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- 7881: Descartes First Meditation
- ... proposes in the first meditation, it is the evil demon argument that is the most important. Both of Descartes other two arguments succeeded in their goal to establish doubt upon the existence of the outside world, which were the sensory illusion and dreaming arguments. However, people such as Descartes who believe in an omnipotent supremely good being, called God, could easily refute these arguments. Therefore, in order for Descartes to start ... when his mind is being deceived or being given false information it is not from God but from the evil demon. From this skeptical argument, one would come to doubt the existence of the external world. If an evil demon really existed there would be the possibility that the only part of our being that exists would be our minds, in whatever form that maybe, probably incorporeal. Therefore meaning that the world that we live in, the external world, is non-existent and merely a mirage placed into our minds by an evil demon. Obviously, to any sane person, this would sound irrational, but this is ...
- 7882: The Fibonacci Sequence
- ... a third term, and so on. The first 14 Fibonacci numbers are: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, and 377. It is a number sequence in which each new term is the sum of the proceeding two terms. After the first two Fibonacci numbers, every number in the sequence equals the sum of the two previous numbers. The Fibonacci sequence is called a recursive ... on Jan. 1st, and bred them. The pair produced one pair of young after one month, on Feb. 1st, and a second pair after the second month, on March 1st. Then they stopped breeding. Each new pair also produced two new pairs in the same way and then stopped breeding. How many rabbits did he get each month? (4) To answer this you should write down in a line the number of pairs in each ...
- 7883: Dead Poets Society And Transce
- ... real man at all. Emerson takes off on that idea and goes on to express the bold statement, Imitation is suicide (3). Emerson takes Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist to a new level now. He declares conformity is the same as throwing one s own ideas, identity, and soul away, which is the equivalent to ending one s life. Henry David Thoreau has beliefs similar to Emerson ... each [person] be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father s or his mother s or his neighbor s instead. This idea warns everyone not look at the world, thorough their parents and friends eyes, but to use one s own intuition, which will never lead them astray. Mr. Keating believes that intuition is untouchable compared to intellectualism, and he tries to share his ... J. Evans Pritchard. Now in my class you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor words and language. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world (DPS). Mr. Keating completely disregards Pritchard s idea and encourages the boys to not measure the poetry by a heartless graph, which is deliberate intellectualism, but to think for themselves and find personal greatness ...
- 7884: Computers In Business
- Computers In Business In the business world today, computers and the software applications that run on them basically control a well organized business. Every major company is equipped with a computer, or network that connects through different branches throughout the firm. Computer ... as making sure your mainframe is upgradeable and contains at least 8 expansion slots, which should already be loaded with enhanced graphics cards, the necessary amount of serial ports etc.. Networks are everywhere in the world of business. A network is a series of computers throughout the company which rely on one or two fileservers. Or it can be used in long distance communication through modem. An example would be that ... with their OS/2 program which is the largest multi-tasking unit available. This program is compatible to any program on a system, and runs much quicker when you load up several programs. The business world will continuously advance as years go by, and many businesses will be upgrading more all the time. This chain will go on all the time as new programs are invented to suit a company' ...
- 7885: The City Of The Sun
- By: A. Student In Tommaso Campanella’s document, The City of the Sun, a new social order is introduced amongst the Solarians. Campanella presents his readers with a utopian society that is ordered by rationality and reason. This ideal visionary is a redeemed world, free from injustice and competition in the market structure. Campanella, however, grew up in a society that was exploited and based on irrational principles. Campanella, therefore, reconstructs a society that operates in opposition to the ... to alter their status if they desire, and live a life according to their standards. Campanella directly criticizes the society he grew up in by stating in his dialogue, why the Solarians mock the material world for the way it is structured: Thus they laugh at us because we consider craftsmen ignoble and assign nobility to those who are ignorant of every craft and live in idleness, keeping a host ...
- 7886: Donald Barthelme
- ... Location, and art and literature review (Harte and Riley, 41). His other jobs included serving in Korea and Japan in the U.S. Army (Barthelme Bio, 1), Professor of English at the City University of New York, teacher of Creative Writing at the University of Texas in Houston, and of course author of short stories and novels (Anderson et al, 919). He is the author of a number of collections of ... seem to be a very serious writer. Thomas Leitch says about Barthelme: "Perhaps the most striking feature of Donald Barthelme’s fiction is the number of things it get along without. In Barthelme’s fictive world, there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no sense of place or community, no awareness on the part of his characters of any ... a room together, whose mission is to insert keys and launch nuclear missiles when they see certain events happen on the televisions that they have. They are completely cut off from the rest of the world and seem to have lost sight of reality. Chablis the second story I read is about a guy whose wife wants a dog. His wife has a baby so she forgets about wanting a ...
- 7887: Pythagoras of Samos
- Pythagoras of Samos Born: about 580 BC in Samos, Ionia Died: about 500 BC in Metapontum, Lucania Pythagoras (fl. 530 BCE) must have been one of the world's greatest men, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doctrine we know as Pythagorean is due to the founder of the society and how much is later ... such reverence for its founder's authority as the Pythagoreans. 'The Master said so' was their watchword. On the other hand, few schools have shown so much capacity for progress and for adapting themselves to new conditions. Pythagoras started from the cosmical system of Anaximenes. Aristotle tells us that the Pythagoreans represented the world as inhaling 'air' form the boundless mass outside it, and this 'air' is identified with 'the unlimited'. When, however, we come to the process by which things are developed out of the 'unlimited', we ...
- 7888: Tupac Shakur: Stealing From A Dead Star
- ... of money after being signed to Death Row Records: If you come to Death Row, you will see your art brought to a bigger plateau, and you will be paid one of these days (MTV). NEW YORK _ Rapper Tupac Shakur, whose last album grossed more than $100 million, died with just $120,00 in his bank account and two used cars, according to a lawyer who filed a new lawsuit against the late musician’s record company. The lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News, also to have 152 of Tupac Shakur’s unreleased recordings placed in court-appointed receivership ... Shakur’s public life began when he joined the seminal Bay area rap ensemble, Digital Underground, first as a tour dancer, then as a rapper. The day before he was convicted of sex abuse in New York, Tupac was shot five times in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. The crime was officially classified as a robbery; and the police dropped their investigation when Tupac failed to cooperate ( ...
- 7889: Agamemon. Justifiable Homicide
- ... would be the obvious treading on the crimson tapestries, which is treatment reserved for one of a god's stature. Finally, the gods have little compassion for a leader who would lead so many young, brave men into battle to be slaughtered without mercy or sympathy. Why should such a man live? There is no room in the Argive kingdom for such a "ruler." Clytaemnestra is definitely entitled to enforce justice ... the head of an entire people. Clearly the only rational decision is to eliminate Agamemnon. Works Cited Aeschylus' Agamemnon, The Choephori & The Eumenides. Cliffs Notes. Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, Inc., 1992. Aeschylus. The Norton Anthology World Masterpieces. 6th ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996.
- 7890: Diction And Imagery In The Poe
- The Challangers Quest The world today can be a dangerous place, causing people to be precautions. To be a risk taker in today s society involves courage and a willingness to be vulnerable. In the poem Swimming alone, author Patricia Keeney uses diction and imagery to convey that venturing into risky situations requires one to be brave and yet desperate. The swim is presented to the reader as an enormous challenge that only the brave and desperate would face, such as a player in a challenging computer game. Diction such as dangerous and trouble used throughout the swim maintains the risk the swimmer must face. The line whirled pearl ...
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