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Concept of Human Nature

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The essay 'Concept of Human Nature' looks at Human Nature as the ocean.... It can be calm and it can be stormy.... It can also be fallacious and unpredictable.... The concept of human nature can be gauged through a closely-knit group in the school or an office.... ... ... ... The author of the paper states that one will also come across characteristics and inclinations that form groups, sub-groups, and if one persists, he will also come across issues that make friends or enemies, confirmation of friendship or competition, and gradually the relationships grow or end....

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Being a Youth Mentor in a Formal Setting

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For example, a well-known Greek philosopher, plato, was a mentor to Aristotle, who also emerged as an important Greek philosopher (Gosnell, 2007, p.... By looking at the relationship between Aristotle and plato, it is possible to understand that a mentee would always seek to learn from the mentor and their relationship is informal (Cheng, Payne and Witherspoon, 1995).... This is because Aristotle never taught plato within a formal classroom....

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The Conclusion of Kerner Commission Report

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symposium: The Urban Crisis: the Kerner Commission Report Revisited.... In 1967,a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was formed by President Lyndon Johnson and entrusted with the task to investigate and provide recommendations to remedy the situation,created as a result of riots between white and black people such as the Watts and Division's Street riots....

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Design Process - Satellite hinge

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7th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology symposium, ESA/NIVR/CNES/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, (1997): Print. ... 9th European Space Mechanisms & Tribology symposium (2001): 19-21.... The satellite has 8 solar panels with the inner panels held by a 90o hinge to the satellite while the outer panels are held to the inner panels by 1800....

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Mashup, remix, fandom, intertextuality, music simulacrum

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Among the theorists of simulacrum were plato, Jean Baudrillard and Peter Manuel.... plato in his book “Sophist” distinguishes two types of image making.... plato gives the example of the Greek statuary and the way they were constructed.... plato's second type is a sheer attempt to copy the original (plato 1992).... Jean Baudrillard, a more contemporary French philosopher elaborated on plato's discourse and distinguished four phases of an image otherwise referred to as orders of simulacra....

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Ideal Society in the Eyes of Locke and Swift

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"Ideal Society in the Eyes of Locke and Swift" paper analyzes the concept of an ideal society which is comparatively varied in all the works analyzed and ironically contains shortcomings that challenge the inherent ideological bias of their authors and the ages to which they belong.... .... ... ... All are interchangeable without any unique traits....

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Shear Strength Tests

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The primary aim of the paper 'Shear Strength Tests' is to find the consolidated drained shear strength of a soil sample such as sand soil.... Shear strength is the primary property of the soil since the structure is normally dependent upon the soils shearing resistance.... ... ... ... According to the author, the test procedure is employed to firm the cohesive soil to soft the vane and to determine the angle of shear resistance of cohesion less soil, the small shear box processes is normally employed and the drained peak and residual shear strength parameters of the cohesive soils....

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Should national energy policy in the US focus on building more nuclear power plants

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Name Professor Subject Date Introduction The passage of the U.... .... Energy Policy Act in 2005 is one of the cornerstones of the nuclear energy (Herbst and Hopley 4).... The Policy consists of wide range of energy related issues such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy tax incentives, and climate change technology and so on....

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What Does It Mean to Live in a Surveillance Society

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In the following paper 'What Does It Mean to Live in a Surveillance Society?... the author discusses privacy οf the individual and the possibility οf an entire world under surveillance in his essay Nowhere to Hide: Lack οf Privacy is the Ultimate Equalizer.... ... ... ... The author explains the different levels of οf privacy needed in different cultures, and he describes why he feels that invasion οf privacy might lead to large institutions interfering in his life....

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Introduction to Philosophy I

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plato Utopia is governed by the philosophers who unlike modern bespectacled philosophers, are men of action rather than men of thought.... Unlike democracy, plato's aristocracy suggests an equal chance for everyone to become the guardian of the state.... Unlike usual aristocracies which are hereditary, plato's aristocracy is an equal chance for the son of the guardian to the cobbler's son.... Generally philosophers lack most of the qualities of a ruler but their characters can be molded to make the rulers out of them like plato devised a frame of ‘exercises' that can turn philosophers to rulers....

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Allegory of the cave

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Allegory of the Cave plato's “Allegory of the Cave” is a philosophical theory in regard to human perception.... plato illustrates this theory through the allegorical story of the cave.... This paper will explore how I personally perceive the concepts of reality discussed in plato's theory.... plato then introduces the concept of the escaped prisoner, who leaves the cave and discovers that the world beyond is the truest reality....

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The Existence of the Supreme Being

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With regards to the argument of design, aspects of the argument were inspired by Aristotle and plato (O'Neill 110).... The writer of the following research paper attempts to discuss the arguments regarding the existence of Supreme Being and talk about whether this Supreme Being created the universe....

