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- 2521: Christmas Gifts You Love (to Hate)
- ... that someday they might be fun and/or useful. But of course, they never are. Great Closet Stuffers include pasta makers, fondue sets, tacky knick-knacks, tie racks, and the ever-popular but usually short-lived all-around exercise machine. Some of these gifts might have actually been on someone's "want" list. But don't kid yourself. If you purchase such a gift, within weeks it will be doomed to ...
- 2522: The Olympic Athlete
- I always have respected Olympic athletes, for they spend all their time training. Victorious athletes were professionals in the sense that they lived off the glory of their achievement ever afterwards. Their hometowns might reward them with: free meals for the rest of their lives, honorary appointments, or leadership positions in the community. The victors were memorialized in ...
- 2523: Transcendentalism
- ... inside. In your inner soul you are poor, because materialistic person only thinks in money. The difference between Emerson and Thoreau, is that Emerson was getting paid, but Thoreau not. In conclusion, a transcendentalism person, lived his life without thinking, and being alone. they trust their first impression. They go beyond, go above the senses, to rise above. Transcendentalism contains Romanticism ideas too. It had political, ethical, aesthetic and religious implications ...
- 2524: The Samurais, The Ultimate Stoics
- ... their emperors and families. They had an unwritten code called Bushido, the way of the warrior. The Samurai could not ever be disgraced. If they were ever disgraced, they would commit ritual suicide, Seppuku. They lived plain lives and strived to improve their skills in fighting. Their philosophy was one of freedom from fear and for all of these reasons, The Samurai were the ultimate stoic warriors.
- 2525: The American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology
- ... veil himself when she had arrived at his family's home. In picture #1 this shows the background of a village in Shantung, in northeastern China. In this province is where Confucius was born and lived which also had a great amount of ancient tradition. " The early 20th century wedding chair, of wood, kingfisher feathers, copper wire, gilt and glass was probably made in southern China. The way the Chinese get ...
- 2526: Socrates' Moral Decision To Not Escape
- ... s source of goodness and virtue. He believed that the repayment of evil with evil was wrong. In short, Socrates was a very moral person. He stayed in Athens because he said that he had lived by the laws of the country for all his life. He had enjoyed the privileges of a civilized society, and that he had been treated as any other citizen would have come to expect. Now ...
- 2527: Is It Glorious To Die For Your Country?
- ... if friends and family were not at risk. Since our country has become less militarized since WWII the need for military personnel has not been as necessary. But as mentioned before if the country I lived was under a threat of takeover I believe I would take up arms to defend against the people who would try to attack. Other than that the physcological and physical damages soldiers endure would deter ...
- 2528: Essay - Effects Of Dam Building
- ... of the largest problems with this dam, is that it would be built on a region that meant a lot to 10 500 Cree and 7 000 Inuit. Lands that their ancestors have hunted and lived on for more than 5 000 years will be flooded along with 90% of their trapping lines.6 If this happened these people must resettle, find a new way of life and face the destruction ...
- 2529: CANADA
- ... three gold fleurs-de-lys. This flag was used by Cartier in his voyage up the St. Lawrence and by Champlain in his explorations of eastern Canada. It was under this flag that the French lived until the fall of Quebec in 1759. The flag was used by the English from around 1700 was the Union Flag which contained two crosses-the cross of St. George and the cross of St ...
- 2530: Two Brands Of Nihilism
- ... into relief. Nietzsche asks how might one respond if a demon were to reveal that all of a life, every moment, would be forever repeated. “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more,” with nothing new but to repeat every pain and every joy. Would a reponse be to praise and exalt the demon for ...
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