... emphasize this action on our presentation at IUS which could take place on the International Earth Day on April 22nd. International Earth Day + Planting trees Concerning this, I was thinking how we could hand out the environmental survey to the students the week before the Earth Day, so we could do a presentation on 22nd April which ... some place which is perhaps threatened by our environmental unfriendly behavior and invite students to come with us. Another idea is also that we can plant trees and when we would do that, we should try to invite as many students and I really think that ...

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... testing. Another idea that is put forward in this reading is that because animals are conscious of themselves, we should not hurt them for the purposes of testing. An experiment conducted by Derek Denton on chimpanzees proved that they could recognise their own reflection and hence are aware of ... although admirable, it needs to be made consistent. This type of experiment should be used with all animals used for testing but the challenge will be measuring the results. It may be difficult to gauge whether some animals will be as easily measured than chimpanzees. This idea is also shared...

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... , Thoreau's interest, if not also his description, does read as more material, less metaphysical. Laura Walls insightfully argues this contrast in a recent article that observes the different ways Emerson and Thoreau write with reference to pine trees. "Unlike Emerson's pines," Walls asserts, and we could substitute "birds" here, "Thoreau's exist in their own independent world." (63) They are different, I ... I have been arguing that we need to be careful in not assuming that Thoreau's more literal descriptions of birds and trees are inherently more natural or more empirical than Emerson...

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... by big corporations. In both of these photographs, the crops appear to be plentiful and sufficient enough for the people harvesting them. These images support the argument of the text encouraging us to view the text using the context the author gives us. Throughout the text there are also highlighted boxes with quotes taken out of the text. These quotes are emphasised by the use of colour and attract our attention to ... it. The text within these boxes are all strong points ... ...

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... door, so whenever I came and went to the house, I smelled the sweet scents. I was always comparing with this yard and concrete one in Japan. My host parents had a seven year-old son, and we played everyday in the backyard. The backyard was the coolest place for him to play at. Two big trees are keeping the yard in shadow. The branches were not chopped down, so his backyard ... was like a little jungle of fun. We could climb the trees like monkeys, and even jump from tree to tree at some spots. There ... were a little swimming pool made of plastic and handmade sand box. He explained me ...

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... from Boston there are two trails you can follow. scattered oaks and immense pine trees cover the swampy land on one side of the morass. in that direction is where kidd the pirate, as the story goes, buried his treasure. as most tales go, the devil minded the hidden riches after kidd had gone. the trees growing as high as 90 feet tall, making it dark at high noon ... , was one of the things that made this path one left mostly untraveled. pits of quagmire engulfed ... trunks of pine and oak, making them seem like water creatures and cause unwanted visitors to leave. tadpoles, water snakes...

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... empty and awake-(145). Because Ray has realized this phenomenon, he is closer to Enlightenment, at least according to the Sutra. The Sutra also says that the practice of good works purifies the mind and is referred to as "Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment."" "It is straightly attained by freedom from separate ... for doing this, he meditates in the forest anyhow, resulting in several self-realizations that seem to truly enrich him. "Behind that house was a great pine forest where I would spend all that winter and spring meditating under the trees and finding out by myself the t...

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... in this book had all or any. The people of a successful society are dedicated, intellectual, and possess self-control. The boys in this book had to be dedicated so that they could have a successful society. " I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don't even notice the huts!"(54). This quotes shows that dedication of a whole society is necessary. Simon ... and Ralph are dedicated in making the community survive.. In this book, a majority ... of the characters are not dedicated. These characters would rather sit around and be lazy, then to contribute to ... ...

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... ; a giant shudder convulsed my body as the wind made contact, chilling me to the bone. My eyes scanned the surroundings looking for a shape or shadow in the blinding whiteness. The trees were all white too, like monster blobs with only a touch of green color coming through the deep snow. I wanted to back home ... as soon as possible because I didn't want Ann to be alone in such a terrible day. However, the ... time seemed to be frozen along with my feet in the ... her fixedly with that peculiar expression on my face and I tried to let myself calm down. Even if I saw the women's face, I ...

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... second to its spiritual and or mental needs. So, back to the question at hand, who should be seeking the answers to these questions that seem to have none? Whose job is it? Achenbach believes that it is the art of the philosopher. He quotes the Romantic novelist Novalis to describe this art. "The meaning of the Socratic is that philosophy is everywhere or nowhere "and one ... can easily orient oneself through the first thing one comes across and find what one seeks. The Socratic is the art of finding from any given position the position of the truth and thus establishing precisely ... ...

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... all ready to hook up with him for a date until she asked "Where ya callin' from? Where ya at now, anyways?" And "in a phone booth" was the wrong answer. When he said that she new he had no money and from that point on she had no time to meet up any more. This is a good ... they saw it they would wonder and eventually "some dirty kid would tell them" and they would know the cruel the world thus falling in the rye. As his duty as the catcher in the rye Holden tried to erase the first one that was on the walls, but later said "it's hopeless anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, ....

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... which is often taken for granted. Linda is a wonderful writer. She uses many descriptive words that allow the reader to obtain a feel of emotion and a vision of the situation and scene that she is explaining. The world is very valuable to our lives in themselves and is often overlooked and taken for granted. If ... it wasn't for the world that we know as Earth filled with trees, grass, water, etc., we would not be ... able to survive; there would be no human race. If we could survive without the things we often view as important and valuable to our lives ... then wouldn't there be life...

