...not know why people seem to take my kindness for weakness. I do not know why I tend to put up a wall towards my parents when it comes to certain things. I do not know why I get angry by little things. I do not know why I stay up late and then complain about being tired in the morning. I do not know why people have good people in their lives and push them away. I do not know why people ask my stupid question that they already know the answer to I do not know why the person that murder my cousin don't turn them selves in. I do not know why I procrastinate with some things that I know I can do right away. I do not know why I am such a picky eater. I do not know why when people come into my room when I'm sleeping, leave the light on and don't close the door back when they are done what they was doing in my room. I am not a quieter. I am not selfish. I am not greedy. I am not mean. I am not over confident. I am not rude. I am not self centered. I am not arrogant. I am not dishonest. I am not unreliable. I wonder why I am such a loyal person. I wonder why I still believe I can dunk an I am only 5'5. I wonder why I call so many people a “friend.” I wonder why I let people in so easily. I wonder why I seem to always give people three and four chances. I wonder why it seem like bad things always happens to me. I wonder why I am so compassionate. I wonder why I am so sensitive. I wonder why I find the good in some people knowing all there is in them is lies n deceit. I wonder why God hasn't...
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...a) Explain the differences between absolute and relative morality. (25) To start, it is necessary to define the terms 'absolute' and 'relative' with reference to morality. Absolute means any theory in which the rules are absolute: they are unchanging and universal. Relative means any theory in which something is judged in relation to something else and is therefore open to change. Absolute laws or rules of morality will never change. Another way of putting this is that they are objective. Objective means that I am not bringing in any personal opinions or bias, so the rules that I work out are rules that anybody else would rationally come up with. We may come to work out these rules by use of reason and so any rational human being would be able to use his/her reason to come up with the same set of rules. For example, I may, using reason, work out that it is wrong to lie. An absolutist would think that it is therefore always wrong to lie, in any situation and in any culture. So it is just as wrong for me to lie about cheating on my boyfriend as it is to lie about the fact that Santa isn't real. And I can never think it is right to lie, even, to use Kant's famous example, if there was a murder at my door enquiring as to the whereabouts of my friend. If I knew my friend was hiding in my house, I would have to tell this to the murderer. In this situation, Kant would say that if I had lied to the murdered, and then in some strange coincidence my friend had left my house and was...
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...a) Explain the differences between absolute and relative morality. (25) To start, it is necessary to define the terms 'absolute' and 'relative' with reference to morality. Absolute means any theory in which the rules are absolute: they are unchanging and universal. Relative means any theory in which something is judged in relation to something else and is therefore open to change. Absolute laws or rules of morality will never change. Another way of putting this is that they are objective. Objective means that I am not bringing in any personal opinions or bias, so the rules that I work out are rules that anybody else would rationally come up with. We may come to work out these rules by use of reason and so any rational human being would be able to use his/her reason to come up with the same set of rules. For example, I may, using reason, work out that it is wrong to lie. An absolutist would think that it is therefore always wrong to lie, in any situation and in any culture. So it is just as wrong for me to lie about cheating on my boyfriend as it is to lie about the fact that Santa isn't real. And I can never think it is right to lie, even, to use Kant's famous example, if there was a murder at my door enquiring as to the whereabouts of my friend. If I knew my friend was hiding in my house, I would have to tell this to the murderer. In this situation, Kant would say that if I had lied to the murdered, and then in some strange coincidence my friend had left my house and was met...
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...” This tells who was responsible for 9/11. Who killed all those innocent people. People that were just working in a building so that they could provide for their families. Not only did the people in the workplace get killed but so did some of the firefighters and people on the streets. But just imagine going to work in the morning thinking that nothing's gonna happen and that today is gonna be a good day and then go slowly to your death just think about that for a minute. They used Pathos. When I read I felt emotion like how they probably did at the time. When the people in the crowd heard this speech I think that they might have cried or felt a sad emotion. For the Rhetorical appeal I choose Weasel Words. I chose this because it means to suggest a positive meaning without actually really making any guarantees. I believe is what this Quote is saying....
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...say that the 12 computers that they have should have passwords on all the computers. The reason why I say this is because they only people who should have access to these computers are they people who have the password or know the password. That is why this is the best protection for this construction company. This construction company will have a role-based access controls. This means with the uses that they have on site will have special groups based on the access they require for the company. 2. For this company since they all contact one another with smart phones and have 12 computers each and every one of these users should have an identification number as in a pin for each and every one of them that way they can all be able to be identified. On this company they are required to have a rule-based access controls. The reason why I require this for this company is cause each user is going to have access to a phone and computer which requires each and every one of them to have a pin in order for them to access their devices. That is why this access control is so important on these devices cause if they don’t know there pin then they will not be able to gain access. 3. For this company I would recommend that they use fingerprint technology for all these servers and employes. The reason why I say this is because for one thing there is too many employees to keep track of. So if each and every one of the employes and computers have a fingerprint scan installed into the server...
