Before I opened the book‚ I thought this book is about stories of Chinese people born in the United States‚ but when I open the book‚ the first scene is a story that I am so familiar with. When I was a little child‚ I spend summer breaks in my grandparents’ place in a village. My grandma is traditional old-time Chinese woman: non-literal‚ and never met my grandpa before the night they were married. She use to take me to the river near her house and teach me how to make hats using “dog tail grass”
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philosophers have argued for years that the mind is tabula rasa. However some philsophers believe we are infact born with some innate knowledge. Tabula rasa is the theory that at birth the mind is blank and holds no knowledge‚ but when you are born you are considered to be the scribe due to experience and ideas. First mention of the idea of tabula rasa in Western society is implied rather than specifically written. Aristotle writes of the mind as a slate upon which nothing has been written‚ which
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What are the differences between "I am certain" and "it is certain"‚ and is passionate conviction ever sufficient for justifying knowledge? In order to find the difference between the two‚ we first need to define what we mean by "certain". The first ’certain ’ refers to an individual being sure of or convinced. The second ’certain ’ means it is something that more than one person is sure of. The word Certainty means the acceptance without any doubt. . In both cases a knowledge claim is being made
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these questions accurately. Specifically the question whether we are born good or bad will be addressed. Locke says that we are born good with a blank slate. Whatever we learn and how we learn it from society is what fills the slate. However Hobbes believes that we are born bad and because of this we need a ruler to control that attribute with fear of punishment. I believe that Hobbes is right in the sense that we are born sinful. Yet‚ I do not agree that we need a ruler to control our sin
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know little about the disorder. What is a psychopath‚ and how and where are they created? Are psychopaths born or made After decades of research there are many theories about why psychopaths are the way they are‚ but still no concrete answers. Researchers argue whether psychopaths are born or made or perhaps whether
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one universal thing that makes people feel every emotion from happiness and anger to sadness and love. In every song ever written there is a story being told. I have always wondered what a soundtrack of my life would reveal. Although I cannot realistically have a song playing every time I experience an emotion‚ I have some songs that have stuck with me during significant events in my life that could be featured on a soundtrack illustrating my life. The song “Born this way” by Lady Gaga is very
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MALAYSIA IF I BECOME A CELEBRITY Celebrity is not a foreign term for Malaysian either for people from other countries in the era of high technology. A celebrity is found living in a popular culture in which they are persons who have a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in ever-changing-day media. Therefore‚ it is not an odd subject that would make people shock if most of Malaysian says that they have an ambition of being a celebrity. Haven’t we heard
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assignment The Day Picture were Born This documentary persuades us that pictures started to appear when humans have creative explosions. The early pictures can be traced back till 35‚000 years ago where pre-historical cave paintings were made. At first‚ some suggested the hunting theory motivates human first being to create pictures. Since all paintings were only related to hunting‚ people assumed that the paintings may increase the chances of success in the eyes of those people. On the other hand‚ they
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MANAGERS ARE MADE OR BORN? Who is a Manager? There large number of people who work at various level and positions and are basically responsible to get the work done. Popularly‚ they are managers. They perform important work as restaurant manager‚ finance manager ‚R&D manager‚ Ship Captain‚ Chairperson and CEO. These individuals work may in different types of organization with different purposes but all of them have one thing in common-they practice management. Our society depends upon the goods
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This I Believe In the article “Everyone Has Talent‚” Sajé‚ N (2015) talked about her experience of writing poems. Sajé said that she had taken a poetry class‚ and she had written a poem. Her professor and she had disappointed because that pome was not good. Later‚ Sajé went to her professor to ask him if she had talent or not. Her professor said that she had no talent. Sajé s did not give up‚ and she attended a writing workshop. She said‚ “I earned an “A.” Many years later‚ the professor
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