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HUME Vs KANT Causality
Number of Words: 1751 / Number of Pages: 7
... the objects of human reason into two categories. First, the relation of ideas, which represented all that is ‘a priori’. Secondly, he created the category of matters of fact. Matters of fact made up the ‘a posteriori’ piece of the spectrum of reason. Matters of fact are contingent, meaning they could be otherwise.
In order to go beyond the objects of human reason, Hume proposed that reasoning was based upon cause and effect. Causal relations help us to know things beyond our immediate vicinity. All of our knowledge is based on experience. Therefore, we need experience to come to causal rela ...
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Mi Familia
Number of Words: 896 / Number of Pages: 4
... Sanchez had was in Los Angeles. It took him over a year to get to the other side. Finally he reached Los Angeles. The border in those days was just a line in the dirt. El Californio was the name of the only living relative Jose had. They called the old man "El Californio" because he didn't come from anywhere else; he was born here in California when it was still Mexico. Children soon followed, first Paco then Irene. Jose Sanchez was always working in the milpa (corn in the back and beans in the front). Then came the day that everything changed, when Maria (Jose's wife) didn't come home from the market ...
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The Civil War
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... advantage was that it had only to defend
relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long
lines of communication and to attack a broad front. The Confederacy also
had no need to divert fighting men to tasks such as garrisoning captured
cities and holding conquered territory.
In a short war, numerical superiority would not have made much of a
difference. As the war continued, however, numerical strength became a
psychological as well as a physical weapon. During the closing years of the
conflict, Union armies, massed at last against critical strongholds,
suffered terr ...
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The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
Number of Words: 1417 / Number of Pages: 6
... Major Anderson of the United States Military established his headquarters at Fort Sumter. The fort itself was militarily unimportant to either side, yet it later became a significant symbol to both the North and the South. In the controversy that surrounded Fort Sumter, both Presidents attempted to act in the best interest of their nations. While Abraham Lincoln's decision superficially seems to be the wiser as the North won the war, Jefferson Davis's decisions truly proved to be more self serving to his nation's cause.
As the number of Southern States that seceded increased, the federal ...
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Illuminating The Path Of Progress
Number of Words: 1393 / Number of Pages: 6
... got his first job selling newspapers and snacks to the passengers
on the train between Port Huron and Detroit. Edison bought a used printing
press in 1862 and published the Grand Trunk Herald for passengers. It was the
first newspaper published on a train.
When Edison was fifteen, he was taught Morse code and became a manager
of a telegraph office. Edison got the idea for his first invention from
working here. His first inventions were the transmitter and receiver for the
automatic telegraph. At 21, Edison produced his first major invention, a stock
ticker. In 1869, when Edison was twen ...
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Rock And Roll 2
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... WINS, was the first radio station to broadcast rock and roll. They were only in it for the music. By the time WINS was part of the revival, the famous, unforgettable 1960's were there.
For the next two decades, the United States did mot know what it was about to go though. It was going to go through drugs, war, and heartache. What helped this time of suffering, the rock. The youth looked to the music. It was not just in America, rock had gone worldwide. People had turned to the music because it made them feel good. Plus it helped getting high a lot easier.
With the heavy use with drugs, rocker ...
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Sixth Sense Movie
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... that supports the entire production.
The movie The Sixth Sense is made in a very unconventional way. The end really changes the sequence of the movie. The end of the movie finally makes the whole movie understandable. There is a very strange flow in the sequence of the plot. In my opinion, the very last scene should have been at the beginning, but how would the movie have ended?
The pace of the film was very fast. One scene moved fast right to the next. There were many scenes that could not even follow because they ended to soon. This is very disturbing because it does not give the audience ...
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Picasso At The Lapin Agile - Dramatic Criticism
Number of Words: 750 / Number of Pages: 3
... to ask the same questions of the audience that it does from one character to another. For example, the owner of the “Lapin Agile”, Freddy attempts to stump Albert Einstein with a mathematical problem that the audience couldn’t have enough time to equate. This style of fast paced dialogue and action fills the entire script from the opening line, adding humor and wit which is only emphasized by the close attention to details.
In the set design, we first see the use of layering, with a large cyclorama that has been painted onto a piece of scrim to allow for a visual effect at the end of the play. The pai ...
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Rennaisance Art
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... endowing it with a beauty and significance greater and more permanent than that actually found in nature. Artists such as Donatello in sculpture, Masaccio in painting and Fillipo Brunelleschi in architecture were part of this period. Masaccio for instance gave figures the “illusion” of live beings when characters and reactions were individualized. He also made use of perspective by exploring linear (a vanishing point), and atmospheric perspective (effects produced from a single light source). He also made use of gradations or light and darkness (Chiaroscuro) to give illusions of weight, substance ...
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Analysis Of Rembrandt Joseph A
Number of Words: 1718 / Number of Pages: 7
... with him." This is the subject matter for which Rembrandt choose to do his representational painting by. The content of the painting all reveals Rembrandt's interpretation of the story
This is the account from the Bible of the accusation of Joseph by Potiphar's Wife. Rembrandt Van Ryn chose this particular story as the subject of his narrative painting completed in 1655, under the title of "Joseph Accused By Potiphar's Wife". Before researching this painting, I noted my fist perception of Rembrandt work of art. I realized through that as a result of my later research, my first perception did not chang ...
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