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The Republic - Plato
To compare the political theories of two great philosophers of politics is to first examine each theory in depth. Plato is regarded by many experts as the first writer of political philosophy, and Aristotle is recognized as the first political scientist. These two men were great thinkers. They each had ideas of how to improve existing societies during their individual lifetimes. It is necessary to look at several areas of each theory to seek the
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The Populism and Elitism
Now in the twenty first century, there are many advertisers trying to get you to buy their product. They use a variety of ways to show us how good the product is. There are some people who may not care much the benefit of the product but they just only care about the fashion trend or the latest technology. The advertisers try to capture our attention on the product that we want to buy and
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Oil Prices and the Effects on U.S. Economy
Oil Prices and the effects on U.S. Economy In May of 2000, Forbes magazine ran an article minimizing the impact that oil prices would have on the US economy. In the article, author Peter Huber writes: Bill Gates is a very rich man, and that lets Alan Greenspan worry less about oil prices than he used to. Greenspan puts it more broadly, of course: "The economy has lessened its needs and ties to energy." Oil
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The Fish
Within Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” the word “like” is used numerous times to describe certain physical features of the fish. More importantly, however, one must trace the transformation of “like” to describe how the fish goes from being regarded just as a typical brown ratty fish to gaining the respect it deserves as an actual human being, due to the life it has lived. At the beginning of the poem, the word “like” is
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The Diet of Sea Otters
Ecologists have long observed that when food becomes scarce, animal populations exploit a wider range of food sources. So scientists studying southern sea otters at different sites in California's coastal waters were not surprised to find that the dietary diversity of the population is higher where food is limited. But this diversity was not reflected in the diets of individual sea otters, which instead showed dietary specialization in response to limited food. The new findings
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The Last Samurai
The idea of honor is different to many people. The dictionary defines honor as, That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specifically, in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthiness; in women, purity; chastity. [1913 Webster]. However in the film The Last Samurai, the idea of honor seems to differ between the different people in each culture. The Americans equate honor with how
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The True Intentions of Civilian a Minutemen
The True Intentions of Civilian “Minutemen” A frightening video of an American civilian shooting a Mexican immigrant on the Mexico/U.S. border was posted on youtube.com recently. This civilian was identified as a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps. Unfortunately, this organization has been reigning terror on Mexican immigrants without the public being accurately informed. We have come to adopt the term, “Homeland Security”, as a part of our everyday vocabulary. Whenever we visit the
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The Tuskegee Airmen
The Mustang pilot spotted the string of Bf-109's heading toward the crippled B-24. The pilot, a Lt. Weathers, dropped his wing tanks, and turned into the German formation. He gave the leader a burst with his .50 calibers and it nosed up, smoking, and soon went hurtling down to the ground. The pilot radioed the others in his flight and heard "I'm right behind you." But when Weathers looked back for himself, all he could
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The Cell Theory
The Cell Theory The cell theory states that all living matter is made up of cells and some living organisms consist of a single cell. Other cells serve a special purpose within advanced organisms like nerve cells. One theory of a cell states that the first form of life on this earth consisted of a lot of different types of small protocells. Protocells are cell like organism. These organisms were able to reproduce in a
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The Jehovah's Witnesses
An Analysis Of The Jehovah's Witnesses' Religion When the name of Jehovah's witness arises, most of the public of differing religions, a picture of an overly nice person or group of people all dressed in suits and nice clothes, arrive at your door and offer a sampling of pamphlets, (large or small). To most of the general public, the religion is a far cry from Christianity, but this is untrue, as a visit to one
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Sci-Fi Films - the Matrix” and Bicentennial Man
In this essay I am going to discuss about the topic: “Science fiction often plays off the real against the artificial, either in the form of humans versus non-human (androids, cyborgs, synthetics), or the world versus the non-world (cyberspace, inner-space, intentional space)”. I have chosen the films “The Matrix” and “Bicentennial Man” An explosion in information access and exchange is fueling the Information Superhighway that was created as a result of the computer revolution. If
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Analysis of the Stock Market Simulation
Analysis of the Stock Market Simulation There are many risks that people take in their lives. Yet, investing in the stock market is one of the riskiest things to do. All the money that has been saved over years, possibly saved over a lifetime, could all be lost in the blink of an eye. The Great Depression was triggered by the most well-known stock market crash in history, another crash happened in 1987, and one
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In Expanding the Field of Knowledge We but Increase the Horizon of Ignorance" (henry Miller) Is This True?
