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- 671: David Hume
- ... As Hume built up his reputation, he gained more and more political power. He discarded the possibility of certain knowledge, finding in the mind nothing but a series of sensations, and held that cause-and-effect in the natural world derives solely from the conjunction of two impressions. Hume's skepticism is also evident in his writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief ... their idea of causality arises in the mind when we experience certain relations between objects. This idea states that for all effects there is a cause. Hume said that even though the cause preceded the effect, there is no proof that the cause is responsible for the effect's occurrence. Did you follow along? Hume also thrived on ones self. Hume denied that we have any idea of self. This may seem paradoxical, that I should say that I do not have ...
- 672: Jane Eyre
- ... She is clearly the "scapegoat of the nursery" (pg. 47). In the eyes of her wicked aunt she was a "precocious actress" and was therefor regularly locked up like a dog. According to Berg the effect of these accounts drew attention to her self-dramatization. From the very moment Jane was able to read she was constantly attracted by the disguised portraits that she make for herself in books, ballads, and ... hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessies's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the ... problems. She noticed the "array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty and broad as oaks...quiet and lonely hills and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion" that was not expected. (Bronte 91) The effect of nature in this passage foreshadows dilemmas Jane would encounter while residing there. After residing at Thornfield for several months, Jane finally took a day off and accomplished many errands in town. On her ...
- 673: The Influence of Ecstasy on the Youth
- ... to raise awareness about some of the known effects of the drug use. Both within the raving community and the general public, after all the young Ravers of today a whole generation, who will ultimately effect the future of the country. Many young people feel unlike alcohol Ecstasy allows them to stay in control. In an article by Sheila Henderson she particularly emphasiss the attraction of Ecstasy and the E ... changes would tend to be laughed off and any weight Loss, or loss of appetite, due to the media images, which portray anorexic supper models as the ideal physical appearance, is viewed as a positive effect to the most young people. You people also enjoy the feeling of belonging, which comes from the Rave culture (PLUR Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect) and shared drug experiences. Many people feel that Ecstasy gives ... rave wouldnt exist on the same scale with out the drug factor. This self-stupefying attitude means that Ravers refuse to admit that there is any risk. Instead this ignorance has created the opposite effect, Ravers compare their drug intakes and particularly between males this leads to sense of competitiveness concerning the number of drugs they have taking in one night. Higher dosage of the drugs obviously increases the ...
- 674: The Vietnam War
- ... Vietcong were spread so thin in the North and there were so few of them in the South, that it was hard to pinpoint exact targets. In fact, many United States bombing missions had no effect on the war effort at all. The failure of Johnson's policies to bring the communists into peace talks forced him to end the bombing on March 31, 1968. This inadvertently allowed the United States ... This tactic was merely a distraction from his early policies on the Vietnam War. He ordered several missions to begin bombing Cambodia. Then he sent troops into both Cambodia and Laos. These actions had little effect on the outcome of the war(Gibbons 193). In the years that followed, Congress slowly but surely lost faith in Nixon's tactics. They voted to end the bombing in Cambodia in 1971. From 1971 ... Vietnamese were taking their places. The United States troops began leaving Vietnam in March, 1973, but naval and air power were kept in the Gulf of Tonkin to keep the peace. These powers had little effect on the North, who continued to attack the South in spurts(Herring 260). The total number of American deaths in the Vietnamese Conflict was 57,605. The estimated number of United States wounded in ...
- 675: Hamlet - A Comparison To Human
- ... to comment on the influence that one's state of mind can have on the decisions they make in life. As the play unfolds, Shakespeare uses the encounters that Hamlet must face to demonstrate the effect that one's perspective can have on the way the mind works. In his book Some Shakespeare Themes & An Approach to Hamlet, L.C. Knight takes notice of Shakespeare's use of these encounters to ... play progresses, Hamlet does not seek his revenge when the opportunity presents itself, and it is the reasoning that Hamlet uses to justify his delay that becomes paramount to the reader's understanding of the effect that Hamlet's mental perspective has on his situation. In order to fully understand how Hamlet's perspective plays an important role in this play, the reader must attempt to answer the fundamental question: Why ... L.C. Knight and Mark Scott, because it too requires some serious introspection on the part of Hamlet to resolve, and also supports the idea that Shakespeare is using Hamlet's dilemma to illustrate the effect that perspective, or state of mind, can have on a given situation. Hamlet's delay in seeking revenge for his father's death plays an important role in allowing Shakespeare's look into the ...
