All but one of the names of the poems in Spoon River Anthology were the names of the people, or titles these people earned, that the poems were focused on; that one poem, "The Hill," is the cemetery where all these people were buried and is the first poem introduce in Spoon River Anthology. ... This is a standard issue in society today; whether free will exists or whether we live in a trapped world where we can not do what we want to in destiny or where we can't do something whether we put our minds to it or not. ... Ernest may have gotten the "last laugh" so to speak because at the ...

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There's a side incident before the main character experiences this happen. ... " They were planning on having children together. ... In this sense his life was fated before it even began, and even though he feels as though he has his own free will, he does not in any meaningful sense. ... As in, we are able to go forth and make our own decision freely and accordingly without fate or illusions of free will being prescient. We can do as we please and we have a trueness of choice, not an illusory choice. ...

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"Winston seems to understand he would be happier if he were free" (Orwell, 1984). ... We as Americans are 'free', we have freedom. ... Furthermore, if we were to walk up to a police officer and tell him we want to kill him we would immediately be arrested and punished. Does this mean we are not free? ... We are by far freer than Winston yet we have rules/laws that we must follow. ...

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Given this situation, we might come to the conclusion that if the prisoners were released from their chains they would discontinue to mistake shadows for realities and would be released from their former errors. ... The freed prisoner will need to grow accustomed to the world outside of the cave. ... The other prisoners would accuse him of becoming blind to realities since he had been freed from the cave. ... One interpretation that can be made is that it is wrong to think that we put sight into blind eyes or knowledge into the soul, which did not already exist there before. ... We may acq...

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Once again he finds that he has no free will, all the universe is set before him as a concept generated by him. ... "(79) The need for us to interact to have a purpose with free will defining what we do is what caused our consciousness. ... If this is the case then what happens to the free will that he has been seeking. ... We act because we are driven too and thus we gain knowledge of our world through those actions, and learn that while we have free will that will is limited by others in this same world also driven by action. We come to recognize that our actions done in free will affect oth...

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How are we to know how to react if we don't know what we're reacting to? ... If you were scholarly enough to read on farther into The Word, You would see in chapter 8 this: "...because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death". ... We within our flesh are weak and can do nothing, we are as a man who has built a house out of straw and sand and things he has collected in his own. ... But can we really do this, and do we really want to in the first place? ... ("A fool-proof way to defend against something is contempt before ...

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" From here we are given our first glimpse at the man's perspective, though already the reader is made to feel like an outsider. The ambiguity of whether he is pining for his freedom or mourning his past immediately makes it clear that we are observing the prisoner, though we are left in the dark about his true thoughts; giving them greater mystery. ... Your foes are dead, and we are come, At last to set you free.... Before, the reader and the liberators shared the same perspective: that if the prisoner was freed from his cell, he would become a man again. ... For they were all my d...

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"We can go in the club car. ... He said, "I had to dial about twenty numbers before I got the right one. ... "We"d get into a god dam movie or something and right away start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. ... All you knew was you were happy. You really were"(79). ...

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seemed like we had become more intimate, although of course we still did not know each other in the ordinary way This explores the psychology of the abductor, enabling readers to make observations about the criminal mind. ... He originally observes her, as if she were his finest specimen, like a butterfly. ... This could also be seen as a frame around Miranda's, like a photograph or a butterfly collection, or could be symbolic of Clegg netting Miranda, as if she were a butterfly. ... I will not give in.much like a butterfly before it's death. ... In society, we value people who try ...

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We know he is married and has children. ... He asked her "Where shall we go now? Shall we drive somewhere?- to which her replies were mere silence. ... These were the things that he had tried to occupy himself with before. ...

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Some, light and raw; questions and thoughts never before proposed in my mind while others were deeper and more philosophical; questions and thoughts that have reverberated over and over. ... Satori, a Zen concept occurs when attention rests in the current moment, when the body is alert, sensitive, relaxed, and the emotions are open and free. ... We as managers and as people are all guilty of this. ... We all need to learn how to do this. ... We can be high as a kite in love one minute, being happy and giving to everyone, or we can be cold and miserable to those around us the next. ...

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But how are we really doing? ... There were two reasons for this; the obvious one was financial but there was also a bit of fear. ... I am rarely in bed before 11:00 p.m. ... It is written that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves (nd). ... I am free spirited but I am also very cautious in my actions. ...

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The great purpose of education at Sparta was to develop courage through test and trials which were sometimes almost barbarous. ... The true business of the teacher, in fact, is to bring out what is best in his pupil : more truly, it causes of itself in response to the right objects, & it is in sitting them before his pupils that the true art of the teacher lies. ... (b)Higher education: We shall face a very hard time when we arrive at the age of 20 & face the first great elimination test will be assigned the economic work of the community-businessmen, clerks, factory workers & farmers. ... Fo...

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According to Christina Sarich, "The mind vs. brain debate has been going on since before Aristotle. ... Normal to high levels of GABA present in the form of serenity, being stress free, and feeling relaxed. ...

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Instead stereotyping, prejudice, and language were all barriers for these individuals not have effective verbal communication. ... Ryan's perception of the couple is that because they were of darker skin they might be dangerous. ... People don't think that the way we speak sometimes makes a person perceive what we are saying a certain way. ... Though we make assumptions about behaviors that are developed they are not always accurate. ... The same works for when Anthony let the people in the van go free, he could have made money and sold them yet decided that while he is a thief, and...

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It is quite apparent from this passage, that Descartes had accepted and embraced the idea of G-d long before he even began to question it. ... If Descartes were to have rejected the ideas of G-d and religion, he would have had a much harder time proving his own existence and the existence of elements which he believed to be true. ... Descartes clearly states that he perceives it to be quite necessary to question everything in the world around him, and that we should never believe anything we learn from our senses. ... Love and religion are perfect examples of things we appreciate by blind fa...

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After all, it seems logical that if they were to criticize authorities in general, they would be reluctant to cite them at all. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... His essays, therefore, were meant as a source of self-reflection, not necessarily to become an authority on subjects such as education of children. ... In doing so, they both emphasize the importance of truth and reason before accepting authority. ... The Abbey at Theleme is based upon the importance of freedom of thought and free will. ...

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Early in the novel we are able to see Nick's displeasure with his hometown in the Midwest. ... " (Fitzgerald, 3) Here we clearly are able too see Nick's early emotions towards his hometown. ... In 2010 however, James was faced with a decision, the decision, free agency. ... Regardless of the tactics that were used, bottom line language was quintessential in creating an immediate change. ... Wittgenstein points out that there are certain trigger words that do not necessarily mean what you are trying to say, but because language takes on a mind of its own sometimes we have to be ...

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Many of the philosophers we have been reading about in class seem to me to be hopelessly dated. ... However, Victor Hugo said that if he were writing for his time only, he would have broken his pen and thrown it away or something like that. ... Since we are not omnipotent, that's the best we can do. ... We as humans don't fully know where the nonphysical properties of our mind came from nor do we know if one exists. ... He also came to the conclusion that if he were to cease from thinking, he would cease to exist entirely. ...

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People were very upset by this idea, and felt the government should address it. ... However based on the right to free speech the FCC did not pass a single one. Advertisers were only left with a warning (www.parascope.com/articles). ... However, these beliefs were not concurrent with test scores. ... I think with the rapid growth of technology, the ability to modify both videotape and audio tape in ways that we never dreamed before is possible. ...

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