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- 9911: The Australian Outback
- ... is located in the Northern Territory State of Australia. Alice Springs is a small town in the Outback, which is very dry and has desert like surroundings. The Outback is behind times from the modern world, activities are very limited, for example, television is only on four hours a day and the park is miles away from the town. Most of the time children have to make up games or use their imagination to entertain themselves. They are far behind the modern world but the locals have a very different opinion; they see themselves as simple but happy people; they work hard for what they have, and in their opinion, modernization is not needed and does nothing but ...
- 9912: Polonius Is Folish
- Polonius: A Fool in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Hamlet is the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays for theater audiences and readers. It has been acted live in countries throughout the world and has been translated into every language. Polonius is one of the major characters in Hamlet, his role in the play is of great interest to scholars. Parts of Hamlet present Polonius as a fool ... son is all about self-advancement. Polonius will go to all extremes to protect his reputation. Grebanier states on the foolishness of Polonius’ speech: “Such guidance will do for those who wish to make the world their prey, but it is dignified by no humanity. Who can live humanly without ever borrowing or lending? Is one to turn his back on his best friend in an hour of need?” (Grebanier 285 ...
- 9913: Descartes
- ... perfectly, may I not, in like fashion, be deceived every time I add two and three or count the sides of a square…" We are now at the point where we are doubting everything – the world around us, that we have a body, and anything else that we could possibly believe. Perhaps I even doubt that I exist myself. But in doing this, I am in the act of doubting. How ... first person to write a systematic account of it. Now, Descartes wanted to prove two more things. One, that he actually was an immaterial thing, and two, that there is in fact an external corporeal world Although Descartes is still a well respected philosopher, it seems that history has judged much of his reasoning as faulty. Kant calls him a "problematic idealist" for whom "there is only one empirical assertion that ...
- 9914: Greek Tragedies
- ... the narrative. The purpose that aims each of the five plays that we read in class. The Athenians considered Sophocles their most successful playwrighters and his works continued to be valued highly throughout the Greek world even long after his death. Some idea of how the ancient heroic legends expanded and developed during centuries of retelling, and how they were molded in the hands of the tragic poets, can be forgotten ... certain perspective, there is nothing to distinguish one perspective as superior to any other. But however revealing the senses are, their testimony stands mute in the face of "reason," which distinguishes a "real" or "true" world over against the apparent. Each of the seven plays separate into categories and connects as a superior to drama in the above aspects. Which makes them a form of art, and enhances me to believe ...
- 9915: Canada Vs America
- ... British government. Technology was also formed with the help of the United States. When United States grew in to an industrialized place producing large quantities of goods, which were sold in many parts of the world, Canada became a customer and helped import raw materials needed by the United States. The growth of trade between the nations made the lives of Canadian and American people similar in many ways. We became ... of the ideas and many of the product of the United States. Yet Canadian continues to be different from their American neighbors. I believe we have our own identity, because no other country in the world has as many cultures as we do. We are the unknown country to all other nations because Canada has not been a troublesome country. We do not have violent revolutions and we do not invade ...
- 9916: How Were Women Treated In Juli
- ... Compared to today, that portrayal is completely different. Today many men and women believe that we are equals, and that women can do just as much as men in this (as of now) male dominated world. According to the roman research that I have done, this is indeed the right portrayal of women in the time frame that Julius Caesar took place. In all of Shakespeare's plays, women were never ... woman who is pretending to be a man! It would be (in my opinion) much easier to let a women play the part. After all, some of the best performers and entertainers in our modern world are women. Well as you can see, women were not treated the same way as men in the time of Julius Caesar, and I do believe that Shakespeare portrayed them effectively and just as they ...
- 9917: Francesco Redi
- ... mind and a well accomplished poet and author. He revolutionized scientific ideas of his day with groundbreaking experiments and scientific beliefs. His main accomplishment was the disproving of spontaneous generation. This discovery shocked the scientific world of his day and led to more experiments by such scientists as Pasteur and Spallazani. Francesco Redi was born in Arezzo, Italy on February 18th 1626. He got a degree in medicine and became a ... evolution/spontan.html 2. http://dac.neu.edu/bio1100/Redi_Experiment.html 3. http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b/eredifr.html 4. http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/12687b.htm 5. Webster's New World Dictionary, Simon & Schuster, c 1994 6. Encarta Multimedia Encyclopedia, c 1998
- 9918: “The Loneliness of the Long Distant Runner”: What Makes Smith Run???
- ... and it drives the point home embodying the notion that running is keeping distance from the law, out running the system so to speak. When Smith runs he is untouchable. He is in his own world away from the suffocating laws of England’s juvenile detention policies and the world of imposed law. Smith isn’t running from his problems or from his past, but instead he is running towards the answers to the questions that doctrine men’s lives, answers on how to become ...
- 9919: The Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment in Europe
- The Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment in Europe The Scientific Revolution was an intellectual revolution occurring in the seventeenth century. It started in Europe and all Western civilization; eventually spreading throughout the rest of the world. The revolution was based on sixteenth century breakthroughs and an interest in the workings of the natural world. This was a time of many famous thinkers and scientists. Such as Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Bacon, and Boyle. These are just a few; who along with many others established the foundations for the modern ...
- 9920: How It Feels To Be Coloured Me: Realizing Color
- ... No one is going to help her and give her what she wants. She has to go out there herself and get it. “No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. The world is to be won and nothing to be lost…It is thirilling to think—to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame.” By this statement she means that the world is out there to be had. There isn’t anyone who is going to hand you over anything. Life doesn’t come on a silver platter, especially for a black woman. You don’t have ...
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