...When I was in China, there was a Japanese colleague named Satoshi in our company. He is 1.80 m high, good-looking, less than 30 years old, but looks a bit old. We seldom talked with him because he rarely laughed and we gave him a nickname "what things" (a homonym of his name in Chinese). Because I worked on the same floor with him, I met him often. He always looked lonely and unhappy. Maybe because he was lonely, he often worked overtime. He never went out with us or walked with any colleagues. We thought he deserves the loneliness because he left his hometown and came to work in China. But one day, there was an incident that changed my view on "what things". It was at noon, I was going out to eat with colleagues and we met him in the elevator. Because it was lunch time, the elevator was overcrowded as usual. When the elevator stopped at the main floor, there were a lot of people waiting outside to go up. As we hurried out of the door, I saw “what things” was standing by the door with his finger pressing on the button. When all the people went out, he still remained the same posture. I thought he was going to the garage downstairs but then I discovered that the elevator was ready to rise. I was so curious that I looked what in the end he wanted to do. “Does he forget something; ready to return to the office? What an idiot.” I talked to myself. I saw that he waited until the last person went into the elevator. Then, "what things" loosed his finger and dragged out of the...
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...New President Belle: Belle believes that our new president seems like a good choice. But she doesn’t really know much about him. She thinks that he looks ok, but she doesn’t really know for sure. This is because she lives in France, so she doesn’t know much about him. Simone Biles: She thinks that he is not good but not terrible either. She thinks that as long as he does good for our country, she is ok with him. She did however think it would have been cool to have a female president, but she doesn’t want to offend anyone. Buddy: Buddy thinks that our new president is a very good choice. He thinks that because Trump likes sugar and so does he. He likes candy, candy canes, candy corns, and sugar. Trump was his first pick purely because he likes sugar too....
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...the future of Athenian society; the youth will be making the decisions later on down the road after all of the elders die off. This is the reason why the citizens are very concerned about Socrates. The elders believe that Socrates is going to be the reason why the youth will be corrupted. But Socrates does not see how he could be the reason for the corruption of the youth because he always claims to not have any knowledge of anything. In Plato’s The Euthyphro, Socrates has a conversation with Euthyphro about what piety and impiety is. Socrates wanted Euthyphro to be his teacher and teach him everything he knows because he claims that he knows all there is to be known about what piety and impiety is. Therefore, Euthyphro teaches him everything that he knows about what it means to be pious and impious. After he starts to explain everything to him Socrates is not satisfied with any of his definitions that he has proposed to him, so Socrates starts to question him even more, and ask for a better definition. This back and forth conversation goes on for a while, and from Socrates questioning Euthyphro so much, Euthyphro himself starts to question everything that he knows about what it means to be pious and impious. Euthyphro was going to prosecute his very own father for unintentionally killed Euthyphro’s slave that killed one of his father’s slaves. After Socrates questioned him so many different times about what it means to be pious impious it seems that Euthyphro has come to the...
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...they know they are likely to lose/or be defeated’ Markus Zusak’s novel, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, is a story about two teenage brothers, Cameron and Ruben and their family, ‘survivors’ is how Cameron explains them. Although this family is being defeated by life itself as the father has lost his job and cannot earn money, they all still fight to survive. Cameron and Ruben compete in boxing fights every week. Although Cameron knows he will lose many of his fights as he is physically week, he still shows his courage. Lastly, although Ruben knows he will someday lose a fight, he keeps fighting, because he wants to find whether he has a heart like the rest of his family. He fights even though he might lose or be defeated by himself. The Wolfe family prove that they are willing to fight even though they could be defeated as they all show they were willing to support the father when he left to get the dole. “‘We can’t let him’, not because were ashamed of him. We just know that he’s fought for so...
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...despite he fell off because of a pot-hole in the road An 8 years old son couldn’t feel the brave expectation from his father when he tells him " Lost in a fight, still crying? Next time don't cry after a fight, remember?" An 8 years old can remember forever a simple spelling lesson he was given by his father after reading his essay "People don't use "and" after a comma, you know?" A 12 years old son takes many years later to fully understand the lesson his father gave him when he play balls and lost. His father doesn’t mind giving him money to continue playing until he wins in a match. But he lost finally. His father waits until the evening and tells him "You should know when to stop. Don't just play when you feel you can" A 13 years old boy takes long time to know how psycho his father was when he want his son to have a close girl friend. When he finds out, the chance has lost. A 14 years old son knows that men can cry when he sees his father crying, but why his father cry is the thing he keeps in his mind secretly. A every ages boy can know he is everything to his father when he see his father proud of him everywhere, every time, despite with his immaturity thinking, he knows he is just a normal boy like other boys The biggest lesson about heartless came when he were 15 and he remember it for the rest of his life. He only knows his father have a tattoo on his hand, but doesn't know it is his birth date. He came to know only...
