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The Chinese Healing Art of Acupuncture
Acupuncture The Chinese healing art of acupuncture is one that can be dated back at least two thousand years. Some authorities maintain that acupuncture has been practiced in China for even four thousand years. Though its exact age is vague, what is certain is that up until the recent twentieth century, much of the population of the world was uninformed about acupuncture, its origins, and its capacity to promote and maintain good health. Even today
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The Chinese Room Argument by John Searle
The Chinese Room argument, created by John Searle, is an argument against the possibility of artificial intelligence. The argument focuses on a thought experiment in which a man who knows only English is alone in a room using English instructions for manipulating strings of Chinese symbols. Outside it appears as if someone in the room understands Chinese. The argument is meant to show that while properly programmed machines may look like conversing in natural language,
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The Choice Is Clear
America stands to elect one of two men as its head of state. It stands at a cross roads where it can go down one of two ways. The two men who have the Presidency of the greatest nation on Earth within their reach are as different as light and darkness; as different as fire and water; and much as oil and water, their views do not mix and are at eternal odds with each
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The Clan Culture
The Clan Culture As Cameron and Quinn describe each culture in great depth in the context of for-profit companies, this paper will summarize the cultures and apply them to the foundation setting. Starting from the top left box of the quadrant, the Clan culture is one that is similar to a family-run organization. The culture is marked by “shared values and goals, cohesion, participativeness, individuality, and a sense of we-ness” (Cameron & Quinn, 1999, p.
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The Communist Manifesto - Summary and Analysis
Summary With the discovery of America and the subsequent expansion of economic markets, a new class arose, a manufacturing class, which took control of international and domestic trade by producing goods more efficiently than the closed guilds (220). With their growing economic powers, this class began to gain political power, destroying the remainders of the old feudal society which aimed to restrict their ambition. In four sections, Marx and Engels have put forward the concept
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The Concept of a Person and Ethics
The concept of a person and ethics The term ‘person’ is an ambiguous term used in many different ways to refer to a number of realities. Some people refer to supernatural beings like gods and angels as persons, others regards as individuals only those belonging to our own species –Homo sapiens—while others, namely animal activists, consider animals as persons too. Clearly, the concept of what makes a ‘person’ differs from one person to another. Different
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The Contradictory Nature of Soft Determinism
The Contradictory Nature of Soft Determinism I. Introduction "There is a continuum between free and unfree, with many or most acts lying somewhere in between." (Abel, 322) This statement is a good summation of how Nancy Holmstrom's view of free will allows for degrees of freedom depending on the agent's control over the situation. Holmstrom's main purpose in her Firming Up Soft Determinism essay was to show that people can have control over the source
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The Conumdrum of Business
1. MISSION OF NORTH COUNTRY AUTO AND NEW CAR SALES DEPT. The long term mission of our company is to maximize profit by increasing margins and volume of sales. Given the stiff competition in the industry, and a combination of high inventories and a more educated customer, our immediate objective is to sustain the market conditions and continue to be profitable and have positive cash flows. The industry is attracting new market players, which makes
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The Cosmological Argument
The arguments presented from William Rowe in The Cosmological Argument conclude that although the Cosmological Argument might be a sound argument, it does not provide good rational grounds for believing that among those beings that exist there is one whose existence is accounted for by its own nature. Rowe reasons that it does not attempt to prove anything about the first cause or about God, except to argue that such a cause must exist. Defenders
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The Cosmological Error
The Cosmological Argument, according to William Rowe, depends on the Principle of Sufficient Reason. This creates a problem because the Principle of Sufficient Reason is challengeable. In this paper, I will discuss how this is true. The Cosmological Argument is an argument for the belief in God. It has three main points. The first states that there are things in the Earth that are going through changes, and that there must exist a being that
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The Creation of Consciousness
THE CREATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS ***************************** Was or is the Great Philosopher Hegel,right when he said that when we become the continuous reencarnation of God on the Physical Plane we are creating the Inmortality of Consciousness on the material visible light world. But then again right or wrong is only a limited thought pattern created by mortal man while on this physical plane of demostration. So who are we to judge by only limited thought from
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The Crito
In the Last Days of Socrates the dialogue "Crito" recounts Socrates last days before his execution. Socrates had been accused of corrupting the youth and not worshipping the Gods of the state. During his trial he denied all accusations and attempted to defend himself by proving his innocence using reason . He was judged to be guilty and given a death sentence. His long time friend Crito proposes to Socrates a plan to escape from
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The Crito Written by Plato
Crito In "The Crito" written by Plato, the philosopher, Socrates, has been accused by the state of Athens and sentenced to death for his teachings that they thought were questionable. Socrates does not argue about his sentence but agrees with it, he chooses to die because he wants to do what he believes is right by not by not betraying the state and breaking his implied contract. Socrates said that one must listen to the
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The Death of Antigone
In Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone saw her action of burying her brother as a just one. It may not have been just in the eyes of Creon and the people of Thebes, but she was not concerned with the laws that mortals had made. Antigone saw the divine laws of the gods to be much more important than those of mortals. She felt that if she died while upholding the laws of the gods, that her
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The Death of Liberal America
Americans seem to have lost any sense whatsoever of what liberalism means and what it strives to insure. Liberals have insisted that tyranny can only be combated by the multiplication and fragmentation of power. A free society is one in which there are various centers of power, various positions from which people have the ability to influence decisions. That's the whole point behind creating three branches of government, the vaunted "separation of powers." Liberalism aims
