...Caroline Coyle English 285-001-Summer 1 June 28, 2012 The Corporation and Modern Society: Crises of Capitalism It’s a Wonderful Life – Trust, Respect and Personal Responsibility in Business We tend to think of the past with nostalgia. The stories of our grandparents about simpler times when there was trust and respect, when families lived and stayed together, doors could be left unlocked, shopkeepers and businesses knew their customers. Some grandparents lived through the early 20th century untouched by the Great Depression. However, others struggled against forces that they did not understand. The banks and businesses that they had trusted had “failed” and they were suddenly without jobs or homes. Most Americans did not have any idea what had happened to the banks or how a bank could “fail”. With only newspapers and limited radio to rely on for information, they felt abandoned by the institutions they had trusted. The film It’s a Wonderful Life addresses the impact that a loss of trust has on a community and equally important, the failure of big business to respect those they serve. Frank Capra recognized that his film would be more than “good versus evil” in the form of George Bailey versus Mr. Potter. The citizens of Bedford Falls represented every small town in America where the lives of working class people centered on cooperation, sharing equity, fairness, and justice. They had a perception of trust and respect built on these values in which business...
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...WITH JESUS CHRIST... Jesus: Hello. Did you call me? Man: Called you? No. Who is this? Jesus: This is Jesus. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat. Man: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something. Jesus: What are you busy at? Ants are busy too. Man: Don’t know. But I can’t find free time. Life has become hectic. It’s rush hour all the time. Jesus: Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it. Man: I understand. But I still can’t figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat. Jesus: Well I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with. Man: Tell me, why has life become complicated now? Jesus: Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated. Man: why are we then constantly unhappy? Jesus: Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That’s why you are not happy. Man: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty? Jesus: Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional. Man: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty. Jesus: Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Man: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer...
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...http://disney.go.com/vault/read/walt/index.html, Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 and was used in a silent film entitled “ Plane Crazy” but later made his debut in “Steamboat Willie” the worlds first fully synchronized sound cartoon. Now in days we always see fully synchronized cartoons and don’t really give much thought to it because its normal. Walt Disney’s drive to perfect animation was tireless and to his success he became the first to create a fully synchronized sound cartoon in the late twenties. As Walt Disney said “ I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing- that it was all started by a mouse.” The whole Disney empire was started by one character whom at first didn’t even talk . Mickey Mouse is even the iconic symbol for the wonderful Disney franchise. As a result Mickey Mouse was the engine that helped fuel Walt Disney’s success as an animator and the entertainment industry. [174] Barrera 2 To many people Disneyland is considered to be a rip off when they look at the price but they always end up coming back. Disneyland was launched in 1955 and by its third decade more than 250 million people were entertained including presidents, kings queens and royalty from all over...
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...Creation of Man This is the history of Humanity. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void…” (Genesis 1:1-2) There are two versions or parts of creation in the Bible. The first one is in Genesis 1:1-2:4, and the second, Genesis 2:4-2:24. However, it is all connected into a more detailed and exciting story. From the beginning, God forged us, humanity, with a purpose, but that change after Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, we will first unite the pieces and see the greater picture. As we all know, the Bible starts narrating us on Genesis 1, how from nothing God began his creation, but there were darkness and emptiness. Again he said, “Let there be light,”...
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...The Romantic period in literature during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, was a departure from the formal and rigid attitudes of the previous Classical movement. Romanticism was characterised by freedom of thought and an unrestrained expression of the emotions and imagination of an individual. Contemplations of the natural world inspired deeper thinking about God and creation. This style of thinking impacted on artistic and intellectual texts, such as the poetry of William Blake, in which he conveyed his awe of God’s majesty and power. These poems contrast two vital attributes of the Creator and illustrate a more elaborate and intricate view of God’s fierce, yet gentle nature. Blake’s poetry encapsulates the imaginative expression and heightened emotion that was a key feature of Romantic thinking. Both The Lamb and The Tyger are found in Blake’s iconic anthology Songs of Innocence and Experience, in which he examines opposing perspectives of the world. The purity and unlimited potential of childhood is highlighted through the simple pastoral imagery of the Lamb. The Lamb’s child-like qualities are expressed in the repetition in the quotation: ‘Gave thee clothing of delight,/ Softest clothing, woolly, bright’, which is further reinforced in the simplicity of the rhyming couplet. Moreover, the tactile and visual descriptions reflect a child’s simple exploration of the world around them through tangible imagery. Through this technique, Blake expresses the Romantic...
