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  • Life

    Life

    Definition of the Philosopher (474b-480a) It should be pointed out that Plato has a very specific idea of what a philosopher is. He begins his attempt to define the philosopher in the following way(474c-4c): A lover of X loves not juts a certain kind of X, but all X [e.g., a lover of food loves all food, a lover of wine loves all wine] Philosophers are lovers of wisdom The Philosopher therefore is that person

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • My Philosophy of Life

    My Philosophy of Life

    I can remember as a child always asking myself the "why" questions of life. What is the purpose of life? Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Why do certain things happen? And is there really a God? I had always kept these questions to myself and eventually pushed them out of my mind altogether. I was raised in a Christian household and you just were not allowed to ask questions of

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Day in the Life of a Dj

    A Day in the Life of a Dj

    Have you ever wondered as you were driving down the road listening to the radio, “How do they do that?” I certainly have, and so for my junior job shadow experience I chose to shadow Mike Shannon from 99.7 WDJX, a very popular radio personality in Louisville, Kentucky. I chose to shadow him because I was interested in how DJs do their job and how a radio station is run. I thought that the job

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Vika
  • Life of Judy Blume

    Life of Judy Blume

    The Life of JUDY BLUME Judy Blume, (born Judy Sussman), was born on February 12, 1938. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Her parents were Rudolph and Esther Sussman. She had one brother named David. When she was growing up she was shy and fearful until the fourth grade and then she became out going. She always loved to read, but never thought she would grow up to be a writer. Judy graduated from

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Kevin
  • My Life

    My Life

    My father always used to say to me: "if you want people to respect you, first you must respect yourself". At this juncture in my life I see going back to school to earn a degree in nursing as a symbol of respecting myself and the goals I have set for myself. I have made sacrifices in my life that are common for many women: putting my husband's career before my own, and my child's

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Vika
  • Huck Finn - Life on the Raft Vs Land

    Huck Finn - Life on the Raft Vs Land

    In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Huck lives in two different settings. One of the settings is on land with the widow and with his father and the other is on the river with Jim. There are many differences of living on land as opposed to living on the Mississippi River. On land, Huck has more rules to live by and he has to watch himself so as not to

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Monika
  • Eleanor Roosevelt : A Personal and Public Life

    Eleanor Roosevelt : A Personal and Public Life

    J. William T. Youngs Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life Longman, New York 2000 This book is about a woman who forever changed the course of women's role in American history. Eleanor Roosevelt was an extremely important figure in the history of the United States, especially during the twentieth century. The way the author uses the book to help the reader to feel included in Eleanor's life, makes the reader feel as if he

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Steve
  • College Life

    College Life

    College Life As children grow up, they have to move on. College is one of the stages that you will probably go through. As you come up on these new things, you have to make the right decisions. If you make the wrong choice it could ruin your life. If the wrong choices are made there will be long and short term results. Two of the biggest mistakes a student can make are not going

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Life of Bruce Lee

    Life of Bruce Lee

    The Greatest Concentration of Bruce Lees life was spent trying to become better at both martial arts and acting. Bruce lee was born on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco California. He was born at Jackson street hospital to Lee Hoi-Chun and Grace Lee. They named him Jun-Fan, meaning “Return again Lee” in hopes he would one day return to the US. His father was originally from china but he was in America a traveling

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Full Cupboard of Life

    The Full Cupboard of Life

    The Full Cupboard of Life is the fifth book in a delightful series of books by Alexander McCall Smith. The series started with The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. Situated in Botswana, a country where the traditional values are slowly diminishing but life, as a whole rolls on. There are three main characters in the book; Mma Ramotswe, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni and Mma Makutsi. Mma Ramotswe is the star of the series and Botswana's No.1 Lady

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Monika
  • Changed My Life

    Changed My Life

    I experienced the biggest change in my life when I was 14 years of age, which I think was and still is important to me. I have really changed. The way I act, my attitude and even the language I use every day has changed. First, it seemed to be strange and unusual, but after a year or so, it became normal to me. Before I came to Ireland, I lived in Lithuania. It is

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Top
  • Salvation in Rare Moments of Life

    Salvation in Rare Moments of Life

    Salvation In Rare Moments of Life. In Langston Hughes’ essay “Salvation,” Langston talks about the first time he is going to be saved from sin. Langston is a young boy around the age of thirteen. He is going to church to see Jesus for the first time. In which case, he truly experiences religion for the first time in his life. Throughout this essay Langston uses many narrative techniques such as, imagery, metaphors, and irony

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Top
  • Easy Life

    Easy Life

    In the world of hunting and a fair game there are an uncountable number of everyday men, women, and children that love to hunt and fish. None the less that is how our for fathers founded the land we now live on, but at a rapidly growing rate the amount of people who are completely against living off the land are almost to accomplish their goal. There has been an uphill battle against people who

