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    joining work camps or bettering themselves through private business in the US. What is not necessarily common knowledge is the response to this increase in immigration by U.S. citizens‚ whose population were predominantly made of “White” Americans. Chinese Immigrants were socially‚ politically‚ verbally‚ and many cases physically abused at the hands of “White” natural born citizens. The political cartoon featured

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    In American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang‚ the main theme would have to be identity. Despite the graphic novel consisting of three separate storylines‚ the main characters in the book all share the same issue – being uncomfortable with whom they are and connected to. If one were to simplify and boil the message of the book down to one word‚ it would be self-acceptance. The morals of identity and self-acceptance are what American Born Chinese is about. Yang’s novel serves as a reminder that we must

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    How being a Sophic-Empiricist-Ethical Egoist is shown throughout my life Being a Sophic-Empiricist-Ethical Egoist is how I live in the world. Although a hybrid of three different philosophies‚ I strongly connect with what these philosophies are defined as. Starting with Sophism‚ I always believe that are there are two sides to any story‚ no matter if it is the truth or a lie. Stories are based on perspective‚ and it is almost impossible to agree with others if you are narrow-minded and strongly

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    The Consolation of Philosophy is a work by the sixth century philosopher Boethius‚ written in prison after his drastic fall from power‚ that has often been described as the last great work of the Classical Period. It is a combination of Menippean satire and apocalyptic dialogue that resonates in structure to a classical Greek Dialogue‚ with a more pronounced personal‚ religious and mystical significance. It is impossible to ignore the impact that Consolation had on Medieval Europe‚ with numerous

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    incest and cannibalism. He started teaching when he was thirty-three in the Athenian stoa. A stoa is a long colonnade where there was usually a marketplace. The Stoics preferred a public place to learn and teach. The norm of the time was to divide philosophy into three subjects‚ logic which is made up of formal logic‚ semantics‚ grammar‚ stylistics‚ and epistemology. The second part of three is ethics which was the most

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    * Socrates: Philosopher who believed in an absolute right or wrong; asked students pointed questions to make them use their reason‚ later became Socratic Method. Charged with introducing strange gods and corrupting the young‚ he committed suicide. * Rhetoric: Saying things in a convincing matter * Skepticism: The idea that nothing can ever be known for certain. * Sophists: A wise and informed person‚ critical of traditional mythology‚ rejected "fruitless" philosophical speculations

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    PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE DEMARCATION Philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions‚ foundations‚ methods‚ implications of science‚ and with the use and merit of science. Demarcation The demarcation problem in the philosophy of science is about how to distinguish between science and nonscience‚ and more specifically‚ between science and pseudoscience (a theory or method doubtfully or mistakenly held to be scientific). The debate continues after over a century of dialogue among philosophers

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    Personal Philosophy of Education Sarah Eaton November 24‚ 2014 MTE/501 Lois Boeger Personal Education Philosophy A teacher is defined as a person who teaches ( Merriam Webster Dictionary Online‚ 2014). This is only the basic definition of a teacher; teachers are more than just their definitions. A teacher is a listener‚ an organizer‚ a leader‚ a protector; a teacher inspires and encourages. A teacher is a role model. “A teacher can never leave their work at the office. A teacher ’s day does

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    The image of the flowering plum has been played a popular role throughout Chinese paintings and poetry. What was the significance of the flowering plum motif during the Southern Song Dynasty (960-1279)? The period of the Song dynasty (960-1279) was particularly noted for its artistic achievements. Although landscape paintings of the Northern Song (960-1127) was predominant during this period‚ flower painting became equally as important during the Southern Song (1127-1279) where artists tended

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    The Mandarin Chinese language (and all other dialects of Chinese including Cantonese) lacks any kind of overt inflectional morphology. In Chinese‚ words are typically formed by one or two written characters. Each character is monosyllabic and can usually stand alone as an unbound morpheme‚ making inflectional changes more or less impossible. As a result‚ the Chinese language family has no method of overtly expressing tense‚ number‚ gender‚ etc. Instead of inflectional changes‚ Chinese uses context

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