God Does Not Necessarily Have to Exist In Descartes’ Meditations‚ he makes the strong claim that God must exist. I will first explain what Descartes’s argument for God’s existence is‚ and then I will attempt to support the argument that God does not need to necessarily exist through objections and replies. Premise 1: “We have an idea of God as an infinite and perfect being.” First‚ Descartes believes that there are properties that are inherently perfect. For example‚ being good is a perfection
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United States would cause a chain of events that changed both the US and the world. The Bush administration was able to use discourse following these events to justify wars and to push through their right-wing agenda. Discourse is usually used to describe a discussion or debate that is generally between not just two people‚ but rather a large group of people. A discourse is also usually a one sided argument and is meant convince or justify to the public what the speaker or writer believes based
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My discourse community that I chose is law. I chose this direction because law is something I’m passionate about. Whether it be defending the rights of an individual‚ or an entire business‚ this is something I see worth doing. Sometime this year‚ I met a friend that shared his passion for law with me. He chose law because of the fifth amendment‚ stating‚ “everyone has the right to not self-incriminate oneself. For example‚ when the government knows you have a document that is self-incriminating‚
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Critical discourse analysis‚ organizational discourse‚ and organizational change A realist view of discourse analysis Discourses is an element of all concrete social events (actions‚ processes) as well as of more durable social practices‚ though neither are simply discourse: they are articulations of discourse with non-discoursal elements. ‘Discourse’ subsumes language as well as other forms of semiosis such as visual images and ‘body language’‚ and the discoursal element of a social event often
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An Unfitting Ending As Lockwood leaves for Thrushcross Grange in the last pages of Wuthering Heights‚ he pauses for one last look at young Catherine and Hareton who will soon marry: “ ‘It is a poor conclusion‚ is it not‚’ he observed‚ having brooded a while on the scene he had just witnessed. ‘An absurd termination to my violent exertions?” (322). The novel’s ending satisfies the dilemmas of the story‚ such as young Catherine’s future and the happiness of Heathcliff‚ and it fulfills the reader’s
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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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Cougar Madness “Palms sweaty‚ knees weak‚ arms are heavy.” Eminem’s 8 Mile pumped through my headphone like a syringe into my veins. Sweat beaded on my forehead and my muscles ached with fatigue as the 2012 Clark Cougar Basketball tryouts were coming to a close. The coach began to take his place in the front of the group‚ so I removed my headphones in preparation for his speech. He began to speak about how great this year’s turnout was. The suspense was brutal and time crawled as he went on. His
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insensitive to the ebb and flow of live around you. I often like to be surprise even from the childhood. My surprises come just on holidays such as St. Nicholas or Santa Claus. I remember when my parents tried for years to make for us my holiday surprises‚ like putting at foot tree or in boots various gifts that always surprises me with joy. Lately‚ when I got married my husband was the one who started to make for me different surprises‚ surprised me with things material or spiritual. I remember with
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After obtaining knowledge from the Matrix‚ Plato’s Allegory of the Cave or The Republic and the first Mediation from Descartes‚ I see that there are a few likenesses and contrasts. I would need to say that The Matrix and Plato’s hole purposeful tale were more comparable because the individuals included in both stories‚ they existed in this present reality where they were being cheated about what the fact of the matter was. In the Matrix‚ once Neo saw this present reality and that all that he thought
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Tragic Endings A Shakespearean tragedy calls for a tragic ending. Shakespeare ends Hamlet most appropriately through the use of character development and a cathartic burst of violence. Shakespeare’s ending to Hamlet is satisfying in that Shakespeare succeeds in his goal and purpose of creating an effective tragedy. Through his technique in dramatizing Hamlet‚ Shakespeare communicates that procrastination leads to nothing but the suffering of man. As the play nears its end‚ Shakespeare uses development
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