Autobiographical Assignment: My Grandfather
.... 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 seventeen). My grandmother did not have the skills to go out and get a job right away. As the time went on, she was unable to support her family on a pension, which she received from the Air force, so, that led her to find a job. She then found an unskilled job in a factory, making packaging materials. With that money my gran .....
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Kantian Philosophy Of Morality
.... 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. In testing this part, you must decide whether in every case, a rational being would believe that the morally correct action is to tell the truth. First, it is clear that the widow expects to know the truth. A lie would only serve to spare her feelings if she believed it to be the truth. Therefore, even people who would c .....
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Life As I See It
.... 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 the time and other times it doesn’t.
I do practically all my homework when I’m supposed to, but if it is frustrating, or I’m stumped on it, I will put it aside for a while until I can focus on it. I used to be a real school fanatic, it was my first priority no matter how hard it was or how frustrated I would get I would still .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... 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 of him,
And from the track the leader, by main force,
And the old man himself, would thrust me. I,
Being enraged, strike him who jostled me--
The driver-- and the old man, when he saw it,
watching as I was passing, from the car
With the goad’s fork struck me upon the head.
He paid, though! duly I say not; but in b .....
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My Parent's Divorce
.... 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 job in Washington D.C. she met my future step dad, Ivars. They dated for about two years and then they got married. We then moved into his townhouse in Springfield, Virginia; I loved it there. When my sister Allison was born in 1985 everything was good there were no known problems with their marriage. When Ivars was my step d .....
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Nicolet Minerals Company And Wisconsin
.... 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 destroyed. Authorities on the subject of damage caused by mines obviously agree. In 1988 the Natural Resources Board named the Wolf River an “outstanding resource water”. Not even ten years later, after the mining project had been proposed, American Rivers declared the Wolf River the fifth most endangered in North America (Fowl .....
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A Puppet Without Strings
.... 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 members of the city. Oedipus’ detrimental behavior eventually leads to the realization of his true identity; this horrifying truth brings dishonor to his family and destroys his image in the eyes of the people. Oedipus finally emerges with his world in pieces and the mere thought of his abominable sins leaves him guilt-ridden; .....
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Exploration Of Themes In The Song Of Roland
.... 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 betrayed; vast the reward the Paynim king has paid"(84) when speaking of Charles. This quote is not speaking of the physical damage of revenge but of other ways revenge can be, like changing sides in the middle of a war. Also "'Thou hast one for whom I'll make thee pay!'" (114) and "'For Roland's I think they'll dearly pay'" (1 .....
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Building A Space Station
.... 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, low cost global and orbital transport, optical communication, ultra-light strength and high temperature materials, supercomputers and pollution free vehicles. Even though these things would be good to find out more about, there are things going on in our country and planet that we should take care of first.
Our planet has .....
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Utilitarianism
.... 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 people associate the word slavery only with the horrible condition and treatment that slaves of the confederate states suffered through. This is not the idea that is being addressed in this examination of Utilitarianism. Any person who truly wishes to understand the true meaning of this argument must ignore these preconceived ide .....
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Is Human Nature Simply The Enjoyment Of Sin?
.... 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 experiences to show the domination of sin in humankind. He starts this account by describing the selfishness and jealousy of infants. "But in those days all I knew was how to suck, and how to lie still when my body sensed comfort or cry when it felt pain" (Augustine 25, 28). As an infant, Augustine argues, one is solely concerne .....
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Mediation
.... 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. Maggiolo thoroughly covers all of the main aspects of mediation as well as several of mediation’s specialized uses, in federal courts or labor disputes for example. However, through all of the different types of mediation used and under all of the different circumstances which it is utilized, the techniques and steps still rem .....
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