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    Rene Descartes’s said that bodies are not minds and minds are not bodies‚ more likely there is two different kind of contemporary bodies and minds. When defining the characteristics of mind it is cogitation and the bodies is a spatial extension. Rene Descartes argued that mind is a thinking but not extendable thing and body is extended non thinking thing. Body is a material entity we spend time decorating our appearances and the mind is the source where our creativeness is coming from. It also helps

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    Throughout his career‚ director Mike Leigh has focused on creating believable‚ powerful characters. Leigh has characterized his films as “emotional‚ subjective‚ intuitive‚ instinctive‚ vulnerable” (Gordon‚ 1994). His 1996 film Secrets & Lies focuses on a successful black middle class optometrist tracking down her birth mother. Vera Drake (2004) follows a 1950s housekeeper providing illegal abortions to local women. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) centers on Poppy‚ a school teacher with a compassionate nature

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    questions that sets the scene and enables the reader to visualise it "Where lies the land to which the ship would go?" This question surprises the reader and ironically fools the reader into thinking that the speaker is a lost person who is looking for his targeted destination . "Far‚ far ahead"‚ in fact the effectiveness of this image lies in the fact that it represents man’s life .Man here became like this ship whose life lies ahead of him . The use of "far" twice reflects the length of this journey

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    The book that I chose for my book report was “Lies My Teacher Told Me”‚ by James W. Loewen. At first‚ I thought this book would be the worse out of the 5 to read. I thought that I do not need some Book to tell me I am uneducated in American history. But after I read it‚ I realized that the book is much more than that. It is a critique on so many factors in our society. Only one is the student’s education. But it does not critique the American history student like I thought. If a student

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    “Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable”.(anonymous) In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. The play shows lies and deceit from Don John and Don Pedro. Don John lied about Hero cheating on Claudio.Claudio then called out Hero at the wedding calling her a dirty cheater. Don Pedro lies to Hero saying that he is Claudio.Don Pedros lie Caused Hero and Claudio to get Married. The motivation that makes Don John Lie is anger‚revenge‚and hatred.The thing that motivates

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    Meet On Earth Wonder Woman hated men when she first set off to the world from her home‚ Themyscira‚ but later understood that she was wrong in her initial assessment of men because she simply didn’t understand men. In Deborah Tannen’s essay‚ “Sex‚ Lies‚ and Conversation”‚ the often misunderstood forms of communication between men and women are explored. Gloria Steinem‚ American feminist who is a nationally recognized leader of the women’s liberation movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s‚ who expressed

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    Teaching History and the Consequences of it? According to‚ the chapter eleven from the book “ Lies my teacher told me” by James w. Loewen‚ under the title “Why is history taught like this? To answer for this question’s‚ it is better to see different directions as well as the perception of the of the teacher’s‚ the final goal of the responsible college or university or the giver institution‚ or the strategy of the education policy curriculums‚ why prefers or allowed to give this one sides negative

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    here is a lot of color imagery in this poem‚ the first stanza especially. It mentions 6 different colors‚ all describing the lies. It’s about an African American girl that may tell little lies that don’t really mean much. She would lie about where she lived‚ and where she bought her clothes‚ but would also lie about being African American. Right below the poem is the history of Natasha Trethewey‚ and she was a girl that was just light enough to pass for white. It’s actually really sad the way she

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    Human Body and Water XXXXXXX University of Phoenix/ Axia College SCI 241 July 1‚ 2009 The Human Body and Water The Most Important Nutrient Of all vitamins and minerals in the human body water is the most important. It is the one essential nutrient that the human body cannot survive without. The adult human body is comprised of approximately 60% water‚ the body of a small child‚ infants for example is comprised of approximately 70% water. Water is found throughout the body in

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    The Mind-Body Problem The mind-body problem can be broken down into a series of questions. What is the mind? What is the body? Do the mind and body co-exist‚ or does the mind only exist in the body? Or does the body only exist in the mind? If both the mind and body exist‚ there could be a number of types of relationships. Maybe the mind affects the body. Maybe the body affects the mind‚ or maybe the mind and body both affect each other. The later possibility is called Dualist Interactionism‚ and

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