Criterion of Doubt. Descartes claims that you know something only if you have no reason to doubt it. Descartes beliefs are grounded in a priori truths‚ and he will not take knowledge from experience into consideration when defining knowledge. Descartes considers that the only thing he can know for sure‚ is that he exists. Even though he exists as some form of thinking thing‚ he would still argue that he cannot know whether he has a physical body in which his mind exists. Descartes would make the following
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conditions‚ unfair wages‚ unreasonable hours‚ child labor‚ and a lack of benefits for workers. Why do Sweatshops exist? They are a product of the global economy and the so-called “free” trade. Companies increase profits by driving down costs any way possible‚ so they set up low-cost factories. To minimize costs‚ companies look for places with the lowest wages and human rights protections. Where do Sweatshops exist? Sweatshops can be found all over Central and South America‚ Asia‚ and certain regions of
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Why Do You Dance ? “Because it’s like breathing‚ it’s like walking to me. I’m not pretending‚ when I dance I don’t pretend. I’m more of myself when I dance in any moment of the day. I can be stuck there in all of my life. I dance to become someone else. There are so many things in this world that want to push down on you but when you dance you are free. It’s pretty much when I knew like I love the biggest because I have never dedicated so much time and effort into something like this. It’s not
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the only argument that is plausible because things do not exist without a cause. For example‚ people and animals do not exist without reproduction. People must have a first cause to be created and exist. “The cosmological argument for God’s existence goes like this: The world could not exist on its own so there must have been a first cause that brought it into being. This first cause is God. Or put another way‚ the universe could not just exist on its own—someone or something must have made it.
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other races. The question of why there is racism is often left out of many history texts‚ as they seem to focus on the different wars of our time instead. However‚ the question of why racism exists is a very important one‚ as racism has been causes of many of the problems throughout history and today‚ such as the Civil War or the War in Iraq. In Howard Zinn’s book: A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present‚ he explores the different reasons of why racism exists and how it may be stopped
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The word poverty gets throw around in today society. But as Australians do we really know what poverty is any more? Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs which include food‚ water and shelter. 300 million people in Africa are living in extreme poverty with 40 to 50% of people living in Sub Saharan Africa live below the poverty line. This is due
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Do not ask what your country can do for you‚ ask what you can do for your country "We have to labor‚ and to work‚ and work hard‚ to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for the world‚ for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom‚ so is prosperity now‚ and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments." A true patriot
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to the public for centuries and it never will. The Loch Ness Monster is just a tale‚ no real proof to show it exists. The waters of the Loch Ness are freezing cold so no living thing can survive there. The last reason for how fictitious creature doesn’t exist is a sonar/satellite scan through the entire lake showing no large living creature. One reason that the Loch Ness doesn’t exist is that there is no trustful proof of it. Many people such as Robert Rines dedicated their entire lives too just
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Poverty – a social phenomenon which exists regardless of location. Even the United States‚ one of the wealthiest countries in the world‚ faces serious problems with poverty. Some major causes of poverty include obvious reasons such as lack of money‚ but other causes can grow to include overpopulation‚ lack of or poor education‚ hunger‚ war‚ and natural disasters. A recent World Bank study concluded that roughly 400 million children across the globe are living in extreme poverty. There are also
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Countries believe that forming alliance can protect their sovereignty and security of their nation. The alliance can be beneficial but it can also be harmful‚ where there is no benefit out of it. Alliances each have their own purpose and meaning. Throughout history countries have made alliances to protect social and economic interests among themselves. When countries have others besides them it is easy to say that they are benefiting from the alliance. Countries can carry out plans with other countries
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