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Adult Education by Mortimer J. Adler

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Adler supports the methods of education as prescribed by Aristotle and plato.... The paper intends to focus upon the ideas of adult education as described by the prominent American philosopher of 20th century, Mortimer Jerome Adler.... The learned scholar had a quite different perspective with regards to adult education....

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Philosophy: The Matrix

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The whole world inside the matrix is likened to the dark cave in plato's writings and the real world outside is likened to the real world which the people sitting in the cave can only dimly conceive of.... One of the interesting contributions that the article makes is to map ancient metaphysical concepts onto modern vocabulary, so that for example the appearance/reality dichotomy that plato uses becomes now a virtual/real dichotomy.... The article is a very useful guide to the deep concepts that underpin plato's image of the cave and the flickering shadows on the wall....

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Determining the Capacitance by Measuring the Energy Stored in the Capacitor with Increasing Voltage

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This lab report "Determining the Capacitance by Measuring the Energy Stored in the Capacitor with Increasing Voltage" presents the relationship between voltage, capacitance, and the factors that affect capacitance.... The theories presented have had academic backing and informed support from experiments....

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Design of a Heat Exchanger Test Rig

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"Design of a Heat Exchanger Test Rig" paper analyses the basic working principle of heat exchangers focusing more on the commonly used plate heat exchanger.... It also seeks to address the means by which heat exchanger performances can be improved and enhanced.... .... ... ... Heat exchangers have been playing a critical role in our home appliances or in the heavy industries equipment such as boilers....

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Providing 20% of energy from renewable sources for the Potsdam,Berlin Germany Project

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Research Paper: Providing 20% of Energy from Renewable Sources for the Potsdam Project Name of student Course code Instructor Date due Introduction Potsdam being capital city of Germany and part of the Berlin metropolitan expanse projects have been put in position to trim down energy consumption of the entire city....

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The Value of a Capacitor

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In the essay 'The Value of a Capacitor' the author explains how the value of a capacitor can be varied.... The value of a capacitor can be varied by the size of the plate area.... To increase field flux for voltage across the plates a larger plate is required while less capacitance results from less plate area....

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Sylvia Plath's Daddy

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Sylvia Plath's “Daddy" The name Plath comes with a lot of candor for it is a name well-versed and highly commended in the world of literature as Plath is best known for advancing the genre of Confessional Poetry.... ... ... ... Her death, which was no less than a suicide, brought her instant fame and she became the benchmark in contemporary poetry....

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Medival Armor

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Medieval Armor Cover Page Outline I.... Introduction II.... Background on Medieval time period a.... Medieval Life b.... Feudalism III.... Medieval Warfare a.... Reasons for going to war b.... Type of combat c.... Soldiers IV.... Medieval Weaponry a.... Bladed Weapons b.... Staff Weapons c.... ... ...

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The Acellular Slime Mold Physarum Polycephalum

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The paper "The Acellular Slime Mold Physarum Polycephalum" discusses that in order of environments used in this experiment to find out what is conducive to Physarum's growth, it can be said that it highly grows on chocolate, apple and sugar-coated sweets.... ... ... ... The most species-rich, largest and ecologically significant heterotrophs are composed of distributed networks that do not have specialized centers, as exemplified by the vast mycelial networks of fungi (Dussutour et al....

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Development of the neural crest and its derivatives (LD)

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The neural crest plays a major role in the formation of various cell types in a developing vertebrate embryo.... After fertilization, the ectoderm is stimulated to form a neural plate which is characterized by folds and grooves on its edges.... The crests of these neural plate folds fuse to form a neural tube which later becomes the brain and the spinal cord....

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The Imagery and the Symbols in the Blossoming Notions

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The paper "The Imagery and the Symbols in the Blossoming Notions" states that the speakers are portrayed as feminine in ways that reflect their unreasonable and bad-tempered approach.... They consider themselves helpless and beyond control in the aftermath of the distressful lives that they have spent....

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Haiti Earthquake: Crisis and Response

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The paper "Haiti Earthquake: Crisis and Response" highlights that the energy will be released as a combination of strain seismic waves that are radiated, cracking of the rocks and frictional heating of the fault surface (Miriam 133).... This causes earthquakes.... ... ... ... An earthquake is a tremor that happens as a result of a sudden energy release that creates seismic waves in the earth's crust....

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Alternative energy source, technology, or energy storage method

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The primary source of energy since the dawn of the industrial revolution and the advent of machinery has been carbon concentrated fuels also known as fossil fuels.... Fossil fuels are derived from fossilized remains of dead animals and plants, which have transformed into coal and.... ... ... Continuous and extreme usage of fossil fuels worldwide has resulted in the planet Earth bearing the adverse consequences....