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...Name: Lau, Kwong Nam Class: Biology 100 Date: 11/05/2014 Let the Earth Bring Forth is a book to prove or testify God’s creation. A man who has spent so much time, efforts and almost his whole life for exploring the region of spiritual faith and science. Many people have some struggles between the theories which they have learned in biology and the traditional opinions of creation that they have learned in school. This book has truly answers all these questions and struggles by using different scriptures in the bible. In this book, the author tried to prove and explain that science and religion are not incompatible by nature. For example, we know that through the bible, the word “day” has used to mention time period. In Genesis 2:17, the Lord has instructed Eve and Adam do not eat the forbidden fruit or they will die on “the day” they eat. We know that at last Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit but they have lived for many years. The day spoken of in Genesis was not twenty-four hours period we calculate nowadays referring a day. Furthermore, “Let the earth bring forth” is God’s royal command (Gen1:11) God has prepared an earth that would bring forth and grow. In the bible, “And God said, Let the water bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every...
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...Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling The Creation of Adam Page 276 Brandon Steinberg Mr. Ray Morales Art 114-01 23 July 2012 Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. Most of his work was done during the Italian renaissance. Michelangelo was not only known for his amazing paintings, but he was also a sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. He has a bunch of pieces, from paintings, to sculptures, which rank among the most famous in history. The piece that I would like to talk about is The Creation of Adam, in the Sistine Chapel. Originally, Michelangelo was supposed to paint the twelve Apostles against a starry sky. Instead of painting this, Michelangelo wanted to paint something that was more complex; which represented creation, the Downfall of Man, and the Promise of Salvation through Christ. Michelangelo was a very unique person, often wanting to be by himself for long periods of times. He was known to, “live like a poor man.” He rarely ate, but when he did it was, “more out of necessity than out of pleasure.” He was a man that believed deeply in Church and the Christian faith. This led him to live a rather rough life sexually and emotionally. According to his faith, anyone who committed acts of homoerotic nature would not be aloud to go to heaven when they pass. This haunted Michelangelo throughout his whole life, and had a great deal in regards...
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... BS. Chemical Process Technology The Destiny of Our Human Race The article “The Destiny of Our Human Race” show that people are not the same. We are all born in natural way but in different aspects in life. God made us unique in some way that we have our own talent, we have skills that we can only see it in our self. Talents that we can enchance, talents that can lead to our success in life. God made us unique because of some reason. We are wonderful creatures of god at some point that we should not compare our self to others. “The Destiny of Our Human Race” pointed our the stages; monads in monads we are all born with intelligence and therefore monads was create by it’s spiritual intelligences and a material hope. The whole purpose of evolution acquires human mind. The next says that from the moment of our birth our minds are empty and we filled it up while growing up because we are logical beings. As the title says “The Destiny of Our Human Race” it means that man has it own knowledge. Men are considered monads because we acquire eternal pilgrim which develop our knowledge. We existed as spirits and make us monads. This is the reason why we integrate our self with a man’s body in order to use our knowledge and intelligence. Our mind is like an empty states because back then we are born without anything knows about this world. We are learning it step by step process. We study to learn. We all use or intelligence for us to learn something...
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...beginning of the way man views himself, the pursuit of knowledge and nature of the universe, which then represents a concept that explains the knowledge of God in the application of human reason and the laws found throughout nature. As expressed through the work Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, human characteristics are found in an unnatural being, thus suggesting that...
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...culture. Everybody has a worldview, whether or not they realize it. Worldview is set by what we see, hear, think, from your education, your culture and media the list goes on and on. Your thinking and bias thoughts affect the way we view things in life and the reality around us. Example of this would be is to say that there a type of car, no matter the year, mode or color and too me it would be considered a wonderful beautiful car in my eyes no matter what anybody else view of it is. So we all see things different in our own worldviews. Part II: Articulate the biblical/Christian world view: 1. The question of Origin: In the worldview in the bible says, God created heavens and the earth. Which is in detail in Genesis 1:1. In Psalm 19:1 it talks about God and the cosmos with meaning and humans beings and all the universe should be conceived and interpreted as a sign of God, his glory and his power. 2. The question of Identity: The worldview says that god created man. This is well known from Genesis. Also, the saying god created mankind above the animals and man was created. This is all back up in the Psalm. 3. The question of Meaning/Purpose: Is in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge stated in colossians. Knowledge is the purpose and meaning as stated in Psalm state that true knowledge can only be acquired by a reverenced submission to the living God. 4. The question of Morality: The morality meaning deals with right and wrong that we...
