Vocation comes from the Latin ‘voco–to call’. This is the same concept as a priest or religious calling or vocation. Vocational training or education gets a pretty bad rap these days however. After having just prepared an 18 page thesis on vocational education in schools I am a bit dazed and confused. I have been […]
Tag Archives: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Do you always feel like you need to take care of yourself? Do you see someone you care about feeling sad that you would like to cheer up? works wonders on the mind is an authority on happiness. I love reading quotes about happiness when not feeling great. The authorities on happiness seem to replace […]
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Most people today in the world of mathematics do not seem to be particularly interested. A recent survey of highly hated mathematics ranked near the top of the list! But mathematicians know that they can be the most fascinating field filled with beauty and wonder. No, I’m not talking about long division or boring multiplication […]
Both Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky existed at the epicenters of churning changes in thought and contributed to the forward movement of ideas by provoking further philosophical progress. Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is described as “one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century” on its back cover, and Dostoevsky’s Notes […]
The narrator’s standpoint in the short novel, The Double, by Fyodor Dostoevsky is an unorthodox yet effective literary tool used by the author in order to further bring the audience into the many layers of this work of literature. The narration is done in the third person, but it is limited to the views of […]
*Note: This was written by a Yahoo! contributor. Do you have a personal finance story that you’d like to share? Sign up with the Yahoo! Contributor Network to start publishing your own finance articles. Some women are gold diggers who marry men for their money. And then there are frugal wives, who make their husbands […]
There are many dreams through out Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, however, Raskolnikov’s mare dream is particularly important in the novel, Raskolnikov slowly goes through a metamorphosis in the novel that marks critical changes in his morals and the mare dream marks the first major change of heart and moral that he has. Because the […]
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When list-topping male baby names like Jacob, Christopher, and Ethan begin to seem tired, prospective parents turn to music, sports, geography, religion, and other realms for inspiration. For bookish parents who loved their literature classes, fictional characters often provide ideas for an unusual or meaningful names. Books abound with remarkable male names, so the literary […]
In this article, the reason for the kidnapping of Ted Kennedy is a malignant brain tumor. it was Medicines usually help to keep it under control and they are usually not too much to worry about afterwards unless they are really serious epileptics who take the attacks away and take whatever medicine they take. But […]