"Sophie's World," by Jostein Gaarder, is a fictional mystery philosophy novel that narrates the history of philosophy through someone named Albert Knag who is writing a book for his daughter, Hilde Moller Knag, for her fifteenth birthday. ... Gaarder's book clearly narrates the history of philosophy through the lessons given to Sophie Amundsen by Alberto Knox. ... Like the Lego blocks on the lecture about Democritus' atom theory. ... Gaarder easily nourishes the minds of the young with the history of philosophy and philosophers and their philosophies. ... Gaarder wrote an exce...

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She was educated in both private and public schools with interests focusing on philosophy and the sciences. ... (Gale Encyclopedia) In the fall following her doctorate, Washburn moved to Wells College as a professor of psychology, philosophy and ethics. ... In addition to accolades from her students and fellow professors, she was the second woman in history to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences(Gale Encyclopedia). ... Among her years at Vassar she was a well-liked professor, students commenting, "Miss Washburn's lectures were brilliant, exact, clear, with such a wealth of ...

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This is "the Thoreau of the journals and later natural history projects," as Rochelle Johnson identifies the turn to Thoreau's more ecocentric work of the 1850s, focusing her attention on the abstractions of Emerson's rhetorical nature--that is, nature as raw material of tropes and symbols--in order to contrast the transcendental aesthetics Thoreau must overcome. ... While ecocriticism of Thoreau and Emerson has thus tended to dichotomize ecology and imagination in terms of the empirical versus the metaphorical, and in the service of sharply distinguishing Thoreau's ecocentrism ...

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He is an assistant instructor who teaches the history of art and studies that are very critical at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design which is located in Halifax, Canada (Haiven, 2014). Haiven's study concentrates on subjects comprising the economic aspect of our culture, nation, public actions and the fundamental dreams, policies, cultural beliefs and social philosophy (Haiven, 2014). ... Instead, it is likewise an organization determined by a presiding lecture that controls the main common tools and structure which then uses its prosperity and supremacy to control administrations...

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The exciting thing about these important figures in philosophical history is that their passion for independent thought, which is alive and well in every text you read. Plato's version of Socrates and Artistotle's lecture notes both feverishly seek out new interpretations and theories of the world surrounding us and the world within us, and produce ideas whose ultimate result is the inspiration of thousands upon thousands. ... The philosophies of the two minds constantly concern themselves with the ethereal, the things not of the Earth. ... However, this did not happen (but wo...

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The movement is one of the most vital, exciting and inspiring chapters in the history of the decorative arts. ... Ruskin, with a family history of mental disturbance, had periodic bouts with insanity beginning in about 1870, and remained an invalid from 1889 until his death on January 20, 1900, in Coniston, Lancashire. His later works include Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Lectures on the Political Economy of Art, and Fors Clavigera, a series of letters to the workers of Britain that influenced socialist reformers for three generations. ... The Arts and Crafts movement was much mor...

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In 1906 he was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and European literature, mainly of the Renaissance period. ... The next year, in 1910, Thomas Eliot sailed overseas to France, where he would attend Henri Bergson's lectures in philosophy of intuitivism at the Sorbonne. ... From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. ... After-war period Probably no other war in history had ever brought about such destructive spiritual crisis and total reappraisal of moral, cultural and social...

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Colver Lectures at Brown University. ... A large part of the lectures deal partially or directly in answering the specific question: "what differences were there between the political processes in eighteenth-century America and eighteenth-century England that could explain the significantly different receptions of the same political ideas?"... The history of government is the history of the formal institutions and procedures which create and govern legal authority. The history of politics is the history of the ways men have used such institutions and the struggles for authority between rivalri...

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Indeed, the concept of liberty is central to Western political thought and history. ... Since they were delivered, some of the essays have been modified, but the original thrust of the lecture series has been preserved. It is fitting that these lectures focused on this concept which was so important to Mr. Pierre Goodrich, in whose honor this lecture series was created. ... The sixteenth century witnessed the emergence of philosophies of liberty opposed to those found in antiquity and the Middle Ages. ...

