The idea of sound will be investigated in the following essay. ... Ockham is not disagreeing that sounds exist but that there are two types of sounds: subjective and dependent. Since only air waves play a role in the hearing of sound, there is no point in believing that objective sound exists in the role of sound at all. ... His theory was that sound could be given a classification. ... Some sounds cause a person to feel joy, while other sounds cause a person to experience a bad memory, thus causing pain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This book tries to explain how the two can be integrated and be able to work together. ... Critical response page Although this book was kind of hard to read, and some what boring, I did see what it had to say. ... When this happens, we also reject the basic principles that psychology offers us because it doesn't "sound right." ... I think that they may have overcomplicated the book by trying to sound smart when they could have just explained how integrate them instead of telling us ways that wont work. ... I think that they could have made the book more readable and comprehensive, a...

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This is a good example of the phoniest that Holden will talk about all through book. ... Holden when call her "quite a little phony," she even sounded phony through the book with lines like "I'd love to grand." ... Salinger illustrates a full blown tragedy with a 15 year old boy; it sounds a lot like the classic we read last year Romeo and Juliet. ... I really enjoyed reading and rereading this book to find embedding symbols. ... All through the book he will think about call and eventually sneak home just to se...

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• Grade Level: High School

Way of the Peaceful Warrior This is the first book of its kind, Spiritual or New Age that I have ever read. I have to admit, I wasn't sure if I would really be able to get into this epic journey after reading the back of the book. It all sounded too strange. Like many who have chosen to read this book, I too hoped it would change my life. ... That is why I feel this book strikes a cord with every reader and impacts each in a specific and meaningful way. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

That is to say, he should practice charity without regard to appearances: without regard to sound, odor, touch, flavor or any quality."" ... The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery or Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were beat up old things but they had the charm of usefulness and the sadness of his giving-(76). 3 " not allowing the mind to depend upon notions evoked by the sensible world "by not allowing the mind to depend upon notions evoked by sounds, odors, flavors, touch contacts, or any qualities."" ... This time, it is J...

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• Grade Level: High School

He uses digestion as an analogy to reflect the worthlessness of book knowledge. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais emphasizes what seems to be the theme of the book: "know yourself."" ... As a matter of fact, Montaigne begins his entire treatise by emphasizing that "I, myself, am the subject of this book- (3). ... Although Montaigne does feel that many could learn from his own experiences, he does not intend this as the primary purpose of the book. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The sky was dark. I was sure that a rain's about to come. I had no choice but to settle inside my room. I was watching the hands of the clock move as time passed by. Raindrops were loudly pouring outside. The day was awfully boring. I suddenly felt the urge to write a story. There's a music video I'...

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• Grade Level: High School

Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... This could be something he expands more on in later chapters, but for now I feel that he made it all sound so simple to implement. ...

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Her mother loved the name "Tamiami Trail" because of its cleverness (combining Tampa and Miami into one word) and how it sounded when spoken. ... She had the idea for a beeper that would attach to a book or tool when borrowed and would sound after 10 days. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

New worlds may sound very appealing as they have a lot of promised benefits. ... The "sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me" which means he is forcing himself to be happy with all up and downs. ... It creates conformity and brainwashing in the society as shown in the book The Wave and the movie Across the Universe. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of Plato's most publicly known myths is the parable with which the Seventh Book of the Republic opens. ... Our tragedy lies simply in our refusal to recognize that we live a condition of perpetual imprisonment, clinging tenaciously to the sights and sounds of earthly life, mistaking slavery for freedom and shadows for realities (Raghavan). ...

• Word Count: 1261
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to Bernard Goldberg in his book Bias; in the 1992 Presidential Election, 89% of journalist voted for Clinton compared with 43% of the people that are not journalist that also voted for President Clinton. 7% of journalist voted for Bush while 37% of voters voted for Bush. 2% of news people voted for Perot while 19% of the electorate voted for him. 85% of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democrat. ... Tammy Bruce in her book The New Thought Police actually accuses the media of trying to influence public opinion. ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

We see as our main character is very smart and at the time where there is great tension, manages behave sound judgment. ... Rodion is created by Dostoevsky as a character who could represent anyone who commits this crime and under the circumstances raised in the book, I think the vast majority of people come to do exactly what he did Raskolnikov....

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The early experiences in reading were filled with questions about what word is pronounced what way and why certain arrangements of letters sounded the way they did. ... Rather than having the teachers spit useless interpretations of the book at us, we were given the task of interpreting it for ourselves. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... If the character of the people is sound, laws are unnecessary; if unsound, laws are useless. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The World Book Encyclopedia defines computers as "machines that performs calculations and processes information with astonishing speed and precision." ... In fact, the idea that God may actually be the most ultimate of computers isn't as absurd as it sounds. ...

• Word Count: 2049
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• Grade Level: High School