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…Title: "There are many different authorities, including academics, politicians, global organizations and companies, who make knowledge claims. As an experienced TOK student, what criteria do you use to distinguish between knowledge, opinion…

…tendencies to move away from sources of pain and complications. We are shown how we also tend to grow closer to people we believe can cure us. Anderson illustrates how willpower is an essential factor in healing, and how we establish strong beliefs to prevent us…

…, Ann E. Imbrie and Barbara Mellix, tell their personal recollection of how their use of words evolved from borrowing to creating. Like a fine wine, syntax requires time, practice, use, age, and creativity to formulate ones own trademark technique. "When…

…"Of Mice And Men" Compare the opening of the novel "Of Mice and Men" with the opening of the film of the same name, using the language of media. The opening of the novel is a panorama to set the scene. Steinback deliberately illustrates a picture…

…Throughout the 19th and 20th century many artists have been trying to create an art of pure colour. Eugene Delacroix was one of the first painters practicing the use of pure colour and inspired many other artists such as Cezanne, Monet and Matisse…

…to offer the working adult the greatest flexibility in planning their academic schedule. Many of these formats use the latest technological advances to bring teachers and students at different locations together, while others enable to complete course…

…writes about his experiences in with Moroccan culture, but his more important use of his work and his research with the Moroccan people was to prove one thing: that culture is interpretation. He says, "The 'facts' of anthropology, the material which…

…The short story "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about a man and a girl, Jig, who are going on a trip. The woman is going there to have an operation. The author does not tell us specifics about the procedure. The story…

…a Martin Luther; a Galileo; hell, why not a Jesus? And we would be awed by our own creation. It would be great, just think about it: we build him, we are awed by him, he leads us, and then we - wait, what do we do then? Certainly we would not question our…

…We should agree with Aristotle that our use of reason is good for us because happiness is the ultimate end and reason is the only way of attaining this happiness. When Aristotle referred to happiness, or eudaemonia, he did not mean today's definition…