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Using G.I.S to predict coastal floods as a result of global warming in the UK

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The dissertation seeks to predict future floods that may occur at Wales because of environmental impact.... The introduction will give a brief summary about the floods that happened in Wales especially around Aberystwyth.... ... ... ... There have been severe floods in the United Kingdom since 2000, which raised an alarm that there might be frequent harsh environment in the future....

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Mind and Body as Conceived by Descartes and Pascal

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This was the basic breadth of the mind-body debate which began during the times of plato and Aristotle and extended long past Descartes's demise.... Cartesian dualism exists in the sense that, like the great thinkers plato and Aristotle who had gone before, he agreed that there should be some uniformity as to how the universe was regulated. ... ristotle was a thinker who was more interested in metaphysical concepts, while plato's thought was more based on concrete principles of the natural world....

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TLMT313 WEEK 7 FORUM

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The paper discusses the PPG Industries' global supply chain information.... The paper delves on the supply chain safety and quality strategies.... The Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG).... ... ... In Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG) Industries, Mr.... Herm Canil is the Director of both the purchasing department and the Supply Chain Department (Linkedin, 2014)....

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Educational Theory: Trends, and Perspectives

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plato is one of them: the book gives us his interpretation of education Philosophy.... in the book, plato gives us the perspective that education is good for an individual and it is also good for the security of a nation. ... The bibliography "Educational Theory: Trends, and Perspectives" focuses on the critical analysis of the major literature in educational theory, its trends, and perspectives....

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How Does a Person Live a Meaningful Life

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As plato taught us, we need to constantly contemplate our lives and we need to continue asking questions.... The philosopher plato has once asked the Greeks to contemplate on their lives and to keep asking questions in order to find out whether what they were doing were still moral or not anymore.... From this, one would like to think that plato was asking the Greeks also the question of finding out whether what they were doing on the outside were still in synch with what they had been wanting to do on the inside....

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Great Philosopher Aristotle

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As a teenager, he arrived in Athens to study with plato in his Academy defying his father's wish that he study medicine.... om points out, 'He and plato found a liking in each other's philosophical abilities that had previously been unmatched.... As a teenager, he arrived in Athens to study with plato in his Academy defying his father's wish that he study medicine.... om points out, “He and plato found a liking in each other's philosophical abilities that had previously been unmatched....

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Some Philosophy Questions

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Since Meno is more competence, he attempts to classify virtue again, this time suggesting that it concerned with longing for good things and obtaining the power to protect them but provided that one does so justly (plato 33-37).... The first verbalizes that, if integrity is a category of knowledge, then teaching is a key factor and second, if it exists anything good that isn't knowledge, the possibility is that virtue is not a class of knowledge (plato 59-63)....

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Person of Experience or the Person of Theoretical Knowledge Wiser

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Descartes was right in refuting the concept of ideal which was an invention of plato.... lthough being plato's disciple, Aristotle did not consider all of plato's theories to be correct.... The concept of ideal objects is where he completely differs from plato.... plato always supported the concept of eternal forms and said that everything is to be judged by reason and reflection.... He completely defies plato's theory of imitation where the latter expressed his idea that we the human beings try to imitate the ideal objects, which we can find through our reasoning power....

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How does learning effect your life now. details below

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How does learning affect your life now?... [Professor Name] [Course Number] [Professor Name] [28/11/2012] Philosophy is about reflections and how we examine life and eventually identify, thus, it probes views; and unravels provoking thoughts out of those examinations.... ... ... ... It is indeed a very delicate thought process that a person involves himself in, the end result enables humans to learn to reflect and evaluate....

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Socrates Life

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Hence, his methodology pays due heed to logical reasoning, which was adopted by the later philosophers including plato, Xenophanes, Aristotle and others.... (plato, Protagoras) Somehow, Aristotle declared the notion incomplete one, as mere knowledge of good and bad does not make man prudent and virtuous.... ocratic irony obtained imperative popularity, and the same technique remained in vogue at plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum and other educational institutions for the future years to come....

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Why the Battle of Actium Is One of the Most Important of Human History

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hat are some of the features of plato's hypothesis that the universe is divinely created? ... plato also describes the aspect of human life and living as the divine craftsman's handiwork. ... plato also says that during the beginning when earth was being created, things did not have shape or form but this was the work of the divine being.... In summary to this, plato believed that the universe is divinely created mainly because it was created by a divine being. ...

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Aristotle and Socrates' Minds on Virtue: Western Philosophy

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Aristotle was born by a doctor and attended school in Athens and was taught by another philosopher called plato.... Aristotle was born by a doctor and attended school in Athens and was taught by another philosopher called plato, after which he taught at the same school after the death of plato.... plato, one among the list of Socrates and Aristotle of great philosophers viewed virtue as the highest good of an individual, society or the nation in the light of justice....

