«The question I will endeavour to address is whether network multiplayer capable computer games offer a valid means of social interaction. To satisfactorily address this question, several terms must be defined as they are used in the context of this...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe question I will endeavour to address is whether network multiplayer capable computer games offer a valid means of social interaction. To satisfactorily address this question, several terms must be defined as they are used in the context of this document.
The first issue which must be addressed, is what exactly constitutes a “networked multiplayer game”. A “networked multiplayer game”, as used in this sense, is a electronic 'game' that can be played simultaneously by more than one player inhabiting the same state space, with each player using a different device, be it a personal computer, a portable device or a games console. This means that players can interact, within the game space, from remote locations. This may include crossing international boundaries.
The first issue which must be addressed, is what exactly constitutes a “networked multiplayer game”. A “networked multiplayer game”, as used in this sense, is a electronic 'game' that can be played simultaneously by more than one player inhabiting the same state space, with each player using a different device, be it a personal computer, a portable device or a games console. This means that players can interact, within the game space, from remote locations. This may include crossing international boundaries.
«A vast multitude of movies have been made in an attempt to realistically recreate many generations on screen. Almost every generation has had a movie made to express the thoughts of the people within it. After searching several movies, I watched two...» Document abstract
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SummaryA vast multitude of movies have been made in an attempt to realistically recreate many generations on screen. Almost every generation has had a movie made to express the thoughts of the people within it. After searching several movies, I watched two in order to see which best represents our generation, Mean Girls and Dazed and Confused. After watching the movies, I found that Mean Girls more accurately portrays our generation than Dazed and Confused does. Both movies include many topics that can relate to our generation.
Keywords: popularity, our generation, Matthew McConaughey, Lindsay Lohan
Keywords: popularity, our generation, Matthew McConaughey, Lindsay Lohan
Table of Contents- The main topic in the movie Mean Girls is popularity.
- Along with having the attention of everyone in school, being popular gives the Plastics the ultimate power.
- Mean Girls is an accurate representation of our generation.
- The focus on popularity in Dazed and Confused is not of the same caliber as Mean Girls.
- Another topic that is focused on in Mean Girls is peer pressure.
- In Dazed and Confused peer pressure plays a much smaller role on the characters.
- Even some of the characters in Mean Girls are affected by popular culture without even knowing it.
«The Virgin Mary is a significant figure in the Christian religion, with her significance remaining nearly identical throughout the different sects of Christianity. From her Immaculate Conception to her Assumption into Heaven, the mother of God holds...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Virgin Mary is a significant figure in the Christian religion, with her significance remaining nearly identical throughout the different sects of Christianity. From her Immaculate Conception to her Assumption into Heaven, the mother of God holds many significant values and beliefs to all Christians alike. However, in order to understand why she holds such a significant role in Christianity it is first important to appreciate the life she lived as told through Biblical references.
Keywords: Pope Pius IX, Khattab, original sanctity
Keywords: Pope Pius IX, Khattab, original sanctity
Zen Buddhism and Western Culture: How its practices affect its culture and are mirrored in many Western ideas
«There has always been a fascination with the contrast between Eastern and Western philosophies, culture and ideas. And nowhere is this fact more prominent than in religion and religious practices. More specifically, the Asian religion of Buddhism,...» Document abstract
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SummaryThere has always been a fascination with the contrast between Eastern and Western philosophies, culture and ideas. And nowhere is this fact more prominent than in religion and religious practices. More specifically, the Asian religion of Buddhism, though seeing its tenets blossom through Western culture at times, is in a variety of ways significantly different than most Western religions. These differences are expressed in the worldviews that as a philosophy of the macro and microcosm of human experience represent a rather distinct sentiment. Naturally these worldviews are rooted in its parent religion Hinduism. As such, Buddhism, with its many sects, has one which is of interest here; that is Zen Buddhism. This unique approach to Buddha’s philosophy and religious practices, with its paradoxical koans and meditations, is an abrupt abasement to the Western cultural tradition of theorizing and appeals to formal logic. However, in spite of these contrarieties, the two apparent opposed perspectives reserve a more profound set of questions which both puzzle and probe the Zen teacher and Western thinker. In this paper, we will examine the effects that debates within Zen Buddhism and Western philosophy and religion have had on their respective cultures with particular attention paid to how Zen principles are derived from the more basic principles of Buddhism.
