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Socrates - Basic Facts and Political ThoughtsFacts on Socrates 1. He was born in 470 BCE in Athens, Greece. His life was chronicled through only a few sources- the dialogues of Plato, Xenophon and the plays of Aristophanes. 2. His parents where Sophroniscus, an Athenian stonemason and sculptor, and Phaenarete, a midwife. 3. He wasn't from a noble family and probably received a basic Greek education and learned his father's craft at a young age. 4. He married Xanthippe-"undesirable " and bore him three sons -Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus. 5. Socrates' physical appearance according to Plato's |
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Short Story - A Long Journey Through Time"Lisa, pay attention!," called out the math teacher. Lisa was startled on hearing her name and returned to the present. It was difficult for her to concentrate at math class, she couldn't wait to get home. She had a whole new collection of books to read. At the stroke of the last bell, Lisa raced back home. She quickly finished her homework, ate her dinner and changed into her pajama. It was impossible for her to fall asleep unless she had read something. Lisa loved to read, she read various genre of books, ranging from history to fiction. Tonight she had a set of history, fiction and fantasy to choose from. She decided to read a little bit of all three genres. Lisa was engrossed in reading about wars, kingdoms fighting with one another to establish dominance, supernatural beings and magic. It wasn't long when she had fallen asleep, her novel still held in her hand, she began to dream. She was breathing heavily and running as fast as she could. Her hands were clutched by another older |
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Education Psychology - Classroom CritiqueHighlight key issues from the scenario that relate to Piaget's developmental theory and personal constructivism. Consider how elements of Carol's approach become teacher centered. Discuss the strengths, limitations and implications of Carol's pedagogy in her attempt to teach the concept of scale. Identify aspects of the learning experiences that could be improved by drawing upon relevant theory to substantiate these recommendations. The learning experiences and teacher-centered approach can be exhibited in Scenario Integrating Mathematics and Human Society and Its Environment'. They both relate principally around Piaget's developmental theory and personal constructivism. This essay will define the concept of constructivism and consider the important elements of Carol's teacher centered approach. The exploration of Carol's pedagogy in teaching the concept of scale to her class will also be outlined by elements from the scenario. This essay will consider the strengths, limitations and i |
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Rita Hilton - Holocaust SurvivorAdolf Hitler, a dictator and his Nazi Party created a plan called "The Final Solution." The plan was to get rid of all of the nine million European Jews. He was very close in achieving their goal. The Final Solution took place during World War II. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the allied powers. Eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of the Jews who lived in Europe. North America, Europe, and some of Asia and Africa were involved with the Holocaust. This event will never be forgotten. Jews were either sent to concentration camps, death camps, or to the ghettos. A ghetto was a special section of a city in which Jews were forced to live. The conditions of the Nazi created ghettos were horrible and unhealthy. They were usually cramped, dirty, and had little food. Some ghettos were the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400, |
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My Friend, Anna - Fighting for Mental and Physical HealthMy friend Anna was a 17 year old girl when she got into a near fatal car accident. She was left paralyzed from the waist down. She now must use a wheelchair. Now it is ten years later and Anna is 27 years old. She has many healthy behaviors such as her job, socializing, and exercising that she incorporates into her life. She is one of the healthiest and most outgoing people I know. Anna's healthy lifestyle behaviors are the biggest factors in her life. She incorporates many different healthy behaviors into her life. These behaviors affect different parts of her well-being. One healthy physical behavior is a daily outside "walk." She goes out in her wheelchair and wheels around for several miles each day. This keeps her physical health up by having to roll her wheelchair. It gives her upper body strength. This behavior also affects her mental/emotional health by clearing her mind when she is outside with |
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The Dialogue of Socrates and EuthyphroThe dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro takes place on the Porch of the King of Archon. Both Socrates and Euthyphro are there for court business. Socrates has been indicted for the serious crime of corrupting the youth and has been accused of being impious. Euthyphro is there to bring charges against his father for murder. A man died while in the custody of Euthyphro's father and although the man himself was considered to be a murderer, Euthyphro feels that his father is guilty of murder. The two men commence to debate piety and holiness as well as the moral implications of charging ones father with murder. The concept of holiness emerges in the dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro when Socrates attempts to question Euthyphro about the difference between piety and impiety. Socrates believes Euthyphro to be wiser on the subject and believes that if he becomes a disciple of Euthyphro he can better fight the charge of impiety for which he has been indicted. Meletus has brought the |
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Call of Duty 4 - For the Fearless GamerAccording to a University of Rochester study, shooting the "bad guys" in video games can unexpectedly give you better vision. The study's authors believe that the process of locating and aiming at enemies exercised gamers' eyes. And with bad guys unpredictably popping up, the shooting games also helped players learn to analyze optical data on the fly. The researchers believe their study shows the potential of video games -- particularly action games -- to serve as an aid in the way we correct bad eyesight. "Call of Duty 4" is one of those shooter games. This is a first person shooter game, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. It is a multiplayer game, and this is why it's a very good source of a Discourse Community. It makes a huge amount of gamers join together and play against each other. The COD community is one that is composed of individuals who "fire" and "kill", and |
