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Descartes
Number of Words: 4665 / Number of Pages: 17
... later. The
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic outlook. This
scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of the Pyrrhonians as
handed down from antiquity by Sextus Empiricus, which claimed that, as
there is never a reason to believe p that is better than a reason not to
believe p, we should forget about trying to discover the nature of reality
and live by appearance alone. This attitude was best exemplified in the
work of Michel de Montaigne, who mockingly dismissed the attempts of
theologians and scientists to ...
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Celine Dion
Number of Words: 2271 / Number of Pages: 9
... Jackson. Micheal Jackson even sent her a signed photo stating “To Celine with love.”, (Http://www.celineonline.com/bio1.html.) and the hat he wore in the Billy Jean clip, which was also signed. Her first name comes from a song (Celine, sang by Hugues Aufray and written in 1966 by Vline Buggy) that her mother was singing while she was pregnant.
Celine has a large family. Her mother is Therese Tanguay Dion, and her father is Adhemar Dion. She also has eight sisters: Denise, Claudette, Liette, Louise, Ghislaine, Linda, Manon, and Pauline. Her five brothers are Clement, Michel, Jacqu ...
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Trudeau: The Politics Of My Way
Number of Words: 1542 / Number of Pages: 6
... upon them.
Trudeau, from day one , was always more samurai than shaman. Even in his
pre-leadership days, Trudeau's love of trial by combat was predominant.
Mackenzie King would have never touched the unholy trinity of divorce, abortion
and homosexuality: each one of these issues is a sleeping dog best left to lie;
each could only infuriate conservative Canada from coast to coast. Since King
dared not touch them seriatim he certainly would not have touched them together-
in an omnibus bill.
This, Trudeau did joyously. The myths-makers have it at this was
Trudeau's first deliberated joust ...
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Plato And Confucious
Number of Words: 1827 / Number of Pages: 7
... should be seen as the father, over the younger people of the city. He also feels that old men are afraid of death, and therefore less likely to risk torment in the afterlife by having selfish desires, such as for money. He believed that men would obey the laws in hopes of rewards and fear of punishment in this life and the next. He believed that the ruling regime must be most skilled at guarding the city with the interest of the city in their convictions. Plato believed that the regime once started, will roll on like a circle in its growth because of sound rearing and education producing good an ...
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Antiheroism In Hamlet
Number of Words: 834 / Number of Pages: 4
... and Guildenstern with such phrases as, That I can keep your counsel and not, mine own. Beside, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king? (IV, ii, 12-14) The reference to the sponge reflects the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are easily ordered by the king and do not have minds of their own. Hamlet does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern since they are servants of the Claudius, Hamlet's mortal enemy. The reader does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern either which causes the reader to side with Hamlet.
Another incident of Hamlet's high inte ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 1139 / Number of Pages: 5
... to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow who
helped him regain his interest in nature. It was Henslow who was
influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The
Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from the University.
In the fall following his graduation, the government decided to
send the H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, to complete
an unfinished survey of Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego to help map out the
shores of Chile and Peru. Th e voyage was to last two years. Darwin
volunteered his services without salary and of ...
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Eminem
Number of Words: 940 / Number of Pages: 4
... up by the same group of kids, just for being himself. One day those kids almost killed him, and went into a coma. The day after he got out of the hospital, they moved again. continued to move back and forth from his mothers to his grandmothers, until the age of 11, when he and his mother settled in Detroit for good. Marshall first started to get into rap when he was 14. Some of his musical influences growing up were the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and Run DMC. As persued his rapping career, he would often hustle radio stations into playing his self-made tapes, to get some publicity over the radio wav ...
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Neil Postman
Number of Words: 1061 / Number of Pages: 4
... off to them. states his feelings on this best when he writes, “ It is a form of stupidity when to accept without reflection someone else’s definition.” He wants people to realize that definitions are not god given, and that to question the validity is acceptable. Upon looking in a dictionary at any word you will see that all have several meanings. The same may apply to our lives, while one definition may apply to you another may not.
The ability to question a definition is a crucial part of communication. For example: in the practice of law a case might call for someone to define t ...
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Jefferson Davis
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... he withdrew from the Senate. On February 18, 1861, the congress of the Confederate States made him president. He was elected to the office by popular vote for a 6-year term and was inaugurated un Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. He failed to raise enough money to fight the Civil War and could not obtain help for the Confederacy from foreign governments.
One of the accomplishments of Jefferson Dacis, was the raising of the Confederate army. Davis had a difficult task to preform. He was the head of the new nation in the beginnings of a major war. The South had inferior ...
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Dickinson Vs. Whitman
Number of Words: 1221 / Number of Pages: 5
... Whitman
didn't use any rhyme.
Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Mass, and Walt Whitman grew up
in New York City, New York; this is one way that these poets' lives differ.
The main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Emily Bronte. Walt Whitman was influenced by many people, some of
which were: Elias Hicks, James Macpherson and William Shakespeare. Whitman
read many book reviews by many people; from these, he realized Emerson was
very influential. Whitman was also influenced by the Bible, his walks in
New York City, Tom Paine, and a strong love for mu ...
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