Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 Information about the life of William Shakespeare is often open to doubt. Some even doubt whether he wrote all plays ascribed to him. From the best available sources it seems William Shakespeare was born in Stratford on about April 23rd 1564. His father William was a successful local businessman and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner. Relatively prosperous‚ it is likely the family paid for Williams education‚ although there is no evidence he attended university
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Master Index of AP Lang Exam Questions by Type & Years Original August 23‚ 2003‚ reprint: 5/30/12 COMPARE AND CONTRAST -- Two Selections First Satellite in Space (85) Momaday & Brown (86) Galapagos Islands Marriage proposals* (93) Coca Cola letters (satire) (98) **Okefenokee swamps (99) Audubon & Dillard on birds (03) Richard Rodriguez‚ “Days of Obligation‚” contrasts Mexico & CA (04) Wilson satirizes unproductive nature of environmental discussions (satire) (09) PASSAGE ANALYSIS Memoir or Passage
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considered vincibly erroneous 5. A person with perplexed conscience may postpone action if the decision can be delayed Obtain necessary information and deliberate 6. If in doubt (doubtful conscience) one may never act Action exposes one to the danger of injustice or sin Use reflex principles: prudence‚ in doubt one must stand that the side of presumption stands Doubtful conscience does not bind FORMATION OF CONSCIENCE It is our subjective norm‚ practical judgement of reason; plays
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I doubt that any of our readers really rejoices in the death of people. Walzer makes another important point: we can seldom if ever know with absolute certainty that the threat is both immediate and overwhelming‚ thereby justifying without any doubt the use of extreme measures in response. This to me means both that we should wrestle with such choices and also that we should
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Descartes views in the Second Meditation is that he tries to clarify precisely what this “I” is‚ this “thing that he thinks.” He concludes that he is not only something that thinks‚ understands‚ and wills‚ but is also something that imagines and senses. Even though he thinks he may be dreaming or deceived by an evil demon‚ he’s still something that can imagine‚ hear‚ and see things. His sensory perceptions may not be truthful‚ but they are certainly a part of the same mind that thinks. He believes
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“now you see it…now you don’t” A couple of months ago my parents hired a magician for my little brother’s birthday party. Ivan the Incredible specialized in optical illusions with cards and coin tricks‚ which was a little hard for the group of eight year olds to grasp but most entertaining for myself and several adults. When I began reading Shakespeare’s Othello‚ Iago’s antics reminded me of Ivan the Incredible and how someone can trick you to believe something is true when it really isn’t. Appearance
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The Value of Philosophy In the introductory lecture notes to this course I stated that we would start with a working definition of philosophy as being the “love of wisdom.” I have found‚ though‚ that just about every other definition attempted has many shortcomings. No one definition seems adequate to define what it means to engage in philosophy. Consequently‚ I think it is best to think of the philosopher in the somewhat imprecise term of a lover of wisdom. Someone who is continually in
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built on it. One must have sufficient certainty about
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unstable and fluid. It is possible for a reader of the essays to see how Montaigne employs his theories within his own life as he searches for the truth the natural world can provide. A flaw of humanity‚ according to Montaigne‚ is a lack of healthy doubt. Man takes facts and “ignore[s] the whats and expatiate[s] on the whys.” Instead of questioning facts from outside sources‚ man takes them as being the truth and blindly follows them. Humanity looks to tradition and history -- the way things have
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Principles like those Parmenides assumed are said in contemporary jargon to be a priori principles‚ or principles of reason‚ which just means that they are known prior to experience. It is not that we learn these principles first chronologically but rather that our knowledge of them does not depend on our senses. For example‚ consider the principle “You can’t make something out of nothing.” If you wished to defend this principle‚ would you proceed by conducting an experiment in which you tried
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