UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education *4766815836* ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Paper 1 Reading and Writing (Core) 0510/11 October/November 2011 1 hour 30 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples‚ paper clips
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Mencius and Han Feizi were both Chinese philosophers who supported various beliefs in how to properly govern a state. Together‚ they were able to create a diverse influence in both the past and present world. Mencius strongly believed that humans are inherently good‚ while Han Feizi was a philosopher adamant about the human nature being selfish and corrupt. Mencius proves that people are naturally virtuous by using an illustration of a baby that has fallen into a well. He explains that people will
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I. The Psychology and Philosophy of Education of Ayn Rand as presented in ‘The Comprachicos’ Ayn Rand writes mainly about the status quo and what and who is to be blamed for such circumstances. She talks of a miseducation so ingenious that when one reads about it one simply gets baffled as he is forced to look into his own experiences from the home‚ to the school‚ to the Church and in the province or in the city. One can expect to see various parallelisms with how he is brought up and
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World War Z Compare and Contrast During Dr. Kreider’s lecture on Zombies and Philosophy he asked us an important question; what do we owe our fellow human beings? What this means to those of us living in the moment of right now varies vastly from answers supplied by interviews in the book World War Z. To help find an answer Dr. Kreider provided us with two definitions of the state of nature under social contract theory produced by early philosophical thinkers. I believe that today’s society falls
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American’s rebelling against the British‚ in the Revolutionary War. In the following essay I will discuss some of the greatest revolutions in history and compare‚ as well as contrast them using categories such as: Chronology‚ Geography‚ Society‚ Philosophy‚ Economy‚ and Politics. The Glorious Revolution‚ which was also referred to as the Revolution of 1688‚ War of the English Succession‚ or The Bloodless Revolution resulted in the dethroning of King James II of England. The war lasted from 1688 to
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Taov Stas Pre-Degree Ilene Sova 24 June 2010 How a Skyscraper is Made. Throughout history humanity always tends to protect themselves from Mother Nature. Prehistoric people used caves for this purpose to cover their heads from the natural phenomena. From earlier generation‚ appeared the tendency of tall buildings for many reasons. Ancient Egyptians for example‚ built the pyramids‚ which were used like tombs for Pharaohs. In medieval Europe people built castles‚ enormous massive constructions
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Advantages of Having Burj Khalifa Tower built in U.A.E In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in Social Studies II- Asian History. Background of the study Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates‚ and is the tallest manmade structure in the world. Construction began on 21 September 2004‚ with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010‚ The tower’s architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore
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Brett Huber Building Report The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world’s tallest skyscraper. The building is standing at over two thousand seven hundred and twenty two feet. The tower is the largest man made tower in the worlds history. Starting construction in late September of 2004 the outer structure was finished in October 2009. While the interior was finished on the fourth of January 2010. The building itself sits on steel and is built that way all the way to the top with the glass shaped to
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Compare and Contrast the Philosophies of John Locke‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ and Karl Marx In the idea of human nature; origin of state‚ the nature of government‚ the rights of regulation can be drawn as the reflection of insightful philosophies of John Locke‚ Thomas Hobbes and Karl Marx. By understanding this within the context of human nature‚ we can see their ideas play to how they perceive a modern philosophy. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto illustrates the desire to build "a society without economic
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A Comparative Study of the Logical Philosophies of Lao Tzu and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel as Applied to the Religion in the Philippines by Shekainah Joy B. Raymundo BSA 13 ABSTRACT Title: A Comparative Study of the Logical Philosophies of Lao Tzu and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel as Applied to the Religion in the Philippines Total Number of Pages: 38 Author: Shekainah Joy B. Raymundo Type of Document: Comparative Study Name and Address of Institution: DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - DASMARIÑAS
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