Berkeley

Berkeley thought that the distinction between qualities invites all sorts of skepticism. If we know only our own ideas, how can we trust them without ever comparing them to unmediated reality? The solution is simple: deny the existence of matter. If an apple…

With her article “Faced With a New Tax, Berkeley Drinks Less Soda,” published in The Upshot of the New York Times on August 25, 2016, health care reporter Margot Sanger enters a fierce debate about the impact of the soda tax on the consumption of sugary drink. Since 2014 when the tax first went into effect in Berkeley, California; attempts to impose the tax have been a matter of public controversy, and this is what motivated Sanger to produce this piece. The story’s “Kairotic moment,” as…

Why did you choose to attend UC Berkeley? * I chose to attend UC Berkeley because it was my dream school. I had grown up around UC Berkeley my entire life and did not consider it seriously until I took a class there and considered computer science to be my major. UC Berkeley is one of the top schools in the country for computer science and the diversity of Berkeley is one of a kind. When I took a class there in the summer and I felt like a Berkeley student and it felt right. Please finish…

Philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have similar but also contrasting views on the nature and existence of external objects. Descartes said that God is not a deceiver. His view about external objects, is that God created and gave him reasoning that lets him know that his ideas come from external things. Meaning that external objects have to exist because if they did not, that would mean that God was a deceiver, which is not true. Descartes views external…

An event currently garnering global attention that I find particularly important to me is the protest currently taking place at UC Berkeley. Tensions have risen in Berkeley since the election of president Donald trump and have culminated in explosive and violent protests against freedom of speech. Students and professors alike at UC Berkeley have united in complete irony to protest the very thing which allows them to protest in the first place. In a flagrant abuse of American privilege, these…

Berkeley City College formally describes cheating as “any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise.” Many have personally cheated or, at the very least, know of someone who has. Academic dishonesty is a growing problem that needs to be stopped as it creates issues not only in the academic setting but in the workforce as well. Over the course of time, cheating has been a steadily increasing slope. One of the primary reasons behind cheating seems apparent now more…

was social tension in the colonies that lead to a rebellion. One wealthy individual, William Berkeley, had a key role in Bacon’s Rebellion. He was the governor of Virginia that possessed a great deal of land and held a monopoly on fur trade. Berkeley traded with Indians even though colonists disliked the Indians. Nathaniel Bacon, a noble man, always possessed status but when he could not compete with Berkeley he sought another way to become more powerful. Bacon with supporters like indentured…

In 2010, UC Berkeley offered a new fall orientation program for freshmen students. It consisted on testing student’s gene to find out how they metabolized lactose, alcohol, and folates. This program led to a huge argument about the ethics behind genetic testing conducted in a non-medical setting. Although UC Berkeley wanted to run this program, California Department of Public Health raised a question about having a doctor 's order that kind of test (Devore). Some people say that this program is…

The Berkeley protest of the 1960’s was a series of protest that occurred in the University of California, Berkeley with the support of thousand of students. This was the first national movement of young activism in history. The Sheraton Palace Demonstration movement was the first civil rights movement to happen. Berkeley students protested to end racial discrimination against the hiring practices of the hotel. Hundreds of students gathered into the hotel lobby to do 10 hour sit ins in hopes to…

The Bacon's Rebellion was about a group of slaves that gained there freedom by working for slavery for 5 to 7 years and when they were free they seek land, however they were unable to because of the Indian's would not allow them to share the land, therefore when the issue was addressed they were rejected due to the Governor Berkley had a secret trade agreement with the Indians. However these events caused a rebellion against the Indians, because once again this was another fight for the…