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Ethics Part I Proposition 33
747 words
Baruch Spinoza believes the essence of God
includes God's existence and discusses the
causality of God through his ontological work,
Ethics. In Ethics, Spinoza is seeking a method of
truth through the perfect being. The essence of
what that perfect being expresses, using this
method of truth, is God (i. e. the perfect being).
In this essay I am going to give a detailed
account of Part I, Proposition 33 of Spinoza's
book Ethics. Part I, Proposition 33 of Ethics
states that "things could not have ...
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Make Her Happy Elizabeth And Darcy
1,132 words
Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice presents
five married couples. No two are alike. From the
pure love which was experienced through Elizabeth
and Darcy. To the love and attraction shared by
Jane and Bingley. The convenience of marriage was
portrayed through Charlotte and Mr Collins while
Lydia and Wickham's marriage was based on their
desire, attractions and financial status. Mr and
Mrs Bennets marriage was for their necessity.
Austen reveals many messages through her
characters on her ma...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Bonnie And Clyde
1,716 words
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from
a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian
College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,
but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them
folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack.
In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he
would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a
canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the
tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of
fight pretending. He would imagine romantic
camping trips into ...
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Phone While Driving Cellular Phones
1,535 words
Over a decade ago the house phone was such a
remarkable advancement where it provided a person
to call places over thousands of miles away. Then
the ease and comfort of wireless phones came out.
Now, the invention of cellular phones (a mobile
telephone) is an excellent device to do business
or call out for help when you need to. While for
others it is a failure, annoying and a cause of
accidents. Today, cellular phones have become a
necessity in a persons pocket. (Vanlaecken, H. ).
In According ...
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Duke Of Ferrara Dramatic Monologue
1,963 words
Robert Browning utilized the format of the
dramatic monologue, the creation of expectation
and surprise, and extensive use of figurative
language to support the theme of possessive love
in his works "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's
Lover." The dramatic personae in these works
provide surprising accounts of their tormented and
often jealous love and the results of their
actions determine the startling revelations within
each monologue. Their possessive love not only
drives them to violent acts,...
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Infected With Hiv Alternatives To Animal
1,779 words
... C. If humans inhale a small amount of prussic
acid fumes it can kill them. However, toads, sheep
and hedgehogs can drink it without any harm;
Scopolamine can kill humans with a dose of just 5
milligrams. To dogs and cats about 100 milligrams
was considered harmless. Information like this can
be misleading when scientists try to determine
safe damages. Penicillin, the first antibiotic,
was experimented first on mice. Its application on
guinea pigs would have entailed dangerous
consequences, b...
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Marijuana A Horticultural Revolution Medical And Legal Battle
598 words
For years there has been a wonder drug, which has
befriended countless sick patients in a number of
countries. A relatively inexpensive drug that is
not covered by health care plans, which has aided
the ill both mentally and physically -- marijuana.
Significant scientific and medical studies have
demonstrated that marijuana is safe for use under
medical supervision and that the cannabis plant,
in its natural form, has important therapeutic
benefits that are often of critical medical
importance t...
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2005 From The World Wide End Of Life
1,087 words
Advance Directives Advanced directives are special
documents, which contain information about
patients preferences and wishes as to medical care
and treatment, made for the cases of inability of
the patient to make medical decisions. Advanced
directives are supposed to help doctors to learn,
what kind of treatment every particular patient
prefers, depending on the prognosis and difficulty
of the situation, for example, in case of coma or
permanent unconsciousness. There are two types of
advance ...
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Affirmative Action Policies University Of California
1,530 words
Public Policy Affirmative action is a term used to
describe federal initiatives that require people
responsible for providing economic and educational
opportunities to consider a candidate's race, sex,
or disability, especially if the individual's
minority affiliation has suffered past
discrimination (Ezorsky, p. 18). The affirmative
action legislatures were intended to stop
discrimination in the fields of job market and
education opportunities. They were further
elaborated upon when employers a...
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Checks And Balances Separation Of Power
1,330 words
Political science The contribution of the USA in
the development of institutions of power is
significant. They had written Constitution, one of
the first in the world; independent judicial
power; separation of federal power and power of
States. Great influence on United States history
had the origins and development of the
Constitution. Science the time it had been
adopted, the Constitution set the basis for the
government we have today. According to the early
Constitution, powers are divided be...