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...the Supreme Being, he has a quantity of divine attributes such as: omniscience, omnipotence, Omni-benevolence, supreme goodness, eternal, self-sufficient, perfect, and everlasting, transcendence and immanence. In this essay, I will be looking at God's omnipotence, through the Stone Paradox, his omniscience, through the Free Will Paradox and Gods 'omniscience and immutability' and showing how they are not comprehensible. Firstly, The Paradox of the Stone tests God's omnipotence. The dilemma is that either God can create a stone which He cannot lift, or He cannot create a stone which He cannot lift. If God can create a stone which He cannot lift, then He is not omnipotent (as He cannot lift the Stone). If God cannot create a stone which He cannot lift, then He is not omnipotent (since He cannot create the stone). Consequently, either way God is not omnipotent as there is something He cannot do. The first objection to the Stone Paradox is from George Mavrodes. He argues that the paradox is logically impossible. The claim that someone, x, can make something too heavy for x to lift is not generally self-contradictory. However, it becomes self-contradictory when x is omnipotent. An omnipotent being that cannot lift a stone is logically impossible because it is self-contradictory and describes nothing. Hence, there is no possible power for an omnipotent being to create a stone they cannot lift. So if God is omnipotent, and cannot create or lift a stone then He doesn't lack any possible...
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...man who knows about the heavens and earth and therefore any one who believe this must not believe in the gods. Socrates was accused of being an atheist. Most of the people that followed him around his quest were inquisitive. Where as most adults would walk by Socrates with his “annoying question” the youth stopped to see what he had to say. The youth became his followers when he went out to ask questions that undermined society. Therefore, Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth. I do not believe that Socrates was guilty. For the fact that he was not responsible for the way, other people used what he said. Socrates is the seeker of self-knowledge. He poses the question, “how can I know about the world if I do not know who I’m”. Then the society says, “know thyself”. These two sayings sound alike but society has something else in mind, know thyself means that you must know your place in society. Socrates wanted people to find out who they were by themselves and not let society tell them who they were. You have to know how you think and act in certain situation to know yourself. Knowing yourself in a sense helps you in fact know the world. Socrates might have believed it takes time to know yourself rather than just saying you know who you are. Therefore, Socrates went out to find an answer to the question “What is X?” Socrates asks the question what is piety to man named Euthyphro. Socrates is looking for the universal meaning of what piety is. Euthyphro thought he knew the...
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...Trump and I have the same taste of music. Obviously he loves the song “I know, you know” by The Friendly Indians. “I know you know, that I am not telling the truth, I know you know that they don’t have any proof.” He knows, we know that he isn’t telling the truth. But he got the last part wrong. We do have proof. He knows, we know that he just loves to grope women but won’t admit that what he does is wrong. He knows, we know that he didn’t lose the popular vote because of voter fraud intended to help his campaign opponent Hillary Clinton. He knows, we know that immigrants aren’t all to blame for the crime rates. He knows, we know that he isn’t telling the truth. We know, he knows he doesn’t have any proof. Gideon Resnick...
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...baseball team. He was a really good player on JV. But he just forgot how to play once he got on varsity. He also knows the game very well. He was the best player on his team when he was on JV. He could throw very well and he would throw people out at second base all the time. He has a really good and strong arm for his age. He throws very fast because he has a strong arm. He can always get people out when stealing because he is a fast thrower and pops up very fast. He can get even the fastest runners in the league. He is really good at being a catcher he has been playing catcher his whole life. He can tell when they are stealing and can always get people out when stealing. That is why he is such a good...
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...and so on. The real chronological order would be to first see all the black/white scenes in the movie in the order we see in the movie. Afterwards we would see scene 7, then scene 6 and so on until we have seen the last scene, the scene the movie started with. Because of this structure of the movie you need to follow closely or you need to know before you watch the movie how it works or else it can be very confusing. It also demands from the viewer that he/she notices the little things that happens for example when we see Sammy Jenkins at the institution and when someone walks by and suddenly it is Lenny sitting in the chair. As a viewer you also need to know when we deal with flashbacks and when we just jumped one scene back. Through the story we kind of experience how it feels to suffer from short-term memory loss like Lenny. Because we don’t know what has happened earlier we only know what Lenny has told us and what we can see on Lenny’s pictures just like Lenny. So we don’t know any more than Lenny do, we don’t know how many John G.’s he has killed or if Teddy is the one that raped and killed his wife all we know is what Lenny knows. Lenny Lenny’s disorder definitely creates a problem for Lenny, his identity...