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...in his image why do we not know what he looks like? Genesis chapter 2 – Q. Why does it tell us that god took 7 days to make the earth if the 7th day was only rest from the completion of his work? Genesis chapter 3 – Q. Why were Adam and Eve not given any chances of sin? Genesis chapter 4 – Q. What does Cain mean when he says ‘My punishment is greater than I can bear’? Genesis chapter 5 – Q. Why did God make people live for so long back then and not now? Genesis chapter 6 – Q. What does God mean when he says “My spirit shall not always strive with man”? Genesis chapter 7 – Q. Why did god send the floods? Genesis chapter 8 – Q. Why did Noah assume that just because the dove did not come back that the waters had cleared? Genesis chapter 9 – Q. what does “Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man” mean? Genesis chapter 10 – Q. why were there so many generations of the sons of Noah? Genesis chapter 11 – Q. why was the whole earth of one language? Genesis chapter 12 – Q. why was Abram departed? Genesis chapter 13 – Q. why did Abram come back to worship the lord? Genesis chapter 14 – Q. why were they rebelled from power on the 13th year? Genesis chapter 15 – Q. I don’t have a question. Genesis chapter 16 – 17 Q. what was the meaning of circumcision ? Exodus chapter 1 – 5 Q. What does god mean when he says...
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...After reading the article “Do Deaf People Have a Disability?” by Harlan Lane with my peers, I have educated myself further by understanding fully. Before I took American Sign Language, I didn’t even think about the Deaf community, much less if they were being oppressed or not. I never thought that they were oppressed for being Deaf, something which isn’t wrong, just like racism and sexism. The word disability is socially constructed, and that we should stop using it because putting labels on people isn’t right or morally correct. Before reading this article I didn’t even know about the word Audism. To be fair, a lot of hearing people are quite ignorant on the subject they think one thing but they won’t try to understand or educate themselves....
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...needed in order for society to remain stable. Durkheim’s theory is useful in explaining crime as it highlights that crime is not unnatural in society. However, Durkheim has been criticised as there is no way to tell what is too much to be useful and what the right amount is. Durkheim also fails to consider why some groups in society, such as the working class, are more likely to commit crimes. Merton explains crime by using his strain theory in which he focuses on goals and the means of reaching the goals. He based his study on the American Dream and suggested that all members of society have the collective value of wealth and possession. Due to this, Merton claims that crime and deviance arises due to society not being equal and those at the bottom of the hierarchy, for example the working class, are unable to achieve these goals via legitimate means such as education and work so turn to illegitimate means such as theft. This suggests that goals are linked to a person’s position in the social system, meaning that there cannot be a true value consensus for all. Merton’s strain theory is useful in explaining why people conform within society. However, he does not consider why only some of...
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...What if I told you Jesus can do abolish religion. What if I told you voting republican wasn’t really his mission. What if I told you republicans doesn't automatically mean Christian and just because you call some people blind doesn't automatically give you vision. I mean if religion is so great why has it started so many wars? Why does it build huge churches but fails to feed the poor? Tells single moms God doesn’t love them if they’ve ever ha a divorce. But in the Old Testament God actually calls religious people whores. Religion might preach grace but another thing they practice is to ridicule Gods people, they did it to John the Baptist they can’t fix their problems and so they just mask it not realizing religion is like spraying perfume on a casket. See the problem with religion is that it never gets to the core it’s just behavior modification like a long list of chores like let's dress up the outside so it can look nice and clean but it’s funny that’s what the used to do with mummies while corpses rot underneath. I am not judging I’m just saying quite putting on a fake look. Cause there is a problem if people only know your Christian by your Facebook. I mean in every other aspect of life you know that logics is unworthy It’s like saying you play for the Lakers just because you bought a Jersey. See this was me too but no one seemed to be on to me, acting like a church kid while addicted to pornography. See on Sunday I go to church but Saturday getting faded acting as...
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...sees individuals as entirely shaped by the way society is structured or organised, this means that the subcultures share norms and values that are different to those that are shared by mainstream society as those within the subculture have rejected mainstream norms and have become inverted because the mainstream values have failed them as is illustrated by item A. These subcultural theories are used and developed by different sociologists in order to explain why crime and deviance happens, functionalists see society as socialising individuals into shared norms and values that dictate how they will behave showing why those who are part of a subculture reject society and participate in crime and deviance because they enable a person to have a sense of identification. However theses subcultural theories cannot always explain the trend in crime and deviance as there are many contributing factors as to why crime and deviance happens. Merton is a functionalist who has developed a theory in order to explain why crime and deviance happens which has then been developed further by other sociologists in to the form of subcultural theories. Merton’s strain theory is the basis of subcultural theories and he explains that the reason for deviance is the result of strain between the goals that society encourages individuals to achieve and what society actually allows them to achieve through legitimate means which leads them to commit deviance acts because they are frustrated at not being able...