- 676: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... a society where a person can do what he pleases, is associated with the mental ward patients, whose lives are completely controlled by their nurses and their routines. McMurphy and the patients have a significant effect on each other. The mental ward and the world that McMurphy comes from are completely different. The mental ward is completely based on rules. The patients' lives are based on the routine that their nurse ... ward is very hard for McMurphy at first. The patients and McMurphy cannot understand one another so socializing with them is hard for him. When he begins to interact with them, he has a profound effect on the patients of the mental ward. McMurphy has a hard time following the rules that Nurse Ratched sets for patients of the mental ward. So he has to question her and protest against the ... against Nurse Ratched rule that they were not allowed to watch the World Series. Another thing that the patients would not have done without the help of McMurphy. Life in the mental ward has an effect on McMurphy as well. McMurphy's goal was in the mental ward was to escape from it but after he came into close contact with the people of it he lost that aspiration. When ...
- 677: All the King's Men: History's Importance
- ... it. The ties to the past in Jack's value system are unknown at first even to him and as the truths about many of these images are revealed, he must not only acknowledge the effect which they had upon his world view - but must also update his view accordingly to match the truth. When Burden discovers the affair between Stark and Anne, it shatters his vision of Anne's purity ... sheltered, womb-state world."10 In this world, removed as he is by his philosophy, he remains guiltless of the consequences of his actions; and indeed fails to even take note of the cause-and-effect relationship between his actions and the events in his life. By hiding behind the idea of the Great Twitch "Jack refuses to acknowledge his common humanity; that is, he acknowledges the presence of ugliness and ... is historical `fact' and what is historical `truth' very differently. Stark, in his "know-all, use-all style" of application of history, conveniently fails to distinguish between what is truth and what is fact. In effect, he treats the facts as the absolute truth since this is the easiest interpretation to allow him to justify his use of history as a manipulating object: "`_there ain't a thing but dirt ...
- 678: Osteoporosis and Effects of Gavity and Space
- ... fields or altered distribution of tension and pressure on bone cells themselves. It is possible that gravitational and muscular strains on the skeletal system cause friction between bone crystals which creates bioelectrical fields. This bioelectrical effect in some way may stimulate bone cells and affect bone remodeling." In the early missions, X-ray densitometry was used to measure the weight-bearing bones pre & post flight. In the later Apollo, Skylab and ... in such a way that everybody motion is resisted by springs and elastic bands inducing stress and strain on muscles and skeletal system] for 6 to 8 hrs a day necessary to achieve the desired effect are cumbersome and require significant workload and reduces efficiency thereby impractical for long term use other than proving a theoretical principle in preventing hypogravitational osteoporosis. Skylab experience has shown us that in spite of space ... physicians, one physiologist and one veterinarian.] After all is said, the problem is easily resolved by creation of artificial gravity in rotating structures. However if the structure is not large enough the problem of Coriolis effect must be faced. To put the problem of space related osteoporosis in perspective we should review our definition of Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by an absolute decrease in the amount of bone present to ...
- 679: Air Pollution
- ... such as acid rain in areas far from the emission site. The worldwide increase in the burning of coal and oil since the late 1940s has led to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide. The resulting greenhouse effect has reduced the escape of infrared radiation from the earth, causing a possible global warming trend. The Prevention of Air Pollution To cut down on all the pollution being released into the air, we have ...
- 680: The Economics of The Clean Air Act
- ... given states grants of $66 million to help install water sewage treatment plants. They also found that the act has required the industry to install tens of billions of dollars of anti-polltion technology. The effect on the liquid industry has been enormous. Boating sales generate $14 billion alone while fishermen produce $3 million, and the nation spends an estimated $35 million anually for fish. The economics of the Clean Air ... have valid arguments for the precautions they expect to be signed into law sometime this year. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and their products such as gasoline, produces carbon monoxide, a greenhouse gas which can build up in the atmosphere. Scientists believe that the continual buildup of these compounds could lead to devastating climate changes in the next century unless their buildup is slowed. Opponents of the ...
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