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    “Love Story” was written and sung by Taylor Swift. It was published on September 12‚ 2008. Throughout “Love Story”‚ Taylor Swift‚ uses many poetic devices in the narrative in order to make the whole story and lyrics more enhanced as a whole. She creates an allusion comparing her love for a guy and that of Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet‚ they are banned from seeing each other by their parents and they are willing to die in order to be together. Similarly‚ Taylor recounts the time she was told not

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    begins his first meditation by calling all our current beliefs to suspicion. His purpose of this practice was to stripe away all the falsehoods that we have acquired since childhood by the use of our senses. He also wanted to build anew a stable foundation of beliefs that he can be certain are of undeniably truths. In Descartes work he mentions that our senses are not to be trusted‚ for they have deceived us once and surely will deceive us again. As he clearly stated in his meditation‚ “All that up

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    Carroll Cole was born May 9th‚ 1938 in Sioux City‚ Iowa. A scant nine years later‚ the first of his 16 confirmed victims would be killed. There have been many serial killers over the course of history to examine‚ but Carroll had two unique aspects that made me want to write about him specifically: he was one of the youngest serial killers ever (based on the date of his first kill)‚ and he is a prolific example of how grandly the legal system can fail not only society‚ but a single individual. Cole

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    Paul Taylor was born on July 29‚ 1930‚ in Wilkinsburg‚ Pennsylvania. He attended Syracuse University through a swimming scholarship. Later after reading books about dance in the university library‚ he took up dance training under modern dance greats like Martha Graham and José Limón and joined the Graham Dance Company as a soloist in 1955. He also worked with choreographers Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine. Dance became his all-consuming passion. He henceforth transferred to The Juilliard School

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    Stephanie Marmolejo Meditations Short Essay Phil 1305‚ 401 words ` In the beginning of Meditations Descartes’ describes himself as being “taught by nature.” By this he means that his physical being is naturally and intuitively adherent to the idea that our senses control our views on any object. At first‚ he believes that images in his head often match objects that appear outside of his mind. What he thinks an object is‚ indeed is what it appears to be outside of his thoughts. Descartes uses the

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    Frederick Taylor Scientific Management Through Taylor’s view of management systems‚ factories are managed through scientific methods instead of the use of the "rule of thumb" so widely used in the late nineteenth century‚ when Frederick Taylor devised his system of management and published the book "Scientific Management". The main elements of the Scientific Management as described by Taylor are; Time studies Functional or specialized supervision Standardization of tools and implements. Standardization

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    Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a well respected man because of his philosophy of management. He viewed management as a tool for success in any organization. Dr. Deming was an expert statistician and during World War II he helped the United States in its efforts to improve the quality of war materials. After World War II‚ Dr. Deming was invited by Japan to help rebuild. Japan had this reputation of producing cheap imitation products. Through the years and many visits by Dr. Deming‚ Japan was able to produce

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    2014 In his meditations‚ Descartes often references a “deceiver” that possess both supreme power and malicious intent. This deceiver uses its powers to deceive Descartes with a false reality‚ forcing him to question everything and take no sensory information as accurate unless said information can be logically proven correct. Of course‚ the malicious deceiver is not real‚ and Descartes does not actually believe it is. In his meditations‚ Descartes is seeking to develop a new philosophy from scratch that

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    cross for. Alsem in his article Meditation on Human Redemption rejected the Ransom Theory by explaining the meaning of sin‚ the importance of the crucifixion‚ and what we owe to Jesus Christ because of the crucifixion. Throughout his article he makes sure to deconstruct the Ransom Theory and construct the Theory of Satisfaction. It all started with the falling out of Adam and Eve‚ they were given all the riches and goodness but they betrayed God when they ate from the forbidden tree. The devil had

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    Juliana Tabor Professor Webb Introduction to Philosophy 4/1/13 Descartes: Meditations 3 In Descartes’s Meditations III‚ the Meditator describes his idea of God as "a substance that is infinite‚ eternal‚ immutable‚ independent‚ supremely intelligent‚ supremely powerful‚ and which created both myself and everything else."(70) Thus‚ due to his opinion in regards to the idea of God‚ the Meditator views God containing a far more objective reality than a formal one. Due to the idea that of God

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