John Locke, Demosthenes, Orson Scott Card, Warsaw Pact

John Locke, an English philosopher, is one of the most recognized philosophers of all time. Born in Somerset County, he went to school at Oxford University where he got to be good friends with a man named Anthony Ashley Cooper. After rumors flew of Locke helping Cooper with plots against the king, he fled England to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he met Prince William and Princess Mary Queen Of Orange. Six years later, in 1689, William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England and Locke returned. Throughout his life, John Locke wrote many famous pieces of writing including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In this essay, “Locke argued against the doctrine of innate ideas, which stated that ideas were part of the mind at birth and not learned or acquired later from outside sources. Locke claimed that all ideas were placed in the mind by experience.” (Douglas M. Jesseph, "Locke, John," World Book Online Americas Edition, http://aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/arr/o/ar3280.htm, September 6, 2002.) Locke also stated ideas are gained by occurrence and experience, both inner and outer. “Outer experience” consisted of ideas in the mind, that were gained through the senses; while “inner experience” was more abou

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Demosthenes

Demosthenes, an Athenian statesman and distinguished orator was born in Athens in 384 B. He has degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. His first published story, Ender's Game, was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1985. Currently, he’s married and is the father of five children (he named his children after famous writers like Bronte and Chaucer).

Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw pact, designed to keep various eastern European countries under close watch and control by the Soviet, was signed in 1955. One of his biggest achievements was being the first author to win the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row. t refining the information obtained through the outer experience and clarifying it mentally. At the age of seven, he was orphaned and his three guardians abused the inheritance his father had left for him. Locke stated that it was the King’s duty to preserve these rights, and he declared that if the ruler couldn’t defend the rights of his people, then the people had the right to find a new ruler. In his lifetime, many other books he’s written have been nominated for/gotten awards; in 1979 he was awarded the John W. The first country to part was Hungary in early 1990, and then Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia were out by the end of the year. So, together with Athens and Thebes, Demosthenes led a battle (the Battle of Chaeronea) against King Philip, and was defeated. Just over thirty years later, and because the Communists in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and Hungary were being cleaned of their authority, the Soviet power over its allies in the contract decreased extensively and countries started backing out on the contract.

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