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Descartes Sixth Meditation
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1379.... as these are part of the way we perceive the external world, he doubts at first that any of these internal experience holds any truth or existence. As he is very sceptical he raises the problem whether any of these given experiences contain truth or objectivity at all. Since we never have the chance to stand outside our own perception, it is impossible to contrast it with the external world.
Descartes is hopeful to prove subsistence of the external world (physical objects located in space), and so he returns to a very basic stage and acknowledges the existence of minds .....
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Guy Fawkes
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 978.... and Elizabeth, who later married William Dickenson also in Scotton on 27th May 1594. Edward Fawkes who was advocate of the consistory court of the Archbishop of York. On his mother’s side, he was descended from the Harrington family who were eminent merchants and Alderman of York.
In 1605, (also known as Guido), and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament to kill the King, James I and the entire Parliament. The conspirators were angered because King James had been exiling Jesuits from England. The plotters wanted to wrest power away from the k .....
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Oliver Cromwell
Number of pages: 16 | Number of words: 4169.... one of Queen Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's Inn in London, where gentlemen could acquire a smattering of law. In 1620 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Bourchier, a merchant in London. They had five sons and four daughters. (Kathe, 1984)
Both his father and mother wer .....
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Joe Louis Barrow
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 449.... and 3 months later he made it to the pro's. By the next year he was making over $60,000 per fight.Joe was very generous withe money he made and gave most of it to charity and some on his horse farm.
The first time Joe lost a fight was to Max Schemling it caused a huge riot in Harleem and forced Joe into a rematch.This time it was during world warII and the whole country was behind him. An african-american fighting against a german man when Joe won the country was estatic. After this fight Joe joined the army and they banned him from any championship matches.Joe serverd 4 yea .....
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The Marquis De Sade's Attitude Towards Women
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1676.... because of his "refusal to see female sexuality in relation to a
reproductive function."
Sade justified his beliefs through graffiti, playing psychologist on
vandals:
In the stylization of graffiti, the prick is
always presented erect, as an alert attitude.
It points upward, asserts. The hole is open, as
an inert space, as a mouth, waiting to be filled.
This iconography could be derived from the
metaphysical sexual differences: man aspires,
woman serves no function but existence, waiting.
Between her thighs is zero, the sy .....
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Plato Vs. Aristotle
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1919.... would be ideal for an actual state. Balance is a main word in discussing Aristotle because he believes it is the necessary element to creating a stable government. His less metaphysical approach to politics makes Aristotle more in tune with the modern world, yet he is far from modern.
Plato's concept of what politics and government should be is a direct result of his belief in the theory of forms. The theory of forms basically states that there is a higher "form" for everything that exists in the world. Each material thing is simply a representation of the real thing which is .....
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Charlie Chaplin
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 502.... In the same year Charlie joined the dancing troupe, the Eight Lancashire Lads. Which eventually led to his parts in Sherlock Holmes and a few other parts. At the same time his brother Sydney had joined the famous Fred Karno Company and there he quickly became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hill Asylum, and never completely recovers her sanity. For almost t .....
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Jean Sartre
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1214.... Later he supported Soviet positions but criticized their policies. In the 1950’s he wrote many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and lives out his life in poor health and a few radical followers.
In the dictionary the translation of Existentialism is a branch of philosophy based on the concept of an absurd universe where humans have free .....
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