David Hume‚ a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76‚ carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer‚ he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he studied but did not graduate‚ and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and
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The story‚ created by David Moody‚ compares to a train moving away from a station platform. At first‚ a person could run alongside the track easily‚ though as the train speeds up‚ there comes a moment that the runner anticipates the futility of persevering‚ and as the cars rush forward‚ the person inevitably slows down‚ or at the last moment a decision emerges to jump on for the ride. I was that runner‚ easily bored at the beginning of the book--my mind outracing the slowness of the words‚ but approaching
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STRATEGIC ACTIVISM AND NONMARKET STRATEGY David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier Stanford University and Northwestern University ABSTRACT Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to force change in the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics‚ activist strategies‚ and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine strategies
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However‚ some critics will argue that darkness did not wreak chaos onto mankind; rather‚ it is humankind that is responsible for its own destruction. According to David Spitz‚ “If anything were to go wrong‚ as it tragically did‚ it could only come‚ then‚ from within; the only enemy of man was himself” (Spitz 5). In other words‚ Spitz believes that darkness did not inflict chaos or conflict in the novel. The true source of the destruction was no one other than mankind who was responsible. If mankind
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As industries turn increasingly hostile‚ it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker’s pathbreaking book‚ Managing Brand Equity‚ managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company’s primary source of competitive advantage. Now‚ in this compelling new work‚ Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn‚ General Electric‚ Kodak‚ Healthy Choice‚ McDonald’s‚ and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and
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characters in the poem is that of Alison‚ a woman who is married to an older man called John the carpenter‚ "this carpenter hadde wedded newe a wyf". Alison’s attractions are suggested primarily by animal similes and she is described as radiant "ful brighter was the shining of hir hewe". Alison’s beauty cannot be separated from her animation and vitality. This‚ with a hint of naivety‚ is suggested by the comparisons to "kide or calf" and (twice) to a colt. Alison is soft as a "wether’s wolle" and
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take it all‚ and votes for defeated candidates are simply wasted and do not count anymore. The electoral reform was one of the central objectives of the Liberal Democrats‚ led by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The referendum gave the victory to David Cameron: the British prime minister who has launched the most savage cut programs in the country since the Second World War. The defeated is‚ above all‚ the Liberal Democrats’ leader who has seen his party being swept away by the polls and witnessed
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Alison Killing is an architect‚ she talks about death‚ and connects it with architecture. She demonstrates that after technology took over medicine‚ our tools and machines got bigger. In order to bring these big devices such as MRI and PET machines‚ hospitals started to be bigger. Furthermore‚ they started to be mainstream with huge black and white corridors‚ fluorescent light and weird drug smell. Is this the place that a person wants to die? She says that “Where we die is the key part of how we
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David Harvey is a classical marxist concerned with inequality and the theoretical bridge between social theory and geography. Argues from a historical materialist perspective – how the society reproduces itself. Harvey on space: For Harvey‚ social practices and process create spaces and these spaces in turn‚ constrain‚ enable and alter those practices and process – what Ed Soja called a “socio-spatial dialectic”. Constant relationship between society and geography and they both influence eachother
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environment in which one develops is key to studying and comprehending humans overall. However‚ the notion of biology and environment intertwining isn’t always exemplified clearly in various aspects of people’s lives. This was shown in the case of David Reimer‚ the boy who was raised as a girl. In Reimer’s case‚ he was born biologically male‚ but due to an unfortunate circumstance involving
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