be able to pull off a reasonable imitation. There seems to be something that is innately known by being female that is missed in the imitation of a female. So what essence of femininity is so hard to relate to a non female? This question can be broadened to encompass almost anything that we do not have firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be that person‚ species‚ nationality‚ height or weight. Thomas Nagel uses an example very similar to this in his dualist view proposing that there is a gap
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Gary K. Bradley Jr. University of Phoenix Instructor: Diana Mitchell WK 2: Ethnicity and the Police Outline Part 1 Option 2: Speech CJA/334 3/30/2015 Public Opinion of Police by different Ethnic group. Today I am here to talk to you‚ the citizen of our great community about the police that serve us. Let me make this clear‚ I’m not here to talk about the performance of the police that serve our community. Today I’m here to see and understand where public opinion of police stands. During my study
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Thomas Nagel argues in his lecture ‘What is it Like to be a Bat?’ (1974)‚ we can clearly understand that people who perceive the world through different primary senses can have “experiences fully comparable in richness of detail to our own”‚ but these experiences “may be denied to us by the limits of our nature.” This paradox seems particularly important in regard to literature‚ as so much of what is taught relies on imagery‚ metaphor and symbolism. With so much of what is taught about language relying
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In his famous paper “what is like to be a bat”‚ Nagel states that we cannot understand the consciousness from the scientific point of view. He illustrated his point by provide the argument that subjective characters is a mental property and this property will make the objective study of consciousness is impossible. He also takes the example of how bat feel the world as a point to illustrate this point‚ that our observations or understanding of consciousness is subjective in terms of our own consciousness
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very interesting to know how the future will look like but at the same time I’m afraid of it. Will there be some things that would change my life forever? Do we still live on planet earth? Or on another planet? So many questions which answers I can only guess. The majority of people on Earth is living in cities and towns nowadays so it’s not wrong to think about future development of cities. In future the population will grow and big cities like New York City‚ Los Angeles or Miami will have one
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The “Color Purple” and “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ a poem by Robert Browning‚ are very thematically similar. Both have very closely related but different examples to show the effects and the power of possession. The first example of possession in “Color Purple” is exposed in the relationship between Celie and the man she had grown up calling her “pa”. This man had treated Celie as one of his animals‚ acting as if he had owned her. After spending years of forcing Celie to do many of his duties‚ Pa (otherwise
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Thomas Nagel starts to make an argument for this theory in his essay. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? In his essay‚ Nagel tries to imagine what it would be like to be a bat. He determines it is impossible to accurately imagine the scenario because what our brains are able to imagine is limited (EP 139 bottom). Our imagination is limited by what our minds know and experience (EP 139 middle). The experiences of our mind are “accessible only from one point of
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ASSIGNMENT | Emergence of Ethnicity in North-East | PAPER: STATE POLITICS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NORTH-EAST INDIA. | | TEACHER: PROF. A.K BARUAH. | SUBMITTED BY:SHEMDORLANG KSHIAR.ROLL. NO- 29.Ist SEMESTER‚ 2010. | Emergence of Ethnicity in North-East Introduction Under the present bourgeoise‚ state of India following of capitalist mode of development‚ numerous conflict and tension exists in every part of the country and it has been a menace threatening the stability of the
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Throughout this semester‚ we have been studying about many different types of diversity issues. We have read about race issues‚ ethnicity issues‚ class issues‚ and gender issues. The one issue that has affected me the most however‚ is the ethnicity diversity issue. This has been a prevalent issue in the world as of late‚ especially in the United States. I think that discrimination based on ethnicity will always happen no matter how well intentioned people may be. I don’t think that it is right‚ but I don’t
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Understanding Race In the beginning of the documentary we were asked a couple of questions what is race and if race existed and before taking this class and watching the movie I would have said yes race does exist because growing up I believed race was what we were not who we are. A lot of people have suffered because of race especially black people because we have never and never will achieve the whiteness per say as everyone else who have come to this country. Overall I like the documentary
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