Utopia
.... the
formation of a few small, cooperative communities made up of their followers.
The comte de Saint-Simon regarded technological progress and large scale
economic organization as being the most important keys to the establishment of
these communities. It was felt that industrial growth was the key to happiness
for people in the future.
Another visionary, Fourier, was quite the opposite of Saint-Simon. He
Spoke strongly against the use of industry. His opinion was that agricultural
communities wou .....
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Virtues Of My Life: Order, Courage, Patience
.... life with stability and direction. As an example of a
personal order, the school schedule which governs my academic studies is a type
of order, setting specifics of where and when I should be. Order helps in my
life if I am able and willing to create a schedule for each day, specifically
stating when I should be doing what. If I can achieve order in my own life,
worries and concerns will be eliminated by means of order that will easily
become habit. Russell Kirk also states, "Order is the first n .....
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What Is Piety
.... Socrates wants Euthyphro to teach him the
meaning of piety since Euthyphro considers himself an authority on the subject.
In this dialogue Euthyphro gives Socrates four different definitions of what he
believes piety is, none of which prove satisfactory to Socrates, leaving the
question unanswered in the end.
The first definition that Euthyphro provides to Socrates is that "the
pious is to do what I am doing now to prosecute the wrong doer" (Plato,
Euthyphro, Grube trans., p. 9). This is merely an ex .....
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The Question Of An Answer: What It Is To Be Human
.... ages the human body has been studied and inspected.
However, literal "inspection" only takes us so far. As humans, we all know that
there are parts of our "being" that are intangible. Take thoughts, dreams, and
things of the like. We know they exist, yet they are unable to be inspected
scientifically (to any valuable degree at least). The distinction between
beliefs begins here. How one views this intangible side of life with respect to
the tangible, is the factor that defines one's beliefs.
There a .....
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Assumption Of Risk: Who Is To Blame For Our Actions
.... do we tacitly consent to take
responsibility for any outcome these actions may hold? The "assumption of risk"
doctrine seems to ignore the fundamental obligation of entities to ensure their
natural goals. The distinguishing factor in deciding responsibility in
faultless cases which call on the "assumption of risk" doctrine is the control
held by individuals after the situation has begun. In accordance, companies
such as discount airlines and cigarette companies must take on the
responsibility o .....
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Women, Men And Competition
.... better you will be able to live.
To live well, you make your "stuff" as good as possible relative to what
your "competition" offers. That is the essence of competition in a free market.
It respects the rights of others, and everybody wins because it works through
validation rather than domination.
Competition as validation is the process by which the efficacy of ideas,
knowledge, and products is validated by consumers. They choose what they value
most. To the extent our economy encourages winning throug .....
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Zen's Influence On The Art Of The Sword
.... the Zen master to pass on this state of mind to the eager
to learn samurai, the master had to equate the state of mushin (empty mind and
egolessness) with something familiar to the warrior. And what is more familiar
to a warrior than his weapon, most often a sword such as a tachi (long-blade),
katana, or iaito? From the first time that a samurai blade is picked up by its
owner until the day the owner dies, it is his goal to so completely master the
blade and make it as much a part of him as his own hand .....
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The Hutu And Tutsi Tribes In Rwanda
.... not schelduled
until June.
Right now the Tutsi have control of Northern Rwanda and Zaire, while the
Hutu have Southern Rwanda and Burundi.
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Differences And Similarities Of Liberalism
.... of nature also includes inequality
...since gold and silver, being little useful to the life of a
man in proportion to food, raiment, and carriage, has its value
only from the consent of men, whereof labour yet makes, in
great part, the measure, it is plain that men have agreed to a
disproportional and unequal possession of the earth.3
In Locke's state on nature there are also three distinct problems. First
there is no established settled known law. As each man .....
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Karl Marx And Marxism
.... he was influenced by the writings of
Ludwig Feuerbach, who wrote that God was invented by humans as a projection of
their own ideals, and that in creating such a 'perfect' being, in contrast to
themselves, mankind lowered themselves to lowly, evil creatures who needed
guidance from the church and government. He said that, in creating God in their
own image, humans had 'alienated themselves from themselves.'
Karl Marx applied this alienation theory to private property, which he
said caused humans to work .....
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Acid Rain
.... acids fall to the earth in any form
it will have large impact on the growth or the preservation of
certain wildlife.
NO DEFENCE
Areas in Ontario mainly southern regions that are near the Great Lakes,
such substances as limestone or other known antacids can neutralize acids
entering the body of water thereby protecting it. However, large areas
of Ontario that are near the Pre-Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or
granite based geology and little top soil, there is not enough
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Tropical Africa: Food Production And The Inquiry Model
.... a region of
persistent rain at and near the Equator, 2. a region on each side of
this of summer rain and winter
drought, and 3. a region at the northern and southern edges
afflicted by
drought.
All the climates listed in the previous paragraph are modified
in the eastern parts of Tropical Africa by the mountains and monsoons.
The soils of Tropical Africa pose another problem. They are unlike
the soils of temperate areas. Soils are largely products of their
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Omnipotence And St. Thomas Aquinas
.... is impossible - therefore god
cannot be omnipotent.
Aquinas begins his rebuttals by defining what is encompassed by the
characteristic of divine omnipotence. He explains that god is able to all things
which are "possible absolutely", which he defines as all things which can be
logically expressed without the predicate being in conflict with the subject -
i.e. god is capable of all things which do not involve a contradiction in terms.
This does not imply any defect in the power of god, Aquinas goes on .....
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New Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism Of Aircraft Simulators
.... by a research team
headed by Professor Richard Frecker and Professor Moshe Eizenman. The work
was carried out in collaboration with CAE Electronics Ltd. of Montreal
with financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada.
Their eye-tracker can record and analyze accurately up to 500 eye
positions per second. The system works by means of capturing and
processing the reflections of a low-level beam of invisible infra-red
light shone onto the eye.
Multi-element arrays .....
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US Border Patrol: Pros & Cons
.... the
taxpayers too much. An estimation by TIME magazine states that in
California alone, $400 million is spent on healthcare for illegal
immigrants. CNN says that the care of illegal immigrants in one hospital
in Jacksonville, Florida costs taxpayers $44.5 million. A Federal
Government estimate says that $1.6 billion dollars is spent on the
education of illegal immigrants each year in California alone. Just think
of how much money is spent on illegal immigrants across the country. Now
this is just the .....
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