An examination of the nature of the soul according to Aristotle.
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This paper looks at the parts of the soul and at its relationship to the formal cause. The paper explains that the soul is the thing - it can be dormant - that prompts the body to act in certain ways, the two of them - the soul and the body - are inseparable and the soul seems to have about five distinct parts that manifest themselves in different living beings in accordance with where that creature ranks on the hierarchy of living organisms; in other words, a creature that is higher up the evolution scale will manifest more aspects or parts of the soul than a being that is at the bottom end of the scale. The paper adds that these parts appear to be called "potentialities" by Aristotle and it looks as though he perceives the parts of the soul to really be things that are dormant until set into motion by a host body.
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The Nature of the Soul According to Aristotle This paper looks at the nature of the soul according to Aristotle; the paper will similarly look at its parts (the parts of the soul, that is) and at its relationship to the formal cause. Overall, the soul is the thing - it can be dormant - that prompts the body to act in certain ways, the two of them - the soul and the body - are inseparable and the soul seems to have about five distinct parts that manifest themselves in different living beings in accordance with where that creature ranks on the hierarchy of living organisms; in other words, a creature that is higher up the evolution scale will manifest more aspects or parts of the
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This paper discusses the problems, in terms of crime, that have and are still facing Russia, the operation of organized crime in Russia, and the way it has molded the people and society of Russia.
Research Paper # 49754 |
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This paper relates that the Number One problem the post-Soviet society is facing today is not a new problem, but one that was dormant and concealed: organized crime. The author points out that, by the time of the fall of the Communist regime, the largest source of capital and wealth inside the Soviet Union was in the black market, with capital owned, manipulated, and governed by the Communist Party. The paper states that one of the ways this criminal environment can be remedied is by pressure on Russia and incentives from the international community to start to solve this problem.
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"The new organized criminals differ in character from the criminals of the traditional syndicate due to the fact that the new organized criminals are more like a jack-of-all-trades. They are characters with many masks. These new criminals have many acquaintances with the old black market world, the old criminal world. They are acquainted with the official world of politics as well as the old structure of the communist party. These new types of criminal are the people that are now classified as the Mafia."
Tags:underlords, mafia, money-laundering, stabilize, court
This paper discusses the nature of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), a social problem that affects all walks of life.
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APA | 2005
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This paper explains that, even if the HIV infection is currently dormant, the immune system produces antibodies to combat the virus which are ineffective, but their presence indicates an HIV infection. The author points out that the consensus among the medical community about the transmission of AIDS states that there is no evidence that the disease can be transmitted through such activities as casual contact, hugging, kissing or through the air or saliva: AIDS can be transmitted only through direct sexual contact, blood transfusions, hypodermic needles and from mothers to their unborn babies. The paper stresses that the central controversy in the surveillance of AIDS is not the reporting requirement, but how these records might be used.
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
"The Plague"
Public Health
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"Instead of maintaining the present practice of voluntary testing and confidentiality, many states are considering contact tracing. Contact tracing is a form of medical surveillance in which public health officials are statutorily required to inform the sexual partners of a positive test for a disease by a patient. This process of disease control is authorized in many states for the treatment of venereal disease. A doctor reports a positive test result of a patient to the state health department; the name is entered on a register; and the state health officer then has the duty to inquire about the patient's sexual activities and to inform all sexual partners of the disease; the sexual partners then submit to their own tests."
Tags:antibody, surveillance, sexual, partner, contact
A review and comparison of the movie "Apocalypse Now Redux" and the Joseph Conrad book "Heart of Darkness".
Comparison Essay # 68808 |
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APA | 2006
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This paper examines the shared central theme of both Joseph Conrad's book, "Heart of Darkness", and Francis Ford Coppola's film, "Apocalypse Now Redux". The paper studies the Kurtz character, who comes to be criticized for continuing to do what he had done previously under army control, but now on his own authority. The paper studies how the other characters react to Kurtz and his ensuing madness. In both the book and the movie, there are numerous possibilities for an endless abuse of power by foreigners in a primitive jungle setting. The paper demonstrates how this setting tends to bend their minds and release their dormant savage energies. For example, the paper shows how in "Heart of Darkness", gun-crazy members of the company are depicted firing wildly upon anything and everything as they progress up the river. Likewise, the paper analyzes how the men in the patrol boat rigid (PBR) in "Apocalypse Now Redux", act even more brutally, due to the circumstances of the Vietnam War.
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"The dominant theme of Heart of Darkness is man's vulnerability to his own darker nature and the various ways in which this terrible, savage, proto-man can be unleashed; power, the jungle, "the Company," all serve as catalysts for the emergence of this hidden, voracious id-thing within us all, most realized in Kurtz. In Apocalypse Now Redux, Coppola is right on target in exploring this theme, his choice of Viet Nam in the sixties providing all the requisite elements: madness, power, the jungle, and "the Company" are all present, the latter being represented by the United States (US) Army, or perhaps the USA as a whole. This last touch is ingenious, as it calls up a whole series of speculations regarding the various forms of imperialism. In Conrad, set at the turn of the century, the imperialism is traditional, overt. In Coppola, the US presence is just as overt, yet the pretense upon which it is based is more ideological, geopolitical."
Tags:vietnam, viet, cong, kurtz, jungle, war, pbr, 1960s, protest
This paper describes how the doctrine of preemption is applied when federal and state laws conflict with each other.
