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    Even today‚ Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is read by every class from kings to common people. The book is a universal classic‚ meaning it can be related to at any time‚ by anyone. The philosophies included in his book have spanned the centuries‚ and Meditations remains to be one of the most influential books ever written. Marcus Aurelius was born on April 20‚ 121 AD into a family of royalty. His uncle and adoptive father‚ Antoninus Pius‚ was the emperor of Rome. Aurelius‚ too‚ was trained from birth

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    The fifth meditation starts off by Descartes straying away from meditating on the aspects of himself and God and compelling himself to focus on what he was pondering on a few days ago: material things. But before Descartes tries to reason if material things outside himself exist‚ he must first make sure material things can be definite outside his thoughts without being subjected to doubtfulness. Other than that‚ anything outside these parameters has to be omitted and seen as distractions from what

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    The Socratic Method of teaching is one that has survived throughout many decades. The Socratic Method was started by Socrates‚ a Greek Philosopher. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‚ the philosopher Socrates remains‚ as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.)‚ an enigma‚ an inscrutable individual who‚ despite having written nothing‚ is considered one of the handfuls of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. Socrates wrote nothing about his work

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    mathematician. Growing up in a society with influential figures like Galileo and Isaac Newton whom constantly questioned traditional methods and ideologies‚ Socrates sought to devise a method for reaching absolute truth. His quest for truth led to a publication of a major philosophical work “ A Disclosure on MethodMeditations on First philosophy.” Descartes meditations were based on systematic doubt where “Anything which admits of the slightest doubt I will set aside just as if I had found it to be

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    In Meditation II‚ Descartes claims that if we are able to think‚ then we exist. Descartes questions reality and whether reality is really reality since we can often be deceived. Firstly‚ he states that his senses help him see that something is happening‚ however‚ senses can often be deceived‚ so that something can appear differently to us. Next‚ he explains that he knows he is awake‚ however‚ dreams sometimes appear real‚ and people don’t know whether something is happening in a dream or if it

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    A Sample Analysis of Written Discourse —through the analysis of larger patterns and cohesive ties For discourse analysis‚ we usually analyze two main categories of discourse‚ the spoken discourse and written discourse. When we analyze a piece of spoken discourse‚ we will exam the identify of the speaker‚ the purpose of the utterance‚ the perlocutionary effect of the utterance‚ and the context of the utterance. Elements like intonation‚ tone‚ and genre of the utterance also are included in the analysis

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    that lived in a society that generally expected women of her class to be homebodies and obedient wives. She struggles for years to earn a living at the only two jobs sufficient for single‚ educated women. Always self-sustaining‚ Mary Wollstonecraft first starts and operates a school‚ then works as a governess before becoming an intellectual writer. Wollstonecraft is also recognized as being a feminist. As an expression of her femininity‚ she was a diligent advocate of education and believed that women

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    Page v Tuesday‚ May 8‚ 2007 6:13 PM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Notes on the Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xi 1 Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis Michelle M. Lazar Part I 1 Post-Equality? Analyses of Subtle Sexism 2 Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant? Janet Holmes 31 3 The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations Luisa Martín Rojo and Concepción Gómez Esteban 61

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    Academic Statement of Purpose The need for critical discourse analysis is crucial now more than ever because of the sheer mass of information our society encounters on a daily basis. I hope to demystify some of these messages through the use of critical discourse analysis in both my future research and my career. My work in discourse analysis seeks to identify those who are powerful‚ the construct of power they rely on‚ the social indexing employed‚ and the implications of their words for those

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    Conceiving a Child for the Wrong Purposes It is wrong to conceive a child for the purposes of saving another. There are cases in which parents only conceive a child to save the life of another. It is unfair to the child conceived because it was not made out of love. The child was conceived for instrumental reasons. In a case presentation called “A Birth to Save a Life” there are several focal points that discussed the arguments of conceiving a child for the wrong purposes. The movie My

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