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Berkley
2541 Words - 10 Pages

.... that knowledge comes purely from deduction, and that this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did not exist is George Berkeley. In truth, it is the immaterialist position that seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny. The initial groundwork for Berkeley' ....


Korean Traditional House
502 Words - 2 Pages

.... or logs. Nowa houses have no chimneys. The smoke from the fire hole, which is used for cooking and heats the floor of the main room, escapes through a hole in the roof above the kitchen. This nowa house is located in the mountains of Kangwon Province. Nowa houses are rare today. Not long ago thatched houses dotted the countryside throughout Korea. Today most thatched houses are found in "folk villages," living museums where traditional Korean culture is preserved. Many thatched-roof houses have simple fences made of sticks or stones. The walls of the houses are made of mud mixed with straw. In the colder northern provinces, roofs are very thick and hang low over ....


The Simpsons: The History
2512 Words - 10 Pages

.... the country. It even developed a cult status. (Varhola, 1) Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of works such as Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Terms of Endearment. Brooks originally wanted Groening to make an animated pilot of Life in Hell. Groening chose not to do so in fear of loosing royalties from papers that printed the strip. Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. Groening intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own ....


Outside
604 Words - 3 Pages

.... of Earth were covering up the knowledge that another crew had discovered cruse drive. They thought the public would all panic because the Canadians wanted to be the first to go out of the solar system. 5001 workers started building the Lavallee Enterprise in 2001. Three years later it got finish. It was launched on the twenty-eighth of January in the year 2004. After two months the ship was now approaching the end of the Solar system. So far there had been no signs of any other ships using the cruse drive. There was one more planet to cross before they would leave the Solar system. They took notice of the planet. It was a beautiful huge planet with lots of colours. It wo ....


Ernest Sosa: Externalism
859 Words - 4 Pages

.... it is well formed, and by means of a truth conducive process. A belief is weakly justified iff it is "blameless" (not the result of an intentional mistake?) but ill-formed, and the believer is not aware that the belief is ill- formed. A belief is superweakly justified iff the process that produces the belief is unreliable but the subject did not intentionally come to hold the belief because it was acquired unreliably. And, finally, a belief has strong meta-justification iff the subject neither believes that nor can determine if the belief is ill-formed (hence the "meta-" prefix), and the subject is aware of the process by which he got the belief and that the process ....


High School Drop-outs: Cause And Effect
398 Words - 2 Pages

.... activities that fuels their desire to remain in school. If students have no success in either academic or extra-curricular activities they have no incentives to go to school. Consequently, they have no attachment to their school. Too many parents are not firm enough with their children and their education. Parents fail to impress upon their children the importance of remaining in school and that dropping-out is detrimental to their future. Sometimes teens drop-out because of a lack of fear instilled into them by their parents. Many teens have little or no parental supervision. Coupled with a lack of communication skills between parents and teens, the result ....


School Uniforms
1539 Words - 6 Pages

.... have even led to life-threatening situations among students. Uniforms would also prevent gang members from wearing gang colors and insignia at school. Uniforms would also teach students discipline and help them resist peer pressure. Uniforms would also help students concentrate on their schoolwork and would help school officials detect intruders who come unwelcome into the school. As a result, many local communities are deciding to adopt school uniform policies as part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia have enacted school uniform regulations. Man ....


Codependency
1220 Words - 5 Pages

.... relationships and families where the victim is not always the one with the substance abuse problem. A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect them or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior Codependents often come from alcoholic or other dysfunctional families where there are rigid roles and behavior patterns, the pretence of a 'happy family' and the inability to be oneself. These children have little sense of personal identity and instead concentrate on being needed. They can excel at coping and caring, but underneath there is always the wish to comply, or please others, and control, or to manipulate others. This can ....



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