I am not a singer or a dancer. I cannot break it down on the dance floor or sing a sweet melody. I am not one who can feel the rhythm of the music and move my body in sync with it. I cannot entice someone with the power of my voice. I am a texter. And by that definition‚ I am someone who has always loved communicating without speech. I can send a 160 character text message in 15 seconds or less. I can communicate all my thoughts and feelings through emoticons (smiley faces) and tlas (three letter
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Descartes is totally right to be suspicious about ’the given’ before accepting it as the establishment of learning‚ however‚ in the meantime‚ it is not the bravest thought to be distrustful about everything. Throughout first Meditation‚ Descartes disposes of all his past obtained opinion‚ which from his sense is highly dubious. (Descartes‚ Meditations I‚ pg.1‚para. 1) Accordingly‚ he chooses to rebuild his insight from a specific ground and totally believe in things that are indubitable. (Descartes
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Imitation Plato and Aristotle Introduction Plato and Aristotle are two famous literary critics in ancient Greece. Aristotle is Plato’s student. They all agree that art is a form of imitation. However‚ their attitudes towards imitation are profoundly different. Plato claims that poetry is worthless and bad because it is mere imitation and may have bad influence on human beings. Instead‚ though Aristotle admits that poetry is imitation‚ he thinks that it is all right and even good. He also
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There are bountiful people in the nation who rather be an original than be an imitation. On the contrary‚ some people’s choice is to be an imitation over being themselves. I believe it is better to be an original than be an imitation due to Rosa Parks’ standing up for her rights‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr strong views on segregation.‚ and my own personal experience in dealing with peer pressure. In the first place‚ Rosa Parks is a prime example of how it’s better to be an original and not imitate
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Imitation Game The movie Imitation Game follows a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing during World War II while he and his fellow cryptographers to break the German code named Enigma to win the war. The movie was centered around him‚ his friend/ fiancé Joan and his other coworkers Peter‚ Hugh‚ and Cairncross. The movie starts off in 1951 with Alan being interrogated for charges that are unknown to the audience and the plot of the movie continues with Turing telling the officer about his time
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Zigkeyeah Collier CMST-223 Kovalcheck December 2‚ 2010 Originality‚ Imitation‚ and Copyright “He who imitates must have a care that what he writes be similar‚ not identical”- Petrach‚ Le familiari‚ XXIII (14thc) The foundation of the copyright law is built on the principle and idealistic American value of originality. Recognized as a Western ideal and value in the 18th century‚ originality is culturally constructed and accepted‚ but not truly defined‚ as an aspect of a created
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One of the most important quotes Judith Butler uses in her writing is seen in‚ Imitation and Gender Subordination. Judith Butler explores the ideas that gender is about a performance one must do and how gender has become an imitation of what others deem as acceptable behavior. She also explores that idea of why gender is important for a society and states‚ “Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated‚ theatricalized‚ worn‚ and done; it implies that all gendering is a kind of
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Plato’s Theory Of Imitation Theory of Imitation Background Plato was born in 427 BC—3 years after the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war. At the time ancient Greek was divided into several city states‚ and each state has its own government. At that time there were two city states which were powerful and strong enough to influence the governing system of whole Greek. The states were “Athens” and “Sparta”. Both the states were at war‚ when Plato was born ‚ due to the conflict of choice of democracy
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Imitation is really a basic form of learning. It is observing the behavior of others‚ assuming the same positions and trying to duplicate the same results. Being able to see someone else perform a task gives more confidence that you’ll be able to perform it yourself. Operant conditioning starts off with a neutral behavior and then is either positively reinforced or negatively reinforced. A positive reinforcer is any type of reward system and a negative reinforcer would be a type of punishment. If
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In the Douglas Sirk’s film version of Imitation of Life‚ Sarah Jane rejects her own family. She goes great length to disguise her mixed race. Not only does she rejects the herself but she rejects the people who love her. She struggled with her identity and effort to fit in. In the film everyone fits in‚ but she the outlier in the film‚ In school she was bullied for her race which caused her to not claim she was black. She faces identity problems as a kid which eventually led to the action she takes
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