...definition a miracle can never happen.” Discuss. The known definition of a miracle is “an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.” However, Peter Vardy in The Puzzle of God gave four different definitions provided by many different scholars, including Aquinas and Hume, with Hume believing they are impossible but cannot be disproved compared to Aquinas believing they are completely possible even within the system of natural activity. What a miracle is can be debated forever due to the many different interpretations of who and why they come about, with psychologists such as Freud arguing they are just an illusion and Wiles arguing that miracles do exist but not as a result of God’s will. The real question is whether the laws of nature can ever be broken and to that affect – do miracles define themselves into non-existence? The definition of a miracle provided by Hume is “a transgression of the laws of nature brought about by the volition of a deity.” He believes that miracles are simply an interposition by some invisible agent, but he however goes on to challenge this definition with his theoretical case miracles which argued that the laws of nature we experience are constant and therefore cannot be changed, In response to this, as the laws of nature cannot be defied, (if they could be broken they would not be laws), by Hume’s definition, miracles can never happen, as laws of nature are...
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...e2 ung ginawa ko.. wag na wag nyong kokopyahin ean mahahalata tau ni mam.. guide lang 2 para sa inyo :D goodluck guys. isa pa ha.. wag nyong i CTRL+C ... CTRL+V to ha.. respeto naman.. (most thrilling experience) title: Do an apple a day keeps the doctor away ? 1st: *intro* give meaning or quote about a certain topic included in your outline.. (in short isesegway nyo) E2 ung akin...... Family is just accident. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. Still then they are nature's masterpiece for us. They aren't just normal people we see everyday, they are not just projection of our subconscious, they are people that beholds the invicible chord between you and them that never breaks even in the worst calamity. That is who they are, but what if destiny tries to cut this unbreakable line? Is destiny powerful enough to break it? Let me tell you a story of mine that defines how strong this chord can be. 2nd: *1st part of your body* here is where you give another introduction to your main idea, then you have to give some spoilers about it. (d2 ung parang intro nung body nyo.) Ganto ung flow nung akin...... It's not easy living with one's family. With so many oddballs that make up a family, it is tough to find a common ground, yet, family is the most refined of all human relations. What makes up a family is the mother, father, brother, and sister. In my case I have no sister and I also have no father, the one that act...
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...is nearly impossible to predict. The theory is most commonly used in the business sense to describe markets, however, Taleb uses it in a sense to describe every sort of event that can happen in the world. The Black Swan is typically characterized by three criteria. These are rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective predictability. These Black Swan events allow for Taleb to discredit many things that are used in the financial world today, such as Gaussian’s bell curve. The theory of the Black Swan has been proved very important topic and is used and talked about by many people in not only the business world but in everything. Taleb gives an example of what the Black Swan name comes from by describing the actual myth of the black swan. For as long as people had known there was no other type of swan besides a white one. Until Australia was discovered no one had ever seen a black swan and it used as a common expression of being illogical much like the phrase “when pigs fly” is used today. One sighting of a bird destroyed years of confirmation. There is no reason to rule out a “black swan” because you have never seen one. This applies to the theory as an event. There is no way you can rule out a certain event just because it has never happened, there is always a chance that it could happen....
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...local school. The teacher Ms. Antilly introduced her to me; she thought we could be friends, but that did not exactly work out. Our friendship faded slowly as time went on, especially after the list. The list of “Who’s Hot and Who’s Not.” Created by yours truly, Alex, my ex-boyfriend and ex-friend. We were going out at the time when the paper got passed around, and I was compared to her with who had the best butt in the school. I would not say...
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...girl he’s never even talked to. From when this girl walks into the store where Sammy works, wearing only a bikini with her two friends, Sammy goes from being an average guy, thinking sexist thoughts, and quietly watching them, to being actively involved and being willing to help them. This change in opinion and character leads to Sammy making some questionable decisions. “A&P” starts with three girls walking into the A&P supermarket, where Sammy works, wearing nothing but bikinis while being miles from the beach. As readers watch the story unfold from Sammy’s perspective, Sammy’s character begins to reveal. Sammy thinks the girls are odd for wearing only bikinis, since it isn’t something he sees every day. He watches them and has a few demeaning thoughts about them, based off what they were wearing and the fact they were girls, “You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think there’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?)” (Sammy.16). As Sammy continues to watch them go through the store looking for what they needed to buy, he...
