Leviathan Research Paper

Richard Bensel’s Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1857-1877, is a book on the formation of the United States Federal government during the Civil War and the Reconstruction eras. The book deals with the association of the Northern class and the Federal government. It provides a history of the economy during the Civil War and help to reveal why a socialist economy would not further the American economy. Bensel is of the belief that an independent state authority would be a better form of government. He contended the United States Federal government’s growth was as a result of the Civil War during the Reconstruction era. In addition, Bensel believed the Civil War attributed to the Northern Financial class, which ensued from association with bankers in the North. He saw political

Scott Westerfeld wrote Leviathan because of a deep interest in history and science. A previous author of sci-fi novels, he was interested in how incorporating science and technology would affect a historical event such as World War I. The novel takes place during World War I, and focuses on the events occurring throughout Europe at that time. The main theme of Leviathan is how destructive war is. The character sin the book experience loss of friends, family, and loved ones, and have their whole lives changed because of war. Some of the characters are eager for war, or interested in it, while others despise it, and are saddened by the destruction it causes. “Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”

The relevant outgrowth of American realism, another relatable writing tendency derived in 1880s. Similar as the purport of realism, Naturalism detailed theto suggest that social heredity and the environment had an inevitable effect in shaping human characteristic (Elliot 497). It opposed to literacy movements in the early period, such as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects receive highly symbolic, idealistic disposition. However, naturalism contained relatively passive and obscure view of the world. Unlike the realism, it focuses more on literary technique, which insinuated a philosophical position: the human beings are considered as "human beasts" (Elliot 502). By utilizing a version of the scientific method to illustrate the surrounding, naturalism writers construct the laws behind the forces that govern human lives, which could be studied and understood by the audience. From the naturalism literature, nature was sculptured as an indifferent force acting in the lives of human beings (Elliot 507). The universe, typically, has been described as

“Can you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when you’re used to swimming 100 miles a day?” This is how captive dolphins live everyday, their natural habitat is swimming miles and miles in the ocean. When they get captured their lives change for the worse. In the past decade Seaworld and captive animals has been a controversial subject. Many people believe the keeping orca whales captive is damaging to the animal and affects them in a negative way. Others believe Seaworld is used to rescue animals and save them. The treatment of animals in captivity is cruel and should be stopped. Keeping animals captive is an appalling punishment.

Like all natural things, the Albatross is intimately tied to the spiritual world, and thus begins the Ancient Mariner's punishment by the spiritual world through means of the natural world. Rather than direct confrontation; the supernatural communicates through the natural. The ocean, sun, and lack of wind and rain brutalize the Ancient Mariner and his shipmates. When the dead men come back to the physical world to curse the Ancient Mariner with their eyes. Men (like Adam) feel the urge to define things, and the Ancient Mariner seems to feel this urge when he suddenly and inexplicably destroys the Albatross, shooting it from the sky as if he needs to bring it into the physical realm, to explain to himself. It is mortal, but closely tied to the metaphysical, spiritual world, it even flies like a spirit because it is a bird. This use of nature to teach in Rime of the Ancient Mariner is alternatively seen in Frankenstein to heal. The use of a mountain river to describe Frankensteins feelings is the beginning of a theme that is continued throughout the story. The introduction of an association of nature and human feeling, shows how Shelley prefers to use metaphor of a natural setting rather than openly discussing Frankensteins inside conflits. Instead of relating Frankenstein feelings and experience in rational discourse, intellectual description or by dialogue with other characters, she chooses the image of a

Jane was left anonymously at an orphanage in Brisbane in 1951. The girl grew up having no clue of her parents' identities. It was on May the fifth 1969 that she got drunk and slept with an drunk, older man. Unfortunately for Jane, she got pregnant and her partner was anything but inclined to stick around. Despite her friends advice, Jane refused to get an abortion. She had always been stubborn. She probably would have made a decent parent, but disaster struck again for our Jane. A serious of complications occurred in the delivery room of a grotesque nature. The birth was a long and painful one. By the end of it Jane was utterly sleep deprived, and it was hardly her fault that the baby was lost. She handed it to a man dressed in doctors' clothes – the full get up. The man vanished, and despite the polices best efforts, was never tracked down.

