Kant continues by explaining that if one were to sit down and fail to "concept", or find representation of an object without experiencing its faculties, then that knowledge falls under empiricism, or experiences through our senses. ... Kant agreed with Hegel for the most part in that empirical knowledge was important, but Kant stood his ground that without the universal absolutes of a priori, there is no knowledge or experience. ... Kierkegaard believes that the paradox lies within faith itself, arguing that if there is faith weren't above universal, then Abraham had already lo...

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Pollard, stating that exports were the only reliable figure for international comparison at the time, also notes a "clear dip" during the 1880s and 1890s but says that there was an "equally clear recovery" thereafter. ... He speculates that if the investment rate had been similar to that of Germany, then a 25% increase in consumption per head would have been possible by 1911. ... He claims that there was no reason why British technical and scientific education should have remained negligible, in a period when a wealth of rich amateur scientists and privately endowed research laboratories o...

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These studies were not aimed actually at sportsmen but they would come out of WW2 and were trying to combat hypoxia. ... When the sporting world recognized the effectiveness of transfusions is open to debate, and some papers discovered that there were some runners which profited from blood transfusions but no details were given specially with the identity of the athletes involved or the nature of the transfusions. But there is some confusion regarding this claim, without the evidence there was no way to prove there was any activity regarding blood transfusions. ... But it also contains second...

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Through a rather impartial social order, slaves filled no vital and unique economic niche, and there was relatively easy socializing between the races, free and enslaved, among the laboring classes. ... Fortunately, masters were conditioned by English custom to provide food and shelter for their servants, thus slaves were adequately supplied necessities. ... Between 1620-1670 people of African descent never accounted for more then 5 percent of the population, people of various races existed together during the charter generation; thus, the rigid social distinctions that segregated people on t...

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A fictitious example of this would be for a cinema complex to intentionally sell a number of tickets to a movie screening that exceeds the available number of seats in that screening and then offer disgruntled customers a ticket to another less popular movie that may not be selling too well. ... Most customers (those who arrived at the cinema early) got the seat they paid for, the cinema complex made their profit and only the minority of customers were forced to watch a less popular movie so it is evident that the greatest number were afforded the greatest happiness. Whilst pondering t...

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American revolutionaries saw the freedom of language as a natural right, and how property can be claimed and then others can acknowledge that ownership as an aid in equality/inequality. ... The French felt that intuitions were corrupting the nature of man, and believed that starting over without them would be most effective in restoring order within the country. Rousseau argued that man and government were both good in nature, but were corrupted and made cruel by institutions, and that there would be no liberty without a good government protecting it. ... Although the ideas were utilized to ...

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Agamemnon chose to fight in the battle because he wanted his family and his home to be safe because if he did not go over there to fight in the battle then eventually the other side they were fight would had made their way over to his side to fight them and he did not want to take that risk because of his family and the people he had to look out for while they were there. Agamemnon had more of a chance to realize why he actually was a hero other than his daughter Cassandra because he did not really do anything but got mad at him for going to the battle not knowing that the battle could probabl...

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Without HUMINT, there would be a lack in knowing what the true capabilities of the enemy are, what egress routes the enemy takes to either evade or regroup, where ambush positions are located and other vital information in knowing and understanding the enemy. No other intelligence discipline has saved more American and Coalition Forces lives than HUMINT. If there were no HUMINT, then the military would be less effective on the battlefield in every conflict where HUMINT was actually utilized in some form or fashion....

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It is no surprise then that the study of the most marginalized group to date, black enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. ... Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capacities, childcare and childbearing were inevitable responsibilities of the the female slave. ... "In an age when women's diseases were still shrouded in mystery, getting the maximum amount of work from [slave] women of childbearing age while remaining confident that no damage was done to her reproductive organs w...

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Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939). ... These stories also were meant to serve as a reminder that "never again shall any group be denied liberty and the rights of citizenship"" (945). ... Though the article has strong points, there are some limitations. ... She then goes on to state that the larger goal of the museum is to: "promote understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity"" (949). ... As American citizens, the Japanese living on the pacific coast were put into camps and suffered for unjust reasons. ...

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The reader then starts to see that the good intentions of this case brought up problems that were beyond the topic of education. ... Then seeing the efforts made by the white residents of the country to try and desegregate schools by not sending their children to predominantly black schools. ... We see that there is a correlation between the success rate of minorities with less net income and non-minorities with a higher net income; this correlation brings us back to the fact that the education of the minority race is one that is very important to this society and without this education and ...

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Both sets of laws were made to protect animals from abuse and any form of mistreatment. ... By these places treating the livestock poorly do not realize that there are perks of treating the livestock ethically appropriate and these perks include safer working conditions, better meat quality and improved attitudes among employees so there would be a more efficient work environment (Modern Slaughtering Methods Are Humane). ... With these corporations lying to the media and making people believe that their products were treated humanely before they were used for the product they were made into t...

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If something or someone is labelled a particular name, then those around them will expect the named object or person to have all of the characteristics - especially the bad - that accompany the stereotypical imagery of the label. ... (Kliewer, p83) As such, labels and classifications are generally applied to objects and individuals believing that the label is an all-encompassing definition, giving no room for deviation from the stereotype that is associated with the label. ... There are a few advantages to classifying children and adolescents" behaviour, as will be outlined later in this piece...

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In a "war against terrorism", where the adversary wears no uniform and hides among the civilian population, information can matter even more. ... If the objective is good or allows the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, then it does not matter if the way to achieve it is bad or wrong or evil; therefore the ends justifies the means. ... There are several purposes in which torture can serve but the broad objectives include: the maintenance of social control, the defense of ruling regimes and the suppression and punishment of political opponents and suspected criminals...

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Each of the twenty-nine retail branches were operated solely on the support and leadership of its manager; to deal with two different branches for a specific situation would lead to two different responses. ... Examples of these questions, in no definitive order, include: Should the research be completed by an internal group of people or contracted to an outside company? ... Subsequent to listing the apparent questions, they were analyzed and sorted by cost, time restraints, significance and urgency, in that respective but flexible order. ... Research team members were then responsible to...

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Other films such as Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky and The Idiot by Fedor Dostoevsky's plot were transformed into Japanese forms, creating a cross-cultural experience and stimulation. ... Even though there were no injuries, the actor later on admitted that he had nightmares afterwards. ... During the construction of "third castle ", Kurosawa ordered the castle's stone blocks to be painted as Styrofoam blocks based off the photographs he took of actual stones; Kurosawa then ordered the stones to be glued to the castle wall, also known as the "rough-stone piling " process. ... Kurosawa...

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To simplify this statement further, reflect and rebound the ideas of how you were persuaded. ... To prove this statement, Aristotle pointed, "Argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.... Yet, there's quite a significant difference between the pair therefore if the writer is well known by the targeted audience and has expert knowledge in the topic then their ethos appears to be strong. ... To put these concepts into better visual understanding I shall provide two illustrations from my controversial analysis, '' an exampl...

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To Israeli Labour peacemakers like Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, the occupied territories provide the chance for a deal with the nations from whom they were conquered, much in the same way as the 1978-79 Camp David Peace Accords were signed between Israel's Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat. ... The "PLO team" signed the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, an agreement to create a de-facto (as opposed to de jure) Palestinian state in Israel, and therefore upholding the possibilities of this agreement are of particular significance to them, if not for ...

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