...Modern immunology is so far advanced from what it used to be. As a result, people can live longer lives. When the Black Plague was around, it killed by the thousands. It is in human nature to want to live longer. By studying diseases and our bodies’ reactions to them, ways are created to battle them and in some cases eradicate them. With Smallpox, Edward Jenner pioneered the first vaccine using an active but less deadly disease. He discovered that people who had contracted cow pox at some point never contracted Smallpox. He then researched this theory and started injecting people with the cow pox virus. He faced many adversaries who claimed that he was wrong. They said they found cases where they had contracted Smallpox even after having cow...
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...Those lucky enough to be different should never change. In Ayn Rand’s book Anthem, society takes place in a very far away dystopian future. Technology has destroyed mankind, hidden from the knowledge of civilians who live for their brothers, and their brothers only. They must all be the same and follow whatever orders given to them. However, Equality 7-2521 comes along and discovers the importance of individuality. An individual is more important than society because individuality creates new discoveries, like how Equality 7-2521 discovered electricity and realized that people need to express their differences in order to be happy. Equality 7-2521 discovers something from the Unmentionable times called, electricity. In Anthem it says, “So much...
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...“How to live a Rational Life in an Irrational Society” Ayn Rand states that in a society with zero judging there could only be two people who had initiative. They could be someone who was willing to create rational and moral judgements for society or a thug who had no moral responsibilities such as a thug who was aware of how irrational the society really is. The character from her novel Anthem Equality 7-2125 would certainly agree with her as he is a person in the former group. He was right to denounce the way of his leaders in moral terms and to leave the City. On Ayn Rand’s Essay In her essay “How to live a Rational Life in an Irrational Society” Ayn Rand states that the only way to keep society rational is to judge others and be prepared to be judged yourself. In her essay Ayn Rand states, “An irrational society is a society of moral cowards—of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards, principles and goals. But since men have to act, so long as they live, such a society is ready to be taken over by anyone willing to set its direction. The initiative can come from only two types of men: either from the man who is willing to assume the responsibility of asserting rational values—or from the thug who is not troubled by questions of responsibility.”. This is because not judging only benefits the evil overall and not the...
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...average of 2.97 extended kin was reported but in coloured households an average of 0.47 was reported,84% less than an African household. In Africa homes the number of non relatives was 0.34 in 2001 and in coloured homes it was 0.47 so not much deviation in that respect. In conclusion there is only significant deviation in the “Extended relatives’ category with the African group showing 84% more extended kin in the household. 2.1) 45% 2.2) 3% 3.3) 34% 18% live with neither parent b) Both sets of age groups 0-6 and 7-17 year olds have similar family conditions in terms of living with parent(s). 34% of 0-6 year olds live with both parents and 31% of 7-17 year olds live with both parents. 45% of 0-6 year olds and 34% of 7-17 year olds live with their mother only 11% less than the younger age group.3% of 0-6 year old and 4% of 7-17year olds live with their father only. Overall 82% of 0-6 year olds live their parent(s) and 69% of 7-17 year olds live with their parent(s). 13% less than 0-6 year olds. 23% of 7-17year do not live with either parent but have at least 1 parent alive and 17% of...
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...Apologetics APOL 104 D27 Liberty University April 5, 2014 Worldview Assignment I. Part One: What is a worldview? A worldview is an individual person’s view of the world from their very own perspective. An individual’s worldview is based on many factors and some of them can include, how the person was raised, their religion, where they live, and the beliefs of their parents. Worldviews throughout the world are as varied as there are different personalities. II. Part Two: 1. When it comes to the Christian worldview, what is believed about the answer to the question of origin, is in the Bible in the book of Genesis. The Christian worldview about the origin of man is that God created man from the dust on the ground and he breathed life into him, this is according to Genesis 2:7. There is one answer to the question of the origin of man in the worldview of the Christian. There is another part of this question that also addresses the question of the origin of the universe in the Christian worldview. In Genesis 1:1 it is stated simply that God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning. In the Christian worldview that in fact means that God simply created the universe out of his thought and with his infinite knowledge and power. The fact that God created the universe out of nothing, lends credence to the “Big Bang” theory in the world of science. Every year scientists, astrophysicists and astronomers...