It became too much, to solve the pain she jumped off the cliff behind the Manlyn mansion, dying in the seas she once loved to explore.The second leviathan was created after 3 more generations, the child was called Aron Campbell. A smart boy who always wanted to discover more about himself, about his power. He was the leviathan to master the water body technique, his ability enabling him to turn his own leviathan body into water. But alas, even he couldn't protect himself from the power he held, his power slowly becoming something he hated. All his years of training made him slowly go crazy, utterly insane, the darkness was once again too much for his human body. He dragged himself to the same cliff Lauren jumped off and plummeted to his own death.The third leviathan was known as the prophet, along with the force transforming power, she was gifted the power to tell the future for her leviathan species. It was a gift thought to never happen, a myth lost in the works of time, but Sophie Jessica Harlem proved the myth to be a true

Animal captivity acts as a broad way for the public to view and enjoy wild species. However, “it transforms helpless, harmless animals into aggressive, agitated monsters” (4). “Wild animals should never be kept in captivity- especially not at SeaWorld Parks” (7), and little did you know that kept Animals in captivity are deprived of their loved ones, their freedom, and their personal will to carry on, which lead to them becoming highly aggressive. The conditions in captivity are horrifying and disgusting. The animals have to have a better place to live in so that they will have the capability of striving. Why do you think so many species are in danger of going extinct? Many believe that SeaWorld is a family-friendly incorporation and an

Levi Coffin was a well-known abolitionist, and a very important individual to the success of the Underground Railroad. Dictionary.com describes an abolitionist as a person who tries to stop or get rid of any law or practice that is harmful to the society (“Abolitionist”). Levi Coffin was that and much more. He and most of the people involved in the Quaker religion believed that all men were equal and it was his divine purpose to do everything in his power to help. Levi took it a bit further than most. He was exposed to slavery at a young age and was taught by his family not to support it; he took those teachings and applied them to various stages of his life; including his young adulthood, marriage and retirement (Ludwig).

To start out analyzing this archetypal setting we must identify what the sea archetype actually is and where it came from. According to Deborah Rudd from billstifler.org, she says that the sea is, “the mother of all life; spiritual mystery; death and/or rebirth; timelessness and eternity”. It also says this on Yourdictionary.com, a site where education from levels 7 to even collage is accepted, that the sea,”Can be both good and evil, with dangers and treasures. It can also show infinity.” Both sites said something similar in terms of life but when looking at the article from your dictionary there can be good and bad sides to the sea and this stays true throughout different cultures.

One of the first political theorists, Aristotle once wrote in his novel Politics, “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ” (Aristotle 4) Dating back to Ancient Greece, the state of nature has been observed and disputed for centuries. It wasn’t until the 1600s, was Aristotle’s theory ever seriously debated. Thomas Hobbes developed his own theory on what is the state of nature in his novel The Leviathan. This writing sparked interest in philosophers as to what human nature truly is, not just what Aristotle had suggested. Just thirty-eight years later, John Locke anonymously published his writings Two Treatises of Government, suggesting a differing outlook on the state of nature to Hobbes. Through a summarization of each philosopher’s depiction of the state of nature and explanations of the strengths and weaknesses of each theory, one will be able to find which argument is the most compelling.

Head, S. (2004, December 16). Inside the Leviathan. The New York Review of Books, pp. 1-9.

One reasonable solution to control the human population mass is the one-child policy that was first implemented in 1979 due to the rapid concerns about the social and economic issues China was facing. Penny Kane, a professor of the Office for Gender and Health, reports, Since the beginning of [China’s One-Child Policy] it has prevented over 400 million births and helped ease the overpopulation issue (Kane 2). Since this new policy suggested that every couple or family should only possess one child, it is evident that the efficiency of this new law clearly regulated and managed to lower the number of children each woman had. As the number of expected births decreases then the number of food sources, government resources, and educational

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes paints a grim picture about man’s natural state. Famously characterized as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short (Hobbes 89),” man’s life is chaotic. The state of nature, Hobbes insists, is a “state of warre(Hobbes 88)” which pits men against men. Man naturally aims for felicity, defined as “continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desire, that is to say, continual prospering (Hobbes 46).” People think of their own interests and their pursuits of said interests may put them into conflict with another, in which violent war may emerge. Man, thus, lives in a state of constant fear.

The leviathan’s body is ruled by a sovereign. The sovereign’s purpose is to protect the people from themselves. He enforces the social contract—keeping the peace—by suppressing his subjects’ natural desire for power. The Sovereign uses all the power