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Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatDoes having the ability to decide how you want to live make you happy? Can you imagine living in a place where your choices are not your own? In Haiti, women have no choice but to carry out their mother's teachings. The expectations that mothers have for their daughters are displayed in the novel "Breath, Eyes, Memory." In Haiti's culture, girls are expected to choose a husband with great value, learn the ways to keep their husband happy and be pure until they are given away to their husband. Because of traditions like choosing a husband, training to fulfill wifely duties and testing for purity, Haitians can potentially have a life changing experience. In Haiti girls are expected to find a worthy and stable man. The man can't be just any old man, there are requirements that he should meet: "Let me tell you a few things,"" she said. "You have to get yourself a man who will do something for you. He can't be a vagabond. I won't have it" (78). They are taught to not trust so easily and to |
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Prospero in William Shakespeare's The TempestWilliams Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"" is the story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda. Prospero is betrayed by his brother and he is forced onto a ship to die with his daughter. However, when the boat arrives at an stranded island, all Prospero can think about is revenge. Prospero conjures a devastating storm set out to destroy a boat containing Prospero's enemies. This is the first instance when you see a contrast in the two main characters. Miranda is concerned by her father's actions, which shows her sympathetic side when she says, "I have suffered with those that I saw suffer" "(Act 1, Scene 1). An interesting aspect of Prospero's character is how he reacts to the other characters around him. Prospero has different methods of controlling different people for example when Miranda persist about knowing details of her past, "Here cease more questions: Thou art inclined to sleep "(Act 1, Scene 2, Line. This shows how Prospero is worried about Miranda knowing too much about her pas |
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Curtis DeYoung and Social Justice ActivistsCurtis DeYoung claims that "all social-justice activists can acquire a marginal worldview, whether they were born into it or not"" (DeYoung, Loc 564). DeYoung believes that a marginal worldview can either be gained from firsthand experiences, "vulnerability-based marginality"," or can be sought after, "values-based marginality"" (DeYoung, Loc 564). He gives examples of people with vulnerability-based marginality such as Malcolm X, who inherited his marginal worldview from birth, and Aung San Suu Kyi, who gained her marginal worldview through her experience returning to Burma. He also gives an example of values-based marginality: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who acquired his unique viewpoint by siding with the Jewish people because of his religious values. |
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Morgan Spurlock and Super Size MeThe satirical film, "Super Size Me," created by Morgan Spurlock, is intended to show the world the extremely harmful effects of fast food. Spurlock focuses the film on one of the biggest fast food companies in the nation, McDonald's. This was a perfect choice at the time (2004) not only because of the pending lawsuit, but because it quite literally is the largest in the industry. For a month straight, Spurlock only eats McDonalds food products to prove a point that the restaurants food has no nutritional value and is causing the population of America to become obese. While this is the basic concept of the film Spurlock also uses many rhetorical strategies and devices to successfully get his point across. Spurlock meticulously explains his reasoning for producing the film and showing how serious the obesity epidemic really is. Through the use of ethos, Spurlock shows the audience every single detail of his experience throughout his experiment. Even some of the details the audience may |
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Debate Speech - School UniformsMatt's Opening Statement One reason school uniforms would not be a good idea for district 219 is that the uniforms would be a financial burden for poor families. The average cost for a generic school uniform is $249. The uniform is very pricey, and a family can get clothe at least two children for several weeks with that money. This means that the families that have less money would have a lot of trouble getting uniforms. For example, if a family has 3 kids, that would be about $747 just for the uniform. This doesn't include all the other school fees, which can add up as well. Also, school uniforms doesn't include weekend clothe and anything out of school, so the parents would have to buy more clothes than just the uniform, instead of just getting regular clothes. The cost of the uniform is a very important factor to take in when deciding if a school should have uniforms. If the |
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It's a Flat World After All by Thomas L. FriedmanMany distances and obstacles which once prevented the "third world" from developing have been squelched; not entirely, but with the advent of technology and the pace in which the world is growing, one can see a redefining of the global landscape. Power has shifted hands and this shift in power as well as information is imperative in the shaping of global affairs. Friedman's "It's a Flat World, After All," accurately depicts this technological revolution and is in my opinion, the most relevant to the current and the future of global affairs. Friedman makes it clear that knowledge and information is going to be transformative as it gets into the hands of every individual, no matter the country. This spread of information will be transformative for two groups, those who have just gained access to resources and those who have had access to them for years, wh |
