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Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” urges individuals to pursue the truth instead of blindly accepting lies and myths when seeking knowledge by explicitly revealing the existence of the two separate paths, through the objects of the book and the camera. The text then endorses the path to truth, as a viable alternative to the common path of falsehood, when it use a physical object to mimic the process of collecting concrete facts instead of speculations and stories, represented by an abstract object. In doing so, the reader can come to realize the reality that the pursuit of truth is the most well-grounded and accurate form of acquiring knowledge. Considering every journey needs a purpose to strive for along the way, the poem reveals the diver’s objective as a way to make the two available options of acquiring information evident to the reader’s understanding. The poem achieves this…

The children become able to think about all the relevant features of any given object, because centration no longer occurs. Not only that, but they begin to think more logically about beliefs (like Santa Claus), hey ask questions, and come to much more rational conclusions about the fantasies of their early childhood. In this stage, they begin to dabble in science and math and are convinced they know more than their parents. However, like before, they have some limitations. The most major…

For example, a 3-year-old may complain about his slice of pizza being smaller than his brother’s and become unhappy. Once his original slice is cut into two slices, he will think that he has “more” than his brother. The 3-year-old will focus on the number of slices he has and not the actual amount of pizza he has. Focusing only on one feature of some object rather than taking all features into consideration is called centration. Centration is one of the reasons that children in this stage often…

with this ambiguity of their own being. Since rationality has undermined the very process of the impartial and masterful I as predominantly metaphysical, the subject rigidifies themselves on the basis of instrumentally applicable categories of identity politics, and psychiatric disorders, the "left" or "right" objectifying themselves further. The subject is a statistic, a successful or unsuccessful adaptation to the objectivity of their function.33 Dialectically, the subject's capacity to even…

idea on the matter. Examining two philosophers, or more, side-by-side can provide insight into why beauty is a hard concept to grasp, but it does not examine why the philosophers either agree or disagree with one another. Kant’s Critique of Judgement attempts to specify what makes something beautiful and in doing so exposes himself to other philosophers in a way that questions his ideals. This attempt to define beauty by narrowing it down with different ideas regarding his judgement of taste…

Student ID: 1330882 Paper 1: Russell and Strawson Introduction In this paper, I will compare and contrast Russell’s and Strawson’s accounts on definite descriptions, which are phrases of the form “the X” and denote some object. I will first reconstruct Russell’s account, which argues that that all definite descriptions are in reality a series of propositional statements and claims. I will then reconstruct Strawson’s account and claim that Russell’s account is flawed because it focuses…

Tablemate, a product produced by VitalTech has effectively given St. Peter’s residence a more social, pleasurable, and comfortable dining experience. A critical part of the design process was understanding that many residents are sometimes forced to leave their homes and live at St. Peter’s due to their disabilities, this gave us the idea of what experience the device should provide in the final product. The final decision was to give the ladies at table two a dining experience that would feel…

They state that since there is no one-fits-all approach, they may use discretion reasonably to determine the level of force to use. According to their department use of force may be used in arrests, averting an escape, or when dealing with resistance. They then describe the factors which may reasonably lead to use of force, which include: sudden and grave risk to officers or others, the behavior of the person being confronted, the physical factors of both the officer and person being confronted…

The object that I chose to talk about that I use in everyday life is the mirror. I use the mirror everyday to see if my hair isn’t looking messy, to see if my teeth are white in the morning, and I also use it to see if there are any stains anywhere on my clothing. Its a very useful item in my life, that I couldn’t live without, since I’m always paranoid about how I look everyday, so I just always have to look in the mirror. I basically look at the mirror every time I leave my room. As…

cooperative to physical examination. Ci'ith stands, on her feet, at a height of about 1.7m, and is 10m from top of head to tip of tail. Her body is a soft, pale grey in hue, with thin, deep red angular markings over a majority of her figure. Though she does not bear visible nipples, her chest appears to bear modest breast tissue. Ci'ith's figure is toned and deceptively powerful, especially in the legs and tail--while capable of lifting several times her body weight by hand, she has also…