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    As I stand here in the middle of the dance floor at my brother ’s wedding‚ listening to the very Punjabi bhangra music blasting on the wall speakers‚ I walk the fine line between being conservative Indian - those of Ivy League chemical engineering PhD ’s‚ of having no less than 50 cousins‚ of spending every spare moment in life with family - and being a Westerner‚ coolly expressing my ever-apparent condescending attitude towards those of the East‚ looking in disgust at the seemingly uncouth Indian

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    Philosophy is the evolution of human thought process. It is how variables like religion‚ culture‚ social practices and others ideas have influenced scholars over time and helped them to find meaning to their life and other natural phenomena. What do Philosopher ’s in Education Think? Socrates (469-399 BC) opened the gateway to self-education. A person ’s true learning starts within‚ when he realizes his own ignorance; there are no teachers‚ only facilitators. According to him knowledge was the ultimate

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    The Eastern Gorilla faces many challenges due to the destruction of its habitat and poaching. The Eastern Gorilla is the largest living primate and has now joined three other great ape species as critically endangered on The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of endangered species. This is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape

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    There are two major fronts in WWI. The Western Front and the Eastern Front. These two fronts were both alike in many ways and different in many ways. The Western Front was the region in France and the Eastern Front was a part of battlefield along the Russian and German border. It was a difficult thing to face war on two fronts‚ especially when both sides were hard to adapt and battle through on. For example‚ the Germans or Alfred Vin Schlieffen created a Schlieffen Plan ‚ which called for a

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    Compare and contrast the western idea of medical treatment with Ch’i and Chinese healing. Western medical treatment is tremendously different from Chinese medical treatment isn several ways. First of all‚ the Chinese use inductive and synthetic methods‚ while western medicine uses reductive and analytical methods. This can be seen in how the Chinese understand and learn medicine. Instead of solving everything with evidence and scientifical reason like western doctors‚ the Chinese use experience

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    characteristic respectively. Even now‚ though we may all live in the same city with a broken transportation barrier‚ we still can feel a different culture between the Chinese and the west. There are three main differences between the Chinese and Western culture; personality development‚ diet‚ and religion. First‚ the Chinese concern about a big family‚ but the west puts emphasis on self-development. Actually‚ all are not thieves that dogs bark at‚ we believe not all the Chinese and the west

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    Philosophers Assignment Immanuel Kant: The German Philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the central figures in Modern Philosophy. In the The Methaphysik der Sitten (1797) (Methaphysics of Ethics) Kant described his ethical system. In short‚ the three fundamental elements in Kant’s System are: 1. Individuals are rational beings; They have a conception of laws or principles‚ the ability to make choices on the basis of reason and act on those choices. It is rationality that distinct

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    Eastern Philosophy By Jennifer Carter Eastern philosophy is the philosophies of the eastern continents. Many postmodern philosophers believe the only variant of Eastern and Western philosophy is that of Geographic’s however some scholars will disagree that it is not geographical but of natural language and investigated thinking. Eastern philosophy touches base with three traditions —Indian‚ Chinese and Persian philosophy—which are just as different from each other as they are from Western philosophy

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    EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPLALITIS Before researching for this paper‚ I had never heard of this disease. Eastern equine encephalitis is a disease that affects mostly horses. It however can affect humans‚ leading to very serious complications. According to Center of disease control and prevention (CDC)‚ (2004-2013) EEE is most prevalent in areas that are swampy and wet. An environment that will encourage breeding of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are the primary means that humans get this serious

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    of great philosophers in the world‚ modern and ancient. In Ancient Greece there were many philosophers. Some of these philosophers are Parmenides‚ Anaxagoras‚ Pythagoras and Heraclitus to name a few. These philosophers are known as the Pre Socratic philosophers beginning in the sixth Century BC. There are known as this because they came before Socrates and it is said that ancient Greek philosophy should be organized around Socrates and Plato. But the three main ancient Greek philosophers were Socrates

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