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Straight Sided Figures Zero As A Number Lord
1,545 words... aps a single stick split lengthwise, held by the parties to a purchase or debt. The two sticks are held parallel, scores are made across both to indicate a count, and, if it is deemed necessary, they are signed or stamped by both parties to guarantee authenticity. Different symbols are usually employed for larger quantities: compare our use of a diagonal slash across a group of four lines to complete a count of five. The two sticks can be compared at any time, and together comprise a difficu...
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20 Th Century Jackson Pollock
948 wordsThe artist, Edouard Manet created his piece The Railway in 1873. Manet used many different contrasting features in his work of art. We can see that Manet clearly was intrigued by feminine fashion (which, as Baudelaire had pointed out, was the opposite kind of beauty from the classical and eternal hence it was a modern beauty and Manet was the beginner of modern painting. Looking at spare canvases of Manet's paintings, one may meditate on the relation of Manet's still lives to the cultural norms ...
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The Dome Of Rock Jerusalem Israel
909 wordsThe Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel The Dome of the Rock (also known as Qubbat as-Sarah) is a sacred shrine built in the seventh century (688 to 691 AD) by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik. The exterior of The Dome of the Rock is octagonal. It has seven windows and one door on each side. The interior is circle-shaped. The mosque is made of marble and decorated with mosaics, painted stucco, tile, and gilded wood. It is believed that people, who built the Dome of the Rock, arrived from differen...
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Scientific Inquiry Encourage Students
737 wordsInquiry in Science Many of us know from personal experience that we learn better when we do something rather than observe something being done. This directly corresponds to the essence of scientific inquiry as learning method. Scientific inquiry is the method of acquiring knowledge, on the part of students, through their active participation in studying process. It allows students to have an understanding of factual information they have learned. Knowledge is the system of information, which con...
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Men And Women Gender And Identity
1,543 wordsResponse to The Doll's House Henrik Ibsen's play Dolls House is commonly referred to as one of the finest examples of feminist literature of 19 th century. The theme of womens liberation is clearly present in it, although we cannot find an irrational aggressiveness in it, which we usually associate with feminism. Partially, this is due to the fact that play was written by a man, who did not have an identity crisis, while being simply interested in portraying women in realistic manner. Plays stor...
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People In Western Sociological Theories
1,643 words... people are going to consider other members of society as their enemies. Bauman suggests that it is the individualism, on the part of Europeans, which allowed them to create a civilization, but at the same time, it is the hyper-individualism, as the final stage of post-modernity, which will bring about Western civilizations ultimate demise. It is very remarkable that, while suggesting the peoples post-modernist egoistic drives are essentially harmful, Bauman does not include a perverse sexual...
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Racial Affiliation Job Skills
1,779 wordsTransferable Skills (1) It is very challenge able to come up with transferable skills development plan, which can me measurable, especially given the fact that this plan would have to be extended over next three years. First of all, let us specify the transferable skills that need to be improved. In my opinion, the most important of them is communicability. Having this skill is essential, while applying for majority of jobs. It also helps to achieve a professional excellence as much as the factu...
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Romantic Relationship Modern Era
1,091 wordsAction Plan (1) It is crucial to have plan, when it comes to organizing ones day activities, because plan increases the beneficial effect of these activities to its maximum. At the same time, this plan must be based on understanding of at least one motivational theory, as a practical tool, which brings logic into the process of planning. I think that Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory is the most applicable of all, when it comes to planning my activities, because as individual who lives in post-...
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Tao Te Ching People In Western
2,165 wordsThe Tao The Taoism can hardly be referred to as religion, in the classical sense of this word. This is because it is being largely based not on faith, but on philosophical rationale, which is the reason why Taoism appeals to people who have their sense of logic, as the cornerstone, upon which their mental activity is based. The book Tao Te Ching, which was allegedly written by Lao Tsu, emphasizes the principle of Wu-wei as such that should define peoples existential mode. The semantic complicati...