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Culture and Independant BeliefsBelief is the confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to proof. Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something. Beliefs and knowledge are correlated because beliefs help us understand knowledge on the truth. Beliefs exist because one may not agree with a practice and believe that it should be done a different way. I define Culture as is the ideas, beliefs, and values which are shared with a group of people or are carried on through many generations. People may have distrust in these concepts and therefore they create their own beliefs. Therefore, people will modify their beliefs based on their views of the culture they happen to being going against. In order to obtain knowledge, we need to know the controversial view as a fact, rather than a belief. We cannot obtain knowledge from a belief if that belief is not factual. When we have a belief, it is not certain, it is most likely just a view held by people surrounding you that has y |
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Annual Report Analysis - Safeway SupermarketHeadquartered in Pleasanton, CA, Safeway is one of the largest supermarket chains in North America. According to the article, "Safeway History," the company was established in 1915 by Marion B. Skaggs and specializes in providing groceries, pharmaceutical products and everyday essentials to its customers. Safeway prides itself on delivering quality products and services as well as maximizing shareholder value. Safeway's annual report uses these three strategies to persuade investors: its CEO's statements in the "Letter to Stockholders" to illustrate that the company is growing exponentially, thus enhancing stockholder value; advertising graphics of its products and services to assure investors that the company maintains customer loyalty to drive sales; and the repetition of the words "maintain" and "maintained" to emphasize the firm's economic stability. Safeway utilizes its CEO's statements in the "Letter to Stockholders" to illustrate that the company is growing exponentially, thus enhancing stockholder value. The letter contains a picture of its CE |
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Reasons to Legalize Cannabis (Marijuana)Introduction I am going to be presenting the argument for and against cannabis use. According to the Home Office statistics for 2013 cannabis is the most commonly used drug which 6.4% of adults aged 16-59 using it. Nowadays most young people will have tried some sort of drug either at a club, party, bar or most commonly at a disco. Cannabis is all over the world and comes from the Indian hemp plant. Cannabis is smoked for the effects it has on the brain. It is primarily a depressant drug, however it has hallucinogenic effects. What is Cannabis? Cannabis is a member of the nettle family that has grown wild throughout the world for centuries. Both plants have been used for a variety of different purposes including hemp to make rope and textiles, as a medical herb and as the popular reaction drug. Cannabis is a green, brown, grey or black substance mixed with the dried out leaves from the hemp plant. Cannabis is a stimulant and acts as euphoria, when you get this 'euphoria' your blood pressure and your heart rate rises. Marijuana can be rolled up into a joint and smoked and can be smoked rolled up in a cigar and can be smoked |
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Symbolism and Imagery in The Story of an HourIn "The Story of an Hour,"" by Kate Chopin, symbols and imagery are used to to describe the new life appearing before Louise Mallards eyes. A transformation happened when Mrs. Mallard spent and hour in a "comfortable, roomy armchair ", in front of an open window, realizing the importance of her freedom." The author's use of springtime imagery to create a sense of renewal after Mrs. Mallard's husband dies. Kate Chopin uses her vivid use of imagery when Mrs. Mallard hears of her husbands death. "When the storm of grief has spent itself " introduces the weather theme (15). The image of a violent and dark setting denotes death and grief. Her reaction to her husbands death is what society would expect. Although, her acute reaction shows that she is an demonstrative, emotional women. She may of stopped crying, but she knows that she will cry again when she sees her |
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The Grouch by the Greek Playwright, MenanderMenander, an ancient Greek playwright, was an influential playwright of his time, focusing his plays on what critics call "New Comedy." Menander wrote over 100 plays only eight of which won awards at the Athenian dramatic festivals. Menander had a fairly clever style when writing his New comedic plays but most of his works were lost in the middles ages. This paper will review his only work that remains in its entirety, Dyskolos, or more commonly know as "The Grouch." Before getting into the play itself it is important to understand the differences between New Comedy and Old comedy in Ancient Greece. The leading playwright of old Comedy was Aristophanes and in Old comedy the principal role was played by the chorus, it had flexible casts and the main point of the plays were to poke fun at contemporary society, politics, and culture. With the rise of new comedy the importance of the chorus diminished and often involved stock characters. It is used to relate to portray the average citizen. |
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The Heartbleed Bug and Information SecurityIntroduction The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular Open SSL cryptographic library. It allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the Open SSL software [1]. The Heartbleed Bug is a software bug in the Open Source Open SSL Protocol that has been around for at least two years. This flaw was first announced to the public at large on Monday April 7, 2014. The Heartbleed Bug is not malware, it is not a virus and it is not something that one can catch by visiting corrupted websites, etc. Furthermore it is not detectable and therefore "anti-virus software" provides no protection. It is estimated that roughly two third of all secure websites around the world use the OpenSSL protocol, and therefore are at risk. These include Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing, Pintere |