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...lost all faith in the spirits above us. I am broken now and live in a dark place. How do you help yourself to see the light again? How do you ever enjoy life and move forward? I look back on my life and I wonder if I am being punished for feeling so much joy. I will never forget nor be happy on the Fourth of July again. The Fourth of July is about celebration and independence; little did I know this would be the worse day of my life and destroy who I am forever. It is hard to keep your health in order when you live in a state that your whole family moves away from and leave’s you and your children alone. My sister Christy lived in California with her three boys: Wyatt (four), Garrett (two) and Leo (five months). She had been dealing with depression and alcoholism for the last few years now and was seeing a doctor, but Christy’s disease was never under control. When the doctor finally figured out the correct doses of medication Christy should take, her drinking would mess everything up once again. Christy was four years older than I, but she looked up to me as if I was her older sister. I felt like I was responsible for her even though I moved away with my family to the east coast. I always felt I should have never left her in California by herself. I would try to convince her to move out with her...
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...don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities”. I could not agree more with this statment. When you think of a single parent you probably think of someone that works all day and night just to be able to raise one or two kids. When I think of a single parent I think, "There is a strong willed adult with kids that are lucky to have around"! Being a single parent is never the end of the world, you just have to look at it as a new challenge for you to conquer. However, there always will be disadvantages that you may have to just accept and do the best you can to get through them. The effects of having a single parent family aren't all bad though, there are several different ways you could turn it into a positive thing. There is always a chance of divorce in all couples so when it happens it is never really that big a deal. But when the couples have children is when it not only becomes a problem, it becomes a HUGE problem. The article Top Ten Reasons for Divorce says that the number 1 reason for divorce is lack of commitment, it states, "Commitment may be lacking in one of the partners because marriage happens not always out of love". People marry for all sorts of reasons that they themselves do not remember once they are a few years down the road. Couples that do this are doomed to fail right from the start and have no chance at all to raise a family! Sometimes being a single parent is not anybody's choice, it could have just happened because of the death of the partner. As...
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...We as a human race spend our lives searching for who we are. When Wiesel was a young boy he thought his whole world was all figured out. He relied on his faith to guide his life and that’s the way he thought it would stay. When his entire world came crashing down it was the constant state of denial, he had put himself in that had sheltered him. It could happen to anyone but no one ever believes it would happen to them. Wiesel never believed any form of vocabulary would be able to describe the horrors he witnessed as a young man and how could mere words show the readers what really happened. We as readers can never begin to understand what life in those camps was like as we have lived very privileged lives. He wrote his account in such a simplistic...
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...“ Do we control the direction of our lives, or do forces outside of our control determine our destiny.” In my opinion it could go both ways. It could go both ways because it depends what decisions you make in your own life. But in the book,” A Lesson Before Dying,” by Ernest J. Gaines, the way he portrays his conclusion in the book is by outside forces controlling people lifes and other people helping others to not fall under the pressure. For example, on page 4,” Brother and Bear drove up beside him and offered him a ride.” Jefferson never knew what Brother and Bear were going to do at the store. And now he was going to die because the cops blame everything on him. In the beginning of the book Jefferson does not control his own destiny. Until Grant talks to him and tries to make him a man. Even though Jefferson stills dies by getting electrocuted, he says on page 254,” Tell Nannan I walked.” And that's what Grant was trying to do all along to make him walk like a man and not a hog....
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...tragic happens. Bullying can sometimes cause lifelong consequences or even lead to death in some situations. When bullying is happening in school we need to make the kids aware that they are not alone and that there is always somebody that they can talk to about the situation. If the children are afraid of the bullying they may not talk to an adult or say anything until it is too late. There are many ways that we can try to stop bullying in the schools but we also need to make sure that we speak with our children about bullying in order to help prevent and protect the kids who are being bullied. Bullying should never end somebody’s life. In school bullying happens every day and most of the time it continues long term without anybody noticing or the person being bullied even telling anybody. Sometimes there are signs of bullying which us as parents and educators should be aware of. These signs could include skipping school, personal items are damaged or missing, child doesn’t want to go to school, eating habits change, appears sad, angry, anxious, or even depressed, or even significant drop in the child’s grades. Sometimes the child may even try to harm them self in ways that we may not know. These harmful ways could include cutting themselves, taking unnecessary pills, or even mentally thinking that they are not good enough in the world. Being aware of some of these signs may help us recognize if a child is being bullied and help stop the bullying. Bullying can happen for...