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...Go -hillsong United key: B Intro: B Chorus B We're giving it all away, away B We're giving it all to go Your way Verse 1: B In the Father there is freedom B There is hope in the Name that is Jesus B Lay your life down give it all now B We are found in the love of the Saviour Pre-Chorus E G#m We've come alive in You B G#m Set free to show the truth E G#m F# Our lives will never be the same Chorus: B We're giving it all away away E G#m E We're giving it all to go Your way B We're giving it all away away E G#m E We're giving it all to go Your way (Away we're singing) Verse 2: B We are sold out to Your calling B Everything that we are for Your glory B Take our hearts now, have it all now B Let our lives shine Your light like the morning Bridge: C#m E B F# You rolled back the curtains from our eyes And now we can see You C#m E B F# You've shown us Your way Your truth and life C#m E B F# We offer our lives to bring You fame E We're caught in Your freedom E C#m We're caught in Your freedom Chorus Today is the Day – Lincoln Brewster Intro: C Am G F | C Am G F | C Am G | Verse 1: F C Am7 G F C Am G Im casting my cares aside. Im leaving my past behind. F C Am7 G F Dm7 F Im setting my heart and mind on You, Jesus. F C Am7 G F C Am G Im reaching my hands to Yours, believing...
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...written by Ayn Rand is written as the diary of Equality 7-2521, a young man living in a future in which people have lost all knowledge of individualism, to the point of not even knowing words like 'I' or 'mine'. When he is assigned to a menial job cleaning the streets, Equality 7-2521 rebels against collectivism by conducting secret scientific research, which eventually leads him to...
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...succewThe 7 Keys to Success by Will Edwards For Fay - My Most Excellent Daughter ‘You are a special enterprise on the part of God’ – Mildred Mann This eBook may be given away freely. It may NOT be sold. Copyright © White Dove Books 2006 All Rights Reserved. http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk Contents Your Wake-Up Call ........................................................... 3 Commitment...................................................................... 4 An Open Mind ................................................................... 6 Persistence ....................................................................... 8 Flexibility ......................................................................... 10 Faith ................................................................................ 12 Thankfulness................................................................... 14 Passion ........................................................................... 16 The Rest of Your Life ...................................................... 18 A Message for Our Time ................................................. 19 About the Author ............................................................. 20 About White Dove Books ................................................ 21 _____________________________________________________________________ The 7 Keys to Success Will Edwards Your Wake-Up Call When I was quite young, someone told me, “If you want be really...
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...The 7 Keys to Success by Will Edwards For Fay - My Most Excellent Daughter ‘You are a special enterprise on the part of God’ – Mildred Mann Distribution Rights This eBook may be given away freely. It may NOT be sold. Copyright © White Dove Books 2006 All Rights Reserved. http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk Contents Your Wake-Up Call.................................................................... 3 Commitment ............................................................................... 4 An Open Mind ............................................................................ 6 Persistence .................................................................................. 8 Flexibility.................................................................................. 10 Faith .......................................................................................... 12 Thankfulness............................................................................. 14 Passion ...................................................................................... 16 The Rest of Your Life............................................................... 18 A Message for Our Time .......................................................... 19 About the Author ...................................................................... 20 About White Dove Books......................................................... 22 _____________________________________________________________________ ...
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...encourages you to go about life in the way you’re going about it? “When making the normative judgement that something is pleasing to us or that we have a reason to act in a particular way… moral motivation gives the impression to be of more significance in the apparent opposition between self-interest and morality.”In Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, Equality, the protagonist, knows that his invention will benefit humankind greatly. However, this is not his primary motivation in conducting his experiments. His primary motivation is his ego. An analysis of this motivation, in a sense, summons to contest if the prime motivation of Equality is right when looking at his...
