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Freedom And Reason In Kant
Number of words: 1550 - Number of pages: 6.... will must be so in virtue of its form alone, the will must
be capable of a purely formal determination; that is, it must be possible for a
man to act in a certain way for the sole reason that willing in this way is
prescribed by a universal law, no matter what the empirical results will be.
A will to which moral considerations apply must be, in the strictest sense,
a free will, one that can function independently of the laws of natural
causality. The concept of morality, therefore, has to be explained in terms of a
universal moral law, and the ability to will in obedience to such a law .....
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St. Louis Communities
Number of words: 561 - Number of pages: 3.... area depending on which side of Kingshighway you live on. University City was started mainly by Washington University students and is still predominantly populated by area college kids. This portion of the city has also grown a subdivision known as "The Loop." The Loop is extremely liberal and thought of by most people as almost mysterious or bizarre.
A new phenomenon happening in our city is the rebirth of many of our older and rundown areas. One of the best examples of this is the "Soulard" area of town, which now has an established nightlife as well as exquisite historical antique h .....
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The Advancement Of War
Number of words: 386 - Number of pages: 2.... battle to the end between entirely different, agnostic politico-social systems. Loss of war threatened loss of everything, even freedom of individual conscience. World War II, which produced the cynical aggression and inhuman behavior of the aggressors, also left the legacy of the acts of the victims' aggressions.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not revolutionary events. One major justification of the events was the argument that they simply accomplished more efficiently what was already being done by hundreds of bombers carrying highly explosive bombs. However, after .....
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Children And Video Games
Number of words: 1499 - Number of pages: 6.... Video Game Use by Children Recent studies of television watching by children has included measures of the time children spend playing video games. In 1967, the average sixth-grader watched 2.8 hours of television per day. Data from 1983 indicated that sixth-graders watched 4.7 hours of television per day, and spent some additional time playing video games. A recent study (Funk, 1993) examined video game playing among 357 seventh and eighth grade students. The adolescents were asked to identify their preference among five categories of video games. The two most preferred categories were game .....
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How To Attract Girl
Number of words: 732 - Number of pages: 3.... You
have to know the Estonian proverb, "The brave beginning is a half of
victory". For Your better feeling You may invent some reason for calling.
For example ask something about a homework, but do not seem to her as a
foolish. First of all you have to insist in your mind that you are like
every other boy. Everyone have something interesting and attractive which
can put the girls to lose their heads. Perhaps You are funny speaker or
good listener. In the last case You have to give many questions to get her
meet with You. You have to realize your best sides of character and use
th .....
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Effects Of Social Pressure On
Number of words: 3036 - Number of pages: 12.... members in a group, the more likely they are to be successful. She also suggested that the presence of female students in a male dominated law school tend to affect their achievements. She also claimed that minority students are perceived as “tokens” or symbols and not as individuals. There are three main characteristics of a “token student” that can be explained as forms of social pressure. First, they are highly visible, thus they face performance demands that can be met by over achieving. As a result, they face performance pressure and they tend to perform di .....
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Compare And Contrast
Number of words: 1090 - Number of pages: 4.... they agree that drugs are running the lives of many young people (pg. 934).
In "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett", Friedman address Bennett mistake in failing to see the many problem drugs will create if drugs were to be legalized. One problem that Friedman points out is black marketing. He believes that by making drug legal, there will be sold in regulated stores and it will be easier to get access to.
On the other hand Bennett see by legalizing drugs there will still be black markets. If drugs were to be legalized then only those who are at the age can purchase drugs. The question is wh .....
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The Discovery Of Pottery On An Archaelogical Site
Number of words: 1649 - Number of pages: 6.... study of pottery, which will be dealt with in the first part of
this essay, and secondly the study of the cultural insight pottery gives
enabling archaeologists to understand the society from which it came.
Perhaps the most obvious way of analysing pottery is by the naked eye but
its obviousness should not detract from its importance. By observing the
physical attributes of any artefact a great deal can be told of its
manufacture as well as its manufacturer. The practice of typology is of
great use when analysing pottery. By observing the shape and size of any
artefact it is often possib .....
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China
Number of words: 4663 - Number of pages: 17.... operated under a type of feudal system; land was concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of landowners whose income depended on rents from their peasant tenants. Agricultural taxes levied by the imperial government and crop yields subject to drought and floods kept agriculture relatively underdeveloped and organized in small units with the use of primitive methods for basic subsistence.
The conclusion of the Opium War of 1840 formally initiated a period of Western penetration of China from the coastal treaty ports. Railroads and highways were constructed, and some industri .....
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I, Robot, A Metaphorical Analy
Number of words: 1050 - Number of pages: 4.... are just Tinker-Toys, which are very big and have positronic brains. The sponge that made up the brains in a concoction of platinum and iridium which make up a sponge. This sponge, made mostly by trial and error, and just throwing things into "pots" and seeing what it did.
Many children, when they find something they like, some food in the pot, stick with it, but they try to improve on it, putting sweet things into it. The robots, who are treated like pots, have one good thing. The one good thing that the robots have is the positronic brain. Although the brain is improved upon by putting .....
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