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...example, according to post-modernism no one can rightfully claim that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is superior to a song called "Cop Killer." No one can justify that Michelangelo's "David" is a better work of art than Duchamp's "The Fountain" (an upside down urinal). There is no longer an objective standard for evaluating...
First of all, the fact that post-modernism posits a claim and argues for it is a violation of its most fundamental tenet (who is to say that one argument is superior to another?). But even the post-modernists are prepared to drop their non-confrontational, self-righteous facade--albeit at the price of contradicting the very core of their philosophy--in the name of the cause...
Science fulfills yet another important role. The safety of the citizens of the U.S. and of the citizens of the many countries which rely on the U.S. for support depend on the advanced technology of the U.S. It was thanks to superior technology that the U.S. saved the world from falling into the hands of Nazism and Communism. More recently, the Gulf War was won, with minimum loss of lives, through technological superiority...
Citing two recent cases at the University of Maine, Mansfield said the leaflet makes "no mention of an accuser of inferior status bringing down a person of superior status...
...year ago, the Crimson was readying itself for the ECAC semifinals at this time. That team would win the ECAC tournament and go off to the NCAA Final Four, where it lost to eventual NCAA champion Lake Superior State in overtime...