Stuff to know: The following is a brief summary of some of the readings and some of LTs expressed thoughts on them. It is not intended as a way to avoid doing those readings. a) Gunther: - Argues for free speech despite admitting the harm that various forms of speech can have (he was raised as a Jew in Nazi Germany). - Has an 'absolutist' interpretation of the first amendment, where any attempt to curb the scope of free speech should ... want to remove ourselves from being attached to it. Also, Thomson notes that she is not arguing for the permissibility of abortion; she is arguing against it...

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... he listens to its music in his mind, he uses the brain to write down the notes. Accordingly, people use the mind to create ideas and perform them physically with the brain's help. Since ideas and thoughts are created by the mind, the mental health of personality depends on them. So, I suggest discussing thoughts. There are basically three sources of thought. The first kind is thought through prayer or silent meditation ... . Being in charge of that determines the health of the mental part. The spiritual part and its health depend on the state of the etheric layer or body, which directly ...

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... them laugh. Or they have seen this a lot which I highly doubt. Towards the end of our time we finally had one of the employees at Mcdonald's ask us why we were eating the way we were eating, they actually asked us if we were on our way to prom. We both laughed and said we were not. We said ... complimented us. They said we made their day. We smiled and held our wine glasses up to the elderly couple as they walked away. So after about an hour we left, and on our way out the door one of the workers just asked us if we do that often. We told her that we don't do ... doing. They aren't bothe...

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... with hatred. Recently I began working at a children's psychiatric hospital on the developmental disabilities unit as a milieu therapist. All of the children on this unit have a developmental delay, ranging from mild to severe mental retardation and autism. These children are admitted because of their psychiatric and behavioral disabilities. The main goal of a milieu therapist is to keep each child safe in an extremely structured ... further themselves. In promoting this standard in my discipline in order to stimulate critical thinking and inquiry I would create a classroom atmosphere wh...

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... how hard he tried, it could never be controlled. He finally came to the conclusion that you could never eliminate all evil in the world, no matter how good you were, and that a free will which could create both intense good and intense evil was the natural condition of man. This difficult part of his life has passed and now he is a normal and healthy person ... have insomnia (Salmons, 1995, p.12). They can lay awake for hours or awaken many times during the night and stare at the ceiling. This type of sleep is sometimes characterized as being restless. On the other end of the spectrum, ...

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... the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. As time passed on, though, these ideas persisted and were eventually tackled by the more intellectual, so-called philosophers. Thus, excavation of "the external world" began. As the authoritarinism of the ancients gave way to the more liberal views of the modernists, two main positions concerning epistemology and the nature of the world arose. The ... first view was exemplified by the empiricists, who stated that all knowledge comes from the senses...

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... , so they went with option three. Living in Hell was hard for the group and a lot of adjusting was needed. They were eating more then they could afford to and had to start thinking long-term. Luckily they had a fresh water supply to rely on because of the creek on the western side of the clearing. They used the creek for drinking, washing, bathing and it later proved not only ... to be the perfect path to the Hermit from Hells" Hut (whose story is told in Chapter 15) but also a possible back exit into ... the Holloway River and Risdon, which are situated behind Hell. Their toilets were ...

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... , smells and hears, we can trace the origins of the self all the way outside the body and into the source of the original sensation. The sound or feeling that exists inside the mind is directly connected to an event or force that is not inside the self; is this "world around us" part of the ego? On the other hand, if we think of the ego as an artificial concept that is ... learns that it is "inside" its own body, looking out on the world. At the same time, the baby is learning how to manipulate the people and things on the outside to get the things it needs and wants. By the time the bab...

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... caused by the behaviour of //gangwasi then counselling on a simple communicative dimension will not be receptive of the spirit realm. To make the healing absolute the n/um k"xausi (owners of n/um) must communicate and mediate between all relevant dimensions and seek out the source of the wrongness. The healer rubs his sweat on the patient, to transfer the n/um energy then by laying on hands the healer diagnoses the sickness he ... has "seen" and "pulls" it into his own body where it is ejected through the top of the spinal column and rendered harmless. Functions of the !Kia dance In exa...

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... a gas station around the next turn the other car kept banging me on the side so I took a sharp turn and slammed right in to the gas pump, the gas station when up in flames, the next day I went to court and the judge told me " you have 3 weeks community service" , I was upset with the judges penalty because the judge let the other driver of the car get away with a fine of $200.00. I had ... no choice but to do volunteer work, I was walking down town because I got my license revoked for a couple of days and saw a sign on the window that they were looking for volunteers at St. Frank's hosp...

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... on the idea of the self. A couple of examples from the readings that have to deal with self- identity come from Sartre in The Flies. At the beginning Orestes does not know who he is but after the thought process and education of identity by his tutor he realizes who he is and what he has to do to obtain his identity. The Flies also displays the idea of mass mentality with control of faith. The king of ... least partly try to work for the benefit of others and try to serve the spirit of humanity. Once again R.P. McMurphy is a prime example of the cognitive hedonist. He strives for what he...

