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Positive And Negative Digital Technology
1,178 wordsWhat impact, if any, is the use of computers and other digital technologies having on the learning process of todays student? To what extent or degree are we as teachers responsible, or should be responsible, for the proper integration of technology into our classrooms? Research and inquiry into this realm have proposed both positive and negative aspects to computer versus traditional learning. There are, without question, cultural and educational benefits and dangers of technology and computer ...
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Thales Of Miletus A Brief History
851 wordsThe first thing I would like to say before I start this paper on Thales is that when dealing with ancient Greek mathemetitions, any "facts" you may uncover are really just educated guesses. The reason for this is, because all records back then were kept on cuneiform tablets. These tablets just did not hold up well over time, and were destroyed before anyone could really make a lasting, permanent record of his life and studies. (2) With this being said, let me share with you some of my findings o...
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Pursuit Of Happiness Good And Evil
1,309 wordsMarquis de Sade and the Enlightenment We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the sea for her waves" - La Mettrie The eighteenth century embraced a secularized France in which the idea of utility, and not of salvation, were the principles by which one lived. Nature and reason in many ways replaced God. What this change left however, was a vacuum for the motive of morality in society. What would compel men to behave if not an omnipre...
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Men And Women Sexual Liberation
1,332 words... way we think about power in sexual relations. She draws her ideas upon the following quote made by the lesbian protagonist in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, "I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed be me." Her interpretation of this statement is the reason why the lesbian protagonist left heterosexuality behind is because of the one way process of "destruction", namely the man's destruction of the women, whilst in a lesbian relationship she can reciprocate this destruction. With th...
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State Of Nature Moral Judgment
1,824 words... timely (though Locke himself never uses these terms to describe the distinction). But Locke, in my view, is in certain ways clearer about the distinction than is Notice. For Locke, remember, "no one can be put out of [the state of nature] and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent. " (16) Political power is morally legitimate, and those subject to it are morally obligated to obey, only where the subjects have freely consented to the exercise of such power and onl...
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Religious Faith Human Soul
705 wordsI think that the immortality of the human soul can be established in a demonstrative way by philosophical reason, through a sufficiently deep analysis of intellectual knowledge, of free will and of disinterested feelings such as that "immortal instinct for beauty", of which Poe and Baudelaire spoke. Here we are confronted with spirituality, or intrinsic independence from matter. And the spirituality characteristic of the activity in question makes us conclude to the spirituality of its first pri...
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Personal Identity And Afterlife
1,749 wordsPersonal Identity and the Afterlife Identity defines the fundamental nature of everything, whether that thing is an objective physical entity or a subjective idea that has to be mentally constructed. To understand the nature of these abstract ideas, we must first understand the concept of identity. When speaking of identity, one of the first types most people think of is the identity of the self. This self could be the attributes that a person attaches to himself. Gender identity is a simple att...
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Cogito Ergo Sum John Paul Ii
1,101 wordsThe Cogito Ergo Sum is the heart of Cartesian philosophy and represents the starting point of his method. It set Descartes apart from the Scholastics who began with real things in a really existing world. He was obviously influenced by the Protestant Reformation and its challenge of authority, tradition and medieval Aristotelianism. Opposing himself to this tradition, Descartes began simply within the certitude of self as a thinking being. Like the pre-Socratics, Descartes was searching for the ...
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Native Americans American Indians
1,156 wordsNative American religion penetrated every aspect of their culture. This makes it difficult for a predominantly white, European, secular society to interpret Native Indian spirituality. There is no single Native American religion, but rather as many religions as there are Indian peoples. Religion and ritual were a function of all activity: from the food quest and other survival-related work to technology, social and political organization, warfare and art. Religion and magic were fused with pract...
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Artificial Intelligence Real World
1,654 wordster> 2001 by Daniel du Prie Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow, 1996) Youve been living in a dream world Neo. This, is the world, as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) From Plato's "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers "The Matrix" (1999), there is a tradition of writing in Western literature, which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia, or both. ...
