John Stuart Mill: Ethical Decision Making
.... need for pleasure by noting “a being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy.” . He acknowledges that some pleasures are more alluring than others are. He adds to this by making known that when placing value in things to calculate pleasure, not only quantity important but quality as well. Mill’s criteria for happiness is easily understood, some statements that he gives are questionable.
John Stuart Mill plainly laid out what he believes that the basis for ethical decision-making. First, the pursuit of pleasure is directly related to happiness. This idea can be easily accepted. It is natural for a person to focus .....
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In The Zoo: Caesar And The Bear
.... Placer, or "Gran" for short. The first description we hear of Gran comes from an unidentified person who glorifies her as a woman of "Christian goodness" (p. 1452). In this first paragraph the reader learns that Gran has had tough times herself in the loss of her husband and by single-handedly running a boarding house. Gran seems to be a courteous woman by accepting the care for the orphaned narrator and her sister, but her character is not yet fully developed. This paragraph (p. 1452) is similar to an extent with the image that the narrator paints thereafter. After the narrator lays out her opinion, the reader learns that G .....
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Antigone - Kreon As A Tragic Hero
.... was wrong. Haimon asks his father to take his advice and not have Antigone executed, but, because of Kreon’s hybris, Kreon gets furious and makes the situation worse then it already was. He was way too proud to take advice from someone younger, and in his anger he decided to kill Antigone right away in front of Haimon’s eyes. “’Just understand: You don’t insult me and go off laughing. Bring her here! Let him see her. Kill her here, beside her bridegroom’” (Sophocles 919-921). This was too much for Haimon to take, and he runs out of the room, yelling, “’…her death will destroy others’” (Sophocles 908). Blinded by his pride and ar .....
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College Obstacles
.... something that would use this background. I went to a counselor to see where my apptitude was. We discussed Business Management to used for small businesses,
Handling hazordous materials to be used in cleaning up chemical spills, and the last area of Geographic Information Systems, which would be develping maps and overlay maps for the city, county and government organizations.
Geographic Information Systems was the major that I selected. It seemed to have the most interesting, and had the greatest new age oppertunities. So now I was preparing myself to enter college level courses and I had reviewed the avenues offered t .....
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Gylfaginning: Creation And Odin
.... a different direction. These three sons went off and killed Ymir, and from Ymir’s blood, death came to all but one of the giants. They took Ymir’s body to Ginnungagap, and from Ymir’s blood and body parts, the physical parts of the world came about: seas, lakes, mountains, trees, and the sky. Time is created and the gods enjoy a golden age. After this, people were created from wood that floated along the sea shore. From an ash log came the first man, Ask, and from an elm log came the first woman, Embla. From these two people came the rest of mankind that would inhabit the region of the world called Midgard. It is at this .....
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What's It Like…On The Other Side
.... wore which brought the sense of a past that was still alive in our bustling present and in the snatch of white at her eye; the darkness in her black high-top shoes and in her face which was visible now that she was closer (349)". In this description, Marshall creates a vivid imagery for the reader. As simple as Da-Duh's attire and appearance was, it was just as complex. The whiteness and purity of her dress gives the reader a sense of the "good old days" when life was simple and pure, when children played with yo-yo's and bottle caps, and everything just made a little more sense. The black shoes, which clashes with the purity of th .....
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The Genre Of Science Fiction
.... it touches. That the only purpose of science fiction is to “…deals with events that did not happen, may have happened, or have not yet happened” (Gunn and Boucher 1). People often have a hard time understanding that Science Fiction and Fantasy are very different from one another. Fantasy deals with the supernatural where as Science Fiction doesn’t. So in no way will Science Fiction ever be the same as Fantasy.
One of the greatest writes of his time, Ray Bradbury has contributed so much to the science fiction world. He has the ability to make people think about subjects which they have never thought about. He is different .....
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Politics: Has The Media Gone Too Far?
.... Instead, the evolution of "Active Journalism", digging up a story, instead of waiting for it to "land in your lap" is the most detrimental effect to the bloated media. The problem with "Active Journalism" is that it will reveal stories that perhaps should have stayed private. The need for the public to know these stories, is really a matter of opinion, of which mine is obviously against the large "news organizations"
Therefore, do we just flat out kill our television, or perhaps, not so much our end, but perhaps the broadcasting entities on the other side? Could the television perhaps be a useful tool in education? I be .....
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Decartes Vs. Russell On Whether The Self Is An Object And The Mind Stability
.... was true , wouldn't every other object we looked at be new to us? Descartes argument for existing is much more believable, for the simple fact that if we think anything we must exist. I think are minds do have stability. Memory is a proof of the stability of the mind. I think that memory is also proof that there is only one self, because if you have a new self for every new sequence of data it would be impossible to have a memory. If memory is stored in our minds and basically our minds are our selfs, and you had a new self for every new perception or object, then each self would only carry one recollection of data sequence .....
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Yahoo?
.... team wins a game. Yahoo is often heard by cowboys in country movies. The word is not commonly used as a insult, it may be because of so many underachievers and the new slang. If someone wants to insult another person, usually more vulgar words are used. Many insulting words have evolved into very vulgar words and are used almost everyday.
For some reason that I have yet to find out, there is a web site on the internet called yahoo. The web site originally started at Stanford University, and then moved to its own site in April 1995. The address for yahoo is www.yahoo.com and has many different chat lines so strangers .....
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Samuel De Champlain
.... and long this day. Blackrobe surprised and impressed our people as they worked as hard as we did. Blackrobe and Daniel paddled strongly along side our men. But Blackrobe has a lot to learn about the forest. He does not understand that it is our home and we have but to listen and it will speak to us and guide us. It is where we find our food and worship our Gods. It is where we play and eat. The forest protects us from danger, letting us know when it is near. He has much to learn.
The men in our tribe do not trust Blackrobe. They feel he is a demon who does not know women. He is only half a person because of .....
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The Importance Of Gender Conflicts Literature To Society Past And Present
.... dominated society sought once again to sentence them to the limited existence they lived before the war.
Gender conflict is not limited to females in our society. Men who seek to be house husbands or wish to take on the role of primary caretaker for the children, suffer the stigma society attaches to them as being too lazy to go out to support their families, or are viewed and possibly as effeminate homosexual I have chosen three works in which gender conflict arises. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"; Sophocles' "Antigone"; and McElroy's "My Fathers Wars". I include McElroy's poem because I felt it essential to show that des .....
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