A good reason cursive should still be taught today is we need cursive to be able to read old documents and sign are name in cursive. First‚ cursive could be a skill that anybody can take on forever. Secondly‚ student can forget a life skill that is becoming a lost art. Lastly‚ cursive can be neater and faster if you are in a rush. In my opinion cursive should still be taught today. First‚ cursive could be a skill that anybody can take on forever. Cursive is a tool that can be used later in life
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Human nature is constructed to aim for something good at the end of every act. Every human aims at achieving the happiness as an end result. That is the reason why in this paper‚ I will argue that Aristotle’s theory‚ Nicomachean Ethics‚ is the most plausible theory in describing human nature and answering the question of how one should live in order to attain happiness. According to Aristotle all the human activities are directed towards a final end‚ which he claims to be the happiness. He also claims
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This is still very relevant to African Americans today‚ even though it shouldn’t be. I say it shouldn’t be because now‚ for Mr. King was 52 years and five months ago. These problems have been going on for more than half a century after he professed his dream‚ and there has been little change since then. There is still discrimination towards blacks and other colored races. Racial injustice against Black Americans is America’s top priority or at least it should be. Plus‚ there are still forms of segregation
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My childhood memory that still occurs today I don’t know why I’m surprised about this as it’s happened before and still is today. Looking back at it now has made me a lot more confident and I feel a lot stronger than I was before. This all happened 10 years back from now how I had an operation on my eyes that didn’t go to plan and left me with bad results to my eyes as one was squint and the other was just normal. Knowing I had to go to school with these effects was terrifying‚ nerve-racking‚ scary
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In Plato’s Theaetetus Plato attempts to show what knowledge is. Socrates asks Theaetetus what he thinks knowledge is. Since Theaetetus answers incorrectly‚ Socrates presents other definitions about knowledge. One theory is "Man is the Measure of all things." Although this theory comes from Socrates‚ he still believes it is in need of more explanation. Socrates reverts to Protagoras’ teachings and explains his theory on the idea that "Man in the Measure of all things" Socrates presents Protagoras’
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Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus‚ an Athenian stonemason and sculptor‚ and Phaenarete‚ a midwife. He received a basic Greek education because he wasn’t from a noble family‚ where he learned his father’s craft at a young age. Socrates worked as a mason for many years before he devoted his life to philosophy. Socrates married Xanthippe‚ a younger woman‚ who gave him three sons- Lamprocles‚ Sophroniscus and Menexenus. There isn’t much known of Xanthippe. Only that she wasn’t happy with Socrates
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people. Socrates proves Thrasymachos otherwise by arguing that being just is virtuous‚ wise and profitable and being unjust does not make people stronger nor more powerful. Those in power or rulers make laws that are just for themselves but Thrasymachos agrees that sometimes rulers make mistakes and make laws that are unjust to them‚ therefore‚ making them just or advantageous for the people they rule. Therefore‚ unjust people would not be more powerful in this case. Additionally‚ Socrates goes on
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Can’t Take It With You Dr. Vincenzo Philosophy 110 B February 17‚ 2016 1. The Socratic character of Grandpa Vanderhof has similar traits as to Socrates in book 1 of The Republic. In book 1 Socrates questions characters and talks to them about happiness and life. His question is “ Does he mean that justice is doing good to friends and harm to enemies”. Socrates question to Polemarchus‚ they argue about what justice is. So tying it to the movie with how Grandpa Vanderhof talks about life lessons with
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answer to success and happiness. Wisdom and truth are more important. The great Greek philosopher Socrates warned his fellow citizens by saying “are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation‚ and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul.” Unfortunately Socrates said that hundreds of years ago but this is a challenge that still relevant in today’s world because this world that we live in is full of mindless and unconscious
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and the nature of a person’s soul. Plato’s tripartite of the soul is the appetite‚ the spirit‚ and the mind (1). The appetite is the part of us that seeks pleasures‚ comforts‚ and physical satisfactions. The spirit part is what gets angry when we hear something that we feel is wrong. Lastly‚ the mind is our consciousness or awareness. Parallel to Plato’s tripartite is Aristotle’s tripartite which are reason‚ virtue‚ and practical wisdom. Virtue is parallel Plato’s appetite that people can’t have the
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