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    in religion and social life. This new religion was given a broad base of rationalism. This association could hardly survive after the departure of Dadoba from Surat in 1846. Jamshedkar had already attempted to remove some absurd features and superstitious beliefs under the name of religion. Dadoba went one step ahead and wanted a rethinking on this very sensitive and vital subject of common interest. Dadoba’s rationalism makes a special contribution to the thought of the western educated gentry

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    Sometimes through history‚ something comes along that changes everybody’s way of thinking. In the 1920’s‚ such a movement came around that changed the way all art was defined. With the combination of the elements of Dadaism and Cubism‚ it created something unknown to the art world. Surrealism is a movement of great liberation of the mind that emphasized the imaginative powers many great artists have expressed over time. Surrealism is a modern art style in which visual arts and literature are based

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    daily behavior‚ and an id containing all the instincts and repressed feeling. (Greek empeiria “experience”) a term related to the ways in which the knowledge we can gain or claim to have is related to experience The opposite of empiricism is rationalism‚ which sees true knowledge as derived purely through thinking and reason. the intellectual movement in 18th-century Europe‚ which believed that new scientific understanding shed light upon human affairs and offered opportunity for humankind

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    Ideas of the renaissance can be traced back to lead to the Thirty Years War. Humanism‚ individualism‚ rationalism and most of all secularism first appeared in popular culture during that time period and are the core ideas. These ideas gave Luther the ideas for his reforms of the church and cause the protestant reformation which will then lead to a main force in the Thirty Years War which is secularism at the beginning. Protestant reformation drove Europe into a time a chaos such as the Middle

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    narrative of the problem. This fluidity is characterised by many different narratives which show a fundamental break from modernity and the rationalism of the Enlightenment. Postmodernism The shift from modernism to postmodernism is characterised by philosophers such as Lyotard as a fragmentation of society along with a break from the paradigm of rationalism set forth by the Enlightenment (Featherstone‚ 2007‚ p.3). In information‚ the process by which the move occurs involves the growth of connections

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    from around 900 BCE to about 100 BCE‚ Greek artists explored a succession of new ideas to produce a body of work in every medium—from pottery and painting to sculpture and architecture—that exhibits a clear stylistic and technical direction toward representing the visual world as we see it. The Classical Period in Greek Art • Framed by two major events: the defeat of the Persians in 479 BCE and the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. • In this brief span‚ the Greeks would establish an ideal

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    sensation to provide us with any kind of universal truth would be foolish (Descartes). Whereas rationalism directly focuses on reason as being the only way to attain knowledge about the world‚ empiricism concentrates fully on all knowledge being a posteriori‚ or attained through experience and sensation. In an obvious way‚ David Hume’s empiricist epistemology directly contrasted Descartes rationalism‚ specifically by how he believed humans can attain knowledge. According to Hume‚ humans understand

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    Christian Reflection on Hinduism Introduction:    This paper brings special features on the Christians reflections on Hinduism and reflects between the Hinduism and Christianity in the past or early history of Hinduism. Hindu Christian Relationship Christianity has a long history of relating to Vedic religion in South Asia‚ though it is only in the modern period that explicit Hindu-Christian interaction can be documented. “ Hinduism is an actable abbreviation for family of culturally similar tradition

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    1st of February 2013 Business organization and management Business size Small business: e.g. Independent service-station‚ restaurant Medium business: e.g. coffee club‚ nando’s Large business: Maccas‚ red rooster‚ kfc Economies of scale; this term refers to the lower costs per unit of output as a result of operating on a larger scale. Question 1. What is meant by economies of scale? Provide 3 examples of typical economies of scale enjoyed by large organizations: a) Coles (big

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    Cited: Keats‚ John. "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be." Ed. Phillis Levin. The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. New York: Penguin‚ 2001. 111. Print. "Keats: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"" When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be. 12 Feb. 2009. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

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