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- 23341: The Electoral College System
- ... electoral vote, and the candidate with the most electoral votes gets the remaining two electoral votes. Then all of the votes are counted, and if a candidate gets more than half the votes, he become s the new president. If there is no majority then the election gets thrown into the House of Representatives. There each state is given one vote and they vote on the top three candidates. If a ... influence with Southern House members to get Hum phrey elected. In the process he would have likely garnered great political clout for himself. Wallace could have bargained with Nixon for an administration position in Nixon's cabinet in return for Wallace's electoral votes. The possible scenarios are endless, and for the most part irrelevant. What is relevant is that the processes of the Electoral College again paved a path for democratic compromise, just as it ...
- 23342: The Identity Theory
- ... through air", we are aware to the fact that is how sound travels. This parallelism is intertheoretic reduction; taking an older version of reductive materialism and using it to help explain a newer version, Churchland's identity theory. Neural activity and neuroscience play a major role in the identity theory. "...the correct account of human-behavior-and-its-causes must reside in the physical neurosciences" (MR324). Neurosciences and cognitive psychology have ... the brain states. Once the medication has taken effect and the brain states are under control, the mental states (thoughts) have been altered as well. It is very hard to explain without using some doctor's DSM-IV book but the effects the brain/neural transmitters have on the mental states of a person are in fact the same. The thought's under the mental state are changed solely because of the altering of the brain state. In other words reductive materialism is at work! Concentration levels have increased and a calmness has overcome the fear ...
- 23343: Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-sabi
- ... concepts of value and beauty as they relate to the arts. Philosophers from Plato until the present time have had rigid ideas about what artists should create and what people should like, but in today's world, aestheticians represent a variety of approaches to the philosophy of art. Aesthetics, in the broadest sense, may be thought of as a worldview, a view that may be markedly different in other cultures. Objects ... simple and quiet taste, the form that is practiced and taught in Japan and throughout the world today. He also designed a simple, separate building to house the ceremony based on a typical Japanese farmer's rustic hut. Rikyu further formalized the tea ceremony's rules of behavior and identified the spirit of chanoyu with four basic Buddhist principles of harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. These guiding principles signify the highest ideals of the tea ceremony. The Seven Rules ...
- 23344: The Idatarod
- ... with the strongest heart and the will to go on against overwhelming odds will complete the race. The Iditarod is a dogsled race that takes place in Alaska every year. It goes from Anchorage (Alaska's largest city) to Nome, stretching over 1,000 miles of icy, snow-covered ground. The Iditarod was begun in the 1960's when people tried to restore tradition to Alaska. It was first run to commemorate a trip that took place in 1925 to deliver medicine to Nome. The race has two routes, the Northern and the ... the dogs be able to maintain their pace even when they are exhausted. The dogs get a few days off before the "big day". Sometimes accidents can happen. For example, when training, Bruce Johnsen, Canada's top musher, plunged through the ice of a frozen lake where he and his eight dog team died. The mushers and their team can get attacked by a moose, like when Susan Butcher got ...
- 23345: Hobbit Essay
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is set in a fantasy world that has differences, as well as similarities, to our own world. The author has created the novel's world, Middle Earth, not only by using imagination, but by also adding details from the modern world. Realistic elements in the book enable readers to relate to the setting, yet have the ability to "imagine" exciting events and organisms not found on Earth. The majority of differences between Middle Earth and today's world are found in objects and the actions of characters that can not be carried out or created in our world. The most abundant example of this in The Hobbit is the presence of magic ... and the modern world, but there are also several similarities. In Middle Earth, there live humans, and hobbits, which are very much similar to miniature people. The language spoken and food consumed in the novel's world are found in modern society. Also, the fact that Thorin Oakenshield is heir of the throne of the King under the Mountain and inherits all of the riches of the kingdom is like ...
- 23346: The Fbi 2
- To uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal criminal law; to protect the U.S. from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities; to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the constitution of the U.S.: this is the mission of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agency now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 when the Attorney General appointed an unnamed force of Special Agents to be the investigative force of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Before that time, the DOJ had to borrow Agents from the U.S. Secret Service to investigate violations of federal criminal laws within its jurisdiction. In 1909, the Special Agent Force was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and after a series of name changes, it received its ...
- 23347: Child Labor in Pakistan
- ... are: 1.) Low wages- children are commonly paid less than one-third of what an adult would get for the same job 2.) Little light to work by- overseers keep lights low to limit activists ability to take photos 3.) Forced labor- once the child's parents agree to let them work the master can extend the child's debt, which puts them in a state of perpetual servitude to the master 4.) Separation from family- the masters often sell the children like they would a slave, commonly without the parents knowledge ...
- 23348: Comparison Of Spartan And Samu
- ... Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim. We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a dangerous thin line. To die without gaining one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism." (Wilson, 1994, pg. 253) This sums up very well the thoughts of the samurai. A samurai would rather die in battle than face the shame of failing in his duty. It ...
- 23349: Lost Values (Macbeth)
- ... it. People only discover how much they value something when they lose it. Everyone tried to walk towards success. Macbeth once indicated, Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success. (Macbeth) Macbeth's ambition for success directs him toward the murder of Duncan. Many will do anything in order to reach success. Some will cheat on others, betray others, and some will kill others. In the short story ... most apt example that fits all these criteria in attaining success. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth cheats by letting the witches foresee his future, giving him an advantage over others. In addition, he betrays Duncan's steadfast trust toward him. Duncan believes that Macbeth is loyal and noble general, but Duncan soon finds out that he had judged Macbeth fatally wrong. Duncan was killed by Macbeth. Macbeth also killed many others ... love has always been a deplorable matter. In the story Penny in the Dust, Dan loses his beloved father. It is after his father dies that Dan wants to know more about him. When Dan's father was alive, Dan never appreciated the chance of talking to his father. In the story Champions, the narrator, after being a champion, does not want to be one. Being a champion had left ...
- 23350: Thomas Hobbes
- ... retains the right to make laws, and in making these laws he has the right to punish and reward people as he sees fit so as to preserve the Lawes of nature. Third, the sovereign's power can never be fortified because he made a covenant with the whole and it would be impossible to make covenants with each and every single man for it would make each covenant void. Fourth, the sovereign's power can never be forfeited because he made a covenant with the whole and it would be impossible to make covenants with each and every single man for it would make each covenant void. Fifth ... is unpunishable by the subject due to the fact that his power is indivisible. The reason that Hobbes believes it is necessary for the sovereign to attain such extensive powers is because if a sovereign's power is not absolute then his power is considered void. On pg. 127 Hobbes says "And so if we consider any one of the said Rights, we shall presently see, that the holding of ...
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