Discuss the claim that some areas of knowledge are discovered and others are invented. Knowledge can be defined as something which is achieved through experience. Knowledge can be segregated into different areas like art‚ mathematics‚ human sciences‚ etc. All areas of knowledge are based on knowledge claims. Every area of knowledge is different from the other. Some of them are discovered while some are invented. Art is an area of knowledge which is invented. We can say that art is
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was written by Bell Hooks. Bell hooks whose original name was Gloria Watkins was born in 1952. Hooks is one of the top leading cultural and educational theorists in America. In education she Hooks has received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. In this essay hooks talk about her journey to educate herself and not losing her sense of where she came from as African-American woman from a working class background (Bell Hooks‚ Keeping close to home)
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Throughout the average day one is constantly acquiring knowledge‚ whether that is of what a vector is‚ or what their friend thinks of their mother. Some of this knowledge is sought out‚ some is accidentally gained‚ but all of this carries an ethical responsibility transferable to the newly knowledgeable subject. Ethics and reason are two key factors to the claim that knowledge carries an ethical responsibility‚ and are transferable in their standardized definition to make this claim reliable. This ethical
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Discuss the claim that some areas of knowledge are discovered and others are invented What is the difference between invention and discovery? An invention is when an object or an idea or even a method is created and it didn’t exist where as a discovery is defined as to learn more about something which was already present but not known. Usually invention is something that it is material an object for example whereas discovery is more of a natural process and is therefore in the human nature.
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factors in her search for the roots of patriarchy. She attaches importance to socialization. Men are socialized to have a dominant temperament. This provides men with a higher social status which in turn lead to them filling social roles in which they can exercise mastery over women. For two hundred years‚ patriarchy precluded women from having a legal or political identity and the legislation and attitudes supporting this provided the model for slavery. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries suffrage
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Murder at Sandy Hook Elementary Girard Pugsley Argosy University - Denver Just after school began on a Friday morning in Sandy Hook‚ Connecticut‚ Adam Lanza opened fire in the main office of Sandy Hook Elementary. What followed was the mass murder of 20 students and 6 staff members (Stroller‚ Strauss & Stanglin‚ 2012). A mass murder is defined as “single episodic act of violence‚ occurring at one time and in one place…where
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Conflicting Claims About the Effect of Exercise on the Rate of Clothespin Squeezing * Hypothesis: If a person does not exercise before to squeeze a clothespin‚ then they will be able to squeeze the clothespin more times in a minute than if they do exercise first. Without exercise the person will have more energy to squeeze the clothespin more times than the other who exercises first and might get tired more rapidly. * Materials: * Clothespin * Stop watch * Pen or Pencil
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Assess the claim that the role of education is to transmit the ruling class ideology (20marks) Sociologists would agree that there are many roles in education but one of the main roles is to transmit a ruling class ideology‚ one perspective would be Marxism that see’s education based on class division and capitalist exploitation. However‚ functionalists would argue that education is seen as performing a beneficial role for both society and individuals. Marxism is a class conflict perspective
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organisation that successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate. But not all states in the world are democratic‚ so can they be seen to be a legitimate
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Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley
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