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- 4931: Theory Of Knowledge
- ... by this Aristotelian rationality. Then each subject was analyzed critically and then laid side by side to logic, so see that subjects such as history and physics are actually forms of logic applied to the world to gain more knowledge. Man is naturally curious and has created subjects to understand different aspects of the world. But since logic is a man made tool, it can be used to understand an event controlled or created by man, and cannot understand something that is one hundred percent natural. For something to be ... that the rights of the peasants and others may think the opposite. Therefore, history is human's unsuccessful attempt in applying logic to explain past events. Physics can be seen as an imitation of the world so that it would be suitable to apply logic in order to explain this phenomena 'nature' as well as the world. With this imitation, physics explains nature pretty well. For example, according to the ...
- 4932: Henry VIII and Louis XIV
- ... As a start, he planned to conquer all lands west of the Rhine River. He gained several important territories, but was always checked by the alliances that other countries formed to oppose him. In the War of Spanish Succession, England took an important part in defeating him, leading to animosity between the two countries and their respective rulers. This war, which ended in 1714, left France exhausted and weakened. Both men had a common ability to see the goodness in other men as royal advisors. Both hired surprisingly intelligent and wise men to run their ... got out of hand. He was to the point, by the end of his reign, of setting up a well-appointed and furnished estate for each of these families. Not only that, but the Spanish War of Succession severely crippled the treasury, and Louis never could truly raised the taxes enough to cover his love of these ³little wars² and women. Louis was known in Europe for being the longest ...
- 4933: The Killer Angels
- ... Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine which makes up for the lapse. It is safe to say that no other novel has so closely allowed the reader to understand the peculiar madness of this civil war. After reading this powerful, exciting novel one assumes that whenever cultures clash, there will be a final conflict. By showing the reader what the principals of this great battle were (and may have been) current ... is so compelling that the story seldomly deviates from the movie. The movie illustrates Mr. Shaara's ability to tell a complex story with clarity. The novel shows a great depiction of the tragedy of war, like in the part when Armistead races into battle, even though he is fighting his best friend (Hancock), and they both get shot. It really shows the views of each side, and what each character felt. The Killer Angels' will satisfy both the history buff and the Civil War buff. But, the sense of duty, honor, and the appalling loss of life as well as the unbelievable heroism displayed by both sides in the battle will move many readers. The Killer Angels Summary ...
- 4934: Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
- ... Rudolfo Anaya uses Mexican names and Spanish words to give the reader a true sense of the Latin culture. The story is based around young Antonio who was coming of age at the conclusion of World War II. His family lived in a quiet and isolated New Mexico valley that was in a state of transition. Tony, the last child was protected and raised mostly by his mother with the help of ... parents came from very different backgrounds, and raised him based upon their cultures. Though the Marez background influences Tony, the Luna background made a much more profound impression on him, leading Tony into Ultima's world of spiritual exploration and healing. Gabriel Marez, Tony's father was raised in a very nontraditional lifestyle. His family lineage came from the plains. His family was restless and nomadic, and inclined to be ...
- 4935: Fifth Business
- ... and religion. One of the characters that Davies uses to relate the theme of magic and religion is Dunstable Ramsay. Dunny was brought up in a Scottish Presbyterian family in Deptford, Ontario. While in the war, he kept himself busy by reading the New Testament and states "Arabian Nights and the Bible were getting pretty close", referring to both magic and religion. After servicing in the war, Dunstable is renamed Dunstan by Diana after Saint Dunstan. Dunstan’s study of saints becomes his passion and he later travels around the world in search of information about several living saints. During his search for saints, Dunstan coincidentally comes across Le grande Cirque forain de St. Vile and Illusions, a circus where Paul Dempster preformed magic. This ...
