Music: Its Expressive Qualities and the Arousal of Emotion Within its Listeners By Zachary M. Matook Imagine standing amongst a concert crowd‚ the lights have just have been dimmed to darkness during the buildup in your favorite song‚ and the guitar gradually becomes louder and louder as if it were coming from the distance. You see the silhouettes of the band members; you may not even know the person next to you‚ yet you both share in this energy filling the room. Then boom‚ the sound shakes the
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When an adult decides to go to back to school‚ that person can be motivated by a variety of things. Studies show it can be categorize in four different contexts Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential and Idealistic. Practical context can be described as a learning tool for a person who wants to learn something that can benefit them now or in the future. Personal context is described when a person wants to learn for personal gain or to achieve an important goal. Experiential context of learning would
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for themselves the fruits of power. This is the category that is responsible for the massive corruption‚ poverty‚ inequality and impunity in the governance of Kenya. They belong in both sides of the divide and continue to impede socio-economic and political development of the country. Then there are those who see power as something to be used for purposes of minor and immediate adjustments in the society. This group sees the state of Kenya as amoral phenomenon to be accepted in all its fundamental
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The Value of Philosophy In the introductory lecture notes to this course I stated that we would start with a working definition of philosophy as being the “love of wisdom.” I have found‚ though‚ that just about every other definition attempted has many shortcomings. No one definition seems adequate to define what it means to engage in philosophy. Consequently‚ I think it is best to think of the philosopher in the somewhat imprecise term of a lover of wisdom. Someone who is continually in
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Professor Simon PSC 101 Political Autobiography In my life I have never had any political enforcement or strict religious influence. My parents were very lenient when it came too political preaching. I was taught to be a caring and respectful individual. My political understanding and beliefs have been molded from my early political memories and socialization experiences. As a young adult I have always strived to become knowledgeable about political ideals mainly because I was never really
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Kelvin Paul Panuncio October 10‚ 2012 Contemporary Philosophy La Salette Reaction Paper on Time and Being On the first page of Being and Time‚ Heidegger describes the project in the following way: Our aim in the following treatise is to work out the question of the sense of being and to do so concretely. Heidegger claims that traditional ontology has prejudicially overlooked this question‚ dismissing it as overly general‚ indefinable‚ or obvious. Instead Heidegger proposes to understand being
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PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Introduction As early Greek civilization grew more complex (c. 500 b.c.e.)‚ mythology and religion began to develop into philosophy (and later into science). As part of this development‚ a new kind of thinker emerged known as a sophos‚ from the Greek word for “wise.” These “wise men‚” and they were almost exclusively men‚ asked increasingly sophisticated questions about all sorts of things‚ especially natural processes and the origins and essence of life. Although mythology
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Philosophy of Counseling One of the various definitions of an effective counselor includes being well-versed and educated within a theoretical approach. However‚ most importantly having a working knowledge and practice of specific skills related to the theory. Therefore‚ defining your theoretical approach and beginning to put those skills into practice is essential to providing effective therapy to prospective clients. Part of finding the most
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Marketing Philosophy Literature review on marketing phylosophy and modeling Efforts of reviewing and modelling marketing elements‚ concepts and philosophical attitudes were numerous and effective. But with new challenges causing hurdles in making marketing function more effective on macro- and micro- level of the economy‚ a revision of marketing philosophy is always at place. Elements of marketing philosophy Dibb and Simkin (2004) | Lancaster and Reynolds (2005) | Blythe (2005) | Drummond and
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In the 1970s‚ Deming’s philosophy was summarized by some of his Japanese proponents with the following ’a’-versus-’b’ comparison: (a) When people and organizations focus primarily on quality‚ defined by the following ratio‚ \text{Quality} = \frac{\text{Results of work efforts}}{\text{Total costs}} quality tends to increase and costs fall over time. (b) However‚ when people and organizations focus primarily on costs‚ costs tend to rise and quality declines over time. The first step is transformation
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