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    she succeeds in doing so. The father rejects the daughters ending because he believes that she is avoiding tragedy. Through ambiguity and connotation in the conversation between daughter and father‚ Grace Paley shows that people are often afraid of confronting tragedy or even accepting it. Paley repeats the word end throughout the story. The father in A Conversation with My Father is the one that uses both words the most. In lines 6-7‚ the father says‚ Poor woman. Poor girl‚ to be born in a time

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    with an Intelligent Design as an explanation of how it all began. The Cause for Intelligent Design The Bible decrees that God was the intelligence that brought all that is into existence. This idea is reflected in church history as seen the writings of the “Fourth Lateran Council (1215)”‚ which surmised that creation by God was‚ “ex nihlo (i.e. ‘from nothing’)” (Bird‚ 2013‚ p. 158). This God‚ as

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    of epistemology are rationalist Rene Descartes and empiricist David Hume. Rationalism is the idea that reason and logic are the foundation of knowledge. It states that awareness is instinctive‚ and that it cannot come from sources such as the senses. Rationalists theorize that people are all born with the foundations

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    In Hume part 3 of the Treatise of Human Nature‚ it starts with going to explain the direct passions that arise from pleasure or pain. Hume explains that motives bring us to action. He then talks about direct passions and perfunctory definition of the will as an impression we feel then he looks at the problem of free will and determinism. In the first section‚ he makes an argument for the idea of necessity. The problem is whether human action is determined by necessity with physical necessity

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    Intercultural communication Philosophy of culture David Hume and his reflections on the economy Introduction In this essay I will analyze philosophical and psychological approach to the economic issues by David Hume‚ which have played a significant influence on the formation of classical economics‚ and especially on the work of another great philosopher Adam Smith. David Hume‚ the Scottish Enlightenment leading representative and one of the most important figures in the history of

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    Introduction In todays’ business environment‚ no matter the business is small or large‚ but if you want to achieved success through networking‚ than you must create a good network design‚ because now days‚ there is no business that does not use network or some means of communication in technology. Therefore‚ business networking design is a crucial strategy that determines the company’s future. According to our text‚ “If you run or work in a business‚ you cannot do without networks. You need to communicate

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    of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers‚ but it emerged in Russia‚ Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. This style in art‚ architecture and culture became an ‘international’ style after 1950’s and it was produced by artists all around the globe. Despite that‚ people still refer to it as the Swiss Style or the Swiss Legacy. This progressive‚ radical movement in graphic design is not concerned with the graphic design in Switzerland

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    Teleology is an argument of God’s existence following the evidence of order defined as the design of nature. Teleological arguments also known as arguments from design‚ explain the order in the universe to the existence of God. The universe is believed to be ordered towards some end or a certain purpose. It is more reasonable to suggest that the universe was created by an intelligent being to accomplish a purpose rather than it being there by chance (McGrath‚ 2010). The teleological argument has been used

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    characteristics in question form a personality‚ which a person merely possesses as a holding‚ a constitutive of personal consciousness. On this view‚ a person can change their personality without having their identity annihilated in the strict sense implied by Hume‚ because one’s personality as well as the personality traits is constitutive of personal identity. Based on how this idea has been refined in recent paragraphs‚ I propose we rename it personality as a constitutive of personal identity or personality

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    INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Product Design Industrial design is the use of both applied art and science to create and develop products that benefit both the user and manufacture. Industrial designers also known as Product designers prepare drawings and illustrations of products that assist in the decision making process. Once the decisions have been made they then prepare the models or prototypes to be demonstrated or tested. However products such as textiles and furniture have designers who specialise

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