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The Power Of Cinema And Obscura
1,086 wordsCinema has been used ruthlessly for their own ends since its creation, by politicians, entrepreneurs, generals, zealots, bishops, mass murderers, pedants, pedagogues, and snake oil salesmen. The early establishment of major studios, along with the creation of Hollywood and its subsequent emergence as the world centre of cinematic production, resulted in the studio system, which concentrated power over the medium in the hands of a few studio heads, who even owned the cinemas themselves. Consequen...
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Clear And Distinct Perception Point Of View
732 wordsClear and Distinct Perception: An Analysis Of Rene Descartes Rene Descartes? Meditations in the First Philosophy is a skeptic? s speculation on certain inalienable truths. Descartes meditations are based on the epistemological theory of rationalism: that is if someone truly knows something then they could not possibly be mistaken. He provides solid arguments for what his six meditations stand for, and how he obtained a clear and distinct perception of innate ideas. In Meditations he comes to ter...
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Theory Of Forms Theory Of Knowledge
1,268 wordsforms The influence that Plato, the Greek philosopher born in 427 BC in Athens, has had throughout the history of philosophy has been monumental. Among other things, Plato is known for his exploration of the fundamental problems of natural science, political theory, metaphysics, theology and theory of knowledge; many of his ideas becoming permanent elements in Western thought. The basis of Plato? s philosophy is his theory of Ideas, or doctrine of Forms. While the notion of Forms is essential to...
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God Exists Natural World
383 wordsTo say that God does exist, is to say that we can prove God exists by describing some proof we have of this statement, or at least a being with what we think some of the attributes of a God would be. Since we cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt that God exists we have to infer certain things about how we came to be. We can do this by using terms such as motion and causality. These are terms that attempt to explain that for every action there must be a cause, or chain of events, In this case, hu...
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Gods And Goddesses Recorded History
852 wordsHinduism, Hinduism THE HINDU PERSPECTIVHinduism, believed to be one of the oldest religions existing today, is most-often described as a philosophy or a perspective. The Hindu perspective is often thought to have been brought to India by the Aryans in about 1500 B. C. The Aryans, along with their predecessors, the Dravidians, brought the ideas of worshipping gods and goddesses in the forms of duties and many of the stories and myths that came with them. During the Vedic period, which was from 15...
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Human Beings Make Choices
1,031 wordsImportance of self (I) For many centuries people have been trying to find answers to questions concerning the reason for their existance and the meaning of self. Questions such as: What is the meaning of I? Where does the idea of self come from? pose many arguments in our society. Many philosophers tried to find solutions to these questions yet it seems that those questions are much more complex than we perceive them and are not fully explainable. One of the most famous philosophers, Descartes, ...
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Negative Aspects State Sponsored
1,049 wordsSo many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination (J. B. S. Haldane). Whether parents are censoring material for their children or the media is presenting to the public only the things it deems newsworthy, a nearly infinite amount of censorship's are being exercised every day around the world. More significantly, every legislator or person of political power must consider carefull...
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Doesn T Exist Doesn T Make
1,148 wordsPJ: Hey Bob. Why are you all dressed up? Bob: Well I just got back from church. PJ: When are you going to give up on that God thing? Bob: Never. Infact I bet you $ 10 that I can prove the existence of god. PJ: Your on. Bob: Ok, the first thing you need to understand is the PSR. PJ: What is the PSR? Bob: It? s the Principle of Sufficient Reason. It states every event has a cause. i. e. you don? t get something from nothing. PJ: Ok Bob: The next thing you have to understand is the difference betwe...
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Isaac Newton Infinite Series
638 wordsIsaac Newton, (also known as Sir Isaac Newton), is known as a great scientist by many people. He was born on December 25 in the year 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father died before he was born and left his family without much money. Isaacs mother soon remarried and had three more children. His mother expected him to manage the farm, but he really didnt care for that much and instead was sent back to grammar school to prepare for college. When he finished grammar school and attended Trinity ...
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Jim Morrison Child Hood
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Wife Died K 1
920 wordsLeonhard Euler was born in the spring of 1707 and lived until the autumn of 1783, 76 years. Euler was born in Switzerland near the town of Basel to a father whom was a Protestant clergyman and a mother who can from an equally pastoral family. It was expected from them that he would also become a man of the church. As a youth he had the capability to memorize almost anything easily, he also had the ability to work with numbers in his head without the use of a calculator (Dunham xix). At the age o...
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Freedom Of Choice Twentieth Century
1,134 wordsLife in the Twentieth Century is Characterized by Changing Patterns of Choice The above statement is, indubitably, true. Life is based upon an individual s choices; upon their concept of the world. Beginning with the time of birth to the time of death, everyone spends every minute in life making a choice about one thing or another. One could imagine life as a long, winding road with infinite roads branching off in infinite directions. Robert Frost wrote in The Road Not Taken, I took the one less...
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Humanity From Capitalism Capitalist Mode Of Production Activity
767 words1. Overcoming Capitalism The overall aim of all my political activity is to do the most to facilitate the transition of humanity from capitalism to a higher system based on the principle: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. It is the capitalist mode of production which represents the great driving force of all social dysfunction in the modern world. The capitalist mode of production operates to restrict the development of economic and social wealth, inject and ampl...
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Facts On File Cd Rom
815 wordsComputer Hacking Explosive growth in the computer industry over the last decade has made new technologies cheaper and simpler for the average person to own. As result, computers play an intricate part in our daily lives. The areas in which computers affect life are infinite, ranging from entertainment to finances. If anything were to happen to these precious devices, the world would be chaotic. Computer hacking is a dangerous crime that could total chaos for the entire world. Some hackers act on...
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Ive Killed Doesnt Matter
740 wordsMommy, My Scar My Scar Mommy, Ive killed God. You wanted a scar; there it is, plain as day (no two-level, deep meanings attached). My scar isnt external, nor, do I suppose, is it internal. Heck, I dont know what it is but all my life I know its been my scar, my burden. I have a problem with Christianity. But I dont show disrespect to those who choose to follow it (unless they try to impose their beliefs on me), and I dont force my thoughts on anyone (you are choosing to read this). You want sex,...
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Speed Of Light Amount Of Power
812 wordsJess Genius Overlooked Genius OverlookeJess Brock Algebra III Summer School Mr. Palumbo July 24, 1999 Stephen Hawking is, all in all, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. Dr. Hawking is a theoretical physicist. In his own words, A theoretical physicist? [tries] to construct mathematical models which represent the universe. Sadly, though, his triumphs are often overshadowed by his illness. Dr. Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and generally his successes are vi...
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Positive And Negative People Understand
389 wordsAn ideology is a fairly coherent and comprehensive set of ideas that explains and evaluates social conditions, helps people understand their place in society, and provides a program for social and political action. When people fall under certain ideologies such as communists or feminists we are robbing them of their individuality. There are an infinite number of beliefs, so ideologies should be infinite as well. The few ideologies are not realistic for the billions of individuals. It is not poss...
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Uncle Sam Chat Room
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Dutch Sailors James Gatz
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Otto Orban Wrecked Yard Hungarian
751 wordsOtto Orban Otto Orban, who has died aged 66, was the leading Hungarian poet of his generation, but his influence extended well beyond the confines of literary and academic institutions. His passionate, funny and virtuosic poems combined the fully personal with the overtly political, and his barbed verses on Hungarian government pretensions were a source of irritation to those in power. They were, in effect, a kind of brilliant, vicious, Swiftian graffiti. Born in Budapest, Orban's earliest exper...
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