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... . Like all string instruments it requires tuning before use. The strings along with the singer together act as an ensemble. The Chorus is yet another musical ensemble that needs the collabaration of others in order to stay in tune. One string or person out of tune causes dissonance. Dissonance is a conflict in tonality between notes. That part of the phrase is shown in comparision to Socrates and his realationship ... definition says that a gadfly is any of severval large dipterous flies, such as the horsefly, that sucks the blood of horses, cattle and other animals. As explained to me b...

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... the characters contained within. The great intrigue comes from the ambiguity of the play and it's characters. "Hamlet is the tragedy of reflection. The cause of the hero's delay is irresolution; and the cause of this is excess of the reflexive and speculative habit of the mind." (Halliday. 217) The reason that there are so many critics is that there are just as many theories and speculations. Even in the twentieth century on ... he knows Polonius. when Hamlet replies wittingly, Polonius is assured that it was the talk of a mad man. "Do you know me, my Lord? . . . excellent well. You are ...

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... with his mother. He is looking to solve the problems of the kingdom and thus the problems within himself (his depression). And thus the on/off antic disposition is shown again; stress builds up then vents, it builds up again and must again vent. Besides Hamlet's venting of anger, in which he was clearly mad, he did have the rest of the character convinced that he was mad, even though ... Polinus and Claudius by displaying his wit in playing with words and phrases. One example of Hamlet's word play is "Pol. What do you read my lord? Ham. Words, words, words. Pol. What is the matter my lo...

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... individual would not know that their schemata are inappropriate for the culture they reside in. He called this process interpsychological -between peoples minds. The lifespan perspective sees development as a process of progression and regression. This is termed "multidirectional", that is, skills can develop in one area as they wane in another. Socio-cultural theory notes that development is multidirectional. Psychological tools required, vary along ... . In shaping, a task is broken down into a series of steps to be followed. The person is taken through each of the steps in turn until ...

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... numbers in your face. In Blake's case, the story was very simple; Many kids in Argentina don't have shoes, but if you buy a pair of alpargatas from TOMs, they will donate a free pair to a child in need. Because Blake made the story behind TOMs to be the focal point for the company instead of just the shoe, people felt connected to the product and TOMs as a whole. This ... unified feeling consumers felt generated demand for the product as well as created organic advertisements, because people ... story he tells is about the creator of Walmart, and how he started the first Walmart in diffi...

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... much I would love to soar in the air like a bird, the very fact that I have a human body that did not come equipped with wings limits me. The infinite on the other hand is best associated with imagination. John W. Elrod in his book Being and Existence in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Works describes the infinite as "Imagination ranges free of the self's facticity by positing a multiplicity of meaning possibilities without regard for its ... finite limitations." (BE 34) Just as I cannot fly with the bird because of my finite limitations I can imagine that ... ...

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... another boy who grew up never seeing an illegal drug before. If family members have no regard for keeping the other members of the family on the right path to being a good person, then what will they become. A large part of how someone turns out is due to the family. A good , solid, caring family may give rise to a kinder, gentler person than a family that does not care ... might act a certain way because it is in their nature. A person's nature is a major reason that causes a persons identity. A person might be mentally sick and just go crazy on people. This is part of the person's nat...

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... have a candy bar in my hand, based on Searle's belief of "conviction of freedom" I have the conviction or belief, that I can choose to eat or not eat the candy bar. This is different from "dual power" which is the ability to choose to do one thing over the other. The conviction of freedom is just the belief that one has the ability of "dual power" while "dual power" is in ... I"m relying on the "best explanation argument". If I apply a mind to a cow, the cows actions just don't make a lot of sense. The cow doesn't act intelligently. I brought this question to a number of people, whether ...

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... A Man's Search for Meaning, Dr Frankl gives a glimpse in the world of the holocaust through the eyes of a prisoner in a Jewish concentration camp. Frankl's experiences will take one on a journey that is never ending, the ultimate quest to find that ever-elusive meaning of life, or what one thinks life is. In his book, Dr. Frankl suggests the idea that "to live is to suffer, but to survive is ... in this situation has been a key factor in retaining my sanity; after all, it's the only thing I have left to lose. As I glance at the man next to me, I see one of the guards approaching him, th...

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... young, and was a great speaker. He had great speech writers, who wrote for him, but he was a great speaker. " The south didn't take too lightly on him cause of his support of the civil rights movement." "A lot of people could empathize because he wasn't one of the old ones." 4. What was your reaction to the reaction of MLK? " I thought oh my God, and that was born out. I grew up with ... I like and country I don't like. If I like it I like it. Rap on the other hand I don't like maybe it's because I can't understand what they"re saying half of the time." 9. What event during the 1960's i...

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... cannot be sure of the independent existence of objects, we cannot be sure of the independent existence of other people's bodies, and therefore still less of other people's minds, since we have no grounds for believing in their minds except such as are derived from observing their bodies. But lets turn the focus back on the basketball. Although I am doubting the physical existence of the ball, I am not doubting the existence of the sense-data which ... made me think that there was a ball; all the is psychological is not being questioned. In fact, despite whatever else may be doubtful, at...

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