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...time. The book sets up the reader with a theme that no matter how you look on the outside be courageous and not give up, the plot has the reader asking what will happen next and the characters represented in Wonder helps create a great literary work. The book has a theme that no matter how you look on the outside be courageous and never give up. I got this from the story because August went through many trials due to his face, but never gave up and made it through fifth grade. When August heard the Jack and the other boys making fun of him on Halloween, he could have told his parents he wanted to be homeschooled again. Instead he showed courage and went to school every day. It did not even stop him from trying to be friends with Summer in the fear that she was faking their friendship, too. When the 7th graders on the field trip started to bully August, he could of gave...
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...About a year ago, my mom got a call from my grandma saying that my aunt overdosed on heroin. We all knew that my aunt was an active user of different types of drugs, but we never knew that it would come to this. She was in the hospital for a couple of days, was in jail for another couple of days, and was let out to go back home. But then my aunt overdosed a second time. This time it was almost too late to safe her. There is one difference between adicts that abuse drugs, either they want to be better and want the help. Simply, the others could care less about wanting to get better and care more about when they can get their next fix. You would never want to witness your kid or even have your own self experience something so terrible like that....
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...Across the world, many people are inspired by zombie productions. Every zombie film released depicts a new survival technique these audiences can use in the impending zombie apocalypse. Sadly, these survival skills will never be put to use. In contrast to many theories, a zombie apocalypse is impossible due to the environment, a zombie’s inability to heal, and insufficient spreading of the virus. A zombie apocalypse could not happen in our current world. One reason a zombie apocalypse could not happen is zombies are vulnerable to their surrounding temperature. Both the heat and the cold would cause damage to the zombies’ bodies. In The Walking Dead, the setting takes place in hot Georgia. Since a reincarnated corpse cannot regulate its body...
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...Case Study 2 Public interest groups claim to work for the good of the whole society, not just one part of it. Public interest groups often have very different ideas as to how to improve society. Many public interest groups tackle a number of related issues. Greenpeace, for example, works to protect ecosystems around the world and to educate the public about dangers to the environment. They are a huge organization built around fixing the environment and making the world a better place. Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization that was started back in 1972 in Vancouver, BC. The founders of Greenpeace started it all in the late 1960s when the U.S had plans for a nuclear weapon test in the island of Amchitka, which is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone regions. In 1970 they sailed ships off towards Amchitka to stop the U.S from detonating another bomb there. Even though they got sent back, they felt sympathy for the protesters and decided not to continue with their plans to set of the bombs at that location. Greenpeace is now an organization, which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions, which are essential to a green and peaceful future. This being their main mission they have many different ways that they go about doing this. These are some ways listed by them of how they are living up to their mission statement, by doing things like: Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the number one threat...
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...you to do your homework or to go to class, of which I never did. I had a choice, which was more important, playing lacrosse or studying. Like any first year college student I picked lacrosse. At that point I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Who at that age would know either? My worst nightmare came true in the summer of 1989. I was academically dismissed from the university. I thought to myself "no way, this could never happen to me, I played lacrosse, had a girlfriend, and I was popular, how could this have happened". The worst part of the whole experience was the car ride home from the post office. The feeling of emptiness overwhelmed me, I felt as if I had nothing inside my body. I thought, "what am I going to do?" Then I had to face my parents, boy was I scared. What was I going to tell them? Sorry mom and dad but I wasted your money; I had no excuses so I told them the truth. What happened after that changed my life forever. It was either the military or go to a community college and try to redeem myself. I wanted to do neither, but I had to choose. The military was off my list and going to a community college sounded o.k. So I registered and the rest of that summer I had to deal with the fact that I had not accomplished anything in the past year and this was wake up call and the only chance I had left to prove to myself that I could do something. The fall semester rolled around and...
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