The Matrix and Philosophy Welcome to the Desert of the Real Edited by WILLIAM IRWIN For Peter H. Hare‚ Morpheus to many Contents Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix 1 Scene 1 How Do You Know? 3 1. 2. 3. 4. Computers‚ Caves‚ and Oracles: Neo and Socrates WILLIAM IRWIN Skepticism‚ Morality‚ and The Matrix GERALD J. ERION and BARRY SMITH 16 The Matrix Possibility DAVID MITSUO NIXON 28 Seeing‚ Believing‚ Touching‚ Truth CAROLYN KORSMEYER
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people riding dirt bikes‚ waterskiing‚ and hand gliding and ended with a Pepsi as their reward. Its advertisements also often focused on celebrities such as Mariah Carey‚ KISS‚ Tine Turner‚ Britney Spears‚ Madonna‚ and Ray Charles choosing Pepsi over Coke. This was strategic movement since it was also during the time in which colored television came. Coca Cola also used celebrities such as Whitney Houston‚ Paula Abdul‚ Christina Aguilera‚ and Elton John to advertise its drinks. With mutually
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states. This is one of the reason why Americans spend less time preparing meals because they are eating fast foods that are quick and cheap to buy. On the main street where I live there are 6 fast food restaurants just on one block. It is very easy to buy and takes about 5 minutes to go through a drive thru to get a full meal. Yes this is much more convenient and fast for them‚ but they don’t realize what is going into their body. Americans tend to eat a Western diet because of fast food products being
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Sensible Diet vs. Crash Diet Seeking the right amount of calorie and nutrition is essential to weight losing. There are two main categories of diets: crash diet and sensible. People who want fast result pick crash diet‚ which is unwise and potentially dangerous‚ rather than sensible diet‚ which is health and safe. Food fasting is one type of crash diet‚ and it is the most dangerous method of all because overly done can lead to disturbances of heart rhythm or even death. During a fast‚ a person
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There are many similarities between the short stories "Good Country People" and "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?"‚ most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist‚ and a male antagonist‚ whose confrontations start out relatively normal‚ and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters‚ Hulga and Connie‚ are shockingly similar‚ and yet strangely different‚ one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful‚ the other a bitter 32 year
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4151 The Matrix directly relates to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In both works‚ discovering the truth about reality is the major concept. In the cave‚ men are chained up and all they know is shadows of puppets that are displayed before them‚ illuminated by a fire that blazes in the distance. These shadows that the men see on the wall are all they know; this is reality to them. Much like in The Matrix how the people that are in the "Matrix" are unaware of that they are living in a world that doesn’t
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Leaning about CB: Is Your Coke Ok 1. Marketing is a category of actions that include all of the efforts a company or individual makes to convince consumers and potential consumers of the value a product or service holds for them so that the consumer will purchase the product or service. It is all about product promotion. Marketing has a heavy research component to it‚ because marketers have to understand who their target market is and what their values‚ beliefs‚ and attitudes are. It is these
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We researched Coke and Pepsi as was requested to see which one would be a better investment over the other. One of the ways to see how a company is doing is to look at how much (EVA) Economic Value Added that company is producing. EVA is a way of measuring an operation’s real profitability. EVA is better than conventional ways because it takes into account the total cost of the operating capital. EVA is simply the after-tax operating profit minus the total annual cost of capital. Using EVA has
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com/investors/pdfs/10-K_2009/04_Coca-Cola_Item1A-1B.pdf ITEM 7A Kale‚ J. R.‚ Noe‚ T. H.‚ & Ramirez‚ G. G. (Dec.‚ 1991). The Effect of Business Risk on Corporate Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence. The Journal of Finance ‚ 1693-1715. Kathman‚ D. (2002‚ December 20). Why Discount Rates Matter. Retrieved August 23‚ 2011‚ from MorningStarNews.Com: http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=84699&_QSBPA=Y Kent‚ M MacMinn‚ R. (2011). Theorems in Corporate Finance . Retrieved August 23‚ 2011‚ from MacMinn.ORG:
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Samantha McLaughlin Mr. Mosmeyer AP English III 10-21-09 Deadly Doubt: Symbolism‚ Tone and foreshadowing in “Where are you going‚ Where Have you been?” A little girl sits home alone‚ relaxed in every way. She doesn’t know the danger she put herself in. It’s sunny. It’s bright‚ but out of the sunshine comes something clever and dark‚ A. Friend. When Connie meets Arnold Friend he is a stranger‚ but ironically his name is name spells a friend. I think this symbolism rests in the glaring
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