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Physically And Mentally Mentally Healthy
1,939 wordsNegative Aspects of Christianity, as seen by Sherwood Anderson and Joseph Dewey. (1) In his critical essay No God in the Sky and No God in Myself: Godliness and Anderson, Joseph Dewey provides us with the insight on what constitutes the essence of American Protestantism, not as much as religion, but as a style of life, which results in the social alienation of people affected by religious fervour. Author makes a very good point when he suggests that the grotesque properties of Sherwood Andersons...
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Ability To Reason Laws Of Nature
1,436 wordsWhat Would You Say is the Meaning of Life It has been noticed that Stoicism, as philosophical doctrine, and Logotherapy, as psychotherapeutic method, share many metaphysical premises, which also define the essence of both, Stoicism and Logotherapy. We can say that it the notion of responsibleness that both philosophical approaches to ones existence are firmly based upon. According to Stoic philosophy, it is quite possible to distinguish between what constitutes truth and falseness with the mean ...
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Forms Of Art Creative Process
977 words19 th Century Philosophy Paper 2 1) According to Arthur Schopenhauer, will is the essence of objective reality. It is the driving force behind physical and mental processes, which define all expects of existence. Within a context of psychology, Schopenhauer describes will as individuals irrational strive towards happiness, which can never reach its objectives, because happiness itself is nothing but an illusion, which serves as motivation for the individual to think of passing its genes to the n...
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Sierra Leone Colonial Era
2,427 wordsCulture of Violence (1) In recent years, the notion of culture of violence has been given a negative sounding by pushers of left-wing agenda, as it implies that peoples tendency to indulge in anti-social behavior is genetically predetermined. In its turn, such suggestion does not correspond to artificially designed social myths, upon which the concept of political Liberalism is based. The culture of violence has traditionally been referred to as peoples subconscious acceptance of the fact that r...
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Is Our Freedom Compatible With Determinism
1,672 wordsIs our Freedom Compatible with Determinism? (1) The issue of determinism vs. free will has been the subject of philosophical debates since people had realized themselves of being able to indulge in philosophizing as one of their most natural pursuits. This is because the realization of what causes people to act in one way or another might provide us with the key to understanding the essence of homo sapiens destiny, as specie. Traditionally, there have been two opposing views on whether people po...
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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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Second World War Years In Prison
2,510 wordsInterest Groups Despite the fact that the judicial process in U. S. and West European countries is based on the principle of complete independence from the potential factors of influence, in recent years, we witness the alarming tendency of court decisions being affected by so-called interest groups. Even as far back as fifties, the applying political or cultural pressure on judicial procedures was considered as being utterly inappropriate. But now, the students of law learn that the influence o...
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Does Darwinism Undermine Cartesian Dualism
1,858 wordsDoes Darwinism undermine Cartesian Dualism? In order for us to analyze the effect, caused by Darwinism on mind and body theory of Cartesian Dualism, it needs to be briefly mentioned what these two theories stand for. Although one of them is clearly philosophical and another is associated more with Biology as a practical science, it appears that Darwinism has many properties of just an abstract system of beliefs, so, in a way, it is more appropriate to talk of more advanced philosophical system u...
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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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Does The Real World Exist
2,002 wordsDoes The Real World Exist? The idea of existence or absence of real world is pretty much individual and differs from one person to another. Actually, it is somewhat like to the idea of right and wrong what is right for one person is bad for someone else and vice versa. What is real world for one person is another reality for another. In a word, real world is a very abstract and unclear thing in fact, it is a reflection of a certain world which surrounds all the people with the eyes of an individ...
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Mysticism In A Room Of One Part 1
1,838 wordsMysticism in A Room of One's Own 1. Virginia Woolf will go down in history as one of the greatest female writers of twentieth century. The importance of her legacy cannot be underestimated, regardless of what our attitude towards her writings might be. Her name is strongly linked to what we refer now as womens emancipation movement and feminism, although in recent years the attempt has been made to look at her writings from different point of view. This revisionist approach is caused by the fact...
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