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- 14081: Coaching Decisions
- Coaching Decisions On December 20, 1996, Granite City's girls' basketball coach, Chuck Kraus, appeared to be agitated during the halftime conference with his players. After minutes of yelling, he began to use profanity. Five minutes later, he picked up a bench and threw ... December 22 issue of the Granite City Journal supported Kraus, saying "he is not the type of man to lose control like that. As much as Kraus has given to the girls' team, he shouldn't be punished for using profanity one time." The school board President Jeff Parker stated "he is not a person that coaches for the money, he coaches because of his affection for the kids." These are just some of the explanations in Kraus's defense to help persuade the school not to punish him. The anticipated return of Coach Kraus to the team was definitely not what the players and parents had expected. Some of the players were ...
- 14082: The Only Truth Existing
- ... we exist, there are no other truths that are certain, for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted. Every person possesses his or her own truth that may be contradicting to another person's belief. A truth, or one that is true for all, cannot by achieved because of the constant motion of circumstances of who said it, to whom, when, where, why, and how it was said. What one person may believe a dog is a man's best friend, another may believe that a dogs is a man's worse enemy. What one may believe is a pencil, to another is not a pencil, but a hair pin. Where one may believe that a bottle is an instrument, one may believe is a ...
- 14083: Moll Flanders
- ... of affluence. Eventually, Moll achieves her desires and retires a gentlewoman in America, but her journey definitely took a serious toll on her life. In the end, one must ask the question of whether Moll's lifestyle and decisions were the right ones. Did the ends justify the means? Did Moll's chosen path lead to a life of satisfaction or did the pain, paranoia, and emotional trauma that came along the way extract a price that is much greater then the wealth that she eventually achieved ... along the road to truly becoming a gentlewoman. Had events continued flawlessly from here, Moll might have achieved her goal without any pain, suffering, or remorse. Unfortunately, this was not to be the case. Moll's problems began with her relationship with the eldest brother. Her vanity and egoism allowed her to be seduced thus creating a serious conflict when the youngest brother sought her hand in marriage. Moll soon ...
- 14084: A Time Of Prejudice
- ... by the name of Maycomb was a family called the Finches. Scout and Jem were the children of Atticus Finch. Before Atticus’ youngest daughter Scout could ever really know her, Atticus’ wife died. Jem, Scout’s older brother, was old enough so he could truly miss his mother. Often times Scout would ask Jem about her. Though Atticus never really shows the pain of missing his wife, I believe he does ... how Scout learns that her childish fears help educate her to become a better person. In a time full of prejudice, we all need to learn this lesson that Scout did and realize you can’t judge a person without knowing them. Atticus displays this trait of not prejudging people throughout the book, but never really talks about it until the end of the story after Scout already realizes it through ... prejudice. Not in just race, but in class and sex. All through the novel Scout, as a tomboy, grows up in her words, “to become a lady.” Because this novel was set in the 1930’s before the women’s movement, the men of Maycomb believed they had to “protect their women.” When Atticus Finch goes to defend Tom Robinson, who is accused of rape by Mayella Ewell, Atticus tells ...
- 14085: Consciousness, the Self, and Personality Theory: A Critical Survey of Theories of Philosophical Arguments and Modern Psychological Personality Theories
- ... engage in pursuit of explanation and causality. As well as how the mind interacts with the body. Gathering information, drawing conclusions and finding valid theories; as well as understanding biological and social problems, constitute psychology's philosophical background. The concept of the self is a large factor in the study of personality as well as philosophy. The self, generally speaking, includes subjective experience and conscious awareness. In the book Philosophy of ... Guttenplan continues by saying "persons are self-motivated beings with a considerable degree of autonomy over and above a material body" (Guttenplan 214). This led Renee Descartes to postulate that the only thing he couldn't doubt was his thinking existence, that there is a soul a non-material part of human beings that couldn't be denied. Since our bodies don't make decisions the self must have more than a human body. The pure ego. David Hume had a different idea about the self in relation to experience. ...
