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At the Golden Globes award ceremony Oprah Winfrey was presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.Given recent events like the Me too and Time’s up movements Oprah dedicated her speech to speaking up about sexual harassment and emphasizing the need for change.Throughout the speech she talks about many different things from personal stories to the plights of everyday women to show that this abuse affects everyone. She uses many important rhetorical devices, namely pathos, syntax…

Introduction Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegitimate son of a notary named Ser Piero and a peasant girl Caterina Leonardo. He was born on April, 15 1452, in Vinci, Italy which was just outside Florence. After spending his short life with his mother, Leonardo’s custody was given to his father as his mother married someone in the neighboring town. As his parents lived separate life, they gifted him with 17 half sisters and brothers. Leonardo’s love and connection with paintings started in small age…

This belief in philosophy that the mind, soul, or conscious is independent from the body is referred to as Cartesian dualism; in other words, if the body dies the mind does not. Trying to distinct the mind from the body has been a topic in philosophy since Rene Descartes, one of the most influential founders. In one of Descartes first essays, the ‘Second Meditation: Of the Human Mind’, he wrote about how he believed that the mind and the body were two separate entities and self is distinct from…

For example, when we are selfish and do not know how to love and care for our parents, the seed RA will awaken us to the filial piety and open up the door of mutual understanding with our parents. Entering the Sea of Mundane World is entering into a stormy sea of sufferings, an unpredictable and profound sea of consciousness. Entering the Sea…

Descartes was regarded widely as the father of modern philosophical culture. The original plan was to be metaphysical philosophy and conceptual basis for the half-science, by which science will become useful to man and allow him to control the natural environment. Meditations on First Philosophy, less known in wide circles than? Discourse on Method, in the eyes of a professional philosopher is a major work of Descartes, the book around which all others are focused his lyrics Meditation can be…

As a research from Texas A&M University stated, “Real-life positive health consequences of playing Pokémon Go - a new GPS-based augmented reality game - are being realized across the nation” ("Health Benefits of Pokémon Go"). Pokemon Go launched in the United States during the summer of 2016. In the game, players use the global positioning system (GPS) on their smartphone technology, in order “to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures” (Grover). As a result, this game forces…

In addition to how much Emily’s father had structured her life and held her back, there is the issue of Emily’s love life to consider. Her father never allowed her to have a man, for he was the only man he felt she needed in her life. This idea was so prominent that even the townspeople knew that Emily’s father was the reason Emily ended up unmarried and alone: “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which…

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles born September 4, 1981 in the heart of the deep south Houston, Texas. Beyoncé first captured the music industry by being the lead vocalist of the R&B group Destiny’s Child, where she later established a solo career. She has become one of the music industries top-selling artist, with an array of awards and sold-out tours under her belt. Knowles is an all around performer, also being starred in several films, with one of her most famous being Dream Girls. Knowles has…

1. Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes on dualism.is composed of two substances: mind and body. One is physical and one is non-phyical. Rene Descartes views on dualism are known as substance and simple dualism. He believed that reality was composed of two substances, one being the mind which consists of inmaterial thing such as thoughts and emotions. Then the Bosy which existered in the material space. However, John Searle’s views on dualism where known as…

To live in a static state of mind is to restrict the joy one may find in life. Oliver Sacks, Maggie Nelson, and Robert Thurman all suggest that one’s perception of the world, as well as the flexibility of their state of mind, directly correlates with how they exist within it. Specifically, Thurman’s work “Wisdom” claims that it is necessary for one to abandon the idea of having a fixed and strict self but rather open up one’s mind to become a flexible thinker, allowing one to create human…