NAME: ALICE SENAMNIMOH-APPEA CANDIDATE NUMBER: FINAL TOK ESSAY DRAFT QUESTION: “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Knowledge as a whole is the total information one has acquired. Passive observation is the process of observation that one is not experiencing the event. It is not as dynamic as active experimentation because one just perceives the event and not feeling
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They Say 1) Lynching a) Nelson’s hanging: Husband stole cow‚ son killed & shot deputy. Woman and son hung from bridge (pg. 7) i) “She was very small of stature‚ very black‚ about thirty years old‚” the newspapers reported‚ “and vicious”. ii) The boy: “fourteen and yellow and ignorant”‚ according to papers. b) ‘It is generally thought that the Negroes got what would have been due them under process of law. (page 8) c) “This may be “southern Brutality’
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Tea is very common drink in Bangladesh. You can’t find a family where at-least one member of the family doesn’t drink tea. The history of tea extends so far into the past that its very origins are shrouded by legend. It is said that Emperor Shen Nung‚ who ruled China in 2700 BC‚ used to enjoy relaxing in his garden with a cup of hot water. It was during one of these respites that a tea leaf happened to float down from a nearby bush‚ and land directly in the Emperor’s cup. The new drink quickly became
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Philosophical Contributions of Gandhi’s Ideas Introduction A lack of an interdisciplinary approach to peace and non-violence that fails to include philosophy and education exists in part because the issue of non-violence considered as a philosophical and educational concept is under-explored. Ideas of non-violence often emerge from action‚ and therefore it is often thought that non-violence demands a need for action- a demand that many believe is not met by philosophy. These explanations are
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THE IDEA OF EUROPE: FINAL EXAM Instructions: Answer 4 (FOUR) out of the five questions below. Write your ID-number and the question number at the top of every page. Use a new sheet of paper for each new question. Write down your answers in the form of a mini-essay (at least one page per question)‚ demonstrating a combination of conceptual insight and factual knowledge. Write in complete‚ grammatically correct English and legibly. Questions: 1. Historian Norman Davies observes that
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through the idea of a man returning to his wife‚ after a war‚ and therefore is a more emotive poem‚ whilst the author of In Paris with you writes of a weekend in Paris‚ in which one tries desperately not to fall in love with the unnamed person. They are both written in first person in ‘the manhunt’ the wife is sharing her experience directly about her husband to the reader and similarly ‘In Paris with you’ the narrator is addressing the reader about her/his broken relationship and the only difference
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An essay on the influence of mass media on the ideas of people The mass media including television‚ radio and newspapers have a massive influence in shaping the minds of people. Let us pause for a moment and examine the statement made. The statement written above claims that the minds of people have been shaped and moulded by the media used to communicate information to the masses – not as much by the message being communicated. In essence‚ this means that these channels of mass communication either
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how November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It’s to look for problems‚ preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they’re something the founders themselves want‚ that they themselves can build‚ and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft‚ Apple‚ Yahoo‚ Google‚ and Facebook all began this way. Problems Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things
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GO GLOBAL—OR NO? For two years‚ DataClear has had the data analysis market to itself. But now a British upstart is nipping at its heels. Should DataClear continue to focus on its strong domestic prospects or expand overseas to head off the nascent international threat? "WHY AREN’T THEY BITING? " wondered Greg McNally as he laid down another perfectly executed cast. He was fly-fishing in the most beautiful spot he had ever seen‚ on the Alta in Norway-reputedly the home of Scandinavia’s worthiest
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Rueschemeyer January 2006 Why and How Ideas Matter Contact Author Start Your Own SelectedWorks Notify Me of New Work Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dietrich_rueschemeyer/38 WHY AND HOW IDEAS MATTER Dietrich Rueschemeyer Brown University* That ideas matter in politics is beyond question. Knowledge‚ ignorance‚ and uncertainty frequently make the difference between success and failure of policies. And in a broader sense ideas can advance social change‚ as the Enlightenment
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