For the Parsons Challenge we were asked to look into a subject that is overlooked in our everyday life. When I was thinking about the subject of being “over looked” windows came to mind. A window is a space that you look through, created by a sheet of glass. The glass of a window is a transparent clean surface to allow vision to another space, while not being in it. I thought that windows are overlooked because they are meant to be looked through. So, I focused in on glass and was looking at
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Philosophy, ever since its beginning has been used as a tool to answer, and to help better understand complex questions regarding logic, knowledge, truth, and even human existence itself. It can be defined as love of wisdom. Philosophy goes beyond facts, measurements, and scientific findings and it depends on judgment, reflection, and intuition, by this definition we can gather that philosophy is, essentially, the pursuit of knowledge or understanding on a much higher level than usual. In this paper
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about the views of both idealism and realism on education, curriculum, teacher, student and methodology, stating categorically three main points on each. To begin with, one long-standing philosophical idea that has exerted a powerful control on the mind of man throughout ages is Idealism. Idealism is the ontological and epistemological principle that ideas or thoughts make up elemental truth. Fundamentally, it is any philosophy which maintains that the only thing essentially foreseeable is consciousness
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believed each religion has very good views. And they aren’t all that much different. While reading the first chapter I enjoyed the detail they went into when analysing the paintings. I would never have look so deeply into the paints and opened my mind into the small feature with such a big point and meaning behind them. I enjoyed reading Aristotle’s views on god. I liked the fact that Aristotle and Plato both have different views and both of which have good points. After learning they both had
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took the chance on losing all the beautiful things that I have in my life today—away. For the last 339 days, I have been working really hard at turning my life into something that is my idea of what it is to be a successful, happy, consistently growing woman. I am going to school and pursuing a dream to have a degree. I have my family in my life. I have gained their trust and feel their pride when they hear about what I am doing just in my daily life. Never mind the whole of all that I have done
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Take a look at your life and see how many I Am’s it would benefit you to replace? Use what you desire to become, and not the limiting thoughts, which you may have been imprisoning your self in. Tip: You could review and then write down all the similar statements you make. Then in that list, cross out the ones that don’t empower, writing next to them the opposite of your previous disempowering commands. Then take time to work to change your habitual thoughts and automatic programs to match and grow
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1. Poe was a master "wordsmith." Through carefully chosen diction he is able to create a psychological effect on his reader. What effect did his description of "Red Death," in the very first paragraph of the story, have on you? Quote those details that provoke this response from you. I thought about some type of plaque. “Sharp pain…dizziness... Bleeding at the pores…” 2. Why does Poe rely heavily on imagery to provide a detailed description of Prospero's hall? To show how specific and how much
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As millions of buggers were throwing roses at me and thanking me, my mind echoed, "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" . A million of brown antlers were listening to the truth in front of the Queen's silver and golden pillared castle and they all achieved freedom . It always felt that I had transferred back to life and more importantly, it felt like every Satbugday I had been woken up from death. All this information in my brain that infiltrated without my permission
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the air we breathe is a drug that makes us see a dazed version of the world? But when people take real drugs, you see how real the world is” (calming_Giga). I have never smoked weed, taken any drugs and got high. But if getting high means having your mind, your conscious blown away and all that comes out of your mouth are questions after questions of the world that you live in? Then, yes. I have experienced that. And I’m pretty sure a lot of us have. To tell you the truth, if I wanted to experience
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The brain is a beautiful, mysterious, and vital key to the human body. Most people don’t even give the brain a second thought. Though, there are people in this world who see it in extra detail. Those with synesthesia, like the scarce amount of people who have Ordinal Linguistic Personification, see the world in high definition. “Synesthesia is a perceptual experience in which stimuli presented through one modality will spontaneously evoke sensations in an unrelated modality. The condition occurs
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