Autobiographical Assignment: My Grandfather
.... home to raise their family. Once again, my grandfather went over seas in the Korean War (in the area of Persian Gulf) and left behind now two children with my grandmother. When he came back from the War, he and his family were stationed in Illinois then relocated to Ohio. In Ohio, my grandfather soon decided to retire.
They diagnosed my grandfather with cancer in July 1960, and in November of that year he died at the age of 48 and my grandmother was left widowed with her two children (twelve and sev .....
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Kantian Philosophy Of Morality
.... of the Categorical Imperative requires that a maxim be universally applicable to all rational beings. M1 succeeds in passing the first stage. We can easily imagine a world in which paramedics always answer widows truthfully when queried. Therefore, this maxim is logical and everyone can abide by it without causing a logical impossibility. The next logical step is to apply the second stage of the test.
The second requirement is that a rational being would will this maxim to become a universal law. .....
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Life As I See It
.... year several kids, one of them being me, were chosen to do two grade nine courses. I started out at sixty-five and sixty-nine percent but I ended up at a seventy-five and eighty percent by the end of the school year. At the start of the year of most school years I get off to a slow start but end up closer to the top of the class by the end. Like some friends do they once in a while play a joke on me or someone else or do things they know will get me angry, I try not to get to upset. It works most of th .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... he receives the child, he unpins the baby’s ankles and gives him the name Oedipus, which means “swollen feet”. He cares for the baby and when he returns to Corinth, he gives the child to Polybus and his wife Merope, who raise the boy until he reached manhood. Right after that, as Oepipus travels around the countryside, the inevitable happens.
“...When in my travels
I was come near this place where three roads meet,
There met me a herald, and a man that rode
In a colt carriage, as you tell o .....
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My Parent's Divorce
.... Virginia, for a few months. My mom said after they got divorced my mood changed. I became very emotional and scared of guys who tried to date her. I remember making up reasons why she should stay home with me. Some of my reasons I used were running away, faking an illness and other stupid stuff to that extent. I guess I was a weird child. I think I was only trying to protect her even though I was only a four-year old.
My mom got a job working for the government after my dad left us. At the jo .....
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Nicolet Minerals Company And Wisconsin
.... building that covered almost 355 acres, making it the largest toxic waste dump in Wisconsin history. Even if the mine plan were safe, the pond would only hold the waste for 140 years. After that time the lining would dissolve and set twenty-two million tons of toxic waste into the ground (Gedicks).
Many local individuals and organizations are becoming extremely angry with the mining companies. They are upset because they fear that the Wolf River and the surrounding environment will be damaged or dest .....
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A Puppet Without Strings
.... fact that he himself was the transgressor; he was jinxing himself.
When the blind prophet Teiresias is summoned to shed light on the subject, he warns Oedipus not to be overly presumptuous and assures him that the future will come of itself and the past will surface when need be. Initially, his rash, self-righteous internal character begins to surface and with his increased frustration Oedipus begins to adversely affect his relationships with others, particularly antagonizing his friends and respected .....
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Exploration Of Themes In The Song Of Roland
.... will never break or bend"(167) when talking about the soldiers.
Revenge is when a person takes vengeance and justice into their own hands and does whatever they feel is just. Revenge is displayed by both feuding sides in this epic. Some quotes are "This war you've started wage on, and make no cease; to Saragossa lead your host in the field, spend all your life, if need be, in the siege, revenge the men this villain made to bleed!" when talking about the Muslims (59)and "Him has the false lord Ganelon b .....
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Building A Space Station
.... need to keep this position as number one. He thinks it is a matter of both world leadership and economics. I don’t think that building the space station should be considered a contest of which country can do it faster and better. It should only be built to be helpful to sciences, not to be a contest between countries.
The building of the space station can be helpful in some ways of science and technology. Some examples of this would be artificial intelligence, robotics. process, automation, lo .....
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Utilitarianism
.... in their right mind would say that slavery was justifiable in any situation, let alone the situations where it can be advantageous to society, the slave, or both. The society in which we are living in today is one of many ideas that are not original to any individual person. Many of the ideas and "facts" that people live with in today's world are given to us by society. Through a very informal experiment conducted by myself as a precursor to the writing of this tutorial I found that a majority of peopl .....
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Is Human Nature Simply The Enjoyment Of Sin?
.... harming others, etc.) because of the feeling that something can be gained out of it. Thucydides embellishes this concept even more, stating "…men were often killed on grounds of personal hatred or else by their debtors because of the money that they owed" (241). This is a direct example of personal wants and greed leading to massive sin. It is exactly this selfish concept which lays the foundation for defining human nature according to Thucydides.
Augustine, much the same, uses his own personal exper .....
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Mediation
.... disputants have very little say in the outcome or solution to their problem. However, mediation allows the disputants to solve their own problem and decide their own resolution with the help of an unbiased, neutral third party.
The effects and benefits of mediation have been well documented through several different mediums, for example, books, magazine articles, and news reports.
Author Walter A. Maggiolo, himself a veteran mediator, supports mediation through his book, Techniques of Mediation. M .....
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Lip Gloss
.... that in today’s society, everything has to be all natural, hypoallergenic, and non-animal tested; it is pretty hard to find the “perfect” product. Lip Smackers got a nine out of ten, because it doesn’t quite use all natural products.
When liking your lips, wouldn’t you want to have a spectacular taste come out of it? That is why taste also plays an important part in picking the right product. The taste must be appealing, non-greasy, and have a candy (not waxy) like taste to it. Lip Smackers received .....
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Symposium: Eros And The Philosopher
.... ignorance is like the true lover in a lot of the same ways, but they are alike ultimately in that they both know what they lack and are aware of what they don't know. This paper will make an attempt to explain the statement by further exploring the speech of Diotima as well as looking into the speech of Socrates in the Apology.
In order to answer the question of how the philosopher in Socratic ignorance is like the true lover, the terms that will be used need to be defined. For the purpose o .....
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The Romantics
.... He was a first generation writer, and he wrote "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud." It has four stanzas and a rhyme scheme of AB AB CC for each one. His was a lyric poem, describing a million dandelions in a field. Wordsworth was terrific at putting words together.
All groups took their turn at writing narrative poetry, but among them, a first generation writer, Samuel Coleridge, definitely stands out. His "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" took extreme imagination and skill. Along with the nature describ .....
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