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...boy who doesn't really know what is happening around him who becomes friend with boy named Shmuel who is a prisoner at a concentration camp. This book is about an innocent boy whose innocence makes him confused of what really is happening during his time and he finds himself a friend who is a prisoner at a concentration camp and they create a strong bond with each other but that bond would end in tragedy. The Nazi Party the main reason why Germany went from an emerging democracy to a dictatorship that would commit a genocide to the jewish race which Bruno a young innocent boy that was seeing what was occurring but he never thought anything bad he thought everything that was going around him was normal. In the book there is many scenes in which Bruno always talks about Germany and how great it is but when he sees the striped pajama people ( Jews) he doesn't think of them as bad people...
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...Allegory of the Cave, the cave represents people who perceive knowledge as something that is seen and heard and that is really what it is not about. These people, in a sense, would be the chained people in the cave. This shows us that people in this cave are in a world of misunderstanding. There are people that live their lives in the dark, which means, they live in just that cave and not know that there is something beyond the cave. They lack the truth because they live in such comfortable lives and that the shadows is all they are known to see. The artifacts that they see that casts these shadows are out of their sight and do not see that these are the real 'truths.' They think that its everything in their lives and try to make sense of these shadows in the best form they can. Then, all of the people play the game of knowing what they know about these shadows. The ones that guess them right and know these shadows very well are the ones that know everything there is to know about these shadows they know about. It is an illusion of what they think is real. They even start to respect the one that knows the most about these shadows that are the 'truths' to them. These artifacts represent the form of Good that they are able to see, and think the shadows are that sort of the form of Good that they see and believe in. Then, Plato supposes that these shadows are not supposed to be named. The form of Good can be perhaps something that only your mind can grasp. This is the belief that these...
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...One day Gregor the human awoke from unsettling dreams he noticed that he turned into a monstrous vermin a bug.He didn't know what was happening to him,he didn't know how it was happening,nor did he know how it happened. He didn't know what he was going to do his work was traveling ,changing trains eating miserable food seeing new faces no relationships that don't last or just get more intimate. How was his family going to react to this situation that has happened, Will he still be loved and taken care of, will they still treat him like he is the human Gregor? I'm going to be writing about how he makes it through life being a bug. How is he going to do work, if he is going to get the same love by his family since he is not a human he is a bug....
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...man in the Nazi empire. He is a part of the Knight’s council, which are the most powerful people and the leaders of the empire. Alfred is very different from the knight because he is an English Nazi. The Nazi’s have taken over all of the Eastern world including England, so Alfred is a part of the Nazi Empire but the Nazis still call them Englishman because they are outcasts from the prototypical German man. The German people see Englishman as their inferior. The Germans have been taught that Englishman are only a little above animals in the social hierarchy of the world. The two men have a very difference of opinions regarding some of their beliefs and ideas of the world, but actually...
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...what could it hurt to give him a call. Well he and I talked for three hours trying to get to know each other and we figured that we should meet. Well we were going to meet up on his day off but I couldn’t wait to see him and meet him so I asked my friend to take me to his work when he was working cause I was so excited to meet him. So she and I went there and I was asking her which guy he was. She pointed at him and said this is the guy. He didn’t know that I was the woman he talked to on the phone. So I saw him and instantly I knew he was the one for me. I honestly told my friend that I would never find another one for me. So when I walked up to him it seemed like his eyes lit up and he was so excited that I was the one he met. Well I knew that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life or so I thought. Well we started dating and to be honest he and I had sex on our first date and it was amazing. I love him and knew that he was the one once we had a little more time to meet and hang out face to face to get to know each other better. I knew that he wasn’t going to hurt me. Well I was told that he was only 27 years old. Then he and I talked and one of my ex boyfriends called me and said he wanted to be with me and I didn’t know who to choose. So I told Danny that I wanted to take a break to make sure this is what I wanted to do. I know that when I did that I really hurt him. I thought about it for two days and when I called him he told me that my friend who introduced us was...
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