What can you walk towards forever and never reach? The answer is simple: the horizon. The use of the horizon as a metaphor for knowledge is very accurate, depending on how one perceives knowledge. To some people, knowledge may seem like a giant treasure chest filled with knowledge, but it if we keep taking from the chest one day we will run out of knowledge. To me knowledge is so vast that no one person
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The Food Guide Pyramid Is Good
The food guide pyramid plays an important role in the health education of the majority of people in the United States. It is meant to guide the general healthy public in how to eat healthy to stay healthy. It includes a wide variety of foods to provide a healthy range of nutrients that are needed daily. The food guide pyramid is an excellent way to educate the public on how to eat healthy. The
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Pearl Harbor - Events Leading up to the Bombing
PEARL HARBOR By Chris Woods English IV 2nd Period Mrs. Mantooth May 1st, 2001 Pearl Harbor I. Events before the bombing A. Reasons for Japans Expansion 1. The Japanese were severely lacking in raw materials 2. The Japanese wanted to build an empire 3. Japan thought that it must build up its armies to compete with the Western Powers II. Preparations A. The Japanese made up a 8 point plan 1. Surprise was crucial
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Journey of the Magi
MISINFORMED BLISS Many are aware of the popular story from the Bible known as Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. As years have passed, such writers as John Milton and Margaret Atwood have written their own versions to this popular story called Paradise Lost and Quattrocento. Paradise Lost takes on a different angle where it speaks from Satan’s viewpoint, whereas Quattrocento takes on a different angle. The theme that Margaret Atwood tries to
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The Hindu Concept of God
The Hindu Concept of God • There are three various ways to interpret the Hindu concept of god which includes a polytheistic concept which is a religion of many gods, a monotheistic concept which means believing in only one god, and also a monistic concept where gods is an impersonal and unknowable entity. The belief of all three concepts is a quality scholars believe to be Hinduism’s �tolerant characteristic’ • The Rig-Veda (1200-900 BCE) the
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The Life of Archimedes
Archimedes, considered on of the greatest minds of the ancient world was born on the island of Sicily in the Greek city of Syracuse in the year 287 B.C.. Syracuse at the time was an independent Greek city-state with a 500-year history. He was the son of Phidias who was a Greek Astronomer and Mathematician. All that we know about Archimedes comes from his existing manuscripts, and from ancient historians such as Plutarch and Cicero
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The Unemployment Rate
The unemployment rate An unemployed person is one who is able and willing to work yet is unable to find a job. The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed workers divided by the total civilian labor force, which includes both the unemployed and those with jobs. Measuring the number of unemployed workers actually seeking work is very difficult, but there exists several different methods to do so. Each method has its own biases and
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Chronicles of Narnia Vs. Lord of the Rings
Narnia Vs. The Shire Adventures start from a simple task, from tea time with Mr. Tumnus to Frodo's quest of the One Ring. Two well-known literary works of the twentieth century, Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia, captivate the imaginations of children and adults alike long after their authors have passed them on. Tales of magic, both good and evil, power and battles, elves and dwarves, make these stories popular. For over
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Crevecoeur Letters and the Poem Вђњlet America Be America Again
From Crevecoeur Letters, we know that through a series of letters, Crevecoeur illustrates the idealized version of a free society, America . He is so positive about the new land because no landlord and slavery, no autocratic prince or lord, no "absurd ordinances”, and they can find more mild government also peaceable inhabitants than in their europe land that they can't get a real freedom. That situation is important for new imigrant from europe because
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The Glass Ceiling
In order for organizations to function members within the organization, the organization needs to work together to achieve specific goals and solve problems. Organizations will usually work in teams and each team has leaders that get the other team members on the ball to do perform different tasks. Organizations are structured in a hierarchy way. There is the top level management with the CEOs and presidents and other head people. Then there is the middle-level
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Analysis and Reactions to Blood on the Street
Analysis and Reactions: Blood on the Street My mother and father divorced when I was 8 years old and my mother decided to raise my sister and I on her own. Because of this arrangement, she had to become a sort of “jack of all trades”, yet like the saying, she was a “master of none”. As evidenced in previous papers I have turned in, she did make a big impression on my life and
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Benjamin Franklin and His Contribution to the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin was one of the most influential men of the eighteenth century. He was the only man to sign all of these four major documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Constitution of the United States, and the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain. Franklin was an inventor, a philosopher, a writer, a musician, and he actively participated in many congressional articles used by the government of the
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Definitions of Beauty in Whitman and Poe
In his essay “The Poetic Principle,” Edgar Allan Poe denounces the widely accepted notion of Truth as the ultimate goal of a poem. He says that Truth requires one to be “cool, calm, [and] unimpassioned”. To Poe, these characteristics are “the exact converse of the poetical” (504). Poe believes that good poetry’s real concern should be with man’s “immortal instinct,” his “sense of the Beautiful,” and particularly with the gap between our instinctual sense
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