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- 14681: The Buddha's Four Noble Truths: A Logical Basis for Philosophy
- ... the person is really a collection of five skandhas or aggregates. These include rupa (matter), vedana (sensations), sanna (perceptions), samkhara (mental formations), and vijnana (consciousness). The aggregate of matter encompasses all tangible aspects of the world. The aggregate of sensations is akin to the process of sensory input; e.g., the activation of retinal cells in the eye. Vedana does not include the process of perception, however; the act of perceiving ... from the loved is suffering, not to get what one wants is suffering...." - Shakyamuni Buddha{3} The First Noble Truth, the Truth of Dukkha, is based on Buddha's observation that all people in the world are in a state of dukkha. Dukkha, which translates literally as suffering' from the Pali, does not mean pain or distress as the word suffer' usually implies. Instead it is used to convey the idea ...
- 14682: Socrates
- ... more accurately argued in a calm manner, various issues ranging from the sciences to religion. Socrates, however, usually avoided the subject of government whenever possible. Socrates believed his role in life was to teach a new understanding of virtues, it was these virtues that revolved around much of the controversies. The citizens thought that Socrates poisoned the minds of children. Causing them to lose respect for parents and elders. It was ... imagine the in your own circle of friends, what we have heard is nothing out of the way. Where the teacher (Socrates) does not even worship the immortal gods, but sets the aside for his new divinities, one can hardly expect in the pupil much reverence for age and kinship in mere men." Parents blamed the lack of respect for elders on Socrates. In truth Renault says that he was only ...
- 14683: Jennifer Lopez
- Jennifer Lopez was born in the Bronx, New York on July 24, 1970. She was born in the United States to Puerto Rican Parents, Jennifer considers herself to be a Puerto Rican and she is very proud of her Hispanic heritage and culture ... A-list actresses to the land the female lead in Steven Soderberghs steany 1998 crime film Out of Sight. Then she got ant-imated, in the Dreamworks tale Antz. Lopez now has a brand new project, a music album and with the success of the movie Selena, it gave her inspiration to make a music album. Her album went number one and this will probably start her second success story ...
- 14684: The Sacred Pipe
- ... this book was different in the sense that it got way more in-depth with the beliefs and different legends of the native Americans than all other books that I have read. That provided a new outlook and different feel which helped keep my attention. What I also found interesting was the similarity of the religious beliefs that these particular native Americans had to Seventh day Adventism. Not so much that ... my interest and I got it done quicker than other books that had been assigned in the past. Not only did I learn a lot about Native Americans but I learned how to read a new and different style of writing that I haven't encountered yet. I would not recommend this book to a person that is just starting to read but to a faithful reader it would prove to ...
- 14685: The Bible
- ... family because it was his crime, his sin. His family didn't make him do it and they didn't help him accomplish it. When the men who committed the heinous crimes against humanity during World War II under Adolph Hitler's direction pleaded innocence, the courts laughed. Some of these men claimed there was no other choice, Hitler made them do it. Despite there being few options, these men did ... gas chambers to continue cooking living families. These men made their choice of sin. Society chose to punish the individual and not their innocent family members for the crimes accomplished. Today people all over the world try to forget previous generations' crimes against humanity. In Germany it took many years after WWII for later generations to even write in history books what really happened. These younger generations felt ashamed and somewhat ...
- 14686: King Lear
- ... disrupts the great chain of being which states that the King must not challenge the position that God has given him. This undermining of God's authority results in chaos that tears apart Lear's world. Leaving him, in the end, with nothing. Following this Lear begins to banish those around him that genuinely care for him as at this stage he cannot see beyond the mask that the evil wear ... his sins, Lear becomes abandoned and estranged from his kingdom which causes him to loose insanity. While lost in his grief and self-pity the fool is introduced to guide Lear back to the sane world and to help find the lear that was ounce lost behind a hundred Knights but now is out in the open and scared like a little child. The fact that Lear has now been pushed ...
- 14687: Economics: The American Government
- ... no doubt that social security has made a tremendous effort to alleviate a lot of suffering that has occurred, even in recent times. The Social Security act was one of the cornerstones of Roosevelt's new deal program, and it is one of who's necessity has been proven, and whose usefulness has allowed it to live. Like all the other new deal projects, Social Security was never meant to show a financial profit, It was meant to show a profit only in the amount of human suffering, It was able to lift. The social security program ...
- 14688: King Lear Assignment
- ... disrupts the great chain of being which states that the King must not challenge the position that God has given him. This undermining of God's authority results in chaos that tears apart Lear's world. Leaving him, in the end, with nothing. Following this Lear begins to banish those around him that genuinely care for him as at this stage he cannot see beyond the mask that the evil wear ... his sins, Lear becomes abandoned and estranged from his kingdom which causes him to loose insanity. While lost in his grief and self-pity the fool is introduced to guide Lear back to the sane world and to help find the lear that was ounce lost behind a hundred Knights but now is out in the open and scared like a little child. The fact that Lear has now been pushed ...
- 14689: Heart Murmurr
- ... blood pressure and cigarette smoke. Heart failure is the most common reason for hospitalization in the United States today. Population-based studies estimate that heart failure affects over three million Americans; more than 400,000 new cases are diagnosed annually. Sometimes the cause stems from a virus which attacks the heart muscle, sometimes as an aftermath of a heart attack. Other times, the cause of heart failure is not clear. At Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, we offer a broad range of traditional therapies as well as options not available elsewhere in New Jersey. In working with referring physicians and individuals to successfully manage heart failure, the physician directors of our Heart Failure Program rely on traditional medical therapy for some patients. A significant number of individuals respond ...
- 14690: The Scarlet Letter 8
- ... because of her inner strength. At the end of the book, she is the only one who has survived emotionally. Chillingworth wanted a woman who would love him, but when that failed, he found a new love. His new passion became the destruction of the man who took Hester away from him. He tells Hester of his plans when he says: I shall seek this man There is a sympathy that will make me ...
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