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- 3201: Rationalism
- ... Descartes believed that knowledge is obtained by reason, rather than perception, or relying on the five human senses to become aware of things. In other words, he believed that we could acquire knowledge about the world without having to first observe the world around us, but just by looking into our minds Descartes was particularly concerned with discovering something that he could hold as true beyond any doubt and determining where clear and distinct ideas come from. He ... that thinks clearly exists, which is the conception of the phrase 'Cogito ergo sume'; I think, therefore I am. Once Descartes established himself as a "thinking thing", he then focused his attention on the external world. He demonstrated that his bodily perceptions would give him ideas of external objects, which seemed to be perceived clearly and distinctly, yet he would not trust these senses because he could not be positive ...
- 3202: Canada and Third World Countries
- Canada and Third World Countries What are some of the major problems faced by "Third World" Countries today? Who should be held responsible for these problems? Why? What has Canada done to help "Third World Countries"? There has always been a dominant country in the world that sets the economic standard throughout powerful countries. Canada has always been a top rated economic country, usually behind the United States and ...
- 3203: Living Theater
- ... took a different road than those of traditional theaters. Lead by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the Living Theater smashed the barriers between art and politics. This far left-wing company was ready for a new theater, a theater that was out to change the state of things, performing plays that were not being done and doing them in new untried ways(Gottfried 95). American theater of the past was made up of complete right-wingers. Right wing plays, right-wing directors, and right-wing theatergoers. In the 1940's left wingers started stepping into ... Boundaries were erased. Julian Beck, a far left winger, looked at life through art and saw life itself as unrealistic. In 1946 Julian Beck and his partner Judith Malina found the Living Theater. Located in New York, the Living Theater performed poetic dramas and plays by dramatists of the avant-garde( 463-464). Performing new and controversial plays of their own, the Living Theater took their theme of the world ...
- 3204: Infanticide
- ... commit infanticide-they kill their newborns or let them die. Most infanticides remain undiscovered but every now and then a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin. (Pinker, New York Times) Infanticide, the deliberate killing of infants, was once an economic necessity and exists even today. Many incidents of infanticide indicate that the killer most often mothers or mother figures, but not to exclude ... suggested, infanticide was often triggered, not by guilt about illegitimacy, but by financial desperation. Punitive legislation aimed at the poor -particularly the Poor Law of 1834-was blamed for placing a burden on mothers. The New Poor Law passed Parliament in 1834 proclaiming it's wisdom, foresight, justice, and morality, by adopting the following recommendation of it's Commissioners - " As a further step toward the natural state of things, we recommend ... their babies on hospital steps assume their babies will survive but that is not always the case. The shortage of funds for child welfare, the poverty of many communities, understaffed hospitals- these conditions exist the world over, in times of war and peace. It has been sadly documented, incidental infanticide by neglect is inevitable. (Piers, 17) Killing a baby is an immoral act, and we often express our outrage by ...
- 3205: Charter Schools
- ... States ( Finn, Ravitch 22-24 ). News coverage also tends to continuously broadcast that the United States lags behind global peers in pre-college education. For this reason, parents, governments and educators are constantly searching for new ways to improve, and overcome learning obstacles, in education. One of the new concepts emerging is the charter school. In the United States, the charter school was modeled after Margaret Thatcher's idea of a public school operating independently, while being funded by grants. A similar concept currently exists, for all public education, in New Zealand ( Finn et al. 48-52 ). In 1992, after the first charter law was passed, Minnesota opened City Academy, based on this concept. The charter focused on recruiting and teaching high school drop-outs ( ...
- 3206: Hiroshima
- ... people lost their lives and an entire city was economically devastated. Nuclear proliferation should be banned in order to prevent other countries from suffering the death and destruction like that of Hiroshima. Governments around the world have the power to regulate what kind of warfare is used during battle. However, by permitting the use of the atomic bomb, many innocent civilians are killed. Proponents of nuclear armament argue that one massive ... 25% died from direct burns caused by the bomb and 50% died from other bomb related injuries. Although the use of nuclear proliferation is often used to set an example for the rest of the world, it causes intense suffering and death to many innocent civilians. Although many governments use atomic warheads to protect their own citizens from harm, the survivors of these atomic bombs are permanently affected. The effects of ... but physically as well. Homes and businesses are destroyed and people are unable to afford proper medical care. This causes economic destruction for the entire region. Although use of the atomic bomb results in overall world peace, it causes excessive chaos and destruction within a country. Five-star U.S. general Omar Bradley said that “The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. This is a world of nuclear giants and ...
- 3207: Interstellar Travel: Sooner or Later?
- Interstellar Travel: Sooner or Later? Though interstellar travel is theoretically possible, colonizing Alpha Centauri in the next millennium may be far-fetched. Modern Quantum physics gives many new openings into the world of plus-light-speed travel, but Einstein’s theory of relativity maintains the fact that light speed is an paradoxical and impossible feat for anything other than light and electricity. Science is rapidly and constantly ... the future and possibilities of interstellar travel, but have also been disturbed by it's numerous challenges. Lately NASA has expanded it’s research into the field of Interstellar travel, in the form of a new department, dubbed the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program. It’s director, Marc Millis, has devoted countless hours to making the department practical and efficient. He has even crafted their web page himself. Recently on his “ ...
- 3208: Following A Dream Toward Freedom
- ... responsibility of their citizenship and follow the laws and rules founded for them, freedom is allowed to work for everyone. "In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms," stated Franklin Roosevelt in his 1941 President's Annual Address to Congress. "The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom want-which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world. The forth is freedom ...
- 3209: On the Jews and Their Lies
- ... on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen. Grace and peace in the Lord. Dear sir ... non-Greek or barbarian. This is a fool's boast, the gratitude of a barbarian who blasphemes God! Similarly, the Italians fancy themselves the only human beings; they imagine that all other people in the world are nonhumans, mere ducks or mice by comparison. No one can take away from them their pride concerning their blood and their descent from Israel. In the Old Testament they lost many a battle in ... half noble, of a noble father, and half ignoble, of an ignoble mother. But enough of this tomfoolery and trickery. We propose to discuss their argument and boast and prove convincingly before God and the world not before the Jews, for, as already said, they would accept this neither from Moses nor from their Messiah himself that their argument is quite empty and stands condemned. To this end we quote ...
- 3210: Animal Farm As Animal Satire
- ... to Eton Collage. During his education from the age of eight to eighteen, as he wrote in his essay about his school experiences titled "Such, Such Were the Joys," he experienced many things about the "world where the prime necessities were money, titled relatives, athleticism, tailor-made clothes", inequality, oppression and class distinctions in the schools of England (In Ball,1984). After the education at Eton College in England, Eric joined ... establish a state to be ruled by the working class, the Proletariat. Ideological basis of the revolution was taken from the philosophy of Karl Marx and Frederick Angels who believed that the history of the world was the history of a struggle between classes- between ruling classes and ruled classes (Hançerlioðlu, 1976). Marx was very critical of industrial capitalist society in which there are many cruel injustices and men are exploited ... order to achieve this end the only way was a revolution made by the working class or the Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie. After revolution working classes would own the means of production. Marx called the new order that would be set after revolution "dictatorship of the Proletariat" which eventually replaced with a classless society (Hançerlioðlu, 1976). In October 1917, V.I. Lenin, led the socialist (Bolshevik) revolution in Russia. After ...
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