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    Dynasty and Idea of India

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    ruling class‚ has become the catalyst for a new colonization of a country whose soul has already been deeply scarred by centuries of it”. This is perhaps the pithiest observation in “Durbar”‚ the newly published autobiographical account of well known journalist Tavleen Singh. The purpose of this piece is not to review Tavleen’s well written book but more an attempt to understand how a dynasty in a democratic polity evolves over multiple generations and how such democracies become different from normative

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    Saint Augustine: How he fused Classical culture (i.e.‚ both Stoicism and Platonism) with Christianity In Augustine’s day there were many religions available to choose from some of which had many gods. St. Augustine was born to a pagan father and a Christian mother. He lived a life of immorality until his early thirties when he suddenly took a new path. During his upbringing his parents began to instill their beliefs and way of living which he later began to question. Though his mother taught

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    Greek Culture

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    “music” we owe to the Greeks. Greek poets‚ architects‚ mathematicians‚ and philosophers‚ founded a culture that we still identify with today. These are the people that introduced the world to democracy‚ the beginning of recorded history‚ politics‚ and even our very own vocabulary. To some extent‚ we even owe the start of theatre and comedy to the Greeks. The Greeks taught us a lot of things‚ good or bad‚ these things are still being used centuries after the fall of Greece. They Greek people lived in

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    The Senses at first let in particular Ideas‚ and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them‚ they are lodged in the Memory‚ and Names got to them. Afterwards the Mind proceeding farther‚ abstracts them‚ and by Degrees learns the use of general Names. In this manner the Mind comes to be furnish’d with Ideas and Language‚ the Materials about which to exercise its discursive Faculty. (Essay I.II.15) As we come to remember particular experiences through

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    Egghead Main Idea

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    Egghead Main Idea The main theme of the novel Egghead by Caroline Pignat‚ is bullying. Throughout the novel‚ the characters Katie and Will are bullied by Shane and his gang. This book shows the problems in today’s schools and the dangers and change that happen because of bullying. Shane is established early on as a bully‚ when he picks on Martin for having a stutter (page 13)‚ and when he forces Will out of the change room in just his pink underwear (page 23). Will soon becomes a prime target

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    The School: Postmodernist Ideas Barthelme’s "The School" is the first postmodernist story I have ever read. When I read it for the first time‚ my lips formed a bitter smile. In my imagination‚ postmodernist stories differed from the classical ones in the arrangement of the ideas and in the standard that postmodernists reject society. True‚ "The School" does differ in composition‚ for example the absence of introduction‚ but though it sounds somewhat comical‚ it does also have an incorporated

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    Are There Any Innate Ideas?

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    opinion amongst men‚ that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions‚ characters‚ as it were‚ stamped upon the mind of man‚ which the soul receives in its first being‚ and brings into the world with it.’ [1] Innate ideas are those principles that are found present in the mind at birth as opposed to those which arrive and develop throughout our lives as a result of sensory experience. Whether or not these innate principles exist‚ holds for many philosophers many important

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    Describe an interesting idea in your text Explain why this idea was interesting In the novel ‘Unwind’ by Neal Shusterman‚ an interesting idea is the idea of the collective vs. the individual. This interesting idea was shown to me in three manifestations. The idea of the collective vs. the individual was shown to me through an individual conquering a collective‚ language manipulation and human rights. In the dystopian world of ‘Unwind’‚ between the ages of thirteen and eighteen‚ a teenager may

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    change must be made if we ever want to increase our awareness of democracy and our voter turnout. Schools should educate students at a young age‚ online voting should be an option for those who don’t have the time to go and vote in person (any other ideas can be listed here). Maybe‚ just maybe‚ a difference‚ a good one for that matter‚ can exist in Canada if all we do is put a little bit of effort into it and

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    Christianity and that idea of religion have been a center point for the United States government for a long time‚ but what if the idea of Atheism took over the country? The ideas of always wanting an answer for something instead of leaving things alone could bring about new innovations and technologies that would help the Western world out possibly to eliminate long problems we have incurred. An atheist may not have an idea of the afterlife or a God being in charge which could bring a positive charge

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