With a movie like The Matrix‚ it is very easy to get caught up in the spectacle. Granted‚ the movie has special effects that were cutting edge for its time‚ and includes many elements of our modern high tech culture. However‚ it also has a much deeper and more philosophical side. When it was written‚ ideas were incorporated into it from a variety of sources. One of these sources was the first meditation of the French philosopher Rene Descartes. In this movie‚ what most people perceive as reality
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Is Seeing Believing?: The Philosophical Influences in The Matrix The idea that the real world is an illusion has been a popular topic among philosophers for centuries. Does reality differ from person to person? What is the difference between dreams and reality? What if we what we think we know is actually an illusion created by someone or something else? From Plato to Kant‚ philosophers from all different backgrounds have questions our perception of reality. In more recent years‚ the focus of
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11/18/2007 Online Social Networks and E-Commerce Their Threats to Privacy and a Proposal for a New Blanket Privacy Policy and Accountability Infrastructure for Consumer Online Privacy Clarence Lee and Shirley Fung Clarence Lee and Shirley Fung Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................6 Background...............................................................................
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University of Phoenix Material Modern America Matrix Week 3 Week 3: 1960s Part Two Johnson’s Presidency From the following list‚ choose five events from the 1960s. Identify the basic facts‚ dates‚ and purpose of the event in 2 to 3 sentences in the Identify column. Include why the event is significant in the Significance column‚ and add a reference for your material in the Reference column. Medicare Medicaid The War on Poverty The Apollo Program The Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Modern America was born in the 1920s Looking back at the 1920s we see the birth of modern America. Women started dressing differently‚ the invention of household cleaning tools were emerging‚ and athletes were becoming heroes of many. The Jazz Age also came about in the 1920s and influenced different types of music we have today such as: Rock and Roll‚ Hip-Hop‚ and R&B. Although‚ many new inventions and social changes were coming about‚ nothing/no one shaped modern America more than Henry Ford
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Stars I have categorized iPhone and iPod in Star category which means they both need further investment in product development and there are greater opportunities available in the marketfor growth. Latest figures reveal that the growth rate for iPods is currently 28% and for thoseof iPhone’s its 48%.Apple enjoys 60% more market share in iPod than its closest rivalScandisk in the market. In iPhone’s‚ Apple is not the market leader but has 28% market sharewhere manufacturer of Blackberry RIM has 41%
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nowhere‚ but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow‚ 1996) <br> <br>You ’ve been living in a dream world Neo. This‚ is the world‚ as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) <br> <br>From Plato ’s "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers ’ "The Matrix" (1999)‚ there is a tradition of writing in Western literature‚ which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia‚ or both. I believe that what such imagining allows us is to do is locate
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being assemble for any error following the instructions given. A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional patterned array‚ used to represent characters‚ symbols and images. Every type of modern technology uses dot matrices for display of information‚ including cell phones‚ televisions‚ and printers. They are also used in textiles with sewing‚ knitting‚ and weaving. The KMD D1288C is 1.26 inch height 3mm diameter and 8 × 8 dot matrix LED displays. The KMD D1288C is dual emitting color type of red‚ green chips
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Movie critics and philosophers alike agree that the movie "The Matrix" is indeed based upon certain Platonic themes from Book VII of The Republic. In this story entitled "The Allegory of the Cave‚" he describes a dark underground cave where a group of people are sitting in one long row with their backs to the cave’s entrance. Chained to their chairs from an early age‚ all the humans can see is the distant cave wall in from of them. The shadows of statues held by unseen puppet handlers’ reflect
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex‚ Style‚ Celebrity‚ and the Women Who Made America Modern is a book that was written by author Joshua Zeitz and can best describe how women in the 20th century were becoming these flashy‚ glamorous‚ flamboyant party girls that were unbeknownst to modern society during this time period in American society. This book also goes on to describe the socialites that were being more known throughout this time period‚ which acts as the root for what American socialites are described
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