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League Of Nations President Of The United States
1,980 words
Thomas Woodrow Wilson Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
was the 28 th President of the United States (1913
- 1921). He was born on December 28, 1856, in
Staunton, Virginia, and grew up in Georgia. He
studied at Princeton University and at the
University of Virginia Law School, and then
entered the John Hopkins University to study the
course of political science. In 1885, after
writing his famous work Congressional Government,
he received a degree of Doctor. Till he became a
Professor of jurisprudence an...
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Soap On A Rope Kinds Of Gifts Gift
782 words
Christmas gifts you love (to hate) Christmas. The
most exciting and anticipated holiday of the year.
A time when visions of sugar plumber stereos, new
cars, the latest computer, and various other
desirable and expensive gifts dance through our
heads. Unfortunately the reality of Christmas
gift-giving is often a far cry from our visions.
When were children, it seems as the holidays
approach that anything impossible. But as we
mature and gain experience with this annual
observance it eventually be...
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Work At Home Goods And Services
2,472 words
Computers in our World In the 1950 s, computers
were a new race of machines and most common person
did not know anything about them. Today, computers
and new Innovation like the internet has changed
the business world and even our daily lives. How
did it change the business world and our own
personal lives and is it for the best, thats what
will be discussed in this report. Contents Summary
1 Introduction 3 When were computers invented
Brief history of computers 4 First computer
invented 4 Immed...
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Houghton Mifflin Company Washington D C
1,805 words
After WWII why did the economy prosper and what
role did consumerism play in the 1950 s? After
WWII many economists predicted a recession in the
American economy. It is easy to do so when at the
peak of post war unemployment in March 1946 2. 7
million searched for work. In 1945 people were
laid off from their jobs. However, in 1945 the US
entered one of its longest, steadiest, periods of
growth and prosperity (Norton 829). How could this
be? With many new developments affecting the
United States...
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January 1 1863 Fight For Freedom
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Limitations Of The Emancipation Proclamation
Essay, Research Limitations Of The Emancipation
Proclamation Limitations of the Emancipation
Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863
declaring that all persons held as slaves within
the rebellious states shall be free. However,
despite this expansive wording, the Proclamation
was limited in many ways. It applied only to
states that withdrew from the Union, leaving
slavery untouched in the loyal bo...
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Humans And Animals Feel Pain
856 words
In chapter three, Singer continues his discussion
on equality, however this time, it isn t just
applied to equality of humans, but also the
equality of animals. He does this by basing
implications for our disposition towards
speciesism in practice (in more general terms,
using animals for food), experimenting on animals,
whether or not animals can feel pain, the fact
that since animals eat each other, why can t we
(humans) eat them also, the differences between
humans and animals, and finally, h...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome Surrogate Motherhood
1,578 words
The thesis of this 10 page paper is that there is
a medical necessity for the legal use of
marijuana. There is significant evidence that
supports the benefits of THC, a chemical found in
marijuana, is beneficial for sufferers of cancer,
AIDS and glaucoma. Though THC is available in
tablet form, many seriously ill patients cannot
take the oral medication, and many complain that
the pill is ineffective. If the use of marijuana
can significantly reduce the suffering of severely
ill individuals, it ...
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United States Of America Seat Belt
914 words
The United States of America has five basic
principles which ensure the ability of the
country. The basic foundations: fundamental worth,
equality of all persons, majority rule minority
rights, necessity of compromise, and i vidual
freedom. This paper reviews three of the five
principles: majority rule and minority rights,
individual freedom, and necessity of compromise.
Two of these cases of individual freedom plus
majority rule and minority rights the United
States has failed to uphold. The th...
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Five Year Plans Rise To Power
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Topic: Stalin? s Leadership style exacerbated and
created new problems in the Soviet Union. Discuss
During his years as General Secretary of the
Soviet Union, Josef Stalin encountered many
social, economical and political problems which
were left unsolved at the time of Lenin? s
premature death in 1924. Economic problems
involving issues such as agriculture and
industrialisation. Political problems related to
politics, both in terms of foreign and domestic
policy and also the military. Social pr...
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Kennedy Fitzgerald Kennedy
3,993 words
Blaze Hite Mr. Nelson Modern American Studies,
Perionovermber 1996 Theodore C. Sorensen. Kennedy.
New York: Harper 038; Row, 1965. 783 pp. John
Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in the
Boston suburb of Brookline. Kennedy was the son of
Joseph P. Kennedy a former ambassador to Great
Britain. Kennedy was much like his father,
possessing a delightful sense of humor, a strong
family loyalty, a concern for the state of the
nation, endless vitality and a constant air of
confidence no matt...
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