O‚ that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat and unprofitable‚ Seem to me all the uses of this world! (1.2.5) From the play’s beginnings‚ Hamlet is distressed. Here‚ his desire for his "flesh" to "melt" and dissolve into "dew" registers his anguish over his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage to his uncle. Clearly‚ Hamlet’s thoughts here are
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In the beginning‚ I dreaded the fact of having to take a philosophy class. It all seemed preposterous to me. Then the final essay topic reflected several emotional responses in the beginning of the class. The Afterlife was only known to this student by means of religious teachings and not researched to the extent of whether or not the Afterlife matters in reference to how we live. How do we live if this unknown place actually exists? Initial readings in chapter assignments opened this student’s
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16‚ January 2015 My Dearest‚ Classmates: I just got back from my virtual field trip to the National Institute of Nursing Research! I could go on and on about all the fun I had! The NINR takes pride in their mission to support and enhance the wellbeing of every individual in America through nursing research (National Institute of Nursing Research‚ 2011‚ para. 1). The most exciting bit of information that I found made this cardiac nurse’s heart flutter when the NINR included heart failure patients
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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight". This is the foundation of human knowledge Aristotle presents us with in Book Alpha of the Metaphysics. The next question which we must naturally ask ourselves is‚ How? How is it that we can have any knowledge at all? We by our very nature desire to know and we love the senses in themselves but
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F. Lauren Williams April 4‚ 2013 Problems with Monocausal Explanations of Disease The discovery of germs has been a long process in history and still ongoing today. John Waller‚ author of The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease‚ has stated as his thesis in this book‚ “…between 1880 and 1900…medicine underwent perhaps its greatest ever transformation. In just 20 years‚ the central role of germs in producing illness was for the first time decisively
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Philosophy and Literature 253 Midterm Exam October 7 2012 “Oh‚ Jupiter‚ a robot Descartes!” Asimov’s short story “Reasons” in I‚ Robot is the fictional account of a robots creation of his own path of reasoning. Much like Descartes‚ the Robot‚ Cutie‚ is curious about the truth of his existence and plans to find the answers out for himself. Cutie is a self-aware‚ reasoning robot on a station in space in the year 2015‚ and all he knows are the things in his immediate surrounding‚ which isn’t much
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Why were doctors still reading Galen in 1400? Galen was a Greek physician who revived the wok of Hippocrates and other Greek doctors. Galen died in the Roman era but his work was still read in the medieval times. Regression in medicine was caused by many factors including war and religion which meant that doctors had to use cures and theories that had already been discovered such as Galen’s theory of the 4 humours and opposites. Due to lack of progress in the past 1000 year’s doctors continued to
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Plato’s Guardian Class Guardians are put into place to defend morality and rule society because they know the truth and posses the knowledge and wisdom of true forms. In order for there to be a just state‚ there must be a balance between the different types of people‚ namely; reason dominated‚ spirit dominated and appetite dominated people. This balance is similar to that of the need for balance in a just individual between the tripartheid soul. Those dominant in reason become philosophers‚ those
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The medieval period is normally not associated with advances in technology‚ nor with contributions that benefit society. Yet‚ our medicine today owes much of its development to physicians of that time. Medicine of that era was strongly influenced by superstition and the doctrine of the Christian church‚ and did not have much foundation for practical application. The need for medicine in Middle Ages was certainly great‚ considering the extreme amounts of plague and disease prevalent during that
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Did Atlantis Exist? Known as one of the world’s greatest mysteries‚ Atlantis is a legend written by the Greek philosopher Plato. The legend was written thousands of years ago‚ but it is still talked about today (Smith Michael and Debora Smith). Scholars often argue that Atlantis existed‚ but those that do not agree remind those scholars that there is no evidence to support that Atlantis ever existed and that Plato “added fantasy and excitement to his writings” (“Atlantis”). The question is‚ how
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