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The Death of Socrates
The Death of Socrates Viewing the painting “The Death of Socrates” by Jacques-Louis David, one can perceive many different subject matters, both literally and metaphorically. The obvious is seen within the setting of the painting. The clear illustration of where the event is happening provides the onlooker with a glimpse into a different time and era. Conversely, the artist has taken the liberty to hide deep meaning inside the work of art through less apparent
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The Development of Eye-Glasses
The development of eye-glasses has been a long process.It nearly extends to 800 years and it has come a long ways. From having the basic glasses ,to correcting vision without the use of glasses. It had improved the ways people live and how they viewed the world . Vision care has changed dramastically over the years. Looking back to 1000 a.d, the majority of the population didn’t know how to read and write. The ones
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The Divided Line
The Divided Line Plato wrote about many things in The Republic including how we humans use knowledge and opinion by the analogy of the divided line. In the divided line there is no such thing as total ignorance. Everyone has knowledge, but some have more than others. The divided line is divided up into two worlds, the world of intellect and the world of the visible. The world of intellect is also known as the
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The Down Fall of Odysseus
The Down Fall of Odysseus All throughout literature many characteristics bring the down of a person. No story is truer about that than The Odyssey. The Odyssey was a Greek epic told by the famous Homer. Odysseus is very clever and aggressive, but also very prideful. His pride causes his journey home to take many more years than expected. Odysseus' pride is the cause of his downfall, which Homer wants his readers to understand how
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The Early Philosophy of David Hume
Hume's Life David Hume was the son of a minor Scottish landowner. His family wanted him to become a lawyer, but he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and began his literary career. As Hume built up his reputation, he gained more and more political power.
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The Effects on Labeling a Juvenile Delinquent
The Effects on Labeling a Juvenile Delinquent Who are criminals? A criminal according to Webster’s Dictionary is a person convicted of a crime. This person has been found guilty amongst a jury of his or her peers. The juvenile courts are different from the adult courts. Juveniles are adjudicated by a judge and do not stand trail. A person convicted of a crime is “criminal” and a juvenile adjudicated by a judge is viewed as
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The Epitome of Public Enemy
The Epitome of Public Enemy Political dissidents abound in the United States, a fact that worries conservatives like Michael Barone. In the question of whether a Socratic gadfly is a benefit to society or, as Barone terms it, a "covert enemy," I will explain both Barone's and Socrates' arguments, after which I will give arguments in favor of questioning the government and its policies. Finally, I will respond to an important objection that Barone could
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The Escape of Socrates
The Escape of Socrates The Escape of Socrates sounds more like an epic historic documentary directed by Oliver Stone than a critic paper based on Socrates life. This paper is based on the possibility of escape for Socrates during his imprisonment and whether it affected his choice to remain imprison and accept his fate. I will fight that virtue and age actually determined his fate. Had he been a few decades younger he may have
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The Essence of Our Legal System
The Essence of Our Legal System Spending time in the courtroom is definitely not like spending time in front of the television set watching Law and Order. In fact, the two are really nothing alike. A room full of observers and people invested in the case usually does not present itself in the actual courtroom. The attorneys are not amazing orators who know just what to say to change the entire outcome of the case.
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The Essence of Zen Buddhism
THE essence of Zen Buddhism consists in acquiring a new viewpoint of looking at life and things generally. By this I mean that if we want to get into the inmost life of Zen, we must forgo all our ordinary habits of thinking which control our everyday life, we must try to see if there is any other way of judging things, or rather if our ordinary way is always sufficient to give us the
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The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Animals are the under-appreciated co-inhabitants of our planet. I believe that animals should be afforded equal consideration to humans. The only criteria for equal treatment should be the ability to feel pain. As we can demonstrate that all animals with a backbone can feel pain, then all animals with a backbone should be treated with equal consideration to humans. Their needs should be considered and met in the same way a human's would be. This
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The Ethics of Student - Faculty Business Deals
The Ethics of Student-Faculty Business Deals The Akamai Corporation has meant big money for one Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and one of his students. Back in 1995, Tom Leighton, a professor of applied mathematics at MIT, started playing around with ways to use complex algorithms to ease congestion on the Web. He enlisted several researchers, including one of his graduate students, Danny Lewin. At the time, they weren't thinking about starting a company. But
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The Euthyphro
The Euthyphro Essentially, the question at hand is whether something is considered holy because it is loved by the gods or if that which spoken of is loved by the gods because it in itself is holy. The initial problem created is what is to be identified as holy. The gods willing something as holy would provide certain implications of what is expected of those who choose to worship. In other words, regardless of what
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The Existence of Evil and God
The Existence of Evil and God In this paper I will argue that the existence of evil does not prove that a God does not exist. For many people the existence of evil and suffering is their number one objection to the existence of God. At times the evil that we see is so pointless. The evil in our world is of such an unspeakable nature that it is difficult at times to fathom what
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The Existence of God
There are various forms of arguments for the existence of God. Two such arguments are the Ontological and Cosmological arguments. Both the Ontological and Cosmological arguments have their strengths and weaknesses. However, they have been criticized by Immanuel Kant because he disagrees with both arguments. St. Anselm, Rene Descartes, St. Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant all believe in the existence of God, but their theory on his existence differs. St. Anselm's point of view is
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