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Search for a Better Life

    The Search for a Better Life

    The first theme that I think is apparent is the search for a better life. Conditions in the rural Philippines are hard for the peasants. There is hardship and exploitation. The peasant children have no childhood because they are working in the fields or in the market or home with the parents at an early age. The boys leave their parents' home in their early teens to find work and a better life, trying to

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Secrete Life of Bees

    The Secrete Life of Bees

    Dustin Gagen From the novel “The Secrete Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd, comes Lilly an amazingly interesting teenager. I think her being an only child and living with T. Ray made her very different, in the aspects of her being very quite and not talking to anyone except Rosaleen. I think her drive to find out who her mother really was and what actually happened to her really made Lilly different form the

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Similarities and Differences Found Within the Book Treasure Island and Older Pirate Movies in Corrolation with Every Day Life

    Similarities and Differences Found Within the Book Treasure Island and Older Pirate Movies in Corrolation with Every Day Life

    Buried treasure, eye patches, and walking the plank are all words and phrases that often appear in stories involving pirates. Tales about the voyages of pirates are often adventurous and riveting ones. It is very awe-inspiring to think about the daring lives those pirates once led. However, it might not be safe to assume that these stories are close to the truth or even based on genuine facts. In 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mikki
  • A Short Story: Do We Have a Choice

    A Short Story: Do We Have a Choice

    Short Story ‘Do we have a choice?’ Laying down on the Hostels Bed, the two best Friends -Zeba and Zaraa- remembered the time they have spent together. The have been friends since the age of five. The started school together, studied together, partied together and whatever they did did it together. Now they graduated together from King Edwards, a university in Lahore- Pakistan, and had to go back to their own homes. “Oh Zeba,” said

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Life of Derek Jeter: Before a World Champion

    The Life of Derek Jeter: Before a World Champion

    The Life of Derek Jeter: Before a World Champion “Derek Jeter, a professional ballplayer for the Yankees…” are the exact words Derek Jeter, himself, used in his eighth-grade yearbook (Jeter xvi). For as long as he could remember, Jeter has longed to be a New York Yankee. Fifteen years after predicting he would be a professional ballplayer for the Yankees, Derek Jeter is now more than a Yankee. Jeter isn’t only a Yankee; he is

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Socrates an Unexamined Life

    Socrates an Unexamined Life

    Thus for Socrates a wise man is the one who knows about his ignorance, because he knows that he does not know anything. That is why we never see Socrates advocating anything in any of his dialogues and he doesn't expose his interlocutor's ignorance in order to prove himself right or about his own doctrine. Socrates say that he doesn't know the answer either and that he is questioning that someone might provide him with

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Pro Quality of Life

    Pro Quality of Life

    Pro Quality of life Today Our quality of life is represented by several things; our level of comfort, enjoyment and our ability to pursue daily activities of living. Today the quality of life for people is greatly better than the quality of life back in the mid to late 1800’s. There are three main aspects in today’s world that make the quality of life today better for everyone but also in particular the children in

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Anna
  • Life

    Life

    When does life really begin? Is it when the first fluttering beats of the primitive heart of a fetus start, or when the child is pushed from the womb into the world? Does it all actually start at the moment of conception when the egg and sperm meet and mix their genetic code together to create a new being. Who can say really. No one knows because no one is sure of when life truly

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: July
  • Life

    Life

    Life can take us on many journeys but it is up to us what journeys are fitting for our future. As I walk around this place, I see people walking here and there. There's plenty of laughing, talking, loud music, and people eating. There's a unique overwhelming feeling that comes over me as I walk down the stairs of the cafeteria. When I look around I see four buildings that are used to house students.

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: David
  • Elizabethan Life

    Elizabethan Life

    Elizabethan Life During the Elizabethan period, Europe was going through the Renaissance. Their culture and way of life was emerging from the Middle Ages into their peak of advancements. Also, their lives were very different from ours. They listened to different kinds of music and found other ways of enjoyment such as dancing. The food they ate is also very unusual from ours. Their society was broken into classes, women were obedient and their children

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Life of David Copperfield..Or Charles Dickens?

    The Life of David Copperfield..Or Charles Dickens?

    I recently read a book by the name of David Copperfield and was highly impressed with the style of writing. The book is by Charles Dickens, and upon finishing this book, I have decided he must have been a literary genius. From the preface, Dickens tells us that David Copperfield is his favorite work and that he is sad because he will not be able to work on it any longer now that he has

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Chageable Nature of Life

    The Chageable Nature of Life

    Life is constantly changing, like clouds in the sky; always shifting and turning. People never really know which way life will turn next, bringing them fortune or failure. When you look at how things change it is best to compare it to something that you can relate it to. The changeable nature of life can be related to the novel “The Bean Trees.” This is a book written almost entirely on dealing with changes in

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Wendy