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    One Hundred Years of Solitude Historical roots of Macondo and the Buendia family. One Hundred Years of Solitude is about on imagined mythical town which is named as Macondo. Its foundation‚ rise‚ development and death throughout the history of its founders; Buendia family is narrated. It is the evolution and eventual decadence of a small Latin American town and its inhabitants. The novel is dominated by Colombian settings and the Buendia family is a Colombian family of those times that the

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    Alysia Ramirez English 1A Professor K. Nelson October 17th‚ 2014 Nature vs. Nurture “We have moved from introspection‚ speculation‚ and observation to experiment‚ neurophysiology‚ and imaging. From the classical Greek era onward‚ the dualism between mind and body has existed as the constant dilemma.” (Merikangas‚ 2004). A predicament of whether nature or nurture plays a larger role in child development has been an ongoing debate within psychology referred to as Nature vs. Nurture. Nature is what

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    It shows Locke’s liberal ideas and his liberal ideas led to democracy. Democracy is what human rights are about. It applies through strata of life‚ the society‚ religion‚ nationally and globally. LOCKE AND PROPERTY Locke gives the democratically elected government the duty to protect the subjects’ rights. He begins with every person owning themselves in labor and property. He says every human has a right to life‚ liberty and property‚ the labor of the person make him acquire property and money.Here

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    disadvantages of empirical methods‚ how they are applied in geography including examples and the benefits of applying these in geography. Starting with the origins of empiricism‚ Aristotle was the first person to introduce the theory of the ‘tabula rasa’ which means ‘blank slate’. He believed that we are born without mental content and that all of our knowledge comes from experience through our five senses. About a thousand years later in the 11th century came ‘Avicenna’ and he emphasised the importance

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    were three paradigms consting of romantic‚ pertain and ’tabula rasa’. The romantic view believed in the goodness of children‚ viewing them as naturally innocent. Children in the work force was unquestioned and a natural aspect of life. Unlike the romantic paradigm‚ the puritan view believed children were full of original sin; making discipline essential to prevent corruption‚ this lead to children being beaten. Locke’s paradigm ’tabula rasa’ also known as blank slate viewed children as being born

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    experience is called empiricism. It is my belief that empiricism is the strongest argument of the three. Empiricism is the theory that knowledge comes from sense experience. My main reasoning for believing this is because of John Locke’s Tabula Rasa theory. Tabula Rasa is translated a “blank slate”‚ which Locke says is like our mind at birth. Overtime as we age our experiences provide us with knowledge that we would not have had otherwise. For example‚ I didn’t know when I was little that touching a

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    Throughout the past years we had great philosophers who expressed their studies and conclusions that made them very famous. Rene Descartes and John Locke were two philosophers that had the same idea‚ but different views of it. Descartes was a rationalist‚ which are people that argue that only reason can separate reality from illusion and give meaning to experience. The idea that eliminates reasoning can produce certain truths about reality and those important truths can be discovered without observations

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    intellectual and social growth as people began to challenge and view the world changed. During the era‚ society began to believe all men are free people‚ a concept enforced by John Locke’s ideologies. John Locke believed every person was born with tabula rasa‚ blank mind‚ arguing in Essay on Human Understanding that men and women‚

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    it doesn’t tell us anything substantial about the world‚ and the only way we can do that is through experiencing it. Locke was an empiricist who believed all knowledge was gained through sense experience. He referred to the mind at birth as a ‘tabula rasa’‚ ‘clean slate’‚ thus demonstrating that we are born without any knowledge‚ and the only way to gain knowledge is through our collective experiences. Throughout our life our sense receive all sorts of information‚ then in time the mind comes to

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    conceptual scheme. Kant says the conceptual scheme is used to turn sense data into experience‚ he argues that without the conceptual scheme the world would be a ‘blooming‚ buzzing confusion.’ Empiricists believe that our minds can be compared to a tabula rasa‚ in other words we were born with a mind with a blank slate. From this perspective we are born knowing nothing and we have no innate knowledge or ideas. This theory is disregarded when we realise that with the conceptual scheme there are innate

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