Caspar David Friedrich

Not only was Irving able to manipulate the concept of cognitive authority in his two books, but Holocaust revisionists in general have been able to manipulate cognitive authority of historians in other ways. Deborah Lipstadt, in her book Denying the Holocaust, offers a great insight on just how Irving and other revisionists have been able to become so prominent. She says that revisionists have been able to gain some amount of authority by “camouflaging their goals” (Lipstadt 1993). They hide…

William Paley (1743 – 1805) was a professor of philosophy at Cambridge University who is most notably known for his watchmaker argument that seeks to prove a theistic view of god. By relating a watch to the natural world he uses argument by analogy in order to prove the design argument, or the teleological argument, which concludes that god’s existence can be proven by the order, complexity, and apparent purposefulness, within the natural world. [Insert thesis] Paley’s watchmaker…

Free Will Definition: An agent is free to choose whether to do or not to do something with nothing or no one preventing them of doing so (Thomas Hobbes & David Hume). Freedom of Will VS. Freedom of Action: Freedom of will allows an agent to choose. Freedom of action allows you to act freely. It's depends on the individual to decide if we need to have both or only one of these elements to be considered as having free will. However, freedom of action couldn't exist without freedom of will.…

The Game, a 1997 drama film directed by David Fincher, sets place in the late 1990s in California. Michael Douglas stars as the film’s main character as Nicholas van Orton. Van Orton is a mid-aged, divorced, businessman who appears to be very stoic and cold, and who tends to be bothered by interaction with other people. The film takes place in one-day’s time with a few flashbacks. The movie begins on van Orton’s birthday where van Orton receives very few “Happy Birthday’s” from those that he…

David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and William Golding’s The Inheritors both explore and criticise human being’s focus on separation and discrimination, and highlight the following consequences of violence through various techniques. Remembering Babylon takes place in 19th Century Queensland following a young British man, Gemmy Fairley, who was thrown overboard a ship and has grown up with Aboriginals for sixteen years, and his relationship with the new settlers. The Inheritors follows a journey…

This paper defines and discusses four academic concepts. It explains how important it is to be an active listener, it shows that listening involves given feedback to the speaker so they will that you were actually paying attention. Next topic would be Bloom Taxonomy is a classification of how we think in other words the higher or of how individuals think. It will discuss and explain why it is shaped in the form of a pyramid. Bloom Taxonomy is divided into six different learning styles and this…

Strategic initiatives should be formulated using evidence-based practice [“EBP”] that enhances the opportunity to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Patients and families expect to receive quality care when seeking healthcare services. Dr. David Sackett and colleagues defined EBP as “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical…

In the 2008 film Wall-e, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class is the last of its kind cleaning up garbage that has inhabited planet Earth. He is one of the robots sent out on Operation Clean Up to rid the Earth of the waste while the humans are out in space waiting for it to be safe to return home. During the film Wall-e comes across EVE (extraterrestrial vegetable evaluator), who is sent to Earth on a mission to scan for living proof in Earth. Throughout the film we observe how sociology…

to see how can four different personalities can come together, and impact each other’s lives once they get into a relationship. The film is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name; both are based on the 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet. Both films differ from the play by substituting a reconciliation of the couple at the end rather than a break-up. The great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, knew and acknowledged this truth when he wrote, nearly…

The two walk outside and the song ‘Starman’ by David Bowie starts playing. The view then cuts to a beautiful new gunmetal Audi R8. The son hands over the keys to his father, which the father takes with an excited, happy, and determined expression. While showing the father walk to the car, it cuts from…