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Chick Embryology and Histology

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"Chick Embryology and Histology" paper describes stages in chick embryo development, explains how the chick embryo resemble a human embryo, formation of the primitive streak, somitogenesis, gastrulation in the chick, and the formation of the neural tube.... ... ... ... The ectoderm is divided into 3 groups of cells: which are the internal position neural tube, externally positioned skin epidermis, and neural crest cells....

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Development of the Permian Reef

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symposium on cyclic sedimentation.... This paper ''Development of the Permian Reef'' tells that This geological period spanned from 300 to 250 years ago.... Due to the negative and uneventful transition into this period, an organism adapted to the adverse conditions and led to various body features....

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Designing a Hydraulic Parking System to Help Alleviate the Problem of Parking in Urban Areas

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This paper "Designing a Hydraulic Parking System to Help Alleviate the Problem of Parking in Urban Areas" is designing a hydraulic parking system to help alleviate the problem of parking in urban areas.... The world population is moving to urban areas increasing pressure on the space for occupation....

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Alfred Wegener ideas about Continental drift

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Alfred Wegener ideas about Continental drift Alfred Wegener played crucial role in developing ideas understanding of geology.... His ideas were revolutionary and innovative at that time.... He pointed out that coastal lines of different continents have a lot in common, and that due to those similarities current landmasses might be fit together like pieces of a puzzle....

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A hypothetical disaster scenario

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It was on Tuesday April 1st at 4:45 when an earthquake of about 8.... magnitude hit the coast of Chile.... The effect of this earthquake was felt when the ground shook at a distance of.... ... ... The earthquake awakened a tsunami that led to evacuations in Chile and Peru. ... ... he news Media and networks were busy covering the effects of the earthquakes....

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Types of Volcanoes

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This paper called "Types of Volcanoes" focuses on volcanoes' descriptions and real-world examples and comparing them to the other types in hopes of developing a more realistic sense of the planet's major dynamic forces.... The author outlines the active state, public safety, calmer mountainous structure....

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National Geographic Colliding Continents

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The paper "National Geographic Colliding Continents" highlights that Harry believed that the ocean floor was recycled and destroyed at the ocean trenches.... Harry's theory offers a better explanation than Wegener's, and however, there must be more proof.... ... ... ... Harry Hammond Hess introduced a new theory that supported the theory of plate tectonics....

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The Weight and the Health Conscious

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The following paper under the title 'The Weight and the Health Conscious' gives detailed information about emerging technologies which have enabled the weight and the health-conscious achieve their objectives as far as their food intake and physique is concerned.... ... ... ... Over the years, gym types of equipment have been created to meet the needs of those who want to build their bodies and of course, those who wish to manage their weight....

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Media Ethics IssueFinal

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There is an age old question about the relationship between ethics and the law.... It is difficult to determine whether it is ethics that determine the kind of laws that are passed or it is the law that determines what we hold as ethics.... The relationship is particularly ambiguous in the realm of journalistic ethics and journalistic law....

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The Impact of Machiavelli and Aristotle on Political Thought and Statecraft

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To a certain extent he had been influenced by his teacher plato, but whereas plato was a grand theorist pure and simple, Aristotle's writings reveal him to be of a more grounded and empirical turn of mind.... While plato advocated rule solely by the ‘philosopher king', Aristotle explored several forms of rule extant in the real world.... Whereas plato and Socrates had bowed down to the expert opinion in all matters, Aristotle saw in Solon's achievement the soundness of the judgment of the majority, at least in constitutional matters ....

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Socio-Political Influence on Education

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SOCIO-POLITICAL INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION Introduction plato, one of the greatest philosophers and of Socrates believed in the power of education and culture in which an individual was exposed.... In his classic, The Republic, plato quips that a person takes nothing with them to their new environment, but education.... As he or she sets out to the new world, his education and culture can either be a great burden or provide the greatest assistance (plato, 2006). ...

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Moral Psychology

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He criticized Christianity as it had been presented by earlier philosophers including plato and Socrates and regarded the scientists in the enlightenment as presenting worse contradictions than those presented by the founders of Christianity.... Examples of values listed by plato include self-control, prudence, bravery holiness and fairness[Dan92].... In some of his works such as Protagoras and Meno, plato argues that different virtues cannot exist singly....

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Ethics in Philosophy

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he Historical Development of EthicsSurprisingly, plato labeled the Socrates as the founders of Western ethics.... Additionally, plato agreed that individuals possess the natural tendency of doing the right things.... So, about plato's assertions, both knowledge and ignorance breed right and wrong in the society respectively.... According to plato, after comparing numbers and other mathematical relations, moral values cannot change with time (Brickhouse and Smith np)....

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