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Ultimate Goal Historical Facts
1,293 wordsThe issues that are raised in this source by Marc Trachtenberg are is whether or not objectivity is still a relevant idea, and if it is not then is history in fact dying. Keith Jenkins What is History? , Carl Becker's What are Historical Facts? and Richard Evans In Defence of History will be used to discuss and examine these issues. Marc Trachtenberg is questioning if objectivity is possible and desirable in todays society, and this is a question that many historians have pondered. Keith Jenkins...
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Pre Conceived Notions Character Of Y T Women
1,045 wordsAmerican culture has the tendency to stereotype. One of the many labels that our society tags onto people is the generalization that most young and attractive females are generally passive, dependent, unintelligent and nave. Postmodern fiction challenges ideas that most people have held to believe as stable and true. In the Norton Anthology, Simone de Beauvoir challenged the universality of the subject, observing that woman is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with refe...
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George And Lennie Dream Curley Wife
1,162 words... He has been compensated by his employer and has saved the money, which he offers to give to George, in return for a share in his and Lennie's dream. George is happy to agree to this, but is not interested in buying the smallholding with Candy alone, after Lennie has killed Curley's wife. Here we can see that although Candy doesnt have the advantage of friendship, due to his age, this dream is the only virtuous notion he has to look forward to the rewards of life. Candy is excluded from the s...
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Color Of Their Skin Matter Of Time
1,866 wordsPLURALISM AND MULTICULTURALISM IN AMERICA (1) We live in time when proponents of Liberalism managed to convince many Americans that only their worldview is valid and that it constitutes a crime to hold different political opinions. According to them, America can only realize its potential fully if it embraces multiculturalism as its existential mode. The multiculturalism is best defined as modern days social utopia, according to which, people with different ethnic affiliation can coexist peacefu...
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Obesity Epidemic In Children And Youth
1,212 wordsObesity Epidemic in Children and Youth (1) Nowadays, there are many objective indications as to the fact that ever-increasing rate of obesity among Americas adolescents actually represent the very immediate threat to biological well-being of this nation. In his article Childhood Obesity Statistics and Facts, Jayashree Pakhare provides us with the insight on the sheer scope of this threat: 16 % children (over 9 million) 6 - 19 year olds are overweight or obese. This is three times what it was in ...
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The Anthropology Of Space And Time Locating Culture
1,592 wordsThe Anthropology of Space and Time: Locating Culture To begin with, the book title, The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture, I thought, is very suggestive in terms of advancing recognition of womens political subjectivity in the construction of their particular imagined community. Practices of social networks and group formations are posited as critical strategies of empowerment for women, which in turn enable them to exploit the political moment to speak out and to speak on behalf...
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Machiavelli S Principles And King Lear
969 wordsMachiavelli s Principles And King Lear In The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli presents a view of governing a state that is drastically different from that of humanists of his time. Machiavelli believes the ruling Prince should be the sole authority determining every aspect of the state and put in effect a policy which would serve his best interests. These interests were gaining, maintaining, and expanding his political power. His understanding of human nature was a complete contradiction of what Shak...
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Ups And Downs Grover Corners
1,179 wordsTrevor Rees 10 / 04 / 00 English Ignorance = Bliss If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything Mrs. Ernest Hemingway In the play Our Town, the people of Grover's Corners mask their worries and apprehensions about death in their quest for happiness. In the first act, a few deaths occur, and the attitude of the people towards these deaths is a negligent one of briefly acknowledging death and moving on. Also, the children in act two who are ...
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Works Of Art Athletic Prowess
1,392 wordsThe Nazi and Soviet political movements were undoubtedly among the vilest developments of the 20 th century. More than three million works of art were plundered by the Nazi regime during its reign. Their ambitions as art collectors were motivated by show of power as they confiscated all of the art in the Reich that conflicted with the Partys ideology and concept of art. They inspired works of art, which have the ability to expose some of the best and worst that art can achieve. Because they invo...
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Red Badge Of Courage Henry Fleming
978 wordsGrowing Up Throughout the novel The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is in a constant struggle between his illusions of war and reality. When Henry first decides to enlist their is a perception of war that he has in his mind; he later finds out that war is not as glorious and courageous as his mind had perceived. As the novel progresses Henry comes to realize that his idealized notions of war and death, for his country, were all illusions he was creating for himself. Being a young man from a ...
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