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- 1231: The Inverted Pyramid And The E
- ... of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraphs occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph, much of writing news was just that: writing. News was reported much like books were written. The reporter would set the scene with a detailed account of the setting or the mood and tell the tale just like any other narrative that ...
- 1232: Eutahania And Suicide In America
- ... dead. But once again who defines quality of life, and who does it apply to. Does it only apply to rational adults that consent to euthanasia due to pain and suffering and not due to personal considerations like being a financial burden, depression, or loneliness. Or does it apply to anyone those in power say is unfit to live, such as the mentally ill, the disabled, or children with diseases. The ... the Oregon assisted suicide measure is that it does not provide adequate controls to avoid abuse, and that privacy issues leads to an inability to determine whether the patient was rational or done it for personal reasons. The wording of the act does not state that the deadly dose must be self-administered, which means that the doctor can practice active euthanasia. Also those in support of the act, such as ... been legally committed suicide with the assistance of their doctor. The information shows that not one of them was forced into the act by intractable pain or suffering, but those who died had a strong personal belief in individua autonomy, and chose suicide based mainly on fears of future dependence. This shows that such laws will be used by more than just those with terminal illnesses suffering from pain. Likewise ...
- 1233: Freud And Jung
- ... in personality differed greatly in Freud and Jung's theories. Freud felt that sex was the single most important force that shaped and guided personality. His preoccupation with sex may have developed from his own personal experiences with it. As a child, Freud developed a sexual attachment to his mother. Through this experience Freud developed the Oedipus complex--a boy's longing for his mother and desire to replace his father ... the pleasure seeking part of personality. In analyzing dreams, Freud interpreted most symbols in a sexual manner. On the other hand, Jung was not so preoccupied with sex in his theories. Jung's childhood and personal development may explain his feelings on sex as part of personality. Jung never developed any sort of sexual longing for his mother and was actually repulsed by her unattractiveness and mental instability. Furthermore, Jung had ... instincts which motivate us to behave in a certain manner. Jung placed more emphasis on the unconscious than Freud and even added a new dimension to it. Therefore, in Jung's system there is a personal and a collective unconscious. The personal unconscious contains memories which have been forgotten by us because they were inconsequential or unpleasant. The collective unconscious is deeper and less accessible than the personal unconscious. It ...
- 1234: Ancient Egypt
- ... the worldΥs first national government. Their religion was one of the first to emphasize a life after death. They produced an expressive art and literature. The Egyptians introduced stone architecture and made the first convenient writing material, papyrus. They developed a 365-day year and set up the basic methods of geometry and surgery. The boundaries of ancient Egypt changed many times during its history. When the Kingdom of Egypt was ... died out of everyday use about a thousand years ago but the Coptic (Christian) Church still uses it. No one knows just how the spoken language of ancient Egypt sounded. Written Egyptian developed from picture writing into an elaborate system of symbols called hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics consisted of 24 alphabetic characters for consonants and semi-consonants. These characters were used in combination with many phonograms (sound-signs) and idiograms (sense-signs). Vowels were not written out. Hieroglyphic writing was carved or painted. Its ornamental character was particularly suitable for inscriptions on monuments. For everyday purposes, a simplified cursive form of hieroglyphics called hieratic was used. Hieratic could be rapidly written on light, ...
- 1235: Plato And Confucius
- ... that the philosopher had attained the truth after years of searching for it by way of education and age. He likewise felt that it was the philosopher class that would lead a city not for personal gain, which would cause anger among the common people, but one of harmony was the goal of his ideal regime. Platos regime is based on reason of an educated man, that wasn\\'t corrupt, but ... person had a role to play in making the city function in harmony. Plato thought that his regime would get rid of the problems of injustice, by getting rid of corrupt rulers only interested in personal gain, not in the interest of the city as a whole. Plato certainly feel that it is impossible for a democracy to achieve justice because citizens would have free will to do unjust acts that ... their actions, some have the freedom to not obey laws. He felt that democracy may be sweet for moment, but not the order and reasoned city he wanted under his ideal regime. Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal gain, going from one personal desire to another, such as drinking, money making, and neglecting education. Plato felt that ...
