THE WALRUS • MARCH 2OII lltSIHilliiKHIIIIIIIIIillHIIIiniltli BOOKS Crímínou8 Minds A new wave ofcrime writers is exploring Canada’s darken corners BY RICHARD POPLAK ILLUSTRATION BY JACK DYLAN BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY: and beaver-shaped shortbread. Rush espies the young Rosalind Canon‚ CanLit Wunderkind of the moment. She is flush with a Dickie nom‚ a considerable book advance‚ and the adulation of the culturocracy. Why not me? whines Rush‚ borrowing the italics Stephen King made
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The Soul Scarf It was a black-white scarf‚ and there were some blood-spots on it‚ but my grandfather still used it and preserved like a valuable object. I did not see my grandfather wear it always‚ but it always appeared on his neck when he had a meetings or important events. Every time I visited my grandfather‚ I saw him sit by himself in front of his house and looked at the scarf sadly. So‚ I once asked him about the scarf and its significance‚ but I just got the answer from my father later.
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Immortality of the Soul Plato has roused many readers with the work of a great philosopher by the name of Socrates. Through Plato‚ Socrates lived on generations after his time. A topic of Socrates that many will continue to discuss is the idea of “an immortal soul”. Although there are various works and dialogues about this topic it is found to be best explained in The Phaedo. It is fair to say that the mind may wonder when one dies what exactly happens to the beloved soul‚ the giver of life
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happen the way they do. A quick review of past attempts at achieving this goal reveals that earlier philosophers had created more difficult questions than they had answered: the Milesians over-emphasized material causes; Anaxagoras over-emphasized mind; and Plato got bogged down in the theory of forms. Aristotle intended to do better. Although any disciplined study is promising because there is an ultimate truth to be discovered‚ the abstractness of metaphysical reasoning requires that we think
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PHAEDO: IMMORTALITY OF SOUL In the dialogue Phaedo Plato discusses the immortality of the soul. He presents four different arguments to prove the fact that although the body of the human perishes after death; the soul still exists and remains eternal. Firstly‚ he explains the Argument from Opposites that is about the forms and their existence in opposite forms. His second argument is Theory of Recollection which assumes that each and every information that one has in his/her mind is related to information
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Discussion Question: What are some of the challenges of CRM in organizations that sell through multiple channels? Customer relationship management (CRM) is the strategic process of shaping the interactions between a firm and its customers with the objective of maximizing existing and lifetime value of customers for the company as well as maximizing satisfaction for customers (Simms‚ 2007). CRM‚ encompasses a firms’ efforts to become more familiar with the consumers’ purchasing habits across various
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consider music to be food for soul; however‚ this is not true in all cases. Music has grown into a passion than just leisure. People gather all the accessories such as a duet piano bench or the artist piano bench even before they learn how to play the instrument. Besides‚ music cannot simply be food for the soul. Intoxication or obsession can rightly define the longing for music. Music can wreak havoc with your soul like the way smoking and drinking destroys your body. These are the things that are
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Ancient Theories of Soul First published Thu Oct 23‚ 2003; substantive revision Wed Apr 22‚ 2009 Ancient philosophical theories of soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word ‘soul’ meant to speakers of Classical Greek‚ and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. We then turn to various Presocratic thinkers‚ and to the
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Islamic Beliefs on the Soul According to few verses from the Qur’an‚ the creation of humans involves Allah "breathing" souls into them. This intangible part of an individual’s existence is "pure" at birth. It has the potential of growing and achieving nearness to God if the person leads a righteous life. At death‚ the person’s soul transitions to an eternal afterlife of bliss‚ peace and unending spiritual growth until the day of judgement where both the body and soul are reunited for judgement at
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REFLECTION: POETRY THEME: Dance- The Hidden Language of the Soul EXPOSITORY TOPIC: How can dance be considered as a communicable form of non-verbal language? PREFACE The purpose of the poem under theme “The Hidden Language of the Soul” is to evoke an emotional response in the reader and to cause him to ponder about dance as a language but to also inform them on the difficulties of speaking that language. The poem shows the definitions of verbal language in dance and how emotional an
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