The Beautiful Experience Essays

  • The Mountain by Robert Frost

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    write about. Being able to deeply describe nature in a way that people love is something that Frost has mastered. Nature is something that is beautiful and most people take it for granted. The scenery is also a very big part of “The Mountain”. Scenery makes nature a much beautiful place, as if it already is not. Everything surrounding the mountains are beautiful. Robert Frost often speaks on nature. The grass around the mountains makes them stick out better. Robert Frost is deeply in love with nature

  • The Beautiful in Kant's Third Critique and Aristotle's Poetics

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    The Beautiful in Kant's Third Critique and Aristotle's Poetics ABSTRACT: I argue that Kant's analysis of the experience of the beautiful in the third Critique entails an implicit or potential experience of the sublime, that is, the sublime as he himself describes it. Finding the sublime in the beautiful is what I call philosophical beauty. I then consider some aspects of Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in the Poetics, specifically his identification of the key elements of tragedy as those involving

  • Descriptive Essay On Arizona

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    Would you like to visit a nice and quiet place?Imagine walking on the soft slopes of a beautiful mountain, witnessing true beauty. A place full of wilderness and open grasslands, on the side of a hill with an amazing view of the city. So many amazing experiences are formed at the Pyrenees Mountains. This is an experience you will never forget and is well worth your time and money. The Pyrenees Mountains divide Spain, on the south side and France, on the north. They have world renowned festivals

  • Analysis Of The Rain By Robert Creeley

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    that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true

  • Comparing Wiesel's Provisionss In Night And Life Is Beautiful

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    Elie Wiesel's novel Night and the movie "Life is Beautiful.” Both of these stories follow a father and son as they experience the Nazi’s concentration camps during the Holocaust. While the ambiance is similar in both stories, the manner in which the protagonists define their Holocaust experience

  • Comparing Sappho And Alcibiades In Plato's Symposium

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    seem like they are simply about a naïve and lovesick girl. In the Symposium, Alcibiades appears similarly to Sappho, being extremely devoted to Socrates. Both Sappho and Alcibiades want to experience love because they think it will make them happier, but each for different reasons. Sappho wants the experience of loving and being loved. Alcibiades wants the knowledge he believes he will gain from love, but neither are approaching love the correct way, as Diotima and Socrates describe it, to actually

  • Definition Essay Beauty

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    what one individual considers beautiful is not necessarily what another individual may consider beautiful. That is because different objects are observed in different ways and why most philosophers couldn’t agree on what exactly beauty is. Although a person’s outward appearance can be defined by the term beauty, I believe that true beauty lies in the way a person acts and thinks rather than the way they look. Also, that beauty is defined through our personal experiences. Beauty is more than something

  • The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Analysis

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    Not everyone is beautiful. I am tired of hearing that. But everyone has the ability to be. A person is as beautiful as the things they do, the words they say and the intentions of their heart. Physical appearance is not a synonym of beauty. The shape of one’s face or the curve of one’s hips are not qualified factors when discussing this term. Beauty cannot be seen at first glance. Someone's experiences and outlook on life shape them not only intellectually but also physically. There is no better

  • Brannon Belle Research Paper

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    Dinner on the Showboat Branson Belle Dinner on the beautiful Showboat Branson Belle, was an amazing experience. From the beautiful boat, the awesome views, and the entertainment this was unforgettable. Upon boarding the Branson Belle, the boat was beautiful along with the sights, the meal was the very impressive and last but not least the cruise onto the beautiful Take Rock Lake. The 1890’s- style paddle wheeler is beautiful sitting out on Table Rock Lake. She can hold up to 700 passengers. (DeJong

  • Diotima's Argument Concerning The Nature Of Desire

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    Happiness is when the desire to have good and beautiful things. Thus, saying the lover of beautiful things desires “that they become his own” (Symposium, 50). However, we desire what we do not possess. The good is happiness, which is believe to be the end itself that is when the lover of good things has what he desire, only then he will have happiness. Thus, seeking for this individuals may get confused with beauty and instead of seeking an experience they search for the sensory version of beauty