- 1236: Internet Security
- ... on June 12, 1997, the Associated Press reported on a bug in Netscape's Navigator web browser. According to the article, the glitch "lets Web site operators read anything on a hard drive of a personal computer logged onto the site." PC Magazine and CNNfn ran their own tests for the bug and determined that even firewalls (security measures put in place to try to protect against just this type of ... any virus protection on his computer and he was from Japan. From what I gathered from the people surveyed in Japan, different people have different views as to the level of security needed on their personal computers. The one who had no form of virus protection is only on the Internet via e-mail, and views no attached files. For that reason, he has no need to worry about a virus ... by President Clinton, a major protest was staged on the Internet. It was announced that people should turn the background of their web pages to black to mourn the occasion. Millions of web sites, both personal and commercial, turned their pages to black; this action was taken by both Americans, who would be held to this law, and people from other countries, who this law would not directly affect. Therein ...
- 1237: Plato And Confucious
- ... that the philosopher had attained the truth after years of searching for it by way of education and age. He likewise felt that it was the philosopher class that would lead a city not for personal gain, which would cause anger among the common people, but one of harmony was the goal of his ideal regime. Platos regime is based on reason of an educated man, that was not corrupt, but ... person had a role to play in making the city function in harmony. Plato thought that his regime would get rid of the problems of injustice, by getting rid of corrupt rulers only interested in personal gain, not in the interest of the city as a whole. Plato certainly feel that it is impossible for a democracy to achieve justice because citizens would have free will to do unjust acts that ... their actions, some have the freedom to not obey laws. He felt that democracy may be sweet for moment, but not the order and reasoned city he wanted under his ideal regime. Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal gain, going from one personal desire to another, such as drinking, money making, and neglecting education. Plato felt that ...
- 1238: Confucius And Plato
- ... that the philosopher had attained the truth after years of searching for it by way of education and age. He likewise felt that it was the philosopher class that would lead a city not for personal gain, which would cause anger among the common people, but one of harmony was the goal of his ideal regime. Platos regime is based on reason of an educated man, that was not corrupt, but ... person had a role to play in making the city function in harmony. Plato thought that his regime would get rid of the problems of injustice, by getting rid of corrupt rulers only interested in personal gain, not in the interest of the city as a whole. Plato certainly feel that it is impossible for a democracy to achieve justice because citizens would have free will to do unjust acts that ... their actions, some have the freedom to not obey laws. He felt that democracy may be sweet for moment, but not the order and reasoned city he wanted under his ideal regime. Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal gain, going from one personal desire to another, such as drinking, money making, and neglecting education. Plato felt that ...
- 1239: The Lonely Soul Of Dasein
- ... that Heidegger shies away from psychology because behavior can vary so much from one person to another and creates problems for his strictly structural analysis of being. Morality is also of great concern in a personal view of Heidegger s Being and Time due to the touchy nature of his use of such terms as conscience and guilt to describe qualities that are present in all Dasein. Even though he attempts ... in the discussion as a source of guilt, or as the next step above the middle management provided by conscience? For how else could one describe what should be other than in terms of a personal view of integrity towards living towards Others otherwise stated as morality? Dasein defines what should be by looking forward to the possibility of being self-governed by an individual sense of what is correct behavior ... resoluteness a projection of possibilities for Dasein onto itself. His reference to concernful solicitude implies that some part of the they-self assumes responsibility for the well-being of Others with respect to their own personal care towards the world. Heidegger explains this as part of the idle talk respective to inauthenticity, but the sympathy one feels obliged to show another exceeds simple social convention and finds a home in ...
- 1240: The Essential Nile
- The Essential Nile Many features of civilization have evolved over time to become what one commonly thinks of as "civilized society." The development of government and writing in the classical civilization of Egypt can be credited to the reliability of the Nile River. The Nile was a source of unification and centralization in the Egyptian society, helping in the development of government and writing with the growth of surpluses. The Nile River, because of its predictable cycles, "unified and centered" the Egyptian society. Because of its predictability , the Nile "created a stable agriculture." All the Egyptians needed to do ... labor, and then to social stratification. The improvement of agricultural methods also led to the enlargement of cities. This enlargement then led to the need for bureaucracy and administration, and eventually toward the advent of writing. Writing, a "very important" aspect of daily life, was a pre-condition for a more formal government. In brief, the flooding of the Nile river made agriculture easy for the Egyptians who came to ...
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