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    Socratic seminar questions 3. What does Fitzgerald mean when he says ““The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg‚ Long Island‚ sprang from his Platonic conception of himself…so he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen –year-old boy would be likely to invent‚ and to this conception he was faithful to the end”(98)? Gatsby was from new money where he and his parents had to work hard on plantations in order to make a living. Early in his lifetime‚ he created a “platonic [concept] of

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    In class we had a Socratic seminar about the books‚ The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. During the seminar we had questions to discuss and share our opinions. There was one particular question that I prefer to answer and that is “ Is Huck Finn really brave or just rebellious?” Everybody had his or her opinions towards this question. One of my classmates said that he was “rebellious and naïve because he didn’t understand what he was doing.” As others

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    Socratic Dialogue - Capital Punishment In May 1990 Jesse Tafero was convicted for the murders of two florida highway patrol officers and was executed by electric chair. This conviction was overturned in 1992 after a recreation of the crime scene revealed another person had committed the murders. In 1974 James Bain was convicted of breaking and entering‚ rape‚ and kidnapping and was sentenced to life in prison. This conviction was overturned in 2009 after he was found innocent through DNA evidence

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    Plato’s Response to Pre-Socratics and Aristotle’s Theory Plato‚ being a student of Socrates‚ valued the act of challenging another’s thought process. By questioning the mindsets of others‚ he soon realized that many people lacked an explanation for general things. There was no manner in which one could describe what “is”‚ and how humans can come to know such a revelation. Plato sought comprehensive answers in order to provide clarifications for what was around him. Due to his insatiable need to learn

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    1 PHI/105 Introduction to Philosophy Short Essay – Pre-Socratic Philosopher Axia College 2 The Pre-Socratic philosopher that I have selected is Anaximenes‚ which is the third great Milesian philosopher. Anaximenes had the idea of everything was being done by the air‚ regardless of what was going through the air‚ it was based on air. He was the first philosopher who pronounced the basic substance

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    Pre-Socratic View on Change-Motion In our current times‚ we do not stop to think about or question change or motion in our material world. We now know that change and motion exist. Even if we as individuals don’t know the properties and processes that cause change or motion‚ we don’t doubt that they are possible‚ as science has proven that they are in fact plausible. However‚ information about change and motion has not always been so well defined. The unknown aspects of what caused change and

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    The pre-Socratic philosophers Urstoff Change Soul Connections to others Anaximenes Milesian- Ionia Air The condensation and rarefaction of air. The soul is air. Hold us together So air Encompass’s the world Similar to Thales because he believed there’s a tangible source for everything Anaximander Milesian-Ionia Indeterminate (Primal matrix) Believed our world was a multitude of worlds that evolved and dissolved into something infinite or boundless The primary elements neither

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    Jizelle Torres Per.9 World Cultures Accelerated Persepolis Socratic Seminar Theme 2: Marji‚ the character Question 5: Considering the writer’s voice. Consider the writer’s voice. Was it appealing? Claim she is a kid so she has a different point of view although being a kid she is very educated on this topic Evidence “ I realized then that I don’t understand anything‚ I read all the books I could.” pg.32 “To enlighten me they bought books. I knew everything about the children of Palestine about

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    research study aims to identify the effect of the location of the computer shops to the... Methodology is the systematic‚ theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study. It comprises the theoretical analysis of the body of methods

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    questions on his own without being aided. Questionnaires are now widely used collecting data‚ particularly when data are to be collected from a large number of people who are scattered over a wide area. They are used both as indepen¬dent and separate method of collecting data. They are also used as an additional device to check data gathered through observation and personal interview. Definition of Questionnaire: 1. “A questionnaire is a means of gathering information by having the respondents fill

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