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Interpretations Of Socratess D
Words: 682 / Pages: 3 .... when he speaks of wisdom.
Socrates totally agrees with God when he says (through the oracle) ,“wisdom is worthless.” To understand why Socrates coincides with that statement, there are three convictions of his that must be considered. One, to claim that you have wisdom, but in fact not, is ignorant. Two, to say that you do not have wisdom and acknowledge such fact is wisdom. Three, to possess wisdom but do not speak of it is true wisdom. Socrates belongs to the second group. The confession that he does not posses it is wisdom in itself. According to Socrates, this wisdom is worthless because it is not true wisdom. However, even though su .....
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The Privatisation Of The Uk El
Words: 4603 / Pages: 17 .... aim of this project is to investigate to what extent the industry has changed since these changes were implemented and how the price of electricity to consumers has been affected by these changes.
The privatisation of this industry has seen four main stages:
Firstly, British Electricity, a government run industry which was effectively a public monopoly ran from the 1960’s until the first step to privatisation in 1990. This stage on the road to privatisation was to introduce competition in direct supply for customers with over 1MW in demand (around 5000 sites), thus introducing the idea of competition into the industry, allowing a small propo .....
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Sir William Wallace
Words: 695 / Pages: 3 .... and French and how to be a swordsmen.When William's father returned from the revolt at Turnberry Band William was 17 years old. Fighting between rival families and rival towns were heating up. Civil War was about to Break out in Scotland. Brawling and riots inside towns turned into full scale battles, Where in the Battle of Loudoun Hill William's father was involved and killed. William Stayed with his mother For two years until he met Murron Braidfoot and married her in the year 1272. There are many tales on how William Wallace became and outlaw after his marrige, one such is that one day Wil liam was fishing at a near by lake when a group of english .....
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Collective Behavior
Words: 483 / Pages: 2 .... event is an example of a social movement. This was simply an organized group of people that gathered for the purpose of resisting change (In this case, the strategies discussed by the aforementioned institutions) through their collective action. Specifically, this type of social movement is called a resistance movement, because this group was in opposition to change of a certain aspect of our society.
The main reason why activists gathered in protest on Saturday was to expose the World Bank and IMF practices and policies that the protesters believe have led to the degeneration of the environment and the social deprivation in the developing world. .....
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Advertising Of 1890 Compared T
Words: 904 / Pages: 4 .... aim it at the right receiver in the market.
What sounds obvious now was in fact not recognized in the 19th century. Advertising was a print medium at first, and primarily followed the basic rules of decorum and factual reporting of the journalism of the day. Thus, a Sears And Roebuck catalogue from the 19th century offered Underwear For Fat Men with a line drawing a hefty, older fellow with a distended belly trying on a pair of longjohns (Sears & Roebuck, 1879, p. 6). In addition to such straightforward advertising, there were rules which limited the effectiveness of print advertising as a visual medium in many venues. Ads were kept in the back .....
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The Ancient City
Words: 431 / Pages: 2 .... on social class or position, nor financial support. Finally, the existence of a truly democratic system of government would also imply that governments be periodically elected, and during any given term of government, politicians would be fully employed by the state in the running of the country.
Given such implications of democracy, Pompeian politics would appear at first appraisal to hardly be democratic at all. Certainly, it can be said that the politics of Pompeii in particular and by extension the politics of Roman society as a whole do not meet the modern, Western ideas of a relatively liberal, democratic society. However, such a modern, Weste .....
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The Game Of Basketball
Words: 3633 / Pages: 14 .... vary, a playing area 84 ft (25.6 m) long and 50 ft (15.2 m) wide-predominantly used in recreational, high school, and intercollegiate competition-is considered ideal for most players. Professional basketball courts are slightly larger, 94 ft (28.7 m) long and 50 ft wide. In addition to size, courts can vary in other ways, such as in the radius of the circle situated at the center of the court, in the size of the backboard, and in the distance of the 3-point line (from beyond which a score counts for 3 points) from the basket. For example, the 3-point line in high school and college games is 19 ft 9 in (6 m) from the basket, while in international .....
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Christmas Satire
Words: 597 / Pages: 3 .... sisters would curl beside a blazing fire and watch a classic Christmas movie called, "It's a Wonderful Life". This is what the true spirit of Christmas should be.
The Christmas of the present is not what it used to be. What once was a delightful, Christmas caroling time is now a chaotic, screaming in someone's face nightmare. Relatives avoid each other for fear of actually reliving bad childhood family moments. Children still run around the house clamoring over presents, but not from under a nice smelling pine tree, but from an aluminum death trap waiting to fall over and spit out sparks of electricity. While the children still enjoy this time, they .....
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The Advancement Of Weaponry
Words: 1179 / Pages: 5 .... of many of today’s weapon systems.
When the Byzantine Army was being developed as a model fighting force in the early 7th century, the armies of Western Europe were made up of mostly barbarians who relied on weight, numbers and sheer physical courage to do battle (Hindley, 22). These battles were fought exclusively on land, as naval warfare did not evolve until somewhere around the 13th century. In comparison to future centuries, weapons during this period of time were extremely primitive. The most common weapons of this time period were battle-axes, daggers, and hatchets. During this era defensive weapons and armor were nearly non existen .....
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Bull Fighting
Words: 866 / Pages: 4 .... wears a brightly colored costume known as the
suit of lights. His assistants wear less flashy costumes.
The movement from act to act in the bull-fight is divided by a trumpet
blast. The first trumpet signals the paseo, or march of the bull-fighters. The
second trumpet proclaims the entrance of the bull. The matador first watches his
chief assistant perform some passes with the yellow and magenta cape, in order
to determine the bull's qualities and mood, before taking over himself. During
this period the matador is testing the bull's speed, power and tendencies to
hook one way or the other. Information learned now is crucial for a successful
fi .....
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