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that comprises the current Berkeley campus was purchased by the private College of California. Because it lacked sufficient funds to operate, it eventually merged with the state-run Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College to form the University of California.

UC Berkeley: Origin of Free Speech, Topic of Extremes Here we go again; yet again do we, as Americans, get to see another protest go violent, but what is it about this time? Following up with recent news, Milo Yiannopolis, a highly controversial right-wing speaker and Breitbart columnist, was forced to evacuate UC Berkeley after a protest broke into violence as many left protesters began destroying nearby areas and attacking innocent people. Naturally, with such a controversial person coming to UC

Christian Everett Jennifer Edwards Criminology 24 April, 2016 Berkeley’s School of Criminology The Berkeley School of Criminology was founded in the early 1950’s and it’s faculty was of various FBI agents, District Attorneys and Chief of police, and an assistant chief of security from one of California 's concentration camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II, all together the school’s faculty had over to 125 years of experience working for prosecutorial agencies and institutions. In the

Greatest Choreographer in United States Film History’ is only fit for the man who remains legendary for his innovative redirection of dance through the camera lens. This newly famous and wildy popular style of the early 1900’s was created by Busby Berkeley. Berkeley changed how audiences view styles of vernacular jazz dance by adding his own twist of filming with a single camera in unique angles. It may sound like an obvious and indifferent technique to regular dance films on paper, but through the eyes

In the Mind or In the World? Do objects exist in the Physical world? This discussion has been around for generations. Philosophers like John Locke and George Berkeley have presented their theories about the basics of human understanding, but both ideas are contradicting. Although both Locke and Berkeley proved their position on whether primary qualities and secondary qualities exist in the real world, Locke has provided a more coherent argument. In Locke’s essay, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Jack Bate George Berkeley and the external world In 1999, Larry and Andy Wachowski directed The Matrix, a movie featuring the future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality or cyberspace called "the Matrix”. This fake reality was created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population. To some, this movie represents just another brilliant Hollywood sci-fi action film, but for others, it challenges the understanding of perspective, reality and appearance

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) is a very famous 18th Century philosopher from Ireland. Berkeley is most famous work was for coming up with the view point “Esse Est Percipi”, or “to be is to be perceived.” Based on Berkeley's findings, an idea must be thought of or perceived in order to exist at all. And if everything in the world (aside from minds) is made of ideas, then the existence of things, depends on there being someone who perceives them. When you perceive a purple crayon, according to many

John Locke and George Berkeley are two respected individuals in the world of philosophy. These two brilliant minds impacted the philosophy and brought new ideas that are worth noting. John Locke is famously known for his belief in tabula rasa or blank slate. He believed that knowledge was not innate in humans at born, but it is learned experiences that give us knowledge. Example, a psychiatrist understands how to help a client with this problem that may be new to the psychiatrist because he/she would

Locke, Berkeley, and Hume Enlightenment began with an unparalleled confidence in human reason. The new science's success in making clear the natural world through Locke, Berkeley, and Hume affected the efforts of philosophy in two ways. The first is by locating the basis of human knowledge in the human mind and its encounter with the physical world. Second is by directing philosophy's attention to an analysis of the mind that was capable of such cognitive success. John Locke set the tone for

In the 1670s, dissent from small farmers and frontiersmen marred the leadership of William Berkeley. Reasons, such as restrictions on the right to vote, high taxes, low tobacco prices, aristocratic leadership, and inadequate security against Native American attacks caused the dissent. Nathanial Bacon, a relative of William Berkeley, relocated from England in 1673 and became part of the administration in Virginia. Over time, the two disagreed on the issue of Indians (Rice, 2012). It was at this point