Table of Contents- Zen Buddhism is of the Mahayana branch.
- In so much as this approach developed as a clarification of some obscure doctrines found in basic Buddhism
- Dogen, and latter students of the school, would be introduced to a series of dilemmas.
- As one can see, the Sotoist dilemma of received and interactive dharma can be said to demonstrate similarities to our own dilemmas in the West.
- The unresolved dilemmas present in Zen Buddhism in regards to its paradoxical practices.
The Many Faces of Michel Foucault: An Analysis of the Evolution of his Conception of Identity Formation in the Modern World Through his Life and Works
«Throughout the course of his career as a historian, author, philosopher, and artist, Michel Foucault often shifted directions in his work, reinventing himself in the process and offering little explanation for his decisions to do so. Shortly after...» Document abstract
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SummaryThroughout the course of his career as a historian, author, philosopher, and artist, Michel Foucault often shifted directions in his work, reinventing himself in the process and offering little explanation for his decisions to do so. Shortly after the publication of Madness and Civilization in 1961, he commanded, “Do not ask me who I am, and do no tell me to remain the same.” Foucault’s approach to his life and work, which he often referred to as an art form and an abstraction, consequently made any endeavor to provide a conclusive analysis of his life and career inherently antithetical to both his methodology and to the breadth of his subject matter. With that contradiction in mind, scholars have nevertheless remained devoted to investigating patterns, variations, and trends in both his work and approach. Thus, a slightly fragmented and openly speculative analysis of Foucault’s work has since become the most appropriate and effective way to study the multifaceted and inherently paradoxical nature of Michel Foucault’s work.
Table of Contents- Foucault conceived of himself in a perpetual state of eternal evolution.
- Paul Rabinow, a scholar and former colleague of Foucault, provided a model for viewing the shift in Foucault's work.
- Foucault was further influenced by Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.
- Foucault moved through Discipline and Punish chronologically.
- In continuing with his assessment of punishment, Foucault turned toward the creation of precise disciplines.
- Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon perhaps best illustrated Foucault's point regarding the creation of docile bodies.
- He questioned the increasingly humane treatment that most scholars praised.
«New York City epitomizes superiority. Being one of the most renowned cities in the world, it is placed upon a pedestal. People travel here from across the globe for the cuisine, nightlife, and immense culture just to name a few. Another main...» Document abstract
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SummaryNew York City epitomizes superiority. Being one of the most renowned cities in the world, it is placed upon a pedestal. People travel here from across the globe for the cuisine, nightlife, and immense culture just to name a few. Another main attribute of the Big Apple is its vast diversity and integration, which is a topic that people who do not live here are greatly misinformed about. While it is true that many different nationalities and races inhabit this city, obvious segregation is still evident. The above quote is from a poem entitled “I Don’t Hear America Singing in the South Bronx,” in which Rodriquez-Montalyo writes about how hard it is to become successful coming from the South Bronx. She ends her poem by saying she is one of the few people who has had their voice heard growing up in such a racially segregated neighborhood. The heart of any problem can be found at its roots, so in the case of not becoming successful coming from a neighborhood such as the South Bronx, one can look at the flaws in the public education system. Children are growing up with a false sense of hope in certain neighborhoods, where only few prodigies make it out to be successful. Even though segregation has seemed to come to a legal end, this is not the case. In reality, children growing up in certain neighborhoods are not capable of affecting their own destiny and this segregation has an extreme negative impact on their lives.
Table of Contents- The ruling, that exact statement, is over 50 years old and has never been true for one of those days.
- There is no apparent solution of how to go about impeding this so-called cycle.
- If one example is not good enough, then you could look into an elementary school by the name of PS 6.
- The implications that can be drawn from the argument that segregation still exists.
- All children, no matter their race, embark on their educational journey in the same manner.
- In New York City there is a person appointed the Chancellor of New York City schools named Joel Klein.
