As the name would suggest, the film is set almost entirely in the future. ... Despite their differences, however, all have one thing in common: an overwhelmingly optimistic vision for the future. ... Once again, this is an personally subjective issue which was intended to be dealt with on an individual scale. ... Once Bowman accepts the mental transition, he begins to indulge himself. ... As we see Dave age once more, he appears to be near the end of his ^life^. ...

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The whole mechanics behind the movie take a bit to unpack and understand, but once these things are laid out, the philosophical underpinnings and how the arguments of free will vs determinism become very relevant. ... A single man was sent back from the future to organize and setup the "Looper" network. ... This process involves having their future self, assuming their future self is still alive, being sent back to the year 2044 and following through on the same process, killing their future selves. ... It is revealed that his future loop is somebody who already had "completed&...

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Humankind would be improved if people would give back to their community, once you return the act of kindness to another you will achieve true happiness. ... This concept will definitely cause problems in the future, i.e. getting arrested, having a corrupted government, or even war. ... Most examples would end with a consequence that is caused in the future, which means that free will is the solution to problems in the now and not in the future. When making any decision you must think about both points, will this benefit me now but cause me consequence in the future, or will this benefit me no...

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Process philosophers hold the popular belief that the future is undetermined, open - a clean slate, so to speak. ... To these philosophers, neither the future nor the past can be changed or altered because, according to the philosophers of the manifold, neither past or future really exist - time is always now, always occurring in the present. ... Time has no history or future because it simply exists. ... Humans regret the past and fear the future because they are swept up and bound by their own impositions of time. ... This calendar represents sixty years, beginning with year one, ending wit...

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These hopes for a brighter future create entrapment for Willy who feels lost in his thoughts and wonders if success will eventually come his way. ... If Willy became aware that achievements come by facing one's responsibilities of today and working toward future achievements, then he would have been able set realistic dreams and not be overwhelmed with fears of not accomplishing the unobtainable goals. ... At first, Biff could not wait for Willy to come to his school and make the teacher change his grade, but once Biff knew that his father was a cheating on his mother he told him "never m...

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What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of dialect or the Socratic method. ... Once learned, we remember that knowledge and apply it when needed. ... Aristotle feels that once you have some knowledge, additional knowledge will build upon the initial knowledge. Therefore, it would be Aristotle's opinion that knowledge as in right and wrong would be derived by experiencing situations and using the wisdom learned from these situations to make future decisions. ... Once we have obtained wisdom from an event...

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Dmitri is beginning to feel sorry for himself and frustrated that once again a woman he has cared for has not worked in his subconscious quest for a fulfilling relationship. ... Everything is unfamiliar and foreign and once again Chekhov presents Dmitri's thoughts to convince the reader that Anna is gone forever. ... Yet he has to at least see her in order to live once again. ... At this point you can see that she is unhappy and that she still thinks of the time she once had with Dmitri in Yalta. ... Still though, I feel that the last sentence foresees trouble in the future. ...

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Once getting into the first section, "Poetry" and "Ars Poetica" began to define what poetry was. ... Hopefully the writers of the future poems that I read will not be so derivative and I can be on my way forward with out the fear of poetry that I once had. ...

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The imaginative journey follows no set course, but a path that is decided on by the individual, and can change as it goes depending on the persons past experiences, personality, goals and dreams for the future. ... The challenges in the texts are slightly different but the journey of the imagination challenges each individual differently, and once a challenge in life is overcome, then that individual has the knowledge that they can do things that are perhaps more difficult than the usual, and therefore have the freedom to try things they might not have before. ... This journey also shows ...

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Once they are together, they begin a heavy sexual flirtation, but it's clear the woman is having an inner conflict about giving herself away sexually. ... The man is absolutely crazy and could not let her go, so rather than enjoying the evening and future encounters, he chooses to brutally strangle her by wrapping her hair around her neck. ... He speaks of his gift when he says, "That all it scorned at once is fled,/ And I, its love, am gained instead" (54-55). ... As he goes in for a kiss he says: "About her neck; her cheek once more/ Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss...

