your life and discovering love. I am a serious movie fanatic. I watch movies all the time. But‚ if I had to pick my favorite one‚ it would be without a doubt “Love and Basketball.” This is due to the fact that I love basketball‚ it inspires me to keep reaching my goals and get through challenges in life‚ and it is a great love story. To begin with‚ “Love and Basketball” is my favorite movie because I love basketball. This movie obviously has something to do with basketball if you look at the title
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My Favourite Food Nutritious‚ inexpensive‚ and delectable‚ pizza has been my favorite food for years. Baked in the oven‚ pizza is a healthy food that is made mainly of flour. Topped with cheese‚ vegetables‚ and meat‚ pizza provides calcium from cheese‚ vitamins from vegetables‚ and protein from meat. Thus‚ it is a complete meal that provides the required nutrients. Not only is pizza wholesome‚ but it is also inexpensive. Pizza gives value for money; each piece costs less than $2 but it is sufficient
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My favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The first time that I read this book was for school‚ so I automatically assumed I would not enjoy it. I ended up being very wrong. I was not able to put the book down‚ it keeps you interested and wanting to know what happens next. In the book‚ two of the main characters Elizabeth and Darcy are destined to be together although at first they are not aware of this. In my opinion this really pulls the reader in from the beginning‚ they feel a
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The Wannabe Philosopher King Plato’s Republic begins with a debate on the subject of morality. One by one‚ Cephalus‚ Polymarchus‚ and Thrasymachus put forth their definitions of morality and one by one‚ they come up short. None survive the merciless scrutiny of the author’s mentor‚ Socrates. The first moral precept is introduced by Cephalus. This old but wealthy businessman offers a definition that Socrates eventually exposes to be far too narrow‚ and far too influenced by his own trade to
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Democritus 1 Democritus Democritus was a Greek Philosopher born 460 B.C. in the city of Abdera‚ and died 370 B.C. He was born into a wealthy family and traveled the world extensively. He was known as the “laughing” philosopher‚ or the “happy” philosopher because he would constantly mock people‚ and laugh incessantly about his own jibes. Throughout his life he wrote over 70 books‚ however very few pages have survived the years. Some have said that Democritus blinded himself to better understand
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Comparing Great Philosophers Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who was impressed by the inability of the English Monarchy to withstand the pressure of the civil war. The Civil war motivated Thomas to think about how people could work and live together in peace and to maintain social order. Hobbes’s scientific view ultimately became the bases of liberal thought. Hobbes believed that individuals choose to live under government; therefore governments exist for the protection of the individual
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Philosophers Big Questions PHIL201 - 1401A – 03 January 5‚ 2014 Metaphysics: What is real? As a child I found myself asking that question about many things like is God real‚ monsters under the bed‚ Big foot and ghosts (Still working on that one). As an adult‚ I have found out the answers to my questions. God is 100% real in my life and I have found this through reading the Bible‚ going to church and having bible studies‚ monster’s under the bed got solved at 10‚ Bigfoot
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My Favorite Character Ezio Auditore da Firenze was a Florentine nobleman during the Renaissance well at least that what many thought he was but in reality he was a skilled assassin and Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. This is probably one of my most favorite characters of all time not only because he was an assassin‚ which is cool‚ and all but it’s mostly the kind of honor and character that he had. Ill talk about his story first so you can have some understanding as to how he became
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What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another
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The Greek Philosopher Plato Plato was born in 429 B.C.E. and died in 347 B.C.E. he was one of the classical Greek philosopher who was also mathematician. He was one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition one of the most penetrating‚ wide-ranging‚ and influential authors in the history of philosophy‚ Kraut (2004). Plato travel for many years studying under his teacher Socrates learning from him. He wrote dialogues between Socrates and the other explores who traveled with
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