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    Though humans have been perceived and acknowledge matter through senses including taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing, but activity of the brain is not considered to be a sense. Descartes believed that there are solely two substances to ever exist, mind and matter. Descartes supposed that the body is nothing but a statue or a machine where the way the body functions can be accounted for mechanically except for the activities of the mind where none can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or…

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    dry, put a wax on top of the shoe so the design does not get ruined and then, we give them to you. The service we sell is to take your plain and maybe even old shoes and turn them into new and improved shoes of your dreams and with whatever design you would want. Our target audience is mostly teenagers and adults but we work for any size, for babies, toddlers, kids, teens, or even adults. Our shop found in any regular mall. Some of the capital goods we need are paints, paintbrushes, wax for the…

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    opposed to working since it shaped a façade over standing, yet probably rotted, common teeth. There are no bases all things considered and maintenance would have been absolutely mechanical, gave by remaining teeth. 18th century- Wood, Ivory, gold, wax, There is a portrayal of denture cut from wood or ivory and found in old Egyptian tombs, however no confirmation of any of these revelations…

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    often portrayed as fragile as if it is made of wax. Faber says that the people enjoy their world similar to a “wax moon face” (83), poreless and smooth, too perfect. Wax is a very meltable substance and fire burns wax of society. When Mildred finds out Montag is breaking the law, she reacted like a “wax doll melting in its own heat” (76). This is a terrific example of how two things that we love so much, the fire of society and the perfection of wax, can destroy each other. Later, Beatty brings…

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    (concepts), imagination (geometric objects), and sensation. Using wax as an example, Descartes removes imagination because it is unable to tell him whether the wax is still wax because the shape changes, and he removes sensation because his senses cannot tell when the wax changes. Left with intellect, Descartes states that since his intellect doesn’t depend on the senses and physical existence, it would give him information on the wax. This notion is epistemological because Descartes believes…

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    In the wax example, Descartes not only shows that perceiving object is considered a node of thinking, but also represent that we can understand an idea through a pure understanding, which is mind rather than sensory experience. The wax significantly suggests that pure understanding is clearer than sensory experience (Descartes, 1996, p20-p21). In the other hand. Locke emphasizes…

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    June 24, 2016 to mixed reviews. The controversy stemmed from not knowing if the people portrayed were real or wax figures. There were also questions of whether or not he received permission to use their likeness. The purpose of this video is to show controversial famous people in bed together as art in hopes of calling attention to them not being treated like real people. Kanye West uses wax-figures of controversial celebrities and several film techniques to support this claim. The message of…

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    Canning's Paintings

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    During the processes of painting and repainting - the practice of applying paint and scraping it back off again - there are resultant blemishes, bumps, knocks and scratches that accumulate incrementally on the surface. Canning (2012) remarks that his paintings do not aim for “flawless” surfaces; rather “they’re marked, and they do tell the story of the history of their making”. The hereditary traits of Canning’s inheritance of his father’s trade can also be seen in works like “Lithium” (Fig 4-11…

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    Sam Westing Game Analysis

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    that sam Westing isn't really dead. He wrote a will before he died saying that he was going to die, but is he really dead? How did he know something was going to happen before it did? Turtle said that his body looked like a wax dummy, but if it was just a fake Sam Westing wax statue. Maybe he got his statue cremated, so the heirs couldn’t double check the body to see if it was fake. Turtle also said that she heard whispers in the house, but what if those whispers were Sam Westing? Chris saw…

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    Do you believe in mythical creatures? Odysseus fought to resist the song they sing. He was a brave man, who went where no man dare go. He was also very cautious about it. He seen everything that was going on while he was tied to a pole. The hardest thing was resisting to Siren’s. In the story, Odysseus faces a creatures of the sea. There were a lot of conflict with his boat going through the sea. Odysseus himself was tied to a pole, because he want to resist the Siren's song. He struggled with…

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