The impact of social network in language English to teenagers Nowadays‚ social network is very popular especially to teenagers. It makes communication faster and more convenient. Examples for social networks are facebook‚ twitter‚ MSN‚ Xanga and so on. People communicate through languages‚ and there are good and bad impacts on language English that caused by social networks. I will explain my views in my presentation later on. First of all I would like to talk about the good impacts first. Teenagers
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Allegory to Myth In the Republic‚ Plato uses reason to model the ultimate form of civilization where everyone achieves his/her human potential. This should not be confused with individual equality‚ for Plato sees a harmonious and virtuous community where citizens are under a hierarchy and working together for the greater good of the state. The question‚ however‚ remains: How does one achieve Plato’s ideal state when there is evil and deception in the world? In answering this question‚ Plato puts
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The Divided Line in The Confessions of Saint Augustine “He who knows the truth‚ knows the light‚ and he who knows it knows eternity.” (171). Saint Augustine explains throughout The Confessions the challenges he faced in search for the divinity truth. The struggles and triumphs Saint Augustine conquered at each level of the Divided Line presented in Plato’s The Republic. In Book I of the Confessions‚ Augustine describes his early childhood as being deceitful. He emphasizes on the teachings
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“The Good” Plato Midterm Paper Plato was one of the most prominent Greek philosophers‚ influencing the very core of philosophy for years to come. His early analysis of society and its values began the quest for answers to questions of existence and awareness. In “The Republic‚” Plato explains the concept of Forms and Ideas while also inquiring on both justice within a person and what exactly makes a person ‘just.’ Plato argued that the human soul innately searched for the Form of Good which could
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Why does Plato argue that rulers must be philosophers? Word Count: 2147 Philosophers love all truth‚ and hate untruth” (Plato. The Republic). This is the primary remise‚ upon which Plato basis his entire theorem of the philosopher King‚ and the justification for their ascension to power. A recurrent theme within The Republic is the exploration by Plato into what is the ideal society? Is it merely an abstract impossible concept‚ or is there an ideal method of how to organise ourselves into human
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Plato’s theory of forms‚ also called his theory of ideas‚ states that there is another world‚ separate from the material world that we live in called the "eternal world of forms". This world‚ to Plato‚ is more real than the one we live in. His theory is shown in his Allegory of the Cave (from The Republic‚ Book VII)‚ where the prisoners only live in what they think is a real world‚ but really it is a shadow of reality. According to Plato‚ to the prisoners in the allegory and to humanity in the material
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Julian Figueroa (#30973127) 1 An Allegory of Advertisements How does Plato’s allegory influence the way we consume art today? Every minute of every day‚ millions of people are exposed to advertisements. They plague televisions‚ streets‚ radio waves‚ and all means of communication. These advertisements employ many methods of persuasion and their influence is irresistible. Just like prisoners in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ we are told every day to invest our time and interest into the subject
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Plato’s concept of the ideals Plato believed that reality is more than what we sense around the world (e.g. taste‚ smell‚ hear‚ see and touch)‚ he believed that behind these physical realities lies a perfect version of them in which he called Forms and that the greatest thing we can learn is to have knowledge and understanding of them. Plato’s theory means that what we can sense around us (for example a chair) is just a mere shadow of the perfect version which exists in the world of Forms. The
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Review the case of Any Kind Checks Cashed‚ Inc. v. Talcott in Chapter 30 of the text. Write a short paper on whether or not you agree with the Court’s decision. Is it fair? In your opinion‚ is Any Kind a HDC? A holder in due course is a holder who takes an instrument without “apparent evidence of forgery or alteration” for value‚ in good faith‚ and without notice of certain claims and defenses. In the case of Any Kind Checks Cashed‚ Inc. v. Talcott it was crucial to determine whether holder of
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St. Augustine Philosophy offers so many possible topics of interest that I would love to write about. For this particular instance I chose to investigate just a sliver of writing from St. Augustine. Augustine wrote numerous books‚ letters‚ and sermons about God and religion that are still well known today. One small portion of a particular writing that stood out to me was when he discussed evil in the face of God. First‚ I will summarize his literature‚ and then state my argument against his
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