Liberal Arts‚ and the Advantages of Being Useless| 1 Nicholaos Jones Department of Philosophy University of Alabama in Huntsville nick[DOT]jones[AT]uah[DOT]edu 1 Introductory Remarks The trees of the mountain bring their own destruction. The oil in the lamp burns itself. The cinnamon tree is edible‚ so it is cut down. The varnish tree is useful so it is cut apart. All know the advantage of being useful‚ but no one knows the advantage of being useless. - 莊子 [Zhuangzi] (364-290 BCE)‚ Zhuangzi‚
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foremost vital military advantage was European steel‚ not the guns that became therefore far-famed. whereas a couple of primitive firearms were wont to awe the Indians with sound and fury‚ Spanish swords were much stronger‚ grifter and additional deadly than the stone and soft-metal weapons of the Indians that battles between them were no contest. Guns were shuddery however swords did the dirty work. Horses were conjointly a significant a part of the Spanish military advantage over the Aztecs‚ Mayans
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The issue of sex selective abortions is reflective of women’s inferior status throughout contemporary Indian society. Feminism and women’s rights have resulted in abortion rights throughout many countries‚ which are thought to benefit womanhood for a range of reasons. However‚ in developing countries such as India‚ abortion rights are reinforcing the patriarchy that has oppressed women for millions of decades‚ through the practise of sex selective abortions. Historically‚ son preference
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family to play with there daughter so they could run errands. It was uncomfortable because I didn’t know them like that. And there daughter is a lot younger than me so we did a lot of baby stuff. The strategies I used to cope was to just go along with what she wanted to do like play
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Selective attention is when one person focuses on just one stimulus while ignoring all the other ones. Although we may be gathering information from our surrounding environment that does not necessarily mean we are taking everything in. In actuality humans are filtering out part of the information while some of the other information goes on for further processing in the brain. A study done by Karns‚ Isbell‚ Giuliano
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warm bed‚ usually to the smell of breakfast being made in the kitchen. Once I get up I normally take a shower and then begin to put my makeup on‚ do my hair‚ and get dressed. After I get ready and eat breakfast I get in my car and drive to school. After school I grab a quick snack and go to cheer practice until about nine o’clock. When I get home I do my homework and go to bed. I am allowed to do many of these activities because I am an American. Being American gives people the freedom to make their
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extremely high rainfall (torrential rainfall - between 1‚500 mm and 3‚000 mm annually). Tropical rainforests contain the most diverse range and highest volume of plant and animal life found anywhere on the Earth‚ however‚ they are amongst the most threatened ecosystem globally due to the large scale fragmentation due to human activity and expansion – 16% of the Earth’s surface was once covered by tropical rainforest‚ yet the figure has significantly dropped to approximately 6% with no optimism of
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In the world today we live in a highly consumeristic society. Sometimes we forget that being in a group setting provides the most beneficial effects on its members. For example‚ I typically push myself harder knowing that other in my same group are doing exactly the same thing. It gives way to a sense of being held to a higher standard‚ as well as getting to make new friends near and far. Getting involved is one of the most important aspects of NSCS. There has been studies that student that are involved
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Manor Farm Taken Over “All animals are equal‚ but some animals are more equal than others.” This is the one and only commandment in the the text called Animal Farm. This is where animals are essentially slaves‚ and get little to no pay or food. The novel animal farm is about animals who take over their farm with brute force. They run the farm not so smoothly with the pigs‚ and napoleon who was supposed to represent stalin. The pigs running the whole farm with the other animals forced into labor
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Selective perception - it is a distance given to drive by car. Every person‚ who would do that‚ would notice different buildings‚ signs‚ posters and etc. We cannot notice everything‚ because our brain cannot receive that much information. So we concentrate on safe driving‚ and notice only those things‚ that we like: the dreamer will be looking at clouds perhaps‚ the advertising manager will be analysing new posters that competitors made‚ the old man will be looking at every road sign in order to
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