...Being successful is something I always have taken great pride in, but can not always guarantee. When entering college, I knew it would be a whole new world for me and my high level academics. I had a variety of people giving me advice and telling what I should and should not be doing to ensure I was top notch as I ventured to San Francisco State University. Instead, it went in one ear and out the other, to where I had to learn from my own mistakes and misfortune. Now, I pride myself on being a good student and passing all my classes and making the most of school, but never did I see myself failing a class, let alone a remedial math course. While I have always found math challenging and difficult, I never have failed a math class or any class...
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...to our behaviors, but one thing it takes is for us to fully understand the skills to being knowledgeable to be successful in a workplace. I've done some quick research on what skills people feel are needed to be successful in the workplace in I ran into a fair list of identity fulfilling characteristics to have( site cited below). The list given was communication, teamwork, problem solving, initiative and enterprise, planning and organizing, self-management, learning and technology; I agree to this listing and here is why. AS wake up and start our day we have choices to make starting form your decision to get our of bed down to the time to re-enter bed, but...
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...Many students, from elementary to middle school to high school, dream of going to college. Being successful in college is a whole new game than regular school. Priorities are altered by real life dilemmas, social life, and recreational habits. A lot of people get confused with the purpose of going to college, its to open new doors for you and expand your knowledge. College isn't about partying hard and getting wasted. Students tend to enter college for the first time unaware of important success tools such as: time management, goal setting, and learning strategies. Time management is an important tool to have in order to be successful in college. Lets say that you attend two classes a week, need hours of study time, work...
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...For being a successful student you need to have a healthy competitive mind and acquire skills. The skills acquired through education is called learned skills. Education also modifies your personality and attitudes and these guides you for the rest of your life. Some of the characteristics of a good student is * 95 -100% attendance * Having a questioning mind * Receptive and open to changes * Time management * Studying daily * Taking good notes Taking notes is one of my good characteristics. I am a fast writer and loves to study from my notes. I believe that when we write our own notes it also gets imprinted onto our memory and then when we go home and read our notes it gets permanently stored into your memory. This in turn helps you to prevent cramming before the exam because now you have a basic idea about a certain topic in your brain that was installed initially and finally you save your time before the exam learning only the things that you find difficult to remember. Taking notes is going to help me become a successful student this time again. When I read my colleagues discussion answers there will be so many things that i never even thought about and I will make a note of it and try to apply it in my daily life and this will help me become a better nurse also. I believe the knowledge received should be practiced and shared to make the world a better place to...
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...Importance of Being Successful I know I have made the choice to do things differently this years. I am no longer going to accept unsatisfying results, where I feel I’m putting in the long hours, but nothing ever seems to change. It is now time to unleash my magnificence to awaken that achiever who stares back at me from the mirror each day, light the fire of inspiration and desire under my feet, and pulls the trigger on my potential. I am an important part of this amazing world and a contribution, with so much to offer and no matter where I am right now, I can achieve anything if I unlock my inner most beliefs. Besides, I have the desire to accomplish things and make improvement to soar throughout the business world today. I know I have made the choice to do things differently, this year, by enrolling in college to obtain the degree I need for my career. As a college student at St. Petersburg College, majoring in business allows me to use my personal responsibility, accountability, and commitment to aid in a successful career. Moreover, personal responsibility challenges take a major role in my life with seeking a business degree. Responsibility has different meaning and parts: there are personal and social responsibilities. In fact, personal responsibility is being held accountable for my own actions, but at the same time social responsibility holds me accountable for a group, and my actions impact the group, whether god or bad. I am also learning how to take responsibilities...
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...more effectively, as well as study better. I am now aware of how important college is, and how important it is that we work hard in high school so that we can become successful in college, and so on. From all of the activities, reflections, and field trips that we went on, I realized how beneficial high school is, and how it’s going to affect your future. Academically, I have gotten better with turning in my homework. I also take more time to do my homework, and make sure that it’s correct. AVID has helped me turn in my homework on time because Mr.Hansen stresses every day how important it is that we use our Google Keep to record all of our homework for each CORE class. I also make sure that my homework is correct because each teacher discusses the same thing with us; Doing your homework is optional, but it will prepare you for what you’re going to be tested on, and will make you...
