Essays on Essences

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The Gangster Movie: Questions and Answers

1. VIDEO CLIP 1: Identify two classical conventions of gangster genre (e.g. theme, plot device, character type, and/or stylistic device) present in this image and briefly explain the significance of each one. (2 points) The two classical conventions of Gangster Genre present in the first video are theme and character type. The theme that is being explored in the video clip is the immigrant criminal, who has been left to die in humiliation and as a comic, as required by the Production Code Administration (PCA). The character type is the gangster, who has dark, ethnic ...

Position: Marketing Director

Description: Although I joined the company as an Analyst, I was promoted to lead the marketing division of INFITEC GmbH globally, based on my performance. In this elevated role, I was directly responsible for opening offices in China, USA and Russia, as well as finding strategic partners in the EMEA region for home cinema and system integrators in the B2B area. At present, I manage a team 4 people in Germany and report directly to the CEO and the Managing Director. Listed below are some of the projects I have been involved in as part of this role. Project ...

Towards rethinking the philosophy around relationships, it is plausible to understand the preferences that men and women have over their partners. Psychological debates have indicated the contrast between men and women in determining their inclination to their partners. While men value the physical attributes and attractiveness, women tend to look at the social economic position of their partners. In view of this, it is important to realize that the basis of attraction between men and women varies along the continuum of socialization, preferences, tastes and values. In light of this, the practical implication of emotional spectrum that shapes ...

Hindus consider the Vedic texts as sacred. Adi Shankra is a 9th century Hindu mystic and commentary of the Vedic texts that explain the philosophical view of Advaita Vedanta. Different authors debate on Shankara's intent of writing concerning Oneness of Brahman and Atman and the interconnection between them. The main discussion in this essay is to explicate and qualify the truth based on Shankara’s writings. The paper will investigate whether Shankara exaggerates delusional nature of the external world as well as how one comes to know the connection between Atman and Brahman. According to Shankara, direct experience is ...

Essay

Materialism is a world view of philosophy, according to which the material is the ontologically initial onset (as the reason, requirement) and ideal – as a secondary (result, consequence). Materialism says that the existence of one single, absolute substantia of being – material, where all the essences were made of material, and the ideal phenomena are the processes of interactions between the material essences. The rules of material world are spread all over the entire human world and its society. The term of materialism was invented by Gottfried Leibniz, with which he characterized his opponents. Dualism is a world view of philosophy, according ...

The purpose of Marc Ereshefsky’s article, “What’s Wrong with the New Biological Essentialism” is to explore the new biological essentialism and to critically evaluate it, as the title suggests. The author is intending to demonstrate that the biological essentialism should be rejected, because it implies increased costs for being adopted, while the benefits are inexistent.

The first premises that the author uses to sustain his argument is based on the HPC Theory and Biological Taxa. Homeostatic property cluster (HPC) theory includes two components: (1) HPC membership kind requires no similarities, but (2) there must be stable properties ...