COMMODUS Rise‚ rise. Your fame is well deserved‚ Spaniard. I don’t think there has ever been a gladiator to match you. As for this young man. Lucius is now standing in front of Commodus‚ Commodus arms affectionately holding the boy close. COMMODUS He insists you are Hector reborn‚ or was it Hercules? Why doesn’t the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name. You do have a name? MAXIMUS My name is Gladiator. He turns to leave‚ his back to Commodus. He will not attempt to harm
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In what sense is this a ‘winner-takes-all’ industry? A “winner-takes-all” market refers to a market that is dominated by a single supplier and is subject to significant network externalities. Network externality in simplest terms is the value of a product to an individual customer that is affected and dependant on the number of other users of that product. Thoroughly assessing the case study we came up with the conclusion that the notion behind the market being considered a “winner-takes-all” market
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Bobby: For how many hours do you watch TV everyday? Aman: Mostly for one hour. On holidays I may watch for even two hours or more. Bobby: Why do you watch television? Aman: I watch it for information and entertainment. Bobby: Do you watch movies too? Aman: I don’t have enough time to watch movies. I hardly watch one movie a month. Bobby: Are movies good for our society? Aman: Most of them are not. They waste our time and energy. People don’t learn anything good from them.
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- Now‚ I’d just like to say that no other art form has had quite the impact on our lives that the motion pictures have. Cinema is one of the best types of art and cinematography is considered to be one of the rare wonders. To many people in the twentieth century that was the golden age of the cinema. - Yes‚ I agree entirely here. Indeed‚ the movies are truly an art of our time — they were born and have come of age in the twentieth century‚ and they now demand the serious consideration given to
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Role of Common Sense in “Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.” Berkeley‚ adhering to the venerable philosophical tradition inaugurated by Plato‚ decided to structure one of his works as a dialogue. This would be the Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus in opposition to Sceptics and Atheists. The purpose of the present essay is to discuss and evaluate the role that common sense plays within this work by Berkeley. The first part of the essay will discuss the basic role of the concept
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mind? After having been sentenced to death‚ Socrates was sleeping in his prison cell awaiting his execution. Early in the morning‚ Crito visits Socrates and attempts to persuade him to escape the city before the execution. If we look into their dialogues‚ Socrates suggests examining whether he should do what Crito advises or not‚ defining himself as “a person who listens to nothing within him but the argument that on rational reflection seems best to him” (C. D. C. Reeve‚ P-Crito 46b). Here‚ Socrates
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Summary My Father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons. (See Important Quotations Explained) The novel begins with Lemuel Gulliver recounting the story of his life‚ beginning with his family history. He is born to a family in Nottinghamshire‚ the third of five sons. Although he studies at Cambridge as a teenager‚ his family is too poor to keep him there‚ so he is sent to London to be a surgeon’s apprentice. There‚ under a man named James Bates‚ he learns mathematics
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Plato‚ Heracleitus and Parmenides all had their own metaphysical views each with their own sets of similarities and differences. Plato’s views were that there were two worlds the physical and the spiritual. According to him‚ the physical world was not the real world and that physical things were only shadows of their ideal form. An example of this that he gave was the cave allegory. Where the prisoners are left in a cave staring at their shadows and those of the outside world. One breaks
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The Life of Plato Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy and has had an impact on nearly every philosopher from all time periods. Alongside his mentor Socrates and his student Aristotle‚ Plato created some of the most significant works in philosophy; ultimately building the framework for western philosophic education. The dialogues of his works are wide ranging‚ from focuses on life and reality beyond what we see and hear‚ and subjects as practical rules
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Thesis: How accurate or inaccurate were Aristotle ’s writings on meteorology? Introduction: Aristotle wrote about many subjects that can be grouped into five general divisions: logic‚ physical works‚ psychological works‚ natural history works‚ and philosophical works. One of the little known physical works concerned meteorology. Aristotle ’s views on meteorology are fascinating‚ but many of the views were not accurate. This paper compares only a few of his views to actual meteorological facts
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