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...philosophers such as Alvin Plantinga and Descartes, defines God as “a being that which nothing greater can be conceived”. In my opinion the argument does not only fail to go beyond this definition, but we cannot be sure than it defines God correctly either. Firstly we cannot argue that the argument goes beyond the definition of God because as Kant points out the argument has a major flaw, the ontological argument is based on an assumption that to exist is a property of perfection. He uses the analogy of money saying that 100___ that existed in reality were no different in value to 100___ that existed hypothetically as both, in theory were worth the same and therefore equal. Bertrand Russell makes a similar point, he claims that the ontological argument uses the word ‘exists’ incorrectly and that existence is not a property of things, but of the idea of those things. Russell uses the example of dragons, saying that if someone says a dragon does not exist what they mean is of all the things that exist the word dragon refers to none of them, however this fact is not part of the definition itself and changes nothing about the description of the features of a dragon, therefore existence is an extension of an intention and not a definition. Alvin Plantinga attempts to redeem the ontological argument with his possible world’s theory, planting argues that if it is coherent to believe that in a possible world a maximally great being could exist then in order for him to have maximal greatness he...
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...earlier stage should be aborted. It results that the existence of one person should counted as overpopulation, and it is good for human to extinct. In the introduction, Benatar first claims that his argument can be applied to all sentient beings, but his focus will be on humans. In the part subtitled “Who is so lucky”, Freud's claim that there is no good or best for the non-existent people elicits the 'non-identity' problem, which will later be solved. By speaking about the 'never-existent' which refers to nothing, Benatar is using this expression as a convenient term to mean those possible but non-actual beings. In Chapter 2, Benatar firstly claims that the expression 'a life worth living' should be specified as either 'a life worth starting' or 'a life worth continuing'. Then he tries to explain why coming into existence is always a harm by the asymmetry of pleasure and pain: (1) the presence of pain is bad, (2) the presence of pleasure is good, (3) the absence of pain is good, (4) the absence of pleasure is not bad unless it implies a deprivation. The first two points are evident, but (3) and (4) are controversial. The 'non-identity' problem can be raised against (3), since (3) can be interpreted as the absence of pain is good for the nonexistent being. Benatar replies that (3) claims that “this absence is good when judged in terms of the interests of the person who would otherwise have existed” (2006: 31). However, this reply is still problematic since it implies a...
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...Transcendental Attributes of Being A research paper submitted to [Professor Name] In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements For The course [Course Name] [Seminary Name] By [Student Name] Place Date Introduction While Plato had also covered the notions surrounding the properties of being, Aristotle was the first to bring the term transcendental to the context of the attributes of being. Plato offered valuable insight regarding the four transcendental attributes of being. [1] Aristotle shaped the transcendentals in a specific manner and refined his own perspective. Later philosophers also expanded the discussion surrounding the transcendental attributes of being. These transcendentals become significant in the context of theology because they possess a link with Christian theology and unfold in the form of what man desires. For explicating the four transcendental attributes of being, it becomes significant to first explore the definition of an attribute. An attribute falls under the category of that aspect which does not exist in the form of the embodiment but originates from the same. As regards ‘being’, it can only give rise to what is also being and thus, a ‘being’ cannot spawn attributes or properties while discussing these terminologies in a firm manner. Nevertheless, while approaching the subject in a broader manner, an attribute can be defined for a specific perspective on being as long as it applies to each instance of being and overall entities that fall...
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...God—proofs that were dependent on reason and observation, not the revealed word of God. 1. Aquinas recognized that for motion to take place, there had to be something that interacts with it to cause it to move. This, in turn must be an infinite being outside of creation and hence is God. 2. Every effect must have a cause, if you eliminate the cause you eliminate the effect. It only posits that a God exists who is the cause of all things and who is the effect of nothing. 3. Aquinas argued that from observation, the things around him had the possibility of being (or existing) or not being. Yet, if that first being exists, he must necessarily not have the possibility of not being. In other words, as non-existence cannot bring about existence, the first being necessarily has to have always existed. And this entity that necessarily exists and cannot not-exist, is God. 4. Note that this is not the suggestion that we get the idea of goodness or hotness from God, but simply that there must always be something that is more good or more hot than that which we are viewing and since there is a gradation, there must always be a top to the gradation that can never be surpassed. Such a top or asymptote, by definition, requires an infinite being, hence it must be God. 5. Fifthly, Aquinas points out that there are entities in creation that have no consciousness at all, yet still act in a regular fashion and in such a way that it is beneficial to their continued existence. Trees, for example...
