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In this article, the writer discusses Descartes' and Anselm's ontological arguments about reductio ad absurdum (reduction to the absurd). The writer analyzes Anselm's ontological argument, and Descartes' new ontological argument. The writer then details flaws in both arguments.

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"The term 'reductio ad absurdum' the Latin for reduction to the absurd is a type of logical argument in which one assumes a claim for the sake of argument derives an absurd or ridiculous outcome and then concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong. It makes use of what is known as the law of non-contradiction which asserts that a statement cannot be both true and false. It is used when a formal contradiction can be ..."

Tags:Descartes, Anselm, reductio ad absurbum

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This paper examines the history of the Guardian ad Litem system, which is a system of volunteers and attorneys who represent children who are victims of child abuse and neglect. They investigate a case and make a report to the judge. The paper looks at how effective the program has been and some of the problems it presents.

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"Historically it has always been believed that parents took care of their children's best interests but this fallacy became apparent when Dr Henry C. Kempe published "The Battered Child Syndrome" and it was recognized for the first time that such a clinical condition existed and threatened a child's life.

Tags:Guardian ad litem (GAL), Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

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This paper explains that AD/HD refers to a family of related chronic neurobiological disorders that interfere with an individual's capacity to regulate activity levels, inhibit behavior, and attend to tasks in developmentally appropriate ways. The author points out that the diagnosis of AD/HD in adults is made even more problematic by the requirement of symptoms before age seven because adults patients may not be able to recall symptoms relating to their experiences in the past; therefore, another part of the diagnosis is often a joint interview with both the patient and a family member or spouse. The paper relates that, since many problems in the lives of adults with AD/HD are directly related to the disorder, tailored treatments are often the best approaches; the four basic methods are medial, educational, behavioral, and psychological.

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"In addition to the above general requirements for AD/HD diagnosis, each category of AD/HD also has specific requirements. For an AD/HD predominately Inattentive diagnosis, six of a possible nine symptoms must be present in the patient for more than six months, and those symptoms must be abnormal for the patient's developmental level. The symptoms include frequent inattention to detail or carelessness in schoolwork or other activities, difficultly in maintaining attention, frequent non-adherence to instructions and failure to complete tasks in schoolwork, chores, or work related activity. Additional symptoms include failure to listen when spoken to directly, difficulty with organization, avoidance, dislike, or reluctance to tasks requiring sustained mental effort, such as homework, frequent misplacement of materials, frequent forgetfulness, and a tendency to be easily detracted."

Tags:interfer, inhibit, family, chronic, neurobiological

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This paper will discuss an ad that was taken off of the Internet and will describe its meaning to the product it sells and also give a reflection on how it may influence the customer into purchasing this service. The company called Sky Net Web will be the main subject of this description of an Ad and will be analyzed in the way that this company presents itself on the web.

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This paper explains that the period from 1200 to 1600 AD was one of the most stimulating and yet cruelest eras in American, European, Asian, African and Middle Eastern history. As the history of the world during these centuries is analyzed, the author underscores that, without the fall of the Roman Empire, the reported shifts in control, economic strength and ideology, contemporary society would be different. The paper relates the influences of personalities, such as Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Tamerlane and Christopher Columbus.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Europe
Asia, China, the Middle East and the Mongol Empire
Ming Dynasty and Kublai Khan
Tamerlane and the Financial Collapse of China
Africa and Its Connection to the "New World"
America
Conclusion

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"The Byzantine Empire sustained an advanced cultural, political, and economic system. Orthodox Christianity characterized the Byzantine Empire; however, simultaneously, a different type of Christianity was emerging that was not yet formally establishment. The foundations of Catholicism were developing in Central and Western Europe. Even though the diminutive kingdoms of Western Europe were diffused in the early Middle Ages, the territories known as the fiefdoms of Western Europe shared common ground: Latin as a language, Franco, a mixture of languages used to communicate by people who had different native languages, and the feudal society of the Catholic Church."

Tags:religion, trade, slaves, yuan, indians

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In this paper, the writer discusses that the various elements of Budweiser's 2006 Super Bowl Ad "The Wave" fails to project a market target that covers a wider population for its possible clients. Sporting events are a crucial aspect to gaining the most sales by knowing who will purchase beer products. However, the writer maintains that Budweiser uses modern technology to create a misrepresentation and superficiality in relation to its target market that does not make a very strong impact on the viewer.

Tags:commercial, super

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This paper explains that the ads's effectiveness is based on their ability to use the visual language of other youth-oriented ads to attract adolescents, a group highly likely to suffer from depression. The author points out that the YBeBlue campaign has linked its efforts to those of a number of for-profit companies, a strategy that is becoming increasingly common and can prove to be quite effective for the company concerned, as well as highly useful for the non-profit. The paper relates that the campaign uses television spots, a Web site, banners, and postcards distributed to schools, universities, government agencies, and health centers in a very directed strategy of distribution of information.

Table of Contents
Introduction
A Different Type of Product
Adolescents Targeted By Depression
Using the Language of Young People to Talk to Young People
Moving From Television to Print
Cause-Related Advertising

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"The causes of depression include both biological and possibly genetic causes as well as a range of environmental ones. In many individuals, depression is caused by an interaction between biological and environmental (both personal and general) factors. Depression is categorized as an affective disorder, which means it is one of the forms of mental illness in which the defining characteristic is a mood disturbance. The affective changes in depression are a feeling of sadness (which matches with the popular understanding of the disorder), but it is also marked by feelings of guilt, helplessness and hopelessness. It is these last three that are at least as debilitating as the sadness itself."

Tags:language, affect, for-profit, postcards, strategy

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"This research addresses an advertisement for Cartier cigarettes which ran in the October 1990 issue of Vanity Fair magazine, between pages 178 and 180. Included in this paper is a description of the ad itself, including visualization, layout, balance and copy style, an analysis of the product itself, an examination of the target market for this product, and a determination of whether the ad is successful.


The advertisement is a full-page full-color ad with no bleed. Most of the ad is white space. The headline is centered and run in two lines of gold script: "The touch/is pure Cartier." There is one rule above and one below this headline, both of which extend to the end of the bottom (longer) line of copy. This copy is run in approximately 48 point type.
Beneath the headline is a photograph of the product, Cartier..."

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"Introduction
This research examines ethics issue fronts presented by the January 2000 United Colors of Benetton's advertising campaign, titled "We, on Death Row." The advertising took the form of a Benetton's sales catalogue, billboards, and posters, and featured photographs of death-row inmates at various state prisons and an accompanying essay describing their plight. The campaign, like previous Benetton's ad campaigns, fused social-issue advocacy and sales promotion and incited public controversy. Its subject matter gave it a higher public profile, however. Sears, Roebuck & Co., a longtime retail customer of Benetton's, canceled orders in protest (White, 2000, p. 62), and the state of Missouri sued Benetton's for misrepresenting its marketing strategy as journalism. This research examines.."

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"The world of today, in the third decade of the 21st Century, has survived and there is growing hope that it will continue to do so. This statement is not made lightly. No major city has disintegrated under the blast waves of a nuclear attack. Population centers have not been incinerated by the incandescent mass of a nuclear fireball. The citizenry have not been seared by the flesh burns of thermal radiation. There has been no lingering death from the neutrons and gamma rays of prompt radiation or death from drifting clouds of residual fallout. The launch buttons had not been pushed in Moscow or in Washington D.C. But it was close, very close.

Historians of the 21st Century seem to believe that the turning point was the decade of the 1990's. Prior to that time, ... "

Tags:TECHNOLOGY