  • Trajan's Forum Letter

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    I’m writing you this letter to share with you my experience while I was at Trajan’s Forum. Now let me tell you my friend I am one lucky Roman citizen to be living just down the street from this beautiful place. From the moment you walk in all you see is beauty even just standing outside of the entrance you see its beauty. The entrance is just magnificent with there being this massive triumphal arch and statues on either side between the triple columns. Not only that, but these columns were made

  • Life Is Beautiful And Night Comparison Essay

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    The film, Life is Beautiful, and the memoir, Night, were both composed to tell about events in the same time period. Although many aspects of these are the same, the memoir and film differ in a numerous amount of ways. One of the obvious ways these pieces are similar is in their plots. The memoir, Night, recounts the experiences of a father and son during the time they spent at a concentration camp. It starts by giving a brief idea of what life looked like for the main characters before they were

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Novels: Parallels Between His Worlds of Fiction and Reality

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    In his 1933 essay “One Hundred False Starts”  F. Scott Fitzgerald describes how he repeatedly drew upon his own life experiences to create beautiful novels because doing so is most effective when trying to connect with the reader. He said: “Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves, that’s the truth.  We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives. Experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and

  • The Paradox Of Courage In Jack Dawson's 'The Sad And The Beautiful'

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    and the Beautiful In 1997, millions of people gathered into movie theaters to watch one of the most tragic movies of all time: Titanic. Undoubtedly knowing what they will get, the people were willing to go and watch over three hours of a painful story that would end up with over a thousand people dying. Hardly no-one, however, would have been willing to witness the sinking ship in the North Atlantic Ocean – not even safely on the rescue boats. This inconsistency between the experiences looked for

  • Difference Between Art And Tolstoy

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    of an artwork but Tolstoy would disagree. According to Bell, visual art evokes an emotional response from the audience through its qualities. In the excerpt Art, he writes, “The starting point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works

  • Comparing The Beautiful Struggle And The Wire

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    The Beautiful Struggle and The Wire deeply expressed the Black experience. Both factors gave the perspective on how Black individuals view society based on what they go through. The book, The Beautiful Struggle, covers Ta-Nehisi Coates’s childhood and adolescence of growing up in Baltimore, Maryland. In the show, The Wire, it is based on a group of four boys who are also being raised in Baltimore, Maryland. The Beautiful Struggle and The Wire are comparable because the book and the show both consist

  • Life Is Beautiful Vs Night Essay

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    Night vs. Life is Beautiful “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think” (Walpole, n.d.). In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night (2006), he revisits his childhood as a Holocaust prisoner. He and his dad sustain one another; however, when Elie is faced with reality his faith in God diminishes. Similarly in the movie “Life is Beautiful” (2000), there is a strong bond between father and son as they endure the horrors of the Holocaust. The movie follows the story of a young Joshua

  • Father And Son Relationships In Night And Life Is Beautiful

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    film "Life is Beautiful" (2000), the perspective is completely different. Although the experiences within each story are quite different, both share the prominent topic of a father/son relationship throughout the Holocaust. However, the father and son were not the only characters who set the entire mood; the Jewish prisoners also added to each story. These different perspectives define each story, as well as the characters within. In the novel Night and in the novel "Life is Beautiful," the Holocaust

  • Hawaii Persuasive Essay

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    Hawaii, infamous for its beautiful sights, warm water, and blue skies, is a popular state full of tourists from all over the world. While Hawaii may be one of the smallest states in the United States, it is full of memorable experiences and bountiful in adventures for all types. When you take your first step outside of the airport, you feel as if you are in a whole new world. Sunny skies, warm air, and lovely flowers trademark the beauty of Hawaii. 1. Zip lining Hawaii’s beautiful, non-populated areas

  • Las Rubias Poem Analysis Essay

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    that differentiates them or an event that any woman could experience that brings them together. Beauty is not easily defined, and women everywhere struggle with not only pleasing the people around them, but themselves. Wanting to describes themselves and feel beautiful is one of the many struggles women experience throughout their lives. “Las Rubias” by Diana García from Fire and Ink represents a common example of what women of color experience while comparing themselves to the “beauty” of white women