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...practice to help in living the way according to Buddhism a sin free life. I believe that what is taught in the eightfold path is similar to the Ten Commandments and other passages in the Bible. Rather it is the Bible or any other teachings the similarities in all can be helpful in teaching how to live a righteous life. The eightfold path is not in any particular order but are all used or intertwined to work together to build on self. First, Right view supports wisdom and understanding of things as they are or seeing things in its true nature within ourselves or an insight of. Christianity is similar as to knowing ourselves because we are to look within ourselves to find what is hindering us and pray to God almighty to help make changes that need to be made to better ourselves. Right intention is part of the path that cultivated wisdom. There are three parts or kinds of right intentions. The intention of renunciation (desire), the intention of good will (ill will), and the intention of harmlessness (harmfulness) so all that we are is followed by our thoughts. In Christianity our thoughts are apart of whom we are so we are to control them. For example, if I have thought about someone in a sexual way I would have already sin in my thoughts, Mark 7:20-23 says, Mark 7:20 And he said, that which cometh out of the man that defileth the man. Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness...
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...this and the quick ending to the war of 1864, one can conclude one or even both sides of the campaign suffered through the destruction the events brought. Thus Sherman’s Atlanta March to the Sea was very destructive because it affects lives and morals to the soldiers fighting for the union. It caused the Georgians to change their lifestyle forever and traumatized the emotional well-being of the Georgian's. Although Sherman's men were brought to fight against the Confederacy, they genuinely ruined other people's lives and their own. During the Atlanta Campaign, many soldiers participated in destruction left and right without guilt, yet document 4, an excerpt from “The diary of Sgt. William...
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...No problem. Interfaces and operating systems and software applications and hardware upgrades and I/O devices provide each and every person on the planet a customized computer experience. We should thank capitalism for many of the technological advances that have come about over the past fifty years. After all, money has a tendency to flow to the products that make our lives the most enjoyable. Three of the most notable advances in computer history are servers (formerly known as mainframes), Microsoft Windows, and the Linux operating system. Each one in its own right could fill volumes. However, the objective of this paper is to simply highlight a few of the most prominent features each of these advances has to offer. We will start with the most notorious MS Windows®. Microsoft has been in the computer industry for many years, and it is one of the most well-known companies worldwide, the majority of the operating systems these days are from Microsoft. Windows 7 was a fast selling operating system, historically sold more than 240 million around the globe. Users could tell very fast that Windows 7 was easy to use, it was indeed Microsoft newest and most powerful operating system, it works with...
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...| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | An Essay | | | 2/2/2014 | I was inspired by Stephen R. Covey’s, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The 7 Habits have encouraged me to rethink how I was looking at the world and it has changed how I plan to move forward in my life. Covey defines a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. Knowledge is the what to do and why, skill is the how to do, and desire is the motivation or want to do, “In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three”, (Covey 55). Covey describes the Maturity Continuum which moves us progressively from dependence to independence to interdependence. The 7 Habits are tools which provide an approach to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Part 1 The first three habits focus on transitioning from dependence to independence, the mastery of self. Each of us begins life as an infant. We are completely dependent upon others to care for us. “They gradually, over the ensuing months and years, we become more independent- physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially-until eventually we can essentially take care of ourselves, becoming inner-directed and self-reliant”, (Covey 57), it is in our nature to transition to independence. Wikipedia.org summarizes The 7 Habits in correlation to each phase, beginning with self-mastery. Habit 1: Be Proactive describes how to take initiative in life by understanding how our decisions are...
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...Anthem, by Ayn Rand, is a novel that is very unique in its own ways. It shows a lot of individualism and makes the reader think of how people can just live as they are told to live and do as they are told without even knowing the outcome after they do what they are told. Also, it teaches the importance of self expression and the freedom that comes along with being unique and having the power to choose what path to take in life. The society in this novel, the word “I” is forbidden and humans refer to themselves as “we” instead of “I” to represent equality throughout society. Anything that might spark a thought of being a one of a kind person is forbidden. Children are born from parents that don't even know each other and are being taken away...
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