Boulding—“Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth” * English (1910-1993), Professor at U. of Michigan, U of Colorado * Economist, educator, peace advocate, Quaker, systems scientists, interdisciplinary philosopher * We are approaching a closed system and how it is going to be tough for us * Neither receivers inputs nor outputs * i.e. self-contained * Today we are in an open mind approaching a closed one * Morals are keeping us in the open for now * Econospherethe total worth
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John Ford’s The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is one of the greatest American films ever made, and certainly John Ford’s best, the only challenger to this title potentially being the quintessential western inversion, The Searchers. Many would classify The Man who Shot Liberty Valance as a western, and they, at first glance, would be correct to assume so: John Wayne, a gun fight, and a setting of the western territories. At further watchings, however, one can clearly see that The Man who Shot Liberty
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The Land Remembered teaches us lessons of overall sustainability. The Land Remembered is a novel by Patrick Smith. It tells a story of a pioneer family detailing their progression through three generations the way that each generation interacts with the land and depicts the changes over time. The process of change emphasizes the importance of adaptation. Our generation’s lesson from this story is to focus on future sustainability and how we can adapt to more eco-friendly practices. Tobias McIvey
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characteristic of Russian writing is its realism; in contrast to the strong romantic quality of much western literature, Russian books turn their searchlights on the daily lives of men and women. They throw no glamour over life, nor wrench it from the moorings to satisfy the prescribed rules of plot or style. Hence, the simple directness of formlessness of most Russian novels and drama, it is evident to that much of the important fiction of this country is bound up either directly or indirectly with the
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understand political power right, Locke explains how we must understand the state of all men; a state also of equality. In Book 2—Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature, Locke begins to explain that all men live in a state of perfect power, equality and freedom. Men are all born naturally equal in the same state, where no one has power or privilege over another. Their actions and behaviors cannot be bound by other men. Locke states that the only time a man should obey authority and obedience, is in the presence
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Social Justice and the Bible While it appears one is compassionate when this term of “social justice” is used we now know where it comes from. You find neither the term nor the principle in the Bible; nor in the US Constitution. There are liberal/progressive Christians that claim “social justice” is part of the gospel. We are not commissioned to transform society and make sure everything is equal. We are called to rehabilitate sinners by the power of God, not government. The gospel is the cure
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The Monstrous Dawn of Progress January 12, 2012 2011-43316 SOSC 1 “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" We all know progress is the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization
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deal mainly with responsibility and choices (Burnshaw). People from all walks of life can look at this poem and are able to find a single line, or an entire stanza, that they can use as a correlation to their own lives. Frost’s poem is about much more than a man riding on a horse through the woods, it uses metaphors to ask questions about life, the decisions that impact our lives, and should
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because of how many people had moved to find a better life. In the story Of Mice and Men the author, John Steinbeck, shows the reader that everyone works hard for the American Dream of the 1930’s but it is rarely attainable. One way the American Dream is unattainable is how it is just a dream. For example, the dream that George and Lennie had of them owning their own land seemed like a possibility, but it was crushed when Lennie killed Curley’s wife. This shows how anything that a person does can ruin
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lead, one white man and one man of another race (usually black). This trope was a popular demonstration of the façade that the blacks and the whites get along perfectly and treat each other equally and with equal respect. Although this idea was still just a façade, it was entertaining especially to the American audience. This buddy trope was shown in “The Pioneers” through the use of Natty Bumpo and John Mohegan (Chingachgook), Natty being the white man and Indian John being the man of color in this
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