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Their distinctive political history meant that much of the impact of Darwinism in Ireland followed a familiar path as in Britain, but there were important differences. ... George Salmon produced a lecture on the issue in 1874, when he attacked the theory of natural selection. ... Just as D'Arcy, moved the Anglican Church away from creationism to introduce evidence from modern philosophy of naturalistic ethics, Windle did the same. ... Cornelius Opzoomer (1821-1892) was an influential professor of philosophy at the University of Utercht. ...

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Throughout Frankenstein, we see how a new breakthrough in scientific history cause's Victor's imagination to flourish. ... Frankenstein listens in on Professor Waldman's lecture over philosophy, and he explains, "But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pour over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the Invisible world with its own shadows....

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Saussure's most influential work is the Course in General Linguistics (1916), a compilation of notes on his lectures. ... Since Saussure, this notion has been taken as axiomatic in Western linguistics and philosophy. ... Saussure focuses on a synchronic analysis of language as a system or structure, meaning that he examines it only in the present moment, without regard to what its history is, or what its future may be. (Analyses that do take time into account, and look at the history of changes within a structure, are called diachronic). ...

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This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from the outside world a revolution led to the re-establishment of imperial rule and the opening up of the country to overseas trade and technology. ... Specifically, in accurate information on subject of history and origins. ... That is why Chinese philosophy as the root of education was responsible for our obvious shortcomings.[3] Fukuzawa was opposing the Chinese teaching because such vigor was his belief that in this age of transi...

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The classroom is a place to learn about something via text, lectures, or other media, there is no room for actually seeing or feeling an issue first hand. ... "Descartes said only human being have a soul The philosophy of Descartes the Christian doctrine that animals do not have immortal souls has the extraordinary consequence that they do not have consciousness either. ... Students in the Animal Rights course will learn how popular ideas from history have led to many of the social ideas held today. ... By learning the philosophical/moral viewpoint of Animal Rights, students can join in and...

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In his role as SCLC president, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled across the country and around the world, giving lectures on nonviolent protest and civil rights as well as meeting with religious figures, activists and political leaders. ... Their philosophy of nonviolence was put to a particularly severe test during the Birmingham campaign of 1963, in which activists used a boycott, sit-ins and marches to protest segregation, unfair hiring practices and other injustices in one of America's most racially divided cities. ... Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participan...

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The drive behind this paper has been the recent publication of Fredric Jameson's 1991 Welleck Lectures, The Seeds of Time. 1 As these lectures were delivered a decade after Jameson's initial attempts to map the terrain of post modernity it appeared to me to provide an occasion to reflect upon the current status of Jameson's highly influential and much criticized theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism. ... Jameson's initial intervention in the postmodern debate, in a 1982 essay `The Politics of Theory', 2 was primarily an attempt to map t...

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Published in the AkhRR Exhibition of Studies, Sketches, Drawings, and Graphics from the Life and Customs of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a cohesive feeling of the avant-garde can be concede when it stated: The Great October Revolution has aroused the conscience of the masses and the artist Our civic duty before mankind is to set down, artistically the revolutionary impulse of this great moment in history. ... Known as the 'Concerning Monuments of the Republic' Lenin signed on April 12, 1918, 'The Removal of Monuments Erected in Honor of the Tsars and their Se...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a catalyst for thought and philosophy in the Nineteenth Century because he sparked the transcendentalist movement. ... Watson in her lecture titled "Emerson and Transcendentalism," Transcendentalism was a religious, philosophical, and literary movement which rejected Enlightenment empiricism and the thoughts of John Locke (Watson 17 Feb 2015). ... She argues for the greater possibilities for women by "providing examples of strong heroines and goddesses from history, literature, and mythology" (Baym 742). ...

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Section I: History and Definitions, will consist of a timeline and the definitions of terrorism and globalization. ... Section I: History and Definitions Terrorism and terrorists have been around as long as man has existed. ...

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Sagicor's success is rooted in its philosophy to always offer the customer "wise Judgment"." ... With its rich history and strong commitment to corporate social responsibility, Sagicor continues to evolve to overcome the complexities of today's business world and the challenges of a global society. ...

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I. INTRODUCTION During the past century, the english-speaking legal world has experienced real and considerable change in the areas of criminal law and criminal sentencing procedures. These ever-changing systems of legal processes, rules, and theories are typically reflective of the society's ...

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