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    A pentagram is a five pointed star made by using one continuous line. In the Greek language, pente means five and gramme means line, so pentegramme literally means a shape with 5 intersecting lines. For the pentacle, pente means five and the ending -cle has a definition of “a place appropriate to the actions of the verb or a means by which the action is performed”. For Wiccans, most actions are performed in a sacred circle and so pentacle means five within an appropriate place. That…

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    He applied allusions to persuade the audience to speak their mind, regardless of what society might think of them. At one point society did not understand and criticized new, unique philosophies and ideas as, “Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood” (6). Emerson is trying to prove that even the “crazy” ideas…

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    why is the time 800 BC- 600 AD called The Axial Age, we look at the world axial which means “forming or relating to the axis”. Graeber uses this saying from an individual by the name Karl Jasper who finds it astounding that two great concepts like Pythagoras, Confucius, and Buddha were developed during this time, and that on three separate occasions, coinage was also established. Therefore, Jasper entitled it the Axial Age because it was the age were key ideology were created and established…

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    its complex societal concepts and profound artistic representations. In this painting, Raphael portrays historical legends in bright colors—legends such as Aristotle (Bright blue and green), Plato (Light pink/salmon), Socrates (Dark green), and Pythagoras (Light pink/salmon). The painting depicts strong conflicts among the ancient theologians—this is far from coincidental.…

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    It’s not rare for Uncle Tom’s Cabin to be assigned to English students as part of a certain project in the curriculum. While this is all well and good, many of those students do not research the author of the book they may be reading outside of the classroom. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, during her years, was not simply an author; but a significant historical symbol of the American Civil War. Her actions and writings influenced the zeitgeist of the era, and ignited a…

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    Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into The Wild, presents the question, to what extent is community essential to happiness? Based on the actions illustrated by the main character, Chris Mccandless and humans in general, it’s fair to say that we don’t need people in order to be happy. Community can be defined as, “A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” As humans, we are so diverse and unique that we sometimes can’t find a community where our goals…

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    Hollywood draw so much attention and they are full of cursing, adultery, drugs, and sex. Entertainment is a definite distraction and distracts someone from their purpose. We get caught up in the world’s so-called entertainment and we forget. Hollywood at one point produced many movies dipicting biblical stories, maybe it can be saved. They have been doing remakes of very popular biblical movies. A well liked movie was Passion of the Christ which was directed by Mel Gibson, I was unable to…

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    Greek scholar. He belonged of the Milesian school Furthermore scholarly those teachings from claiming as much expert thales. He succeeded thales What's more turned into the second ace for that school the place he counted anaximander and, arguably, Pythagoras amongst as much pupils. Born: probably 611 BC Died: about 547 BC Era:…

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    is in fact boundless or infinite. He doubted whether any fundamental or primary substance would exists in an observable pure form. In a sense he was correct, as we today known that we do not observe a primary substance anywhere in the world. 9. Pythagoras believed the truth about reality must be numbers, which never lie. Like for example 2+2=4 that answer always would be 4. He would always looks for something easy, nothing complicated. 10. The Aristotle’s four causes would be “What is it? What…

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