Caterpillar

In Thomas Nagel’s paper— “What Is It Like to Be a Bat”— the inconceivability of physicalism as “a position we cannot understand” is born out of a discussion of the mind-body problem, and in particular, a discussion of objective and subjective experiences. Rather than positioning physicalism as false, Nagel maintains that physicalism is that which is presently incomprehensible because of the “subjective character of experience”— the conscious experience— which not only clouds our understanding of…

EXPLAIN THE EXTENT TO WHICH TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCED THE COURSE/OUTCOME OF THE GREAT WAR “The war is going to be won by inventions.” -British Admirable Jacky Fisher, 1915 Technology influenced the course and outcome of the Great War to a significant extent. It can be defined as machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge. Technologies used in the war included artillery, toxic gases, tanks, aeroplanes, ships and submarines. Effective artillery was an obvious prerequisite for both…

“Come on in!”, exclaimed my dad, ushering Arshia and Avinash into my home, safe from the danger of obtaining hypothermia in the freezing cold winds that blasted every few seconds and from the softly-falling, dunk-in-your-face huge raindrops in Texas. It was February 17, 2017, the day before the competition. We, meaning my brother, Arshia, Avinash, my dad(he was the team manager), and I, were going to paint our scene sets and put some finishing touches on our wonderful mechanism today. We’re…

The Niagara Escarpment is an escarpment in the United States of America and Canada. This escarpment has been very important to humans, animals and plant life. This escarpment houses over 479 species of wildlife and over 100 varieties of special interest floras that make up almost 40% of Ontario’s rare floras. Here the escarpment has some of Ontario’s best skiing, camping, swimming, fishing, boating, hiking and scenic viewing, generating over $100 million. This escarpment stretches from…

by myself. She told my parents is was because I was so behind compared to my classmates and that I would benefit from just having that one-on-one attention. My classmates bullied me the whole year for being in a group myself. They called me the “caterpillar group,” because I didn’t get my “wings” yet. After a couple of weeks of doing all the reading and spelling assignments Ms. Wilson gave me, she sent home a note with me to give to my parents. On the note it suggested I should get tested for…

There is almost nothing words cannot do. Words are influential; and they are not simply just letters written on a sheet of paper. They can be used to say or do things, both moral and immoral. Words have an impact, whether it is miniscule or massive. They are not thoughts because they don’t float around. The words of one’s lips can be said in many ways, but they can mean the same thing. This can happen vice versa as well. They can be said the same way and interpreted differently. A word is a…

PART D: Essay The integrated literacy plan for the Hungry Caterpillars includes both teaching sessions as a group and as a class. The themes that students explored in the programme included topics such as fitting in vs. not fitting in, being yourself, being different, and bullying. The texts chosen were not too extreme when exploring these topics, and questions were raised in a safe arena so that students could contribute without feeling threatened. This type of safety was seen through stories…

Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is justifiable due to the fact that in the early stages of pregnancy the unborn child is only a clump of cells and tissues. I, however will argue that Thomson’s views are inadequate due to simple life cycles and the false pretenses that an unborn child isn’t a real “person”. Thomson who, although has some very useable points from her paper “A Defense of Abortion” I still would have to disagree and stand firm in my position of anti-abortion. But we…

I decided to leave Puri going southbound coast to coast. I was heading for Goa, a kind of popular place at that time, and there I met one of the guys that left Roma with me. I found out through him, that they had all separated. He told me that the rest of my former friends went back to Roma and a couple of them had bad experiences with the law at the Indian border, due to the guns they were carrying. I felt extremely lucky once more for the fact that I was still in India having the experience of…

Inside your skull is about one and a halfkilos of meat that somehow manages to keep you breathing, help you remember where your wallet is and remind you which is the best hole to put your lunch in not that One. And you know what, maths tests aside, it normally does a pretty decent job of stuff. But when you are dealing with something so unbelievably complicated, among the billions of humans all over the planet, you’re occasionally going to have some pretty unusual brain anomalies. There’s the…