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    A Discourse Community

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    People may think that being in a band is boring‚ uncool‚ and just not for them. This might be true‚ but in a band you must be a leader as well as a follower. In a band there are also different ranks. You also have to communicate in various ways. You have to be able to follow hand commands‚ voice commands‚ and whistle commands. These commands are used to communicate with the band to better performances and enforce discipline. For those who might not know‚ the band consists of a very important thing

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    Hayne 201304542 1 The truth about “Happy Endings” In Margaret Atwoods Happy Endings the narrator introduces 6 different alternative storylines each with there own version of a happy ending. The stories are labelled A-F‚ throughout the stories the author is challenging the idea of a “happy ending.” Throughout our culture whether it be in movies

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    Sara Magrin Sarah Gabr 900-08-9073 Final Essay In the First Meditation‚ Descartes presents his philosophical project‚ and he claims that‚ in order to complete this project‚ he needs to put into questions the truth of all his beliefs. Descartes shows that we can doubt of the truth of all our beliefs by two main arguments‚ the Dream Argument and the Evil Genius argument. In the Dream Argument‚ Descartes discusses the senses and how it can deceive. Descartes then mentions that when he is dreaming he

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    Comparing Endings In ancient Greece plays were a big part of society. They had festivals to celebrate these plays and crown the best at each of these festivals. Many plays were written and‚ thus‚ many different types of endings were created for them. Sometimes this would entail a technique known as Deus ex Machina. This would involve a god coming in at the end of the play and settling all of the issues. To act this out they would have the actor come down from a crane like machine. Other playwrights

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    Upon Hobbes reading of Descartes proposition “I am thing that thinks‚ that is a mind‚ soul‚ understanding or reason (Ibid‚ 2000); he draws a conundrum with the latter part of Descartes proposition namely ‘that is a mind‚ soul‚ understanding or reason’ (Ibid‚ 2000); conceiving it to be erroneous; for it ostensibly reads ‘I am thinking‚ therefore I am a thought’. This is condemned by Hobbes as a spurious argument for it does not seem logical to say a thinking thing equates its faculty of thinking.

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    background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ and believing. All the words use to describe social gatherings covered by the author James Paul Gee in his Article “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction.” Discourse is capitalized because the lowercase means connected stretches of language that make sense. The Discourse I use and

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    Descartes First Meditation

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    Descartes’ First Meditation Descartes believes that knowledge comes from within the mind‚ a single indisputable fact to build on that can be gained through individual reflection. While seeking true knowledge‚ Descartes writes his Six Meditations. In these meditations‚ Descartes tries to develop a strong foundation‚ which all knowledge can be built upon. In the First Meditation‚ Descartes begins developing this foundation through the method of doubt. He casts doubt upon all his previous beliefs

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    Comparison of Descartes and Locke Philosophy on Innate Ideas Philosophers over the years have written and evaluated numerous topics in philosophy. Occasionally‚ these scholars concede to their ideas and sometimes disagree with each other’s thought. Two scholars had distinctive ideas about where innate ideas originate from and how we get these sorts of ideas. Notably‚ these two philosophers who had an opposing argument on where innate ideas originated from were Rene Descartes and John Locke. Descartes based

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    Descartes Dream Argument

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    Descartes wishes to dismiss anything that can be doubted because he wishes to find a true foundation in which to build beliefs on. Using skepticism Descartes can find something beyond doubt to build true beliefs on. By doing so he hoped that his rationale would be accepted by the popular school of thought at the time known as “Scepticism” as well as those who‚ for Descartes‚ falsely believed in Aristotelian physics. From there Descartes can use their logic to appeal to the skeptics and ultimately

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    was $6000 and the cost for installation was $64000. We would add all that up and get a total machine cost of $1‚270‚000. There are 3 types of depreciation methods we can use to figure out the annual depreciation value of your machine: Straight Line Method‚ Units of productions Method‚ and Double Declining Method. The Straight Line Method is plain and simple. This will tell us what to report at the end of every year for the depreciation value of your machine. First we would take the cost of the

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