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    philosophical aesthetics developed in the major philosophical systemsStone crushing plant. Accordingly‚ within this metaphysical tradition‚ art was attributed an exploratory‚ interpretative and epistemological function‚ insofar as it was assumed that truth could appear in a given work. Modern theories of art have freed themselves from this philosophical bondage‚ especially from the metaphysical objective of expressing truth by artConcentrator table‚ tending instead to orient their approaches toward empirical

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    How has Donne used characteristics typical of metaphysical poetry to convey his ideas in “Holy Sonnet: ‘This is my playes last scene’?” This is my playes last scene is one of Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnets’ embodying spiritual pain and struggling faith in Christianity. Numerous biblical allusions and morbid tone that are typical of metaphysical poetry‚ convey Donne’s fear of death and religious scepticism. The opening four lines depict the last moments of the speaker’s life through metaphoric comparisons

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    world; namely‚ that society has gone through three phases: Theological‚ Metaphysical‚ and Scientific. He also gave the name "Positive" to the last of these because of the polysemous connotations of the word. The Theological phase was seen from the perspective of 19th century France as preceding the Enlightenment‚ in which man’s place in society and society’s restrictions upon man were referenced to God. By the "Metaphysical" phase‚ he was not referring to the Metaphysics of Aristotle or any other

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    SONNET 18 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems of fourteen lines written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employ the rhyme scheme‚ which has come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. The sonnets are composed of an octet and sestet and typically progress through three quatrains to a concluding couplet. It also contains figurative language and different poetic devices used to create unique effects in his sonnets. Shakespeare’s sonnets consist of words

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    / Could force his soul so to his own conceit / That from her working all his visage wann’d‚ / Tears in his eyes‚ distraction in’s aspect‚ / A broken voice‚ and his whole function suiting / With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!”(). Hamlet opens this soliloquy with an open lamentation about his current situation. He is so bewildered and self-deprecating because while these actors are almost able to trick themselves‚ reflected through the word “conceit”‚ into showing emotion‚ while he cannot

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    Live & Walk the 7-Habits Dorothy Chan September 2006 My Role Share the book titled “The 7-Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey Your Role A – Attend S – Study T – Teach A – Apply R – Review 1 Search under Amazon.com 2 1st September‚ 1923 Tokyo 2nd September Great Earth-quake All buildings collapsed‚ except the Imperial Hotel. Foundation Roots 3 What kind of person am I? Character & Personality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Good Character

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    1300s a disease known as the bubonic plague killed many people. Over the five year duration more than 25 million people died. This was one third of the European population at the time. The bubonic plague was spread by squirrels and rats which carried fleas spreading the disease to people‚ which quickly spread to more and more people. There is no medication for this disease therefore more people died because they couldn’t be treated. The plague spread through many countries including Italy‚ England‚ and

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    days we sat around the resort and went parasailing‚ and lots of other activities. Parasailing was an adrenaline rush and probably one of the funnier things I had done in my life. We also went downtown Nassau and that is where they have a big flea market. The flea market had a lot of neat and different things down there. We spent the whole day downtown and later that night went out to a few dance clubs.         The last two days we were there a hurricane was roaring in‚ while we were trying to get

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    The disease was spread through contact with infected fleas. As a result of the poor living conditions in many parts the Europe‚ the fleas would nest on rats who would run through the streets. Just having contact with an infected individual would possibly cause immediate infection. This resulted in 25 million deaths in the course of 5 years. The

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    that the Black Death was ‘contagious.’ It was realised that contact with someone with the plague or even with their clothing was dangerous. They discovered that the plague was spread through tiny rat fleas‚ as these fleas jumped on rats and other rodents and infected them. When the rats died the fleas fed on human beings. Source D shows the cycle in which people were infected with the black plague. It displays how the plague started and progressed. Doctors also became more experienced by ruling

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