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- 19341: Descartes 2
- ... argument which I shall call the dreaming argument. The dreaming argument is centered around differentiating our awakened mind from sleep. Descartes uses this technique and builds upon it to show that an external world doesnt exist. Descartes makes a good argument by using scenarios which happen to everyone whilst having a dream. Descartes believes that our dreams usually represent unclear settings of ourselves and while not in a dreamy moment ... experience while awake really are occurring. Simply put, reality and when we are in a dreaming state is so blurred that sometimes or most times when we have dreams we tend to think we arent dreaming but are actually experiencing a real situation. Descartes hammers his point here by saying that if we cant clearly differentiate from the onset reality from a dream clearly and accurately then can we truly make a distinction between our world and an external world. Even more does an external world exist? To ...
- 19342: Crito 2
- ... effort to remain under the influence of a society is an unconscious agreement with that society to live your life by its standards and virtues. Socrates states after establishing his own agreement with his city s virtues that he believes in the validity of the decision imposed upon himself. He states that his decision is justified by the fact that the laws and governing agents of the society must command a ... sees how we conduct our trials and manage the city in other ways, has in fact come to an agreement with us to obey our instructions." (Crito p.54e) If the decisions of the city s governing agents are not thoroughly respected as just and cohesive parts of society, the very structure by which the society stands is subject to collapse. If a person is found to be in violation of ... circumstances, which have presented to Socrates by his companion Crito, that being the option to escape from his captors and renounce their decision on his fate. Socrates concludes that if he were to follow Crito s advice he would be committing several wrong actions against a society in which he calls his own. To disobey your own society, according to Socrates, is to betray what you were taught to be ...
- 19343: American Indian Stories
- ... as we drove in, our vehicles were bombarded with fireworks. I could never really grasp why we were so despised. After all, our intentions were commendable. The matter became clearer after I read Zitkala-sa s American Indian Stories . Within this text, a Native American expresses her beliefs that actions similar to ours serve merely in altering culture. The main character s civilization had religious beliefs long before the white man presented his ideas. Essentially, the Sioux religion was based on nature. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact beliefs of the group because of the deficiency ... With the introduction of the paleface into the Indian culture, he brought with him different ideas about religion, which undoubtedly created tension. Therefore, a significant controversy in the text is over whether the white man s intent in ministering to the children is actually in the Indian s best interest. Because of the Quaker s actions, innocent people had to make numerous sacrifices and deal with senseless hardships. Throughout the ...
- 19344: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi" was a good book for people who , just kidding . I found the book altogether insightful into the life of an African-American raised in the deep south during the civil ... what many sacrificied in order to acheive civil rights for all . I plan to explain the above statements more thoroughly throughout this paper . I believe this book acheived its goal of telling of one woman's struggle for her basic rights in a hostile environment . This book begins with the life of its author . She starts out as basically a slave child on a farm in Mississippi . She tells of her ... her mother begins a relationship with a black man from town named Raymond . She talks of her mother being pregnant and her realizing of how babies are brought into the world . Anne describes her mother's mood swings and what I see as emotional depression while seeing Raymond and not living with him . Anne , her mother , brother , and sister eventually move into a house in town with Raymond , which he ...
- 19345: Angina Pectoris
- ... antagonists 15 Other Medications 16 Surgery 16 Coronary Bypass Surgery 17 Angioplasty 18 Self-Help 20 Type-A Behaviour Pattern 21 Cardiac Rehab Program 22 Conclusion 23 Diagrams and Charts 26 Bibliography INTRODUCTION In today's society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in ... Its steady beating maintains the flow of blood through the body day and night, year after year, non-stop from birth until death. The heart is a hollow, muscular organ slightly bigger than a person's clenched fist. It is located in the centre of the chest, under the breastbone above the sternum, but it is slanted slightly to the left, giving people the impression that their heart is on the ... they form plaques which causes the arteries to narrow and thus restricting the flow of blood. This process is known as atherosclerosis. However, angina usually does not occur until about two-thirds of the artery's diameter is blocked. Besides atherosclerosis, there are other heart conditions resulting in the starvation of oxygen of the heart, which also causes angina. The nerve factor - The arteries are supplied with nerves, which allow ...