«The type identity theory of physicalism is the idea, as outlined by David Lewis (Journal of Philosophy, 63, pp 17-25), that “every experience is identical with some physical state.” Experiences and states in this sense are to be taken as universals,...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe type identity theory of physicalism is the idea, as outlined by David Lewis (Journal of Philosophy, 63, pp 17-25), that “every experience is identical with some physical state.” Experiences and states in this sense are to be taken as universals, and not as particulars, which is where the type identity theory differs from the token identity theory.
In this essay I will look at the type identity theory as outlined by Lewis, and also the problem of whether this theory can accommodate the idea that mental states are variably realisable in animals of different physical natures. This problem is talked about in the article “The Nature of Mental States” by Hilary Putnam (1979).
In this essay I will look at the type identity theory as outlined by Lewis, and also the problem of whether this theory can accommodate the idea that mental states are variably realisable in animals of different physical natures. This problem is talked about in the article “The Nature of Mental States” by Hilary Putnam (1979).
«In a case study of the mental and physical effects of second-hand smoke on pregnant women, it would be understandably ineffective to use a single test group comprised entirely of women in their second trimester. This is because, when you are...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn a case study of the mental and physical effects of second-hand smoke on pregnant women, it would be understandably ineffective to use a single test group comprised entirely of women in their second trimester. This is because, when you are performing a case study, you need to be sure that you are properly representing the whole of your test group.
In the event of the aforementioned case study, it would be necessary to have a subject base of as many races and ethnicities of women as possible, who were exposed to second-hand smoke for recorded amounts of time through the entire process of their pregnancy. While the women in their second trimester could be of some help to research, they by no means account for a large percentage of pregnant women who are subject to prolonged exposed to cigarette smoke
In the event of the aforementioned case study, it would be necessary to have a subject base of as many races and ethnicities of women as possible, who were exposed to second-hand smoke for recorded amounts of time through the entire process of their pregnancy. While the women in their second trimester could be of some help to research, they by no means account for a large percentage of pregnant women who are subject to prolonged exposed to cigarette smoke
«At some point in history, man found a way to bond with his fellow man, in an exclusive grouping system with organization and benefits. Whether it is early man as a clan or primitive humans staying together for safety and food, humans are drawn...» Document abstract
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SummaryAt some point in history, man found a way to bond with his fellow man, in an exclusive grouping system with organization and benefits. Whether it is early man as a clan or primitive humans staying together for safety and food, humans are drawn together because we are naturally social beings. Over the history of time, humans have found many ways of making themselves part of a lager whole in order to put themselves better off then being alone. In the early years of our great nation, our founding fathers found that being part of the Masons was not only helpful but made them more powerful, more exclusive, and more favorable to trust in a time where trust was something to be won and not just handed out. Fourteen of our nation’s Presidents as well as numerous other important and influential citizens have also been Masons, parts or founders of more modern Fraternities and social organizations, and important inventors, scientist and cultural icons. What is it that this exclusionary practice of men making themselves organized that has been made such a phenomenon in America for so many years and has appealed to so many young men over time and how has it affected our history is something that very few people consider, however without those bonds of manhood the history of our nation could be quite different.
«Anybody who has seen a domesticated animal wandering through a neighborhood, fallen dead alongside a busy road, or watched as a lost pet notice goes unanswered has witnessed many of the effects of a poor animal shelter system. Those who have adopted...» Document abstract
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SummaryAnybody who has seen a domesticated animal wandering through a neighborhood, fallen dead alongside a busy road, or watched as a lost pet notice goes unanswered has witnessed many of the effects of a poor animal shelter system. Those who have adopted a pet out of rescue, or had a pet go missing that was never recovered are aware of shelter problems at a much more personal level. According to the Humane Society of The United States, there are currently over 160 million cats and dogs owned as pets. Of these, less than 15 percent were adopted out of animal shelters (“Overpopulation”). With so many animals being sheltered each year, those responsible for their well-being are trying to tackle the problem at hand to create the best solution for the animals and people involved. The financial restrictions and limited resources have left many shelters unable to care for all of the animals taken in, and as such, the problem becomes worse each year.
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