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Fast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserTo examine the "how and why" of Eric Schlosser's' book, "Fast Food Nation," where he shows how fast food developed and became the center of American image and society. In order to prove this I will attempt to illustrate how different elements factor in, for this cultural phenomenon to have become such an American cultural norm. First, look at how fast food became such a popular way of eating and living. Carl N. Karcher (owner of Carl's Jr, Hardees) is one of the fast food industry's pioneers. His life seemed at once to be a tale by Horatio Alger, a fulfillment of the American dream, and a warning about unintended consequences. This is one of the factors to its development of an American cultural norm. After World War II, men like Karcher and Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) had ideas to give the public a sense of home when it came to meal time, something that would be familiar not only down the street from his or her home, but also fifteen hundred miles away across the country. That le |
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Anthem and Brave New World - Corruption in UtopiaIn both "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley and "Anthem," by Ayn Rand, it is continually shown how the futuristic absolute authoritarian societies are corrupted. Both novels have an overlying theme of the loss of individualism and adoption of ideologies that encourage citizens to act with the greater good in mind rather than viewing themselves as an individual. While they do have their differences, "Brave New World" and "Anthem" are similar in the fact that they depict futuristic "utopias"" with governing bodies that are ridden with corruption, and have protagonists who do not fit into the social ideals of uniformity in their respective societies. In both Huxley and Rand's novels, their protagonists are outcasts, and the societies are corrupt in that their only goal is to maintain complete control over the citizens, and ensure their hold on power. The protagonists of the novels both develop into characters that fit the archetype of the Outcast. John the Savage, the protagonist in "Br |
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She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver GoldsmithIn Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. An argument could be made that Kate is a puppet of those around her, following the path laid out for her and living to please those around her. This is not the case. Kate is an independent woman who knows what she wants and does whatever it takes to get it. She allows those around her to believe she is giving into them but in reality she's tricking them into giving her control and total power over everything in her life. It could be argued Kate started at the bottom as no more than a follower and struggles to gain control over her own life but in fact Kate's had the power all along she just needed the right moment to put it into play. With Mrs. Harding so busy with the love triangle going on between Miss Neville, Hastings and Tony she doesn't have time to worry about Kate, making it the perfect time to play with her pow |
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She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver GoldsmithIn Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. An argument could be made that Kate is a puppet of those around her, following the path laid out for her and living to please those around her. This is not the case. Kate is an independent woman who knows what she wants and does whatever it takes to get it. She allows those around her to believe she is giving into them but in reality she's tricking them into giving her control and total power over everything in her life. It could be argued Kate started at the bottom as no more than a follower and struggles to gain control over her own life but in fact Kate's had the power all along she just needed the right moment to put it into play. With Mrs. Harding so busy with the love triangle going on between Miss Neville, Hastings and Tony she doesn't have time to worry about Kate, making it the perfect time to play with her pow |
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She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver GoldsmithIn Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. An argument could be made that Kate is a puppet of those around her, following the path laid out for her and living to please those around her. This is not the case. Kate is an independent woman who knows what she wants and does whatever it takes to get it. She allows those around her to believe she is giving into them but in reality she's tricking them into giving her control and total power over everything in her life. It could be argued Kate started at the bottom as no more than a follower and struggles to gain control over her own life but in fact Kate's had the power all along she just needed the right moment to put it into play. With Mrs. Harding so busy with the love triangle going on between Miss Neville, Hastings and Tony she doesn't have time to worry about Kate, making it the perfect time to play with her pow |
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She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver GoldsmithIn Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. An argument could be made that Kate is a puppet of those around her, following the path laid out for her and living to please those around her. This is not the case. Kate is an independent woman who knows what she wants and does whatever it takes to get it. She allows those around her to believe she is giving into them but in reality she's tricking them into giving her control and total power over everything in her life. It could be argued Kate started at the bottom as no more than a follower and struggles to gain control over her own life but in fact Kate's had the power all along she just needed the right moment to put it into play. With Mrs. Harding so busy with the love triangle going on between Miss Neville, Hastings and Tony she doesn't have time to worry about Kate, making it the perfect time to play with her pow |
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