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		<title>Facebook and the Unexamined Life</title>
		<link>http://lifeexaminations.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/facebook-and-the-unexamined-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hazaarou]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. As a farewell to this blog I would like to examine the role of social networking in our daily lives and the dangerous dependency that we have developed.  The addictiveness of social networking continues to make people slaves to an Internet website and truly keeps [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7362&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marx and Reality of Selfish Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marx, in his philosophy, said that individuals are not selfish by nature; however they are selfish through the environment they are in. This environmental manipulation causes a major change in state as well as poses a serious threat to Marx’s ideal society view of communism. We have studied many philosophers throughout the course of this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7348&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Go DIY Squad!</title>
		<link>http://lifeexaminations.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/go-go-diy-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aaronbrozoar]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet to DIYers: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a friend in me!&#8221; This is a blog post which touches on a topic close to my own heart: the phenomenon of the DIYer (Do-It-Yourselfer).  In all my years as a human male, I&#8217;ve fixed computers, built computers, fixed tvs, made several microphones &#8211; a few dynamics using old speaker [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7339&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Boys better than Girls?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But really, are boys better than girls? Ever since the second grade when the “cooties” were a rampant disease and proving that your gender was superior to the other was a sport, the debate of whether boys are better than girls has been ongoing. A major factor in this dispute as a whole is that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7329&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Rob and his Machiavellian Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kkokotil]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You will find people are so simple-minded and so preoccupied with their immediate concerns, that if you set out to deceive them, you will always find plenty of them who will let themselves be deceived. (37)”      It’s Wednesday night and once again I am anxiously awaiting tonight’s episode of Survivor. As I was sitting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7321&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell Machiavelli</title>
		<link>http://lifeexaminations.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/farewell-machiavelli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[brandonvargo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my final blog post, I decided to revisit one of my favorite political philosophers for this course: Niccolo Machiavelli. I believe it is his concept of &#8220;Ends Justify the Means&#8221; that keeps me so interested in him. What it is about this concept that I find so fascinating I&#8217;m not exactly sure. Perhaps it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7300&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to the Blog</title>
		<link>http://lifeexaminations.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/farewell-to-the-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris J]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought that it would be fitting to make my final post a reflection on blogging through the lens of political theory. I have found it engaging to be able to learn about theorists in class and to immediately apply them to everyday life. The blog has become one of the first places that I turn when [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7286&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Snyder: Signs of Burke?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Collin Rosenbaum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State-appointed Emergency Financial Managers (EFMs) in our great State of Michigan have new, unprecedented powers thanks to Rick Snyder. For those who are unaware of the legislation that has recently been passed, they have the ability to do things that they have never been able to do before. They can essentially &#8220;fire&#8221; a municipality&#8217;s government. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7272&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s go into the mind&#8230;of Karl Marx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t his beard makes him look like Santa? To put it nicely, Karl Marx did not like Capitalism. He believed it was exploitive, self-destructive and a &#8220;dictatorship of the bourgeoisie&#8221;, which would eventually be overthrown because of the inevitable internal conflicts between classes. I do not agree with his philosophies but if we look at the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7177&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mill on False Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[chelseahoedl]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mill supports freedom of speech and suggests that all opinions are valuable in the search for truth. He feels that it is the duty of citizens to state opinions whether they are certain these ideas are true or not. If there is a free flow of thought and communication in a society, then truth can [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeexaminations.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15370755&#038;post=7251&#038;subd=lifeexaminations&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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