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MLA | 2003
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This paper addressed how the allocation of authority between the national and state governments is primarily ruled by the doctrine of preemption. When Congress passes an Act, the Act preempts any state law that either does or potentially could conflict with the federal law. This doctrine includes dormant federal powers and prohibits states from acting when the federal government has not acted, but could act, on a particular matter. Furthermore, this paper discusses various types of preemption (conflict, field, express) that may be applied when federal and state legislation conflict. Also discussed briefly is the power of the president per the Constitution.
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"While the concept of dual sovereignty dominated the nineteenth century, in modern times the allocation of authority between the national and state governments is primarily ruled by the doctrine of preemption. When Congress passes an Act, the Act preempts state law that either does or potentially could conflict with the federal law. This doctrine includes dormant federal powers, and prohibits states from acting when the federal government has not acted but could act on a particular matter."
Tags:congress, constitution, law, legislation
This paper discusses the influence of the art of weaving on architecture.
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2002
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This paper reviews the idea that there is a dormant analogy between weaving and architecture. The paper shows how the materials used in the process of weaving are similar to the structures in the field of architecture. The author reveals the similarity of weaving patterns and the ornaments used in architecture.
Examines its creation, composition, short- and long-term environmental effects.
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1999
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Volcanic dust is the residue that remains in the atmosphere after the eruption of a volcano. A volcano is a general term for any opening in the crust of a planet or natural satellite through which gases, lava or magma, and solid fragments are discharged. Volcanoes are typically classified as active, dormant, or extinct (Encarta, 1998).
The interior of the earth is composed of an inner solid-iron core surrounded by an iron-rich, liquid outer core. Beyond the core is the mantle, a chemically distinct silica-rich layer that extends to the earth's crust, about 4,100 miles from the center of the earth. The mantle is extremely hot, and convective ..."
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"VOLCANIC DUST
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Volcanic dust is the residue that remains in the atmosphere after the eruption of a volcano. A volcano is a general term for any opening in the crust of a planet or natural satellite through which gases, lava or magma, and solid fragments are discharged. Volcanoes are typically classified as active, dormant, or extinct (Encarta, 1998).
The interior of the earth is composed of an inner solid-iron core surrounded by an iron-rich, liquid outer core. Beyond the core is the mantle, a chemically distinct silica-rich layer that extends to the earth's crust, about 4,100 miles from the center of the earth. The mantle is extremely hot, and convective ..."
An examination of building trends in America in the past 20 years and the problems some of these trends are creating
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MLA | 2002
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This paper argues that the seemingly disparate trends in the American construction industry are in fact related by the geography of modern employment. Our booming technology-based economy has focused its growth in urban areas, leading to skyrocketing housing prices and urban sprawl while simultaneously leaving construction employment and nationwide building trends dormant.
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"In 1982, total construction receipts for single-family homes totaled $5.3 billion. By 1997, receipts had grown to an inflation-adjusted amount of $7.9 billion. This 60% increase is significantly less than the overall growth in construction in the United States in that time period, which almost tripled from $313 billion to $835 billion(US Census Bureau, 1982, 1987, 1997). The causes underlying this startling difference are hard to pin down, but a large part of the blame can probably be ascribed to the significant depression of the late eighties and early nineties. The high interest rates and high inflation figures of the era scared away new home buyers, while government investment in the private sector spurred other aspects of construction (Econedlink, 2000)."
Tags:construction, residential, housing, inflation, prices, investment
A paper discussing the history of Polynesian seafaring and how it is being re-integrated into current Hawaiian-Polynesian cultural practice.
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MLA | 2002
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This paper defines and discusses this unique culture of sailing the oceans and examines the history of this practice. It explores how the skills and heritage of these seafaring people, that laid dormant for generations, is experiencing a revival amid the Polynesians of today, giving them pride and purpose in the ancient arts and culture of their ancestors.
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"The Pacific Ocean is the earth's largest geographic feature, occupying more than one third the surface of the globe, an area greater than all the landmasses put together. The some 25,000 islands, roughly 1.6 million square kilometers, are scattered about a sea area of more than 88 million square kilometers, stretching 16,000 kilometers along the equator and 15,000 kilometers from the Bering Strait to the Antarctic Circle (Kiste 1991). More than one half of the world's islands are found in the Pacific Ocean. These islands comprise an area known as Polynesia, which means "many islands," and is geographically the largest of the Pacific's cultural areas, with distances between the island groups the greatest (Kiste 1991). An imaginary triangle from Hawaii in the north to the southeast at Easter Island then to New Zealand in the southwest defines Polynesia. The Pacific Ocean is so vast that even with some 25,000 islands dotting its waters, the majority of the area is empty. In fact, if Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, had missed Guam in 1521, he would have believed that there was no human inhabitants in the entire region (Kiste 1991). Today, "the combined exclusive economic zones of the countries in the region is approximately 30 million square kilometers, an area almost the size of Africa or three times the size of the continental United States" (Zurick 1995)."
Tags:ocean, pacific, explorer
How we should read primary sources.
Analytical Essay # 44104 |
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2002
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This analytical research paper explores in intricate detail, the following question: How should we read primary sources? This question gives rise to various other questions that are dormant behind the layers of concepts and aspects related to reading and analyzing the information coming from the primary sources. For instance, do primary sources speak for themselves? How should we read them literally so as not to obscure their original meanings? Or do we need to read them in other ways? What role does an understanding of a source's author and his or her audiences play in our reading? What about authorial motivations, perspectives, agendas and purposes?