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...horses did not exist, there would be no such thing as the form horse. Is this correct? * I believe Aristotle was incorrect by saying there could be no form of a horse if there were no actual physical particular horse with which to base the form on. I justify this based on my understanding of the notion of a form, namely – the form of the object is purely human convention that assigns words to concepts and then judges wheter particular objects conform to our definition. We could conceive if something that we would call a horse even if there was never an object that we could find which conformed to our conception. 4. Can there be essence without existence? * Everything has two principles that explain its being, essence and existence. In all beings except for God, these principles are both required in order for the actually existing individual thing to be. Each is distinct from the other, yet this distinction is a real, not merely logical. 5. What are the two kinds of substance * For Aristotle two kinds of substance is from and essence. The kind of essence or form that Aristotle counts as primary substance is one that is not in any way universal; a form that is as individual as the compound whose form it is. The “individual forms” solution is not to be found in Aristotle, and is unavailable to him. On their view, the primary substance of the Metaphysics is species form - something that is common to different members of the same species, but is still, in some...
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...expected and required. * These policies should include conflict of interest and code of ethics section. * Procedures should be updated every year * It is important that employees are taught and trained in the policies so that they learned of their existence and they get a sense of what is expected of them. * It is also important to exercise segregation of duties in the workplace. This means require different parties to perform key parts of the transaction. Specifically, separate the authorization, custody, record keeping and reconciliation duties. In the case, not only is Jessica in charge of the custody and record keeping duty, but there also seems that there isn’t any supervising bank reconciliation activity being performed. There are different controls that this entity could have used to avoid segregation of duties problems experienced that led to the burglary of funds by Jessica. Some of these are: * Implement a bank lockbox system that receives the entity payments. These system would have avoided Jessica or any employee to have to deal with cash by just getting bank notifications of the daily deposits for recording. * If a lockbox system is unavailable/undesirable, two entity’s employees should receive payments, list the payments and generate deposits. * This control could be circumvented by collusion of employees. * Additionally, periodic reconciliations of cash receipts for entities books should be performed...
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...TRANSCENDENTAL PROPERTIES OF BEING By: MBAKWE NICHOLAS CHUKWUNWEIKE Introduction Metaphysics is not just a science in Aristotle’s conception of it, but one that distinguishes itself from all the particular sciences by firstly raising the question of the first and most universal causes and secondly by taking as its subject of consideration ‘being’ simply as ‘being’ in its most universal and in its most concrete sense as present in experience. Implicitly, being must be taken as analogous from the very beginning of the investigation, not in the sense that it would diffuse the unity of this science into a mere difference of differences, but in the sense that it would raise this science to a higher kind of unity according to an order of different degrees of being as they relate to a primary analogate as the one to which all relate more or less distantly. To delve more deeply into this analogous subject of consideration one must further distinguish transcendental properties that follow being in its analogous and transcendental sense. In the end, when the question of a first, universal cause of being as being, or of a summit of being that would be totally transcendent, is finally raised, all of this a priori conception of being as analogous according to different degrees with its corresponding degrees of oneness, activity, truth and goodness must be brought into play in relation to things as they come under sense experience as moved, caused, contingent and exhibiting different degrees...
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...having a hidden meaning, and as I have quickly learned, philosophy is a very mystifying subject and is open to a wide variety of interpretation. Due to this obscurity, each person will have a different view on philosophy and will likely have changing opinions and views as they continue on their path. Heidegger describes this path as one of responding to life. More specifically, “responding to the voice of Logos which he defines as the Being of all beings, One, One which is all, Life.” As previously stated, this is a very cryptic definition that takes much deeper thought than simply reading off the page. Despite being cryptic, this vague definition gives a strong guideline to the basic idea of philosophy while still giving the reader an opportunity to interpret the definition in their own way. This definition shines light on both the basic idea of philosophy while also showing that everyone will interpret philosophy in their own way. By saying that philosophy is the One which is all, it shows that each individual person makes up a greater being which is Life. Each individual person provides their own interpretation based on their own lifestyle and past. Therefore, philosophy is the sum of all lives that can only be defined with the sum of everybody’s views and opinions. With this is mind, philosophy will be ever changing as people grow older and more people are brought into the world. What is most important about this definition is that it is timeless. This definition can...
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...The British were in control, and America was getting tired of this. They were ready to become independent, this led to the American Revolution. Need, this was the one disadvantage of the Revolution. During this period there were shortages of: money, weapons, food, clothing, and medicine, leaving them without for this time. However, America still ended up successful, because it was their land, they knew the ins and outs, not to mention the outstanding leader they had, George Washington. Therefore, the advantages out-weighed the negative effects of the Revolution, ending with America being successful. Successfulness must have been difficult without certain needs in America. Without food, weapons, money, and many more essential things, America...
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