Second, literature ought to be the great-book namely "notable for literary form or expression". ... I think this was a productive and easy way to try and get readers to easily identify works as literary. ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of poetry concerning men. ... In Book II he claims that "a young man must not be allowed to hear that he does nothing strange when he commits the most sh...

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Drake throughout the book portrays Galileo as a mechanical genius, a spiritual man with an incessant drive to explain the world through science. ... This contradicted express statements by Aristotle concerning the heavens where no change could ever take place. The Church at the time accepted Aristotle's view that the heavens were made of perfect and unalterable substance called the "quintessence". ... Throughout the book Drake attempts to portray Galileo as a man striving for a new philosophy that would displace verbal exercise of Aristotle but unlike them did not set one forth. ... I se...

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Aristotle and his followers also believed that everything outside the earth was perfectly spherical and smooth, apparently a quality of ether (University of Michigan). ... In 1597, his friend, Jacopo Mazzoni, a philosopher, published a book against the motion of the Earth. ... These assumptions were, of course, based on the works of Aristotle. ... After observing the phases of Venus, it seemed perfectly obvious to Galileo that Aristotle's Earth-centred model of the universe must be false. ... The astronomical discoveries he made with his telescopes were described in a short book calle...

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He wrote a book that introduced his famous Lombardi's leadership model, which explains how results create leaders. ... I don't know anything else I could tell this team. ... Boys, I tell you I"d be so proud of that, I just fill myself up with myself. ... In this paper, I will use Aristotle's Rhetoric, to show that Vince Lombardi was not only a great coach but also an excellent persuader. ... In Lombardi's speech, he says, "I don't know anything else I could tell this team. ...

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At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cross, I was given a kiddie book about the Life of Saints and a sort of children's bible and that going to Mass every Sunday was a requirement. During Christmas season, I was being brought to Church at 4 in the morning even though I'll just sleep for the whole duration of the Mass, because Mom said that whenever I complete the "Misa de Gallo," Jesus will grant me any wish I made. ... At first, it will seem unusual why or what this book has got to do with a Political Science student's academic life. If happi...

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I am not a pessimist and I believe things can improve. ... That is progressive, realistic and ideal, as I shall show, using Muggeridge as support. ... Chapter I-Enlightened Basis ?... Aristotle was the third great Greek philosopher. ... Aristotle tried to reconcile Pericles and Plato (i.e., political action and philosophy) in one. ...

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In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... (BE 33) No matter how much I would love to soar in the air like a bird, the very fact that I have a human body that did not come equipped with wings limits me. ... Elrod in his book Being and Existence in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Works describes the infinite as "Imagination ranges free of the self's facticity by positing a multiplicity of meaning possibilities without regard for its finite limitations." (BE 34) Just as I cannot fly with the bird because of my finite limitations I can imagin...

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One of the first organized glimpses into the diagnostics of a dream came in an Egyptian book called the Chester Beatty Papyrus, its author is unknown. ... In later centuries, Hippocrates (a Greek physician), Aristotle (a Greek philosopher), and Galen (a Greek philosopher) believed that dreams often contained physiological information that may be cause of future illnesses. Artemeidorus documented and interpreted thousands of dream reports in his book Oreiocritica (meaning "critical dreams" in Greek). ... That was until Sigmund Freud wrote his book The Interpretations of Dreams in 1900. ... When...

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Over the course of this paper, we will take a look at the structure of the play by looking at the six elements Aristotle thought were the most important in any play; plot, characters, theme, diction, music, spectacle, and convention. ... With the letter in the box, Nora tries every trick in the book to keep Torvald from checking it. ... The one that come through the most, and I feel is the most important, is "A wife's first duty is to her husband." ... I believe that the diction changed for each person depending on the character. ... I do not believe that we are ever told completely a...

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In this paper I will try to answer the question "Is business ethics an oxymoron?... In order to answer this question in the simplest way I will discuss each of the ethical approaches in the light of the ultimate purpose of business: profit and shareholders' value maximization. ... The purpose is not to maximize pleasure to all people but maximize pleasure as a whole (if ones' pain means pleasure for many people then causing pain to one is a moral action).1 For example, if I rob a bakery in a village and feed ten people with the money I have stolen, then my actions are morally ju...

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His most famous speech was titled "I have a Dream." ... It started in 1962 with the publishing of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." ... Her book attacked the use of chemical pesticides. ... It began by the publishing of a book. The book was The Feminie Mystique, by Betty Friedans. ...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the acc...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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