- 14086: Eveline by James Joyce
- ... Eveline” by James Joyce turned out the way it did but a few reasons are more convincing than others are. Eveline has a chance to do what most people can only dream of and that’s leaving with her boyfriend Frank so that she could start her life over. As you read the story you get the sense that anyone who lives such a miserable life would be mentally retarded not ... predictable duties. “ She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from “(4) (sic). Eveline’s life is a fearful one, which resembles the dust constantly, mentioned in this story. The way objects can constantly build up dust time after time no matter what environment its in resembles her. Eveline is constantly being involved in problems and stress time after time. So who’s to say that if she changes her environment that other problems wont build up again like the dust. A promise is supposed to be something that is sacred. It’s something that is not ...
- 14087: Utilitarianism
- ... prime source of threats to the natural environment. We have a rough sense of what a good quality of life for humans consists of. Also, we can make some rough judgments about when a person's quality of life has increased or decreased. Utilitarianism about future generations says that people should weigh these increases impartially with respect to times. And, in particular, should not prefer a smaller increase in the present ... stringent obligations. What is required of each generation is that it just pass on a total package of opportunities that is comparable to its own; whatever the exact composition of that package may be. Barry's approach to the egalitarian view can easily be interpreted as an ethic of outcomes. Assuming this interpretation, is the egalitarian view the best of our duty concerning future generations? There seems to be one major objection against Berry's view. Brian Barry's egalitarian view does not place excessive demands on early generations to make sacrifices for the sake of later generations. That is because it places no such demands-early generations need ...
- 14088: Discussion of the Feasibility of Miracles and the Grounds for Christianity Existing Without Miracles
- Discussion of the Feasibility of Miracles and the Grounds for Christianity Existing Without Miracles In the following Discussion, I will point out the facts and ideas that disagree with Hume's ideas. The ideas are the ones on miracles in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding involving Section ten Of Miracles. The idea of this is using the circle philosophical argument. If one agrees that Christians believe ... who was also a soldier for the Roman army and killed hundreds of Christians, who believed and followed God, without the scriptures that Hume talks about. From this, if you take away the scriptures, God's church carries on and if you take the people from the church, "God's church" still survives. The scriptures do not make people believe, they help people understand. For this Hume is correct. He states that miracles help Christians understand what they believe, but the belief and faith ...
- 14089: Aristotle: A Comprehensive View on Nature and Society
- Aristotle: A Comprehensive View on Nature and Society In order to fully understand Aristotle's views on a natural system, it is necessary to first explain some general principles of his philosophy. It is in his work the Categories that Aristotle presents the concept of substance, a concept which will ... explanatory, in that it is the form or the matter of the substance which is responsible for the change within the substance. Efficient and final cause, however, will become more clear once we investigate Aristotle's ideas of actuality and potentiality. We should begin the explanation of actuality and potentially by saying that form can be seen as the actuality of the substance while matter is the potential for that form ... house is one in which people can live. Through this analogy one can begin to see the nature of each of the causes which can exist within a given substance. Once we see how Aristotle's ideas of actuality and potentially relate to his ideas of form and matter (matter is potentiality, form is it's actuality), which necessarily relate to substance, we can almost begin the analysis of his ...
- 14090: The Little Prince, Siddhartha, and the Monkey God: Journey
- ... the powers he held as a god. All three works are totally different in environment, characters, and time setting, but they all have one similar goal; to find and complete their quest. The Little Prince's journey to find out how to love grows from the missing link between his flower and him. But he learns that love comes from taming which he has never heard of. Starting from the comfort ... person can possess greed, the lamplighter represents loyalty, one of the good sides of human being, finally meeting the geographer, the Little Prince learns curiosity and hard work. But meeting all these people still haven't gave the Little Prince what he wanted yet. He finally trampled upon Earth, where he will soon find what he is looking for. The first person he met on Earth was the snake, a symbol ... the Samanas to further enlighten himself. Govinda, a best friend and companion, also left his life to follow Siddhartha. Govinda parallels to the narrator as he accompanies the main character to a certain point. Siddhartha's quest brought him to encounter Buddha, the almighty himself. But yet he was unsuccessful in feeling complete and thus sets forth again, now alone without Govinda. Siddhartha's goals were not threatened by enemies ...
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