The Question Of An Answer: What It Is To Be Human
.... 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 are several ways in which one may view the body. A dualist is one
who views the body and mind, or tangible and intangible, as two separate
intities existing together to form one being. The principle of "Cogito, ergo
sum," or in english, "I think, therefore I am." The "I" meaning the mind, and
"I am" meaning the body. (Synn .....
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Assumption Of Risk: Who Is To Blame For Our Actions
.... 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 of completing their duties, while individuals who chose to work
in a mine or drive on a private road must accept the responsibility of their
actions to do so.
All airlines hold the responsibility of transporting their customers
from a point of origin to a previously designated destination. The person who
agrees to buy a disco .....
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Women, Men And Competition
.... 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 through validation, it works.
Most women, however, encourage competition through domination by ignoring
cooperative, nurturing men to give their love and sex to domineering, "virile"
men. What's more, women compete, and they compete to win. This is especially
evident in women's response to the invention of the rubber condom.
Prior .....
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Zen's Influence On The Art Of The Sword
.... 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 that there is seemingly
no effort in using it. As stated by Takuan, a Zen master from the Tokugawa
period, “you must follow the movement of the sword in the hands of the enemy,
leaving your mind free to make its own counter-movement without your interfering
deliberation.” Herein lies the simplicity of Zen teaching in respect .....
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The Hutu And Tutsi Tribes In Rwanda
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Differences And Similarities Of Liberalism
.... 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 consults his own law of
nature he receives a slightly different interpretation.
Secondly there no known and indifferent judge. Which creates the
problem of trying to decide which is the correct law of nature which will be
followed in an impartial manor.
Thirdly there is insufficient force of execution. This i .....
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Karl Marx And Marxism
.... 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 only for themselves, not for the good of their
species. The idea is further explained in the following sentences. The people
who do the work in a capitalistic society own none of the means of production,
(ie. machines, raw produce etc.) that they use in their work. These are owned
by the capitalists, to whom the workers .....
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Acid Rain
.... 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
buffering capacity to neutralize even small amounts of acid falling on
the soil and the lakes. Therefore over time, the basic environment shifts
from an alkaline to a acidic one. This is why many lakes in the Muskoka,
Haliburton, Algonquin, Parry Sound and Manitoulin districts could lose
their fisheries if sulphur emis .....
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Tropical Africa: Food Production And The Inquiry Model
.... 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
climates, and tropical soils are different from temperate soils
because the climate is different. Because of the great heat of the
tropics tends to bake the soils, while on the other hand, the rainfall
leaches them. The combined heat and moisture tend to produce very deep
soils because the surface rock is rapidl .....
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Omnipotence And St. Thomas Aquinas
.... 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 to say,
because impossible things by definition have "no aspect of possibility",
moreover, it is absurd to expect divine omnipotence to encompass the logically
impossible.
(I) Aquinas answers the first objection as follows. He explains that
"...to sin is to fall short of perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be
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New Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism Of Aircraft Simulators
.... 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 capture the image of the eye and digitize the
information, which is then processed in real time by a fast, dedicated
signal processing unit. The difference in position between the ligh tre of
the pupil reveals the instantaneous direction of gaze.
Developments by the IBME team have significantly increased the speed of
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US Border Patrol: Pros & Cons
.... 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 cost of the immigrants that get through the border patrol.
These costs could be greatly lowered if the Border Patrol would do its
job. Let alone the cost of the illegal immigrants that manage to get
through the Border Patrol, the Border Patrol alone is costing plenty. In
an overview, some people believe that we are spendin .....
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