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... In the documentary “The House I Lived in” there are numerous accounts of people speaking about the “War on Drugs” The director Eugene Jarecki states what his stance is directly by saying, “I wanted to follow the failure of the drug war and the harm it does” What does he mean by this? Well, in this movie he shows what prevention there is for drugs, how drug use has started, and whether or not the prevention is just or not. In the beginning of the documentary he throws out a figure that makes you wonder, it is that one trillion dollars has been spent on drug prevention and there has been virtually no change in the amount of drug use. This makes you wonder, what is really going on? The film recognizes abuse as a matter of public health, and investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have resulted from framing it as an issue for law enforcement. It also shows how political and financial corruption has influenced and become the backbone for the war on drugs, although there are many failures. The drug war in America has been the reason for the largest percentage of people in jail. In this documentary it is shown that what should be done to stop the use of drugs or find out why people are on them, you have to start at the root. The war on drugs makes it so that most members of the urban black community, who might have turned to drugs either as personal escape or as the only means of making money in a community that is run down of business, never get a chance...
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...power: The definition of power means the capacity to make others do what you would have them to do. b. Liu’s definition of civics: The definition of civics simply means the art of being a pro-social, problem-solving, problem-solving contributor in a self-governing community. c. The result of our creeping fatalism in public life is: Depressingly low levels of civic knowledge, civil engagement, and participation awareness. The whole business of politics has been effectively subcontracted out to a band of professionals, money people, outreach people, message people, and research people. The rest of us are meant to feel like amateurs in the sense of suckers. We become demotivated to learn more about how things work. We begin to opt out. d. If people don't learn power, people don't wake up, and if they don't wake up, they get left out. e. All of civics boils down to the simple question of who decides, and you have to play that out in a place, in an arena f. Liu argues the best place to practice power is the city. g. What is the challenge and opportunity in citizen power today? Do you have command of these elemental questions of power? Could you put into practice effectively what it is that you know? Question 2 Video 2: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-understand-power-eric-liu#watch a. The ability to make others do what you would have them do is called power b. Using law and bureaucracy to compel people to do and not do certain things...
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...Behind him are many other people just like him, (colored and hard working) who are forbidden from using the glorious, available, white people’s fountain, waiting for their turns. A person who disobeys the Jim Crow laws, for example a black man using the white people's water fountain, will face severe punishment, and get arrested and serve long years of hard labor--that's if he or she was lucky. Needless to say, the laws did not protect colored people, like it was supposed to,rather, the laws oppressed them. On the right there is a beautiful water fountain, one that is made of rock, as rock is not a heat insulator, and it is not capable of burning anyone drinking from it. Due to the fact that...
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...Why are there so many clichés in football? Every football fan would probably say that they're fluent in the "language of football". From the pragmatics of it, knowing that, in a footballing context, a brace is neither a device fitted to something to provide support or a pair of straps that pass over the shoulders and fasten to the top of trousers at the front and back to hold them up, to knowing the names of all the high potential, young gems that you've ever found on all the popular football management games you've ever played, football is a very broad and hard language to learn. One of the staples of the football language is the cliché. A phrase that is do overused that it loses its original impact, they're are hundreds of these phrases that are usually peppered in the post match interviews of players and managers and the commentaries of former players as former managers. A big question of those who are not fluent in the language of football is "what do all these clichés mean?" and "why are they used so often?" Some clichés are blatantly obvious, for example "A game of two halves" describes the structure of a football match perfectly, it has two sections of 45 minutes each (both sections are equal therefore they are "halves"). The cliché isn't meant to be a description of the structure of a game though, because a match can really have two juxtaposing halves, therefore a usage for the cliché. A great example of this is the 2005 Champions League final between AC Milan and...
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...1. Why do Inuits have a strong bond? The Inuits have a strong bond because there is not a lot of people there and all of the them work together everyday. Another reason is because where they live is a very small place so everyone knows everyone. This is true because in the video at 50:00 it said, “ Even though it may seem like a big place it’s really not, it’s a every small place……” This means that even though people may think that not everyone would know everyone, they are wrong because everyone that lives in the Arctic knows everyone. This is why I know that the Inuits have a VERY strong bond. 2. Why would the Inuit have needed to understand the natural patterns of Arctic wildfire? The reason the Inuit need to understand the Arctic’s wildlife because when the hunters are going on the ice to go hunting for food for their families, then need to go at the right time so they can get the food/animals and they don’t miss them. This is true because in the video it said that some of them are scared to go hunt when it is starting to get warm because they don't know when all the ice that they walk on is going to melt. This means...
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