- 4936: Time The Final Frontier
- The temporal world in which we live encompasses everything we know. All of our knowledge comes from a trust of five and a half billion people that have no idea where they came from, and no idea where they are headed; a world of blind leading blind. A vital component of this reality exists in a form that is neither provable, nor ideal. This supposedly perfect form of measurement, known as time, runs our lives until we fall ... for zero time before subsequent moments follow. How can one define what a word means if one cannot observe the object it represents? Right as one realizes what this present consists of, it leaves his world, a new present moment replacing it, departing before it is realized as well. This process has always occurred, always will. All societies have blindly accepted this curse of never knowing when one can trust ...
- 4937: Media Extended Essay Glen Hodd
- ... started off being conveyed very well in the media with nearly all the tabloid and broadsheets portraying him as the future of English football. He was a clean cut young man with the international footballing world at his feet. Unfortunately after a few unconvincing results, lots of controversy over a faith healer and a poor world cup the media soon started to turn on Glen Hoddle. When you are in the public eye you have to be very careful about what you do and what you say especially when you have ... then this a tool which has a lot of influence. We have seen through history what power the media has, an example would be the propaganda that Hitler used leading up and during the second world war. The media has so many links and there are a lot of institutions in the media. The Hoddle story only became news because the media wanted it to be. If the papers had ...
- 4938: First Meditation
- ... proposes in the first meditation, it is the evil demon argument that is the most important. Both of Descartes other two arguments succeeded in their goal to establish doubt upon the existence of the outside world, which were the sensory illusion and dreaming arguments. However, people such as Descartes who believe in an omnipotent supremely good being, called God, could easily refute these arguments. Therefore, in order for Descartes to start ... when his mind is being deceived or being given false information it is not from God but from the evil demon. From this skeptical argument, one would come to doubt the existence of the external world. If an evil demon really existed there would be the possibility that the only part of our being that exists would be our minds, in whatever form that maybe, probably incorporeal. Therefore meaning that the world that we live in, the external world, is non-existent and merely a mirage placed into our minds by an evil demon. Obviously, to any sane person, this would sound irrational, but this is ...
- 4939: Artifical Intelligence
- ... system but that doesn't mean it can predict the future all the time." Along these lines Rabi Satter, a computer consultant with a BS in Computer Science, believes that the current sentiment that the world is rational and can be reduced to mathematical equations is wrong. "In order to make great strides in this arena [AI] we need new approaches informed by the past but not guided by it. A ... theory has a foot in the door, but a breakthrough in design will have to come around first before any major moves toward the chaos theory will happen. Expert systems are prevalent all over the world. This proven technology has made its way into almost everywhere that human experts live. Expert systems even can show an employee how to be an expert in a particular occupation. A Massachusetts company specializes in teaching good judgment to new employees or trainees. Called Wisdom Simulators, this company sells software that simulates nasty job situations in the business world. The ability to learn before the need arises attracts many customers to this type of software (Nadis 8). Expert systems have also been applied in medical facilities, diagnosis of mechanical devices, planning scientific experiments, ...
- 4940: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... this is just a fictional story and that things like this don’t really happen in ordinary life, but the unfortunate reality is that these things happen all the time, especially while peoples are at war. To snuff this horrendous use of violence is much easier, but, sadly, is far from a realistic notion. Why is there all this violence going on? Sometimes one thinks that had the hero in this ... make a final stand in For Whom the Bell Tolls if for no other reason, to save his manhood. John Wain explains: "…To make a last stand—for if defeat is accepted in Hemingway’s world, humiliation and rout are not. His fictions present moments of violence, crisis and death, yet these become occasions for a stubborn, quixotic resistance through which the human capacity for satisfying its self-defined obligations is ... In a private conversation, Gavino Villapiano said to me while picking out my primary source, that For Whom the Bell Tolls in a provoking pick, primarily because, "you think that everything is right in the world, but you know that somewhere down the line it is going to get worse. Not just worse, though, but much, much worse." (Villapiano 1) From the get-go you feel this lingering black cloud ...
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