Descartes divides ideas into three kinds: innate ideas‚ adventitious ideas‚ and factitious ideas. He says‚ “among my ideas‚ some appear to be innate‚ some appear to be adventitious‚ and other have been invented by me. My understanding of what a thing is‚ what truth is‚ and what thought is‚ seems to derive simply from my own nature. But my hearing a noise‚ as I do now‚ or seeing the sun‚ or feeling the fire‚ comes from things which are located outside me‚ or so I have hitherto judged. Lastly‚
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What’s the BIG IDEA? A Student’s Guide to How “Academic Writing” becomes “Academic Discourse” By Dee Broughton You may think that the purpose of college is the education of students‚ and certainly‚ to some degree‚ that’s true. But your professors are not just teachers. They are academics who research and study in their chosen fields in order to contribute to the body of knowledge in that field. In short‚ your major field‚ such as ELT or chemistry or food science‚ exists in the university because
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groups that we become a part of‚ whether it is a friend‚ work‚ school‚ or music group. Researchers have deemed these groups as discourse communities. Ann Johns explains discourse communities as‚ “a basis for sharing and holding in common: shared expectations‚ shared participation‚ commonly held ways of expressing” (320). Discourse communities hold certain standards and actions that lead to the functioning of the group. The Bartlett City Court Clerk’s Office is a stand out discourse community that has
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January 23‚ 2007 To: Teacher From: Student Subject: Analyzing a Discourse Community I am analyzing my bowling league for our homework assignment‚ in which we were required to identify specialized terms‚ proper topics‚ channels‚ and rules. Specialized terms During a bowling league there are many terms that a person that has never bowled might not understand such as getting tapped. What could sound a little vulgar really means that a bowler’s shot‚ or throw‚ was a good ball
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In the Artwork The Light of Coincidences‚ Rene Magritte utilizes space‚ balance‚ and high contrast to expose a quiet and eerie feel of the two-dimensional composition. Magritte‚ a Belgian artist‚ created this oil painting in the year 1933 . It is currently located in the James H. and Lillian Clark Galleries of Twentieth Century Art at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas‚ Texas. The work is small in scale‚ roughly two feet on each side with a gold distressed frame‚ and is made up of just three objects
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traditions”(Newton D Baker). Through exploring the history‚ power structure‚ slang words‚ rushing process‚ membership obligation‚ the way Phi Gamma Delta members dress‚ and how students who are not in a fraternity see the members. We will see how this discourse community can seem bias to outsiders. Phi Gamma Delta was founded on May 1‚ 1848 by six men who graduated from Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. The Phi Gamma Delta Chapter‚ nicknamed Fiji or Phi Gam by the members‚ has a hundred and thirteen
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questions on his own without being aided. Questionnaires are now widely used collecting data‚ particularly when data are to be collected from a large number of people who are scattered over a wide area. They are used both as indepen¬dent and separate method of collecting data. They are also used as an additional device to check data gathered through observation and personal interview. Definition of Questionnaire: 1. “A questionnaire is a means of gathering information by having the respondents fill
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and realist: if a ruler stays in good terms with his people‚ then they will follow him; if this person is not on the side of the people‚ then why should the people should him? In the same way‚ talking about his second letter that he called The Discourses‚ where Machiavelli talks about the different Rome empires and takes them as examples in order to a solid government ruled by one individual. He believed that all periods of time are similar‚ that is why he used Rome as an example to illustrate what
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Like Descartes‚ Montesquieu associated freedom as being in accordance with reason. Unlike Descartes‚ Montesquieu did discuss external freedom as embodied through law more at length‚ and also wrote extensively on the subject of slavery. In The Spirit of Laws‚ Montesquieu writes that “… political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom. In governments‚ that is‚ in societies directed by laws‚ liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will‚ and in not being constrained
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Throughout the past years we had great philosophers who expressed their studies and conclusions that made them very famous. Rene Descartes and John Locke were two philosophers that had the same idea‚ but different views of it. Descartes was a rationalist‚ which are people that argue that only reason can separate reality from illusion and give meaning to experience. The idea that eliminates reasoning can produce certain truths about reality and those important truths can be discovered without observations
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