Have Ithaca always in your mind. Your destination is to arrive there; but do not hurry your journey at all. Better that it should last for many years, that you cast anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaca to give you wealth; Ithaca has given you that splendid journey. Without Ithaca you would not have set out. Ithaca has no more to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not cheated you. You have acquired such wisdom, so much experience, that you will have understood what Ithaca means.
Kavramlara göre sıralanmış 200 felsefi ve teolojik film listesi
Aşağıda felsefi ve teoloji konularına göre sıralanmış 200 filmi keyifle izleyeceğinizden eminiz.
HAYATIN ANLAMI
Fight Club (1999)
Gates of Heaven (1778)
Ghost World (2001)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Columbus & America
Columbus was filled with pride and joy. The Indies at last! The friendly people on the shore must be Indians, or as the Spanish sailors called them, 'Indios!' Now, of course, you know that he was wrong. Columbus was nowhere near India, but on an island off America. Thanks to his mistake we still call the original inhabitants of America 'Indians' and the islands where Columbus landed the 'West Indies'.
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But the Anthropocene isn't a novel phenomenon of the last few centuries. Already tens of thousands of years ago, when our Stone Age ancestors spread from East Africa to the four corners of the earth, they changed the flora and fauna of every continent and island on which they settled. They drove the extinction all the other human species of the world, 90 per cent of the large animals of Australia, 75 per cent of the large mammals of America and about 50 per cent of all the large land mammals of the planet.
Large animals were the main victims because they were relatively few, and they breed slowly. Compare, for example, mammoths to rabbits. A troop of mammoths numbered no more than few dozen individuals, and bred at a rate of perhaps two youngsters per year. Hence if the local human tribe hunted just 3 mammoths a year, it would have been enough for deaths to outstrip births, and within a few generations the mammoths disappeared. Rabbits, in contrast, bred like rabbits. Even if humans hunted hundreds of rabbits each year, it was not enough to drive them to extinction.
Not that our ancestors planned on wiping out the mammoths; they were simply unaware of the consequences of their actions.
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Bir Ülkeye Göçmen Alırken Uygulanması Gereken Politika Kesinlikle...
New immigrants stood at last on American land. But the big question was this: Could they stay?
Most people took between two and five hours to pass through Ellis Island. In the station's early years, immigrants had to complete these tests:
*First, they answered 29 questions. (How old were they? What job did they do in their old country? Were they married? Could they read?)
*Then immigrants were sent to the second floor of the building. This was the second test. Doctors watched people as they walked up the stairs. If they were not healty, they had to have more tests. Very sick people were sent back home.
* Immigrants were then asked the same 29 questions again. Were their answers the same as the first time? (1892 - 1954)
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Yeni göçmenler sonunda Amerikan topraklarında durdular. Ama asıl soru şuydu: Onlar kalabilirler mi?
Ellis Adası'ndan geçmek çoğu insanın iki ila beş saatini aldı. İstasyonun ilk yıllarında, göçmenler bu testleri tamamlamak zorunda kaldılar:
* İlk olarak 29 soruya cevap verdiler. (Kaç yaşındaydılar? Eski ülkelerinde ne iş yaptılar? Evlendiler mi? Okuyabilirler miydi?)
* Daha sonra göçmenler binanın ikinci katına gönderildi. Bu ikinci testti. Doktorlar insanları merdivenlerden yukarı yürürken izlediler. Eğer sağlıklı olmasalardı, daha fazla test yaptırmak zorundaydılar. Çok hasta insanlar eve geri gönderildi.
* Daha sonra göçmenlere aynı 29 soruyu yeniden sordular. Cevapları ilk olanlarla aynı mıydı? (1892 - 1954)
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