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    with TimeCooperation, has successfully returned from the past after a week of having disappeared from our present time. After really being in Ancient Egypt, seeing exactly what it was like back then, Time magazine has made sure to be one of the first to interview Mackinson and get all the juicy details. Read the next few pages to find out exactly what it was like to travel back in time and really see Egypt like it was back then. The first thing Makinson said she noticed when she arrived in…

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    Time may seem the same anywhere a person travels but different cultures understand time in different ways. Robert Levine with Ellen Wolf in their article, The Heartbeat of Culture, published in the March 1986 issue of Psychology Today. They argue that in spite of clock similarities in terms of telling time globally, social aspects of time such as being early, late and very late are more of a cultural variable rather than a time accuracy concept. Therefore, in the article, the two writers argue…

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    In 1909 E.M. Forster wrote the ground-breaking short story “The Machine Stops”, it foretold of a dystopian society where mankind entrusted itself to a machine which took care of al their wants and needs, and ultimately lead to their demise.…

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    The Timekeeper Albom

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    map to represent my ideas. I think the theme of this book is to “appreciate the time you have” and not complain about whether it is too much or too less for your needs. To prove my theme, I picked six evidences - more time, hope, less time, time, aging and power. Firstly, I chose more time to show my theme because people are unsatisfied and do not appreciate the time they are given, instead they want more and more time either to finish a task or to make something last. Hope was my next choice…

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    which I loved. It was at this event where I first heard about How to Stop Time which he was still working on at the time. The whole concept of a person not aging on the outside and slowly aging on the inside had me intrigued. However, I had completely forgotten about the book until earlier this year when I saw it on the Savvy Reader's “Most Anticipated Reads of (Early) 2018” blog post. The protagonist of How to Stop Time is a man named Tom Hazard, a man who suffers from a condition called…

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    Beginner Sewing Machines

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    What are beginner sewing machines? Beginner sewing machines are sewing machines that are fit to be used by individuals who are new to sewing. They are specifically designed for beginners and are not so complicated as compared to sewing machines used by intermediate or advanced tailors and dressmakers. They are basic machines which are easy to use. Therefore, it is very important that if you are new in this industry, you make an effort to get the best sewing machine. Why do we need to get the…

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    one of those somewhat new , modern advancements in technology is electronic voting machines. Nowadays their is so many new forms of technology in this world. When it comes to voting, it is hard to tell which methods are best to go by. One method of voting, which has been around for a long time in our voting system, more commonly know in the United States than the newer, more technologic electronic voting machines are the older, paper voting ballots. The other method in the United states voting…

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    ‘Experience Machine’. This hypothetical machine aims to argue against moral hedonism by proposing that there are more intrinsically important elements to one 's existence than pleasure, namely experience. This essay aims to firstly outline Nozick’s argument, illustrate how it can be seen as a counter-argument to hedonism and finally provide a critique of the conditions of the argument. Nozick introduces his readers to the ‘Experience Machine’ by describing the elements such a machine that could…

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    Christians any time lately. If I were to formally ask someone this question, they would probably think that I was joking, because of how absurd it sounds. My point is: this is similar to Nozick’s experience thought machine. Philosophers, such as Nozick, argued that a life plugged…

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    Artificial Intelligence in modern day phones is programmed to be of the greatest convenience. For example, the location application allows your phone to know where you are at all times. This makes applications such as Google Maps to be very effective and efficient. Research even shows that 87% of iPhone users use Siri (an application that can search the web for you) monthly (Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence, 2014). As…

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