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Cogito Ergo Sum Descartes Theory
1,026 wordsEveryday we are bombarded with various forms of stimuli. We see many people, we hear cars drive by, we feel the cool breeze, etc, but how can we prove that we are really experiencing these stimuli? That is the question that Rene Descartes asked some three hundred fifty years ago, is there anything real in this world? Descartes concluded that at least his mind existed because he was thinking, which led to him saying Cogito ergo sum which means I think therefore I am. In this essay I will briefly ...
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Beethoven One Egg
681 wordsThe saga of Beethoven the duck began one summer day, when my brother Joel and I were in the process riding down the hill in front of our house as fast as possible on bikes. I was riding my newly purchased Free Spirit, while my brother was riding his old French ten speed. As was the custom, we raced down the first hill, across the field and down the second hill to the river. Needless to say, we stopped once before the river. On this day, however, upon walking our bikes back up the hill, my brothe...
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Billions Of Years Natural Instinct
1,501 wordsAs every species in the world developed, it's sub-species and it's further strains and breeds under those have evolved for a very specific reason - the preservation of the species, and ultimately, life itself. Each species is like a tree, with hundreds of branches, each leading to thousands of other branches. Each branch of the tree is slightly different from the one beside it, due to living in a different environment it has had to adapt and the resulting differences are due to the combination -...
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Soap Opera Bugs Bunny
3,188 wordsDemystifying The A-Team Formula: an Examination of Character Personalities and Old Genres In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didnt commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as sol dier's of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team. Most everyone who has been watchin...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Larger Than Life
2,712 wordsMyth versus Realism in the Old West LONESOME DOVE While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the Old West, his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the Old West. By contrast, mythic representations of the Old West tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film True Grit appear to be ridiculous because of their one-dimensional presentation of characters, including women; their passive, utopian environments; and the...
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Wassenaar And Hobson Hydrogen Isotope Quot
904 wordsSometime this winter, waterfowl experts from across Canada will gather for their annual " wing bee. " Their task will be to sort through a small mountain of duck wings obtained from a randomly selected group of hunters, and assign the wings to piles by species, age and sex. Together with statistics from similar shindigs held in the United States, this information will provide a picture of the years kill and will also offer hints about the ups and downs of duck populations. That may see...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Personal Interview
2,790 words" Old West" LONESOME DOVE While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the " Old West, " his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the " Old West. " By contrast, mythic representations of the " Old West" tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film " True Grit" appear to be ridiculous because of their one-dimensional presentation of characters, including women; thei...
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