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    Learning and development can improve your own work‚ benefit organisations and identify career options by succeeding in workplace training courses‚ college based courses‚ private training courses and on the job training‚ such as shadowing a colleague. 4. Describe possible career progression routes. Possible progression routes for internally and external careers are both are vertically or laterally‚ so you could be moving up in your career or you could be moving to a different department. That or

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    government service during the Medici family’s exile. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512‚ he was imprisoned for some time. During his time in jail‚ he created The Prince and some parts of The

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    The quality of the wax can be noticed through Descartes mention of “flexibility” and “changeability”. This is caused through the change of its shape from round to square‚ square to triangular‚ and so on‚ As Descartes mentions. But the imagination does not give wax it’s flexibility to change qualities‚ but rather a physical effect that modifies the wax’s quality such as melting or freezing. Because of these modifications‚ our minds are now able to perceive the quality of the wax differently than its

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    Descartes 4th Meditation

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    After Descartes goes over what he has previously covered‚ including his proving that God exists and that God is perfect‚ he begins his fourth meditation. In this meditation‚ titled Truth and falsity‚ Descartes contemplates how he‚ Descartes makes mistakes if he is a product of this perfect being. First‚ he knows that God would not deceive him‚ since the will to deceive is a sign of weakness or hatred‚ and God’s perfection would not allow it. Second‚ if God created him‚ God is responsible for his

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    appears from her exchanging letters with Descartes. At that time‚ Descartes wrote his “dualism” idea. Descartes claims that the soul and the body are separated and can’t be together. Descartes considers the body is material‚ and the soul is immaterial. This idea was not understandable to Elisabeth. Therefore‚ she wrote a letter to Descartes asking him for clarification about his idea of the soul and the body and how he considered it separated; therefore‚ Descartes answered her question‚ but the answer

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    In Descartes Meditation I‚ he casts doubt as to whether or not we are dreaming. He first uses modus tollens to cast doubt to our senses. He then he uses redictio ad absurdum to show that even if we are dreaming‚ there are some things that are still real. Descartes begins with establishing the key idea of laying a strong foundation for his ideas. He acknowledges that he has preconceived ideas about the world in which he can doubt their truth. He sees this collection of ideas as a pyramid‚ where

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    The mind/body dualism introduced to us in the first reading “Minds and bodies”‚ is the theory that our minds and bodies are two separate things. To René Descartes‚ the mind controls everything about the body‚ it is self-contained and self-enclosed. The body is just an extension of our minds. It is unconscious‚ lifeless and acted upon. This theory comes from the belief that everything in this world can be doubted‚ there is no real proof that what our eyes are seeing is real thus there is no proof

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    Emmie Thompson Mr. Lindley AP European 11 January 2013 Galileo‚ Descartes‚ and Newton The scientific revolution gave way to a radical change in the ideology of mankind. Prior to the scientific revolution‚ ideas were dominated by the church. Religion dominated science and was a superior source of knowledge. When science contradicted the church‚ it was wrong. This clash was seen with the claim of the earth not being the center of the universe‚ but the sun. The church declared this as heresy

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    Descartes’ first meditation‚ his main objective is to present three skeptical arguments to bring doubt upon what he considers his basic beliefs. Descartes believes this to be an intricate part of his complete epistemological argument. Descartes skeptical arguments are not intended to be a denial of his basic beliefs. On the contrary‚ he uses these arguments to help prove one of his main theses‚ which is the existence of God. One of the main premises that Descartes uses in his proof for

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    Critical Discourse Analysis

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    This paper will conduct a critical discourse analysis on North American media coverage of the World Indigenous Games. Jiwani and Young (2006) offer a helpful framework for a methodical approach to exploring Indigenous representations in media. In their article on the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Eastside‚ they studied 128 newspaper articles over the course of five years in order to uncover patterns on how Indigenous people are framed in the media. The article clearly states that the

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