“Evaluate the ways in which emotion might enhance and/or undermine reason as a Way of Knowing.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) once said that "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing"‚ meaning that emotion is irrational and unreasonable. Emotional expression provides powerful communication between people‚ especially in the early childhood stage of our lives‚ before language even develops. A baby’s glowing smile invites love and care in its surrounding; the pounding cry of an infant can
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Relationships • Be able to define and provide examples for intercultural‚ interethnic‚ and interracial couples. Interracial- differences in biology ex black and white interethnic- Social classes‚ religion. Rich person marrying a poor person‚ catholic marrying a Jew intercultural- someone from Japan marrying someone from the US. History and language are different. Cultures. • What are some characteristics of interracial couples discussed in lecture? Shorter courtship‚ get married quicker and lesser
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before and up to the the mid 1900’s women accepted these ideals without questioning them. However‚ in the late 1800’s‚ two writers created female characters that began to break conformity to go experience lives through their own choices rather than by what society expected. In “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen‚and The Awakening by Kate Chopin Nora demonstrates how she is stronger than Edna through her relationship with her husband and by how she chooses to cope with society’s views on
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In Ancient Greece‚ the two largest poleis (city-states) Athens and Sparta are evidence of two opposite forms of government. Athens adopted a more democratic approach while Sparta was governed by two kings. Though near each other‚ Ancient Greece consisted of poleis each of whom was governed separately and differently than one another. In the following I will answer a few questions posed regarding Greece‚ Sparta and the various city-states. Athens Early on only men who owned land could hold public
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Unfortunately‚ it is true that there are times when officers must take down a wrongdoer in order to protect the lives an innocent person or group of people. The most efficient and promising way to do so is with the use of lethal force. This argument uses utilitarianism to justify the decision police officers must make to save an entire crowd or group of people by using deadly force to stop a person who is proposing a dangerous threat. A utilitarian
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Plato is considered to be the greatest philosopher of the Western philosophical tradition.He was the son of wealthy Athenian parents and he began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates.Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates‚ and many of his dialogues had this man as a character in the content. Therefore‚ many of his early works were likely borrowings or adaptations from Socrates himself. This is questionable as to how much of the content and argument of any given dialogue is actually
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that is help every year before Christmas. It said that it was in three night’s time and would be held in the three nights and in the states-room. She got excited and adrenaline already started to pump through her and she didn’t know what to do. Shen then thought about what to wear and the accessories she would need for the ball. Then she realized much was to do at hand‚ she walked inside to talk about the ball with her mom. She had already knew that her sisters would have already been there. As Anastasia
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Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin in 1768 as a Protestant. He worked as a barrister and desired to change the Irish Parliament also known as parliament reform. He was influenced to do this by the French Revolution which took place in 1789‚ during which the French people rose up against their rulers because they wanted a complete change. Tone also had great admiration for the new democracy of the United States. Wolfe Tone thought he could do something similar
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It is common for playwrights to incorporate elements from some of the best writer and most successful works into their own creations. The White Devil is a play that is inherently a combination of elements from other plays from the renaissance era. Webster borrows so many elements from other plays that readings of his very own play almost immediately call for a compare and contrast situation. This borrowing is most commonly seen with other authors using hints of Shakespeare in their own work. It is
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1. In my opinion‚ I feel like an appropriate amount of time for inmates to be in the SHU should depend on what type of crime they committed. For example‚ if inmates are there because they killed someone then they should be there for 5 years but if they’re there because they raped and killed someone then they do deserve to be there for decades so they can pay and suffer for what they did instead of giving them death penalty or having them in jails or prisons. But I also think about all the side effects
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