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    uncritically compared as opposites or binaries. It will also debate these two thinking’s and whether technology operates as an extension to the human body and if humans are classified as natural or technological beings or both. By looking at a design which as interactive technology, with reference to Arthur. W. B. The Nature of Technology, 2009 , Cox. D. J. The Tao of Postmodernism, 1989 and Dusek. V. Philosophy of Technology, 1941 Nature and technology is often thought of as opposites mostly because one

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    Free will represents an impact between two opposite perspectives. From a metaphysics perspective we wonder If we don't have free will then why are we here? What is the point of life if we cannot choose our course of actions. But from a scientific perspective we have questions like is it possible that anything can happen without having it be caused by something else? Some things really can't be described within the science that we all rely on. It makes people have free choices that forms who they

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    Time Period 4 Study Guide 1. The Democrats and the Whigs were polar opposites of each other and believed strongly in different aspects of the federal government, economy, and state. The Whigs were mainly a conservative group which believed in a strong active government that protected industry through tariffs and wanted internal improvements such as canals, railroads, and telegraph lines as well as to promote public education. The Whigs also favored both Northern and Southern manufacturing and agriculture

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    In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses the concept of direct opposites to contrast pairs of object and people several times. One significant instance of this can be seen within Dickens’ use of the time skip from the years before and then during the revolution. Before the start of the revolution, Paris, overall is a regulated city with laws still present. The peasants of the city at this point are profoundly oppressed and regarded as the lowest members of society. While the aristocrats are given the

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    However, it was quite the opposite. That wasn’t the only time Africans contributed to the development of Europe and Europeans. In European history the moors were essential to their technology and their sciences. In fact historically ”the Moors--who believed that Europeans were inherently inferior, and that they were closer to animals -- also introduced Europe to Universities(or higher level learning) and even the concept of “zero”(as cited in Douglas, 2009).” Now, that’s not to say Europeans are

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    know, fifteen people would be dead within only a few hours. For just another typical day of going through the motions, things should have been repetitive and uneventful. However, the students of Columbine High School experienced the complete opposite. The weather should have portrayed the event of today in a different manner. The clouds should have been black with storms, lightning bursting through the sky, and thunder shaking the ground so hard it felt as if there was an earthquake. The news

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    of the Remix, is a great example of opposites attract to compare the characters, Brooke and Gary, too. Daddy Gus and Baba are together, although, Daddy Gus is quiet and a man of few words while Baba fusses and yells. Brooke and Gary split because of their opposite personalities, but in the movie, even when it was mentioned it’s too late for them, you can see a definite longing for each other. Daddy Gus and Baba stayed together, even though they were so opposite, but when Daddy Gus passed Baba’s spirit

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    Mario Serna Intro A disconnect from ideologies opposite from ones own, appears to be the obvious and simple response. Opposite architectural theoretical ideas such as solid vs void, ideas vs talent, program vs paradigm, object vs context, literal vs phenomenal transparency, amongst others are discussed and analyzed in many of Colin Rowe 's writings. Rowe, a British-born, architectural historian, critic, theoretician, teacher and a major intellectual influence on world architecture and urbanism

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    arranged by their parents, and they would marry their first cousins. In the course of time, women now can choose with whom they want to marry. Women of both countries are fighting to have their rights the same as the men rights, showing how two totally opposite countries, one strict and the other liberal, are fighting for the same reasons. Saudi Arabia has a uniform for women, they are obligated to wear a veil (abaya, how they call it in arab countries), and “depending on what city they’re in and if religious

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    In the article, “Conservative is Not Opposite Liberal: That’s Totalitarianism” by Timothy Ferris, he argues that people do not understand that the opposite of liberal is not conservative but it is called totalitarianism and creates a diamond description of political dynamics to prove why and what goes within a progressive, conservative, totalitarian, and a liberal. Why is it easier to understand politics this way? He also argues that when he mentions a “symbiotic relationship” between science and

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