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    Historical knowledge tends to objectivity, the absence of which can cast doubt on the fact that truth is available to historical knowledge. In the theory of knowledge, the subject and the object considered as two completely contradictory sides. True knowledge means the correspondence of the subject's knowledge about the object, while the object belongs to the material, physical world. However, the purpose of knowledge can be ideal - for example, in case of the history of thought, philosophy, or…

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    racial categories. Sociologists consider it to be a category of grouping people that have similar biological traits that the society considers socially significant. Therefore the categorization is important because that is how the society is. The absence of the biological differences is not what makes it a social construction to sociologists, but because of the differences that the people see which are brought about by their cultures…

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    Morris suggests that people need to recognize and utilize the four foundations, truth, beauty, goodness and unity. He goes on to suggest that incorporating these four virtues into our work lives and business culture will help revitalize businesses by building positive relationships and promoting growth. In this paper, I will review part one of If Aristotle Ran General Motors, which explores with the essence of truth and makes the argument that businesses should…

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    God is not what it is not clear or deficient; a matter that we are (due to its incompleteness) can not quite understand it. And also the difficulty of proving the existence of God does not nest in a precarious. That is, blindness is not evidence of absence of the sun. Our imperfection is part of a deep contradiction with the perfection of the world we observed. Everything in it is expedient and harmonious. Only man and the associated fauna is an exception. This can prove that we have been made…

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    hand like Mr. Stale is a super religious man. Mr. Danforth makes sure the truth comes out one way or the other. He then makes sure they know God will be the only one who deals with the puritans if they lie. Mr. Danforth is also against John because he didn’t want the people to be influenced so he’ll still be able to run the court. That why he pushed so hard on Abigail to see if she might change her mind, or tell the truth. “Now chilled this is a court of law. The law based upon the bible, and…

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    negative all go to the Giver. However the Elders attempt to Depict the society as Utopian society, rather than the Dystopia it really is. The quality of uniqueness in greatly lacked throughout the society and this quality is what make you, you. The absence of the quality really makes the society stand out ,more like a dystopia rather than…

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    The documentaries “Thin Blue Line”, and “Act of killing” both use re-enactments as a way of conveying historic moments in the stories they are trying to depict. Nevertheless, while the techniques used in the re-enactments within “Thin Blue Line” are done to convey a sense of mystery, the techniques used for “Act of Killing” are used to give context to subject matter, and speak to the mentality of many Indonesians when it comes to the murders of innocent people. Errol Morris’ Thin Blue Line…

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    themes of Redemption, Moral Truth and Just Society. We observed these themes as they recurred through history in Foundations of the World 101 and now we see how they continue through time into the 17th century. William Shakespeare wrote this play in a Protestant England at a time when the pious and the humanist were each trying to find their way. He approached these universal themes in a variety of ways. The moral truths that guide all nations and all men, are those truths revealed to man by…

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    Revolution of 1776, as a result that the framers intentions were not opposing. In his Political Science Review, John recognizes the governmental limitations on the founding father’s efforts to form a functional constitution. He examples that the absence from New York at…

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    The aim of this research is to introduce the concept of irony and hyperreality in the metafictional novel entitled Atonement (2001) by contemporary British novelist Ian Russell McEwan. Irony is a rhetorical device, an act of speech and a textual effect produced when “the said and the unsaid together make up the third meaning – the ironic meaning,” (Linda Hutcheon, 1994: 60). Various types of irony can be observed in Atonement due to its the complex narrative perspectives and its nature i.e. a…

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