Reaction Paper In Jostein Gaarder’s‚ Sophie’s World‚ Ms. Gaarder is able to effectively combine two stories within a story to help us find the true meaning of our lives by studying the history of philosophy. I noticed that although the story is written as a textbook of philosophy‚ it really is a guide on how we as humans should approach our own lives. I was wondering throughout the book who was the main focus of the story. Was it Sophie or Hilde? But once I neared the end of
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Sophie Germain Female of French Revolution Marie-Sophie Germain was born on April 1‚ 1776 and passed away on June 27‚ 1831. She was an important French mathematician‚ and a brilliant woman who lived during the French Revolution. Germain was born to a middle-class merchant family in Paris‚ France‚ and began studying mathematics at age thirteen‚ despite her parents’ strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a ’men’s profession’. Several years later‚ she managed to get some lecture notes
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Buckling your airplane seatbelt and weight-loss personality Richard Simmons aren’t things you’d necessarily think go together. But if you flew on Air New Zealand in the recent past‚ it’s Simmons who may have video-instructed you how to buckle up. Great companies always think outside the box‚ and Air New Zealand is no exception. In the most recent Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards survey‚ the Kiwi airline came in No. 2. And while readers didn’t specifically rank in-flight entertainment‚ ANZ’s
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SOPHIE’S WORLD For my whole life‚ I have questioned where God came from. I’ve always believed in a God and that He created us‚ but I could never wrap myself around the idea of where He Himself came from. One day‚ I asked my friend and his answer was quite helpful and it might also help you guys‚ he said‚ I think God was always there as the essence of "there". God doesn’t exist like you and I exist. Based on the way we understand existence‚ God doesn’t exist. That’s why that question is so hard
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Sophie Wittenbeck Mona Lisa Essay The theft of the “Mona Lisa” radically changed people’s awareness and views of the painting. People were very interested in this event because how it happened is unknown. The “Mona Lisa” was painted by Leonardo da Vinci and was displayed at the Louvre museum in Paris‚ France. The theft of the “Mona Lisa” likely took place in the morning‚ but the painting was gone for an entire day before anyone realized it had been stolen. When the museum opened and the wall
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With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans‚ Sophie Kinsella‚ author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby‚ returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a lifechanging and utterly hilarious predicament… When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital‚ she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident –
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IB 150 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE FALL 2012 SOPHIE’S WORLD: READING GUIDE DR. HALL The novel Sophie’s World (1991) by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder offers a tour of the history of Western philosophy as well as a post-modern detective story. We chose this reading for IB Seniors because it ties in so well with our fundamental TOK questions and issues. Because of the intellectual journey the novel charts‚ it makes a companion to Siddhartha which adds‚ however‚ an eastern counterpoint
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ALMA: World`s Largest Telescope Gerald John C. Guillermo Hubble Space Telescope may be awesome but these new radio telescopes in Atacama Desert‚ Chile may be more awesome. Built in the driest place in the Earth‚ the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA provides the most distinct and the most precise images of local stars and planet formation and can also distinguish the birth of neighboring stars and some of the most distant‚ ancient galaxies. ALMA was initially a 50-50 partnership between the United
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world war Life in the 1930’s Sports: during the great depression‚ people were miserable. There was barley any good news in the papers. The best way to escape being miserable in that decade was sports. The soccer world cup‚ hockey‚ boxing and the summer olympics of 1936 were all great entertainment for the people stuck in the depression Transportation: transportation was different back then from what it is today. They usually used cars or street cars to get from one place to another in a
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difficult. Melba Beals and Sophie Scholl faced extreme segregation and peer pressure that made them both want to give up on their goals and beliefs‚ but they stood strong and did not give in. Melba and Sophie both stood for what they believed in at school even when they were looked down upon and hated. The greatest response to conflict is standing up for what is right‚ what an individual believes in‚ and standing strong in difficult times‚ and this is what Melba and Sophie did when they faced peer
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