene" in 1932. S...
construct effective arguments using persuasive evidence, write clearly, remain flexible and look at issues with an open mind” can better equip students for “the ever-changing job market” (Smm, 2012). These ideals are similar to those of several of the philosophers we have discussed, such as...
However, it is these very same elements that give the film a slightly artificial quality - the magical realist narrative combined with the luminous, color-saturated, almost glossy cinematography gives the film a kind of storybook, “idealist” look (Manovich, 2001, p146). This is most evident...
flighty the next. Sociable, talkative and yet loving solitude and wanting to be away from people. Can be both cynical and optimistic. An idealist, living moment by moment. Intelligent, talented, creative. Definite dark side to character, devious, lying, suspicious, jealous, disrespectful of ...
My father, an accomplished 'gelatiere' (ice-cream maker in Italian), instilled in me a passion for science, constantly researching ways to make his products more nutritious. Being conscious of my health, I found myself developing a passion for medicine. However, my idealist mentality cannot...
This article suggests how a developing country like India without adapting the development paradigm can be shining example by following the Gandhian example of simple living and high thinking. To most this may sound like an idealist's dream. Either we adapt such a strategy deliberately or the ...
As both materialist and idealist ontologies posit that the entire universe is composed of the same underlying “stuff”, they are both examples of monism—a term that was rendered into Japanese and Chinese as “single-basis ideology” yiyuan lun一元論 (also yiyuan zhuyi 一元主義). Its opposite...
In the play, the characters of Masha and Irina come out to be more interesting than the character of Olga because they are more at home on the idealist reality than their sister is. Olga however has her own fascinating moments in the play as she encompasses the character of a playgoer an...