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Humans have limitation in terms of their senses; the chains that were once secured on these prisoners symbolize humans' senses. ... All humans once had a time of innocent and period of bursting imagination. ... And once one has mastered seeing with their mind, one then will appreciate the beauty of nature and slowly progress to be an "expert" on seeing the details on the Earth. ... This statement is valid for both current and the future. ...

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Our main character thinks it does not matter what you do, there will be no future for him. ... By the end we can see that thanks to Sonia, Rodia has a hope and above all for their future plans. ... Despite this, we are witnessing, once again, that Raskolnikov has much luck. ...

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The ability to perceive colour as an adaptive feature to prevent the ingestion of spoiled food for example, may be lost in the future as it becomes obsolete. ... As adaptive animals it stands to reason that affordance knowledge is body dependant for action and affordance knowledge is automatically activated during conceptual tasks to allow us to predict future interactions. ... Once presented with the picture a sentence was presented which either corresponded with the picture or not. ...

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"He turned his thoughts to future times Or are they backward cast? ... She specifically mentions the prisoner being, "Lost in a maze of wandering thoughts", once again reinforcing the dreary atmosphere in both the dungeon and the prisoner's mind. ... " This is the second mention of light in the poem and once again it is used to inspire a sense of hope. ...

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My best friend, Tanner, made the best impact on my decision to attend college. He also gave me the motivation and direction I needed to make my decision. Tanner and I call each other brothers even though we are not. No matter the situation we got ourselves into we have always been there for one anot...

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He further illustrates this point with the wax example by comparing our perceptions of a piece of wax at two times: once while the wax is in a solid state and later after the wax has been melted by a fire. ... We can avoid future errors completely by suspending judgment in cases where we are uncertain and only passing judgments on clear and distinct perceptions. ...

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They converge together on the woman's song thinking of their plight and wishes of the future while they dwell on the past and present. ... Miss Kilman sat at the marble table among the éclairs, stricken once, twice, thrice by shocks of suffering. ...

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This philosophy is thought to be a system of continual caused events that interconnect all previous and future events. ... "(59) Fichte at the end of this argument becomes dismayed once again. Once again he finds that he has no free will, all the universe is set before him as a concept generated by him. ...

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At first all I thought is how I would have to change any plans that I had ever made for my life and my future. ... Once our morals have been corrupted it is hard to get them back to where we want them, and no matter how hard we try they will never be back to where they were. ...

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Once they are brought to the inquizzitive musings of Socrates, the myth of their knowledge in what they do as well as the confidence in themselves as the people they are seems to crumble, and the way we see each character is ultimately changed. ... Aristotle says that the teacher's purpose is to lead those who are anticipating this revelation through a series of peaks, beginning at the first one they bring them to and preparing them for future peaks. ...

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When Macbeth sees the witches for the second time, he receives four apparitions, which once again he interprets literally. ... All prophesies and apparitions are true and if Macbeth would have understood the figurative meaning behind them, he would have been prepared for what the future held for him. ...

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This helped be to look beyond my self's usual framework, and made me able to evaluate myself once again, but from different perspective. ... It goes beyond the question of who am I, and addressed future question of who am I in this world. ...

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At a glance, we have never thought the thousands of ads we see have any influence on us. In this day and age, ads are a common thing and these ads are constantly being shoved to our faces. We may have thought that the mind would not be fooled by any kind of advertisement as our conscious will not pe...

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Cleaning and cooking were small things that once in a while I would do to help my mom out when she was really busy. ... Hopefully in the future when I move out again it will be for good and a much more positive experience. ...

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Once we finally got one on his nose he got to eat it afterward, and since then he realized he would get to eat popcorn if he let us put a piece on his nose and him hold it there. ... My children in the future will know all about sex and teen pregnancy and will hopefully not feel embarrassed when they feel the need to come talk to me about it. ...

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