MIDTERM PAPER ANALYSIS OF "KUNG FU PANDA" MOVIE SCENE APPLYING THEORIES AND CONCEPTS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS Movie: Kung Fu Panda (2008) Scene (29:33"): Panda meets Master Oogway under the sacred peach tree of wisdom. Background: A panda‚ who was "accidentally" selected to become a "dragon warrior"‚ the highest rank in his dreamy world of kunk fu‚ had been humiliated and discouraged from trying to become a kung fu warrior by the in-group members of the palace inhabitants
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2014 Thomas Nagel‚ Free Will 1. When you choose to act one way rather than another‚ you were free to have acted differently. 2. You could have done otherwise if you had wanted to do so. 3. Your choices are not predetermined in advance. 4. Determinism must be false. 5. Therefore‚ we have free will over the choices we make in our life. One case Thomas Nagel presents about free will is shown using a cake and peach example. He starts it off by saying that you are in a cafeteria line and choose
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In the shooting case of Trayvor Martin‚ George Zimmerman should not go to prison. A significant amount of speculation exists around the shootings circumstances. There lacks an indisputable‚ completely factual account of the shooting and its preceding events. Without the support of concrete evidence murder can not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I intend to show the conclusion‚ that George Zimmerman should not go to jail‚ is true because the argument is sound. I think my argument is valid because
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Obstacle to Ethics: Determinism DETERMINISM: Our choices and actions are the result of pre-existing conditions. We do not have free will or the capacity to choose between alternatives. We are not responsible for our actions‚ cannot be blamed or praised for them‚ because we cannot act "against" or contrary to the forces or pre-existing conditions that compel us (psychological‚ social‚ economic‚ environmental‚ genetic). Since we could not have done otherwise‚ it is pointless to grant rewards or
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will. In Paul Halbach’s “The Illusion of Free Will”‚ he systematically attempts to debunk the debate between the combating theories of free will and hard determinism. He conveys his argument by stating that determinism and free will are incompatible with one another: one cannot exist if the other is true. If he can thoroughly prove that determinism is true‚ then free will would be deemed incapable with the human condition which we must accept. Holbach breaks down his strategy into two parts‚ the first
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structure as they watched the gap between the social classes grow. Rather than being concerned with the individuals of society‚ two theorists were interested in the characteristics of groups and their structures. These theorists were Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim. In this essay‚ the concepts and ideas of Marx and Durkheim will be discussed‚ compared and contrasted. Karl Marx Marx was a conflict theorist of the late 1800s and viewed society as characterized by tension and struggle between two groups
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The Mind Locke The notion of personhood was introduced by Locke. For him the stream/continuity of consciousness defines a person. In other words the memory‚ since being conscious of something implies remembering it. When someone is drunk and is not co Locke diverted from the traditional understanding of the self. In dualism it is the soul‚ which is conscious of what he is doing‚ then he will not remember the event. Thus whilst being unconscious of something‚ one is not a person. constant and
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“God Knows the Ethical decisions we will make” Discuss [35] The question over the existence of free will has raged on over many years. Many feel that God‚ saw an omniscient being‚ must be aware of all that has happened and all that will happen. Supporters of the cosmological argument would suggest that everything has a cause and that god was the initial cause‚ “the unmoved mover” (Tomas Aquinus)‚ this would support the idea that humanity has no free will as everything is pre determined. This
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TEHCNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM a popular and influential theory the theory of relationship between society and technology Just like these other deterministic theories‚ technological determinism seeks to explain social and historical phenomena in terms of one principal or determining factor. It is a doctrine of historical or causal primacy. The term ’technological determinism’ was apparently coined by the American sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) (Ellul 1964: xviii; Jones 1990:
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different. Using my knowledge of both the person-situation controversy and reciprocal determinism‚ I will attempt to explain why Tonya’s behavior in these different situations is not surprising at all. Tonya’s behavior is related to both her personality and the social context which she is in. Her behavior is no surprise because it can be explained by both person-situation controversy and reciprocal determinism. However‚ while personality traits are pretty consistent‚ they are only useful in predicting
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