English 250 Tuesday 9:30-10:45am Journal entry 3 Section 3.5 3. The strong ability of computers that is used is the computer’s ability to retrieve information and is used to find documents relevant to the search. 4. It allows you to search for an item and its variations by entering the root of the term. An example would be: color‚ colour. 5. The “OR command” is the default setting of any search engine‚ which means all search engines will return all the words you type in automatically. 6
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Kenig Ramones Professor Paul Sorensen English 1112 36L 13 November 2017 Lucy During the 18th century‚ William James an American philosopher stated that humans only use the ten percent of their cerebral capacity. However‚ in today’s society scientist had even stated that the 10% myth is not true. Therefore‚ the main question in this essay is “Can we use the 100% of our brain?” To answer this question‚ we have to think outside the box and beyond. Lucy is a scientific movie created by Luc Besson and
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One counter argument that I would like to present for my position is John Locke’s metaphysical theory. According to Locke personal identity does not involve the body at all‚ the person could be classified purely by his soul. If this is true‚ then Locke suggests that the person could be transferred between multiple bodies by only his soul. In one of Locke’s essay he states that personal identity would follow the thoughts themselves‚ and not the thinking substance. Therefore‚ he believes that our identity
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First of all‚ I try to put the some problems of Aristotle’s account of hylomorphism on the relation of soul-body. Then as a solution for the problem of hylomorphism‚ I examine functionalism; however‚ when we apply functionalism in living things‚ then we have to face with inconsistencies of Aristotle on substantial changes and the problem homonoymy. In this part‚ I compare functionalist approach with Burnyeat argumentation. However‚ against the problem and contradictions which are result of the functionalism
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How much disappointment can one person fit into a year? If enough disappoints are crammed consecutively into the same year‚ then does the entire year count as one giant disappointment? My eighth grade year was my year of many disappointments that continued one after other until the entire school year felt like a huge let down. There is no year that I despise more than my junior high year‚ and that is quite a claim considering how awful middle school was for my fellow students and me. How could one
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In John Perry’s A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality‚ Perry uses a conversation between friends Gretchen Weirob‚ Sam Miller‚ and Dave Cohen to discuss four theories: soul theory‚ body theory‚ memory theory‚ and brain theory. This paper is going to cover memory theory and why Weirob rejected the theory. I will raise an objection to the reasoning behind Weirob’s rejection of the memory theory. To explain the memory theory‚ I am going to use two people‚ person A and person B. The memory
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Awareness comes across the population of humanity in many insightful fashions. This of other desirable traits has one of the greatest impacts on your life‚ whether you are aware of it or not. Throughout the readings of This is Water and The Three Questions‚ it was appointed that awareness is a quality of life that is acquired with time. I believe that having this trait has a world of difference if you find a way to merge it into your life; the result could end up being the difference between life
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Summary of Memory Distortion in Alien Abductee Study A summary of "Memory Distortion in People Reporting Abduction by Aliens" Introduction This is a summary of the article by Clancy et al.‚ 2002. The prevalence of alien abduction stories has been increasing in recent history (Bartholomew& Howard‚ 1998; Newman & Baumeister‚ 1997). Psychologists have more recently interpreted the stories as evidence of memory distortion (Newman & Baumeister‚ 1997). Previously published accounts of abduction
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One potential worry that one might have upon reading Daniel Dennett’s "Where Am I?‚" is about the complications that might arise from Dennett categorizing his brain‚ who he calls Yorick‚ and his body‚ who he calls Hamlet‚ as two distinct entities. One may contend that the brain and the body are in fact only one entity‚ connected much in the same way that other people’s brains and bodies seem to be connectedhowever that may bewith the exception of an unusually large temporal gap between Dennett’s
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Self awareness is knowing yourself‚ your personality and who and what you like. To be self aware is a very valuable commodity as it is can be both hard to do and is rarely done. Self awareness is about been conscious of what you are good at as well as knowing that you still have a lot to learn in‚ this also includes owning up to your mistakes‚ as hard as that can be. In life‚ and in our careers people can be competitive and to seem as though we have all the answers is a desired notion‚ but‚ to be
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