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- 911: The Rise of Gladiatorial Combat in Rome
- ... was freed as a result of popular outcry in the amphitheater the liberation was to be annulled. Aurelius found the sport boring and indeed he was unenthusiastic about Roman entertainment in general. (10:87) The teaching of gladiators was highly elaborate affair involving expertise appreciated by those members of the public who attended the games for something more than blood and thrills. Gladiators were trained at gladiator schools established during the ...
- 912: Zen's Influence on the Art of the Sword
- ... period, “you must follow the movement of the sword in the hands of the enemy, leaving your mind free to make its own counter-movement without your interfering deliberation.” Herein lies the simplicity of Zen teaching in respect to all things, both exceptional and common; think not, merely do.
- 913: Socrate's First Accusers and Athenian Law
- ... Socrates, himself, speaks out the accusers charges by saying "Socrates does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things, and by making the weaker the stronger and by teaching others these things" (Plato, 19b;c). This is the charge of the "old" accusers. It is seen from an example in "The Clouds". Strepsiades goes to Socrates in order to learn how to pursuade his ...
- 914: Kant: Goodness
- ... on their own and do the same. I think that this is good will, because, yes, reproduction is selfish in a way, but if you have the good will to be a good parent, by teaching your children, and trying to make them model their lives after yours, if you truly believe you can be a good mother/father, then you are acting on good will much more than selfishness.
- 915: A Brief Comment on the Query: "Is Socrates Guilty As Charged?"
- ... trial, what exactly Socrates was being accused with: "Socrates does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things, and by making the weaker speech the stronger, and by teaching others these same things."1 In breaking this charge down, we see that it is two-fold. Firstly, Socrates is charges with impiety, a person who does not believe in the state gods of Athens ...
- 916: Pallas Athene Versus Minerva
- ... warped the Greek's beliefs into ideas and concepts which they could relate to better, and which everyone could have a firm grasp on because of it. This project was helpful to me in both teaching me about this specific Heroine and also about why cultures act as they do.
- 917: Comparison/Contrast of Fairfield College Prep School and Jesuit College Prep
- ... is bare with no locks or locking devices anywhere in sight. As the environments are different, the overall attitude of both schools is different, too. Fairfield Prep encourages a strict follow-the-teacher approach to teaching where the students must learn all from the teacher and expressions of their ideas are discouraged. Jesuit stresses an open atmosphere that encourages a cooperative atmosphere where the students learn with the teachers and the ...
- 918: Interlingua is Doomed
- ... able to map, keep track of and set standards for every single entity in the world that someone feels there is a need to have a word for. We have not yet come close to teaching all the people of the world to read and write their own native language that they are exposed to every day. What makes us think that we can teach them an all new language, especially ...
- 919: The Cybernetic Plot of Ulysses
- ... Bloom's, and finally to Molly's, implies that no communication, no means of meaning, succeeds so well as that of the artistic imagination. When he said "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Gustave Flaubert was teaching Joyce to disregard and ultimately to refute the supposed inscrutability and reputed inaccessibility of the Other. The lines may be down between husband and wife, they may be tottering between father and daughter, but between ...
- 920: A Mythical Analysis of A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- ... plant, indicated to don Juan that Carlos was the "chosen" one, the person to whom don Juan should pass on his knowledge(CLC,87). Don Juan speaks of many different spirits and separate realities. His teaching's gave an explanation to man's view of existence and his ignorance resulting from attachment to the material world. Mythological proof is also found in don Juan's teachings, which compare Indian folklore, mysticism ...
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