- 19346: 1984 Reading Journal
- ... a diary. This is against the law in Oceania. He felt his feelings begin to hate Emmanuel Goldstein, leader of the enemy party. He also spots O'Brien, a party leader whose eyes he see's a bit of political sympthy. See's young girl who he dislikes. He feels it is only a matter of time before his though crimes are detected. A knock at the door he thinks is police. Mrs. Parsons, his neighbor is at ... to do his exercises. He thinks about how much power the Party has over all information. Begins work at the ministry of truth. His job is to correct printed articles in line with the Party's orders. The Ministry and records department jobs are to rewrite history to make the party look good. They get a break because of the 2 minute hate. When he gets back he replaces a ...
- 19347: The Cold War: Conflicting Aims and Policies of Rival Powers
- ... the United States airlifted tons of supplies to those who were in need of them in Berlin. This was the very beginning of antagonistic relations. Another form of aggression that angered the Americans was Stalin's refusal to hold free elections in Eastern Europe, while he covertly set up their governments to act as puppet satellites, forming a protective barrier around the U.S.S.R. The Soviets' reluctance to reunify Korea and the strong Communist atmosphere in North Korea also disgruntled Americans and hurt diplomatic relations. Overall, each step that the Soviet Union took to strengthen its power ...
- 19348: Contrast In Do Not Weep, Maide
- ... what a soldier has been trained for. By using that stratedgy, it shows how different the viewpoints of the families of the soldiers and the actual soldiers doing the fighting really are. The families didn't see the absolute horror that was the front line. They didn't see the the thousands of men killed each day. They didn't see the millions of men who were wounded and probably wished that they were dead. Yet, they still thought that they understood what the war was about and what exactly was going on. The ...
- 19349: Acetylation of Ferrocene
- ... acetyl groups to each of the aromatic rings. In order to determine how well this process had worked we employed: IR spectra analysis, column chromatography, and a little TLC. This experiment is relevant in today's highly industrialized world. By utilizing many of the techniques we employ in this lab, a company can synthesize new types of materials or composites that could revolutionize an industry. Background When we react the ferrocene ... stationary phase, a mobile liquid phase is passed. Now, one can think of a polar stationary phase as a bully that waits in the high school halls for his hooligan friends. His hooligan friends, hooley's as I like to call them, always stay back to talk him; the rest of the normal student body simply keep walking and pass him. The idea here is: like- stays-with- like. Analogously, those ... not the original ferrocene start material. Please see the pre-lab for reproductions of the TLC plates used in this lab. Also see table 1.2 for Rf values. As one can see, this crude's Rf is half that of the start material. This indicates that a reaction has definitely occurred. Next we performed an extraction on this sample with Methylene Chloride (MeCl) and Sodium Hydroxide (OH-). Please see ...
- 19350: How Natural Processes Operate At A Coastal Eographic Environ
- ... The three main coastal environment processes that operate at Muriwai are Coastal Erosion, Coastal Transportation and Coastal Deposition. The elements that interact to produce natural processes are wind, waves and tides. Each phenomenon at Muriwai s coastal geographic environment has been produced by interaction. Coastal Erosion is a process at Muriwai that gradually wears away the rock particles of the earth s surface, transporting them to another location. There are many types of processes that cause erosion at Muriwai such as wave erosion, wind erosion and wave refraction. Thousands of years ago when sea levels dropped over ... is at Maori Bay. Coastal Erosion operates at different rates and different times. Limestone rock is eroded slower than sedimentary rock. The cliff at Muriwai made of sedimentary rock was eroded back to expose Fisherman s Rock - the shore platform which, made of limestone tended to erode back slower than the cliff. The types of wave erosion that caused this are - Hydraulic Action, when waves hit the cliff, air is ...
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