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...of Blade Runner, are emotions the defining element of human life -Both creators are expressly interested in creating a life form equal to human and Tyrell even wishes to create a life form superior to man ·Both stories share a central theme, that the acquirement of too much knowledge is dangerous -Throughout Frankenstein, the reader is left with the feeling that Victor's obsessive desire to defeat nature, through the creation of another life, directly led to the many tragedies that befell him, "Learn from me, if not by my precept, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow" -In Blade Runner, the Replicants have been granted an intellect superior to their human counterparts. Are the Replicants revered or given special treatment because of this? No, in fact, they are treated as slaves and hunted down when they return to the birthplace of the human race ·Both creators are faced with limited tools in which to create their new life forms -"...but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared...
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...profit and are subjected to few or no regulations at all. The power plants are polluting the atmosphere in both the United States and Mexico causing serious respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. In the creation story, God created the earth to sustain and benefit human life. God made man a steward of the earth’s natural resources. Human beings are to protect, preserve, and safeguard those resources so that all can benefit and enjoy the gifts that God has given the people of the world. The first creation story ends with God saying, “And God said to (human beings), be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of heavens and over the beasts creeping on the land” (Gen. 1:28) (De La Torre, 137). God is presenting to the people He loves with gifts of a wonderful and amazing world to have an abundant life. This understanding of humans (specifically the male) occupying the pinnacle of creation has been echoed throughout Christian history, most recently by Pope John Paul II, who stated “Everything in creation is ordered to man and everything is made subject to him” (1995, 61) (De La Torre, 137). These scriptures are telling man to be caretakers of the earth for all of mankind. Often man has used these verses to abuse the earth and its people for personal gain. Not taking in consideration the effects his actions take on society and on our future societies. Christians are to value all human...
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...is philosophy? Well, that is an incredible difficult question to answer. Part of the reason is it is so hard to answer is because many famous philosophers, the ones who actually “do” the activity in question, don’t agree on one set definition and even go as far as to disagree with each other when putting fourth their own definitions. So how can we have a set answer to that question? Well this means that we are going to have to have a very broad definition. It has to be very wide because it has to encompass many famous philosophers’ ideas and teachings. To be a philosopher is to create and conceptualize ideas about how to live life the right way. When thinking about a philosopher we all tend to gravitate towards an image of an old Greek man with a large white beard, bald head and in robes. However, while there were a lot of ferry talented philosophers who were old and Greek, anyone can be a philosopher and we should encourage people to try. It would be ignorant for anyone who considers themselves to be a philosopher to not listen to everyone’s ideas. In Phaedo, Plato states that “Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. If this is true, and they have actually been looking forward to death all their lives, it would of course be absurd to be troubled when the thing comes for which they have so long been preparing and looking forward...
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...Shelou Baigan October 16,2013 Philo 106 1:00-2:30 I. Based on what we have discussed about the First Way of St. Aquinas, I learned that a being whose essence is to exist is called a necessary being. The universe contains only contingent beings. God would be the only necessary being because he exists. Dependent beings cannot cause themselves. They are dependent on their causes. If there is no independent being, then the whole chain of dependent beings is dependent on nothing and could not exist. But they do exist. Therefore there is an independent being. I learned that there must have been an unmoved mover (GOD) who first put things in motion. I learned that nothing can move itself. If every object in motion had a mover, then the first object in motion needed a mover. Therefore this first mover is the Unmoved Mover, called God. The chain of movers must have a first mover because nothing can move itself. The First Way is all about Motion. Motion means moving to any kind of change, not just change of place. So, if the whole chain of moving things had no first mover, it could not now be moving, as it is. If there were an infinite regress of movers with no first mover, no motion could ever begin, and if it never began, it could not go on and exist now. But it does go on, it does exist now. Therefore it began, and therefore there is a first mover. God is simple, without composition of...
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...1) Explain what is meant in the bible by the phrase ‘God is good’. (25marks) Firstly, we must understand what is meant by ‘good’ well good is that which is morally right. With God it is said in the bible “oh give thanks to the lord, for he is good; for His loving-kindness is everlasting (Psalms), another way is the 10 commandments which shows God setting the standard of what is morally right and wrong. Another way of showing of how ‘God is good’ is by creation in genesis 1 and 2 which shows God either creating the world or how he is crafting everything, also in the bible of how God has preformed miracles and in todays society. In the bible there are many passages, which say ‘God is good’ for example in James ‘every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow’ this is clearly saying that God is the source of goodness. Another example is the goodness of God is a character trait, which applies to every other attribute. God’s wrath is good. God’s holiness is good. God’s righteousness is good. God is good in His entirety. There is nothing about God that is not good (Romans), this is basically saying that the goodness of God is a life-transforming truth and that we should use the words of God in are attitudes and actions. The Ten Commandments are the clear example of God setting the standards of what is morally right and wrong. We follow these laws that God has set because...
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