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    Plato’s approach to virtue is strongly related to SocratesEserious dilemma: how can we ever learn what we do not know? There may be two alternatives for this question’s answer: we already know what we are looking for‚ in which case we don’t need to look‚ or we don’t know what we’re looking for‚ in which case we wouldn’t recognize it if we found it. As it is impossible to learn anything‚ Socrates proposed that it is significant to acknowledge that we already know what we need to know. This is Plato’s

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    Sanmiguel 2 Joseph Stalin served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Stalin assumed the leading role in Soviet politics after Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924‚ and gradually marginalized his opponents until he had become the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin was son of a cobbler‚ he studied at a seminary but was expelled for revolutionary activity in 1899. He joined an underground revolutionary

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    was a period of time consumed with fear and panic. The Crucible combined with evidence from the era of McCarthyism demonstrates how a frenzied society can influence authority. The anti communist paranoia known as McCarthyism; influenced by a Sen. Joseph McCarthy‚ created chaos in the 1950’s. The Cold War that was occurring between the

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    Ambition is a strong desire to achieve something in life. A person without any ambition is like a boat without rudder. Having an ambition needs continuous efforts towards achieving it. One cannot achieve anything if one just day dreams and does nothing. A strong will-power and determination will carry a person forward against all obstacles. Different people have different ambitions. Some aim to become teachers‚ soldiers‚ artists‚ politicians‚ doctors‚ engineers etc. Some try to amass wealth and some

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    In his music video of the hit song “Home”‚ Joseph Toman describes Phillip Phillip’s life on the road during his music tour after winning American Idol. (I know I need to put something here‚ I just don’t know what) With these rapidly changing moments in the music video Toman compares musicians to common man by claiming that both have fast paced lives and lose themselves in the moment as a result of chasing after their successes. With the inclusion of these fast changing moments in this

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    William Shakespeare employs a range of different stylistic devices to explore the destructive nature of unchecked ambition in his 11th century tragedy‚ ‘Macbeth’. He conveys the themes of power‚ greed and good vs evil to highlight the influence that unchecked ambition has on each character. Shakespeare does this by employing literary techniques such as foreshadowing‚ repetition‚ imagery and characterisation; these techniques along with the main themes help explore the central ideas in the play of

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    Ambition is often the leading force in one’s life‚ making them strive persistently to achieve something more and accomplish great things. It can be a positive force‚ but can easily become a negative one when clouds by one’s desires and greed. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ blind ambition has blurred the morality of many of the characters and causes them to fall to their demise. To convey the theme as effectively as possible Shakespeare uses numerous rhetorical devices throughout the play‚ one

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    My Ambition in Life

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    "My immediate goal is to gain admission to the College of Law. I know that I will be able to receive a top-notch education that will allow me to fulfill my potential as a contributing member of society. As a young boy‚ I dreamed of becoming a police officer or a fireman. Of course‚ many young boys my age harbored similar aspirations. However‚ I was not attracted to these professions for their obvious action and bravado. What made the people who performed these jobs special to me is that

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    10. GCPP-142-FD-50Pads. X100 Sheets(C6)-30-10-2001 DECLARATION FORM (To be filled and retured to the Assistant Commissioner‚ Food and Drugs Administration‚ Pondicherry) N.B. No Column should be left blank or with a dash. If you have not particulars to be furnished for any column‚ NIL/Does not arise should be entered. 1. Name and Complete address of the firm : LAKSHMI MEDICAL Old No. 84‚ New No. 87‚ Villianur Road‚ Sithananda Nagar‚ Puducherry 605 005. 2

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    Kant vs. Virtue Ethics

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    When we talk about whether or not a person is ethically right‚ we can look at the actions that he or she may partake in. These actions maybe studied in different situations such as the one that we were told to evaluate. While leaving the grocery store‚ one witnesses an old man struggling with his oxygen tank. Without thinking‚ you lift the tank and help the elderly man. This action is a kind gesture‚ but would we consider this a moral act? One could analyze this situation with two different ethical

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