College Papers: On The Existence of Soul

  • Post category:Grinnell College
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Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my Introduction to Philosophy class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper exploring the question of the existence of the soul, compares and contrasts Aristotle and Plato's take on it.

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College Papers: Are foot length and lower arm length equal?

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  • Reading time:6 mins read

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This one is a report for a simple project I carried out with a classmate as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. It was a math project conducted for the Statistics class I was taking at the time.

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Data: Nepal’s Education System Fails and Punishes Most Students

In the Summer of 2011, when the 2011 Census was being collected, children in the second grade, seven-year olds, numbered 628K. The group completed their schooling -- grade 12 -- in 2022. Less than 10% made it through!

This blog looks how the totally corrupt and flawed education system does that and the consequence of that for a vast majority of the population.

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How screwed up is the education system in Nepal?

Nepali education system is so screwed up, schooling does NOT prepare you adequately for externally assessed terminal examinations. Furthermore, each stage of schooling does NOT prepare you for the stage that follow either. Instead, it requires that you get outside help to prepare yourself and continue your academic career!

What's the point of such an education system?!

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