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... . Without an omniscient point of view, the central idea is lost. The setting in the story seems to correspond with Louise's short-lived "new life." As she gazes out the window "she could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life." The spring season is typically symbolic of new beginnings. The world outside her is picturesque, complete ... with singing birds and blue sky. This seems to be the first time Louise notices the beautiful world outside, and is symbolic ... of the beautiful life she is about to start. The setting is ...

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... I could already taste the sweat beads that were forming around my lips. The hills began to increase oh so slightly every turn we made. It was as if we were being tricked into thinking that we were close to the top. Just the smell of the thick pine trees and the rugged terrain were enough to ... make a person quit. And how the forest mocked you and almost saying "You only have twenty thousand more miles to ... hike!", but something inside of me told me to kept on truckin'. Then the actual physically intensive part came when I was only half a mile from the ... thought, or someone gave y...

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... be rescued, but they were not. "As for the reflection of men...if I am going to be drowned -- if I am going to be drowned -- why in the name of the seven mad Gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come this far and contemplate sand and trees? Was I brought here merely to have my ... nose dragged away as I was about to nibble the sacred cheese of life?...If she has decided to drown me ... need help. Their fate is therefore very slim. They are the weak and discouraged victims of the ocean. In comparing the Vikings and the five men in the small boat, we can tell that indeed, the sea or the...

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... 't directly experience objects and just as we could be deceived by a wicked scientist putting electrodes in our brains, we could be deceived, in the same way, into thinking that science was "real." Therefore, isn't it true that if we accept this scientific account then we cannot be ... scientific theory is true we cannot prove it, because we can never perceive anything directly, so we do not know how and from where the experience came into our minds. Even our knowledge of eyes, nerves, bits of brain, is not direct but via electrical and chemical events ... E. and Lazerson, A. (1998), ...

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In Bertrand Russell's, The Value of Philosophy, he explains his point of view on what philosophy is really made of. I agree with Russell on his views of philosophy and I also feel that studying ... us, even though we many never find a real answer, makes us smarter and brighter people. Living in a box will get you nowhere in life, but opening your eyes to the things around you, and constantly analyzing and questioning things opens a whole new world to you. Russell also points out that philosophy is unlike any other study. All other studies have ... to keep his interest alive. Russell says th...

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... Descartes argument is based on the first person narrative style of his Meditations on First Philosophy. It is much more than a style; it is his main way of reasoning. It begins with ... existence because only he can know of his conscious intelligence. It's feasible to question other's existence because certainty begins only with knowledge of oneself. As soon as Descartes creates the basis of his argument he can make more inferences as he moves on to different meditations. He now has an immovable point "I am, I exist, this is certain. ... , willing, refusing, and also imagining and sensin...

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... you be able to relate to them? If you didn't know your friends how would you be able to help them? If you didn't know the skills of your work, how would you be able to work? In my eyes it all comes down to one thing, and that is knowledge ... . The bible says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge", and if you think about it, it's true. When I talk to people my age we ... cars, videos, clothes, sporting events, and things of that nature; they know everything. I can't remember having a conversation about the government with anyone my age, because it's something they don't know a...

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... all must keep in mind that no matter what we choose at some point it affects others. An example would be my senior class. Each of us are merely choosing the rest of our life, planning what college to go to, what to study, with hopes of being successful someday in that area. If you think about that, and wonder ... if you didn't go to college what would happen. In the future when you have a family will you be able to provide for them what they need like someone that chose college could. I know most of us don't want to ... sit down and think "What if...?" At these point in our lives, no on...

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... to teens is key to selling to them. At one time "MTV" ratings were about as high as can be. Then the modern teen's idea of what's cool changed. People lost interest and the ratings plummeted. "MTV" needed a new edge to get back on top. So they created a new show "Total Request live ... (TRL)". The way the show worked was that people would call in and request the songs they wanted to listen to and the video would get played. This ensured that what teens thought was cool was being played and subsequently ratings went ... see a celebrity endorsing something. This is another way to appeal t...

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... have to live. However, there are some alternate states of consciousness that are voluntary. Some of these are meditation, hypnosis, and drugs. Of these two alternate states, meditation interests me the most. The concentrative form of meditation is "a group of techniques that involve focusing attention on an object, a word, one's breathing, or body movement in order to block out all distractions, to ... enhance well-being, and to achieve an altered state of consciousness." Some forms of meditation originated in Eastern religions and were used to "attain a higher spiritual state". However...

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... about his appearance and how he thought that people were always thinking negative things about him. His life to him is worth less because of the fact that he has nothing to live for. Prufrock said that he was going to attend some party but had some negative feeling about if ... before, since he has "known them already." "Should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Self-pitying remark that he would have been better as a crab at the bottom of the ocean then himself. Prufrock's inactions always lead him into questioning himself. Prufrock compares h...

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... also in adolescence. So, I see easily people who are in trouble. There are two characters, which tell adolescent life. Holden, a protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye, and Paul, a main character of Six Degrees of Separation, represent our adolescence very well. They do not have any direction to live and ... and teachers help us. But Holden and Paul do not have any of them. Holden has his parents, but they are helpless and never appeared in the story. Therefore Holden and Paul could not think their future. Holden and Paul are immature. They lie to others and they have no direction. Howeve...

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... opposing worldview are bound to be characterized by conflict. By receiving incorrect data we will be bound to draw incorrect conclusions from the data God has designed nature to behave in a predictable way. He communicates with his creation, that people can trust their senses. When finding ... of conflict is a striking or dashing against each other a struggling with Difficulties, striving to oppose. Through conflict it usually bring out the peace of the world. A Christians are called to be both reconciled and reconiler,"We are therefore Christ Ambassadors as through God were making his a...

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