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How Has Diversity Shaped Western Civilization
1,741 wordsHow has diversity shaped Western civilization? In recent times, the term diversity became a buzz word, which is being applied by the pushers of left wing agenda, mostly out of context. We are made to believe that Western civilization will gain immensely, because of our society becoming less and less racially homogeneous. The hawks of political correctness do not bother to come up with any real proofs, while making their argument. We are simply expected to agree with whatever we are being told, o...
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Objective Reality Existential Mode
1,646 wordsDiscuss Bauman (1) Since the end of WWII, many people become disillusioned with the traditional view of history as the process of continuous progress. The positivism, as philosophical method, began to lose its appeal even before this. It was becoming obvious for many philosophers that human behavior cannot simply be defined by economical factors, as Marxism suggests, and neither can we think of such behavior as being exclusively motivated by ethical considerations. This coincided with the emerge...
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Intercultural Communication English Language
749 wordsIntercultural Communication In time when Western societies are becoming increasingly multicultural, it is important to understand the most basic principles of intercultural communication. There are many different points of view on what represents the essence of peoples ability to overcome cultural barriers, when it comes to understanding their fellow citizens that are affiliated with racial diversity. Most of them agree with the fact that, in order for the individual to be able to communicate hi...
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Ethnic Cleansing Racial Affiliation
2,520 wordsIs Violence Encouraged by the Medias (1) Nowadays, it became a statement of good state, on the part of Bible thumper's and those who refer to themselves as conservatives, to come up with public statements that blame the influence of Medias for all the evils in the world. Namely, the self-appointed guardians of public morality refer to Medias influence as such that encourage citizens to resort to violence, as the ultimate mean of dealing with their life problems. For example, the article Media Vi...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Cartesian Dualism
2,156 wordsMeditations by Descartes The main feature of European philosophical thought is that it never loses its actuality, regardless of whether it promotes the idea of thing of itself or denies objectivity to anything that doesnt have a direct relation to our sensory perception of the world. One of the best examples to this is philosophy of Rene Descartes, which shows us that ones ability to operate with abstract categories accounts as the most important factor, when it comes to establishing a certain s...
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Meditations On First Philosophy 19 Th Century
1,421 wordsFor some people Science is the supreme form of all knowledge During 17 - 18 centuries philosophers used to argue about whether our perception of the world truly represent surrounding reality. Rene Descartes, for example, in his Meditations on First Philosophy suggested that we can only use a logical approach when it comes to dealing with scientific matters, as our senses often mislead us to the wrong conclusions: I have seen round towers from afar, which closely observed seemed square, and colos...
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English Language Abstract Categories
1,438 wordsEssay on a Specific Dimension of Language The language simplifying process is something that can be attributed to all Indo-European languages as common trend, although such languages as French, Portuguese and Russian are less susceptible to this. Here we will analyze socio-political changes that influenced English language semantic structure after 1600. In the last few hundred years English sentences have shrunk considerably, from around 70 words per sentence to 20 and less. What are the motivat...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Matter Of Fact
1,366 wordsAnalytical/Critical Paper on Descartes Meditation 6 - Last Paragraph The name of Descartes we commonly associate with the concept of, so-called, Cartesian Dualism. In his Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes suggested the parallel existence of two, fundamentally opposite essences material body and immaterial mind, where immaterial mind is fully independent of its body and even capable of existing without it. According to him, physical and mental substances have its properties: extension cor...
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Members Of Society Closely Resembles
1,127 wordsArguing in the Public Sphere It is not a secret that the quality of public education in America has considerably dropped in last two decades. According to many recent surveys, only 50 % of high school students were able to pint point USA on the world map. This tendency goes along with students increasing inability to identify public issues that are crucial to the effective functioning of democracy in this country. Many sociologists say that the main reason for this is the fact that children are ...
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