...PHILOSOPHY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS SOCRATES Socrates, perhaps the most famous of all philosophers, lived his entire life in Athens. Unlike Thales and other early thinkers, Socrates was more concerned with the health of the soul, than the nature of reality. Socrates spent his days in the streets of Athens, questioning people about their values. He termed himself a "gadfly" (horsefly) who ceasely irritated his fellow citizens into investigating their beliefs. Making many powerful enemies in the course of his life, Socrates was sentenced to death by the Athenian Assembly in 399 BC. One of Socrates' wonders is that he invented rigorous, ethical investigation. His conversations with his fellow Athenians, as recorded by Plato, are the first records we have of an individual, by his own careful reasoning, trying to discover the guiding principles of moral choices. METAPHYSICS Because Socrates always claimed that his only wisdom was that he knew nothing, it is difficult to determine his metaphysics, his view of reality. However, in some accounts of his conversations, like Plato’s EUTHYPHRO, we may catch glimpse of his beliefs. Socrates seemed to hold that individual entities, like holy actions, have universal characteristics, like Holiness, which can be discovered by the mind after careful investigation. This may mean that he anticipate Plato’s metaphysics that thee is higher, eternal world of truths (like Holiness) which exists independently of this world. EPISTEMOLOGY Socrates’s...
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...Instructions Write a 1 - page essay on The Higher Education in Europe and emphasize the role of education in people’s lives. The Higher Education in Europe The higher education has an important role in society by creating new knowledgements and applies them to the students. Higher Education in today’s world can mean many things; to some it is self-improvement, job insurance, a development of character, social improvement and to many it may just be an experience worth paying for. Whatever it may be the pursuit and completion of higher education is assurance of what the main goal seems to be now “money”. Education is associated in my mind with moral principles such as the respect for the people around us, honesty as well as knowledge from different fields of activity and competences. The general trend nowadays goes towards increasing the number of high school graduates who choose to attend higher education in Europe. Therefore, it is a good opportunity for young people’s equal access to universities and colleges in European countries that are famous for their high quality courses and strategies meant to facilitate students’ integration in the work market and their access to better paid jobs. The higher qualified the younger generation is the more they contribute to their own decent life standard as well as to other people's welfare by promoting a stable and democratic society. The government in each European country should take measures meant to support families...
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...followed LIFO (instead of FIFO) from the beginning, 1/1/2003. He has the following information available to him: What would net income have been in 2004 if Hastings had used LIFO since 1/1/2003? Top of Form $ 110,000 $ 150,000 $ 170,000 $ 230,000 2. A customer is currently suing a company. A reasonable estimate can be made of the costs that would result from a ruling unfavorable to the company, and the amount involved is material. The company's managers, lawyers, and auditors agree that there is only a remote likelihood of an unfavorable ruling. This contingency: Top of Form Should be disclosed in a footnote. Should be disclosed as a parenthetical comment in the balance sheet. Need not to be disclosed. Should be disclosed by an appropriation of retained earnings. 3. The ABC Company operates a catering service specializing in business luncheons for large corporations. ABC requires customers to place their orders 2 weeks in advance of the scheduled events. ABC bills its customers on the tenth day of the month following the date of service and requires that payment be made within 30 days of the billing date. Collections from customers have never been an issue in the past. ABC should recognize revenue from its catering services at the date when a: Top of Form Customer places an order. Luncheon is served. Billing is mailed. Customer's payment is received. 4. On June 30, 2001, Cole Inc., exchanged 3,000 shares of Stone Corp. $30 par value common stock...
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...Bipolar Disorder: Effects on One’s Life Seminar II: Developing Learning Tools Ottawa University Ms. Nancy Hindle Tonya Nelson April 11, 2012 Abstract This literature review explores bipolar disorder (BD) and how it can affect one’s life. Patients experience extreme highs (mania/hypomania) and lows (depression) with this disorder. These episodes vary by type. There are various types of BD as well as multiple forms of treatments. There are also links between alcohol abuse or dependence (AUD) and social phobia (SP) with bipolar disorder. After treatment one may lead a full and productive life; however if untreated this disorder can affect mood, behavior and judgment, leading to poor performance at work, school and in one’s social life. Bipolar Disorder: Effects on One’s Life Bipolar disorder (BD) is a brain disorder that can significantly affect a person’s thoughts and behaviors in daily life. Once this disorder is diagnosed, someone with this illness may lead a full and productive life; however, if gone untreated one may have a higher risk of suicide and one’s personal relationships can be negatively impacted. Baldessarini, Viera, Calabrese, Tohen & Bowde (2010) state that there is a delay between diagnosis and correct treatment of five to ten years (p. 145). People with this disorder can have very “high” (mania/hypomania) periods and very “low” (depression) periods in a short amount of time. One can also have milder symptoms. For instance...
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...the early distress that it could cause. Several researchers describes traumatic events as unexpected events, such as exposure to natural or manmade disaster, or observing violent crimes, events that are more lingering in nature, such as participating in combat or being the victim of physical and or sexual abuse or assault. Another name for traumatic events is called traumas. Traumas can also be classified as the scope that can have a huge impact on an individual (Shaw, 2009). The Effects of Trauma on Neural Development Researchers have found the correlation of trauma and the effects it has on the human brain. The amygdala and hippocampus are parts of the limbic system that helps process the sequence of one’s life story. During the normal course of an individual’s life, the amygdala and hippocampus are able to process both the event and the emotions attached to a traumatic event. The amygdala records the emotions and bodily sensations of an individual. After the emotions and bodily sensations have been recorded, they are retrieved by the hippocampus. The hippocampus role is to add cognitive meaning and place the information that is processed into appropriate context. As soon as the hippocampus has stored the context, the information can be permanently stored in the cortex as explicit memory. However, during trauma the processing of the memory does not happen in this manner (Simington, 2013). During traumatic events, the amygdala records the extremely charged emotions and sensations...
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...Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu is a well known French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher whose work has greatly influenced the people of his time and still continues to do so today. He worked during the 1970s and 1980s studying and analyzing the idea of power within a comprehensive “theory of society”. With many years of conducting his own research, he came up with a theory of his own to identify individuals and their relationship with society and their status with power. Bourdieu sought to connect his theoretical ideas with his own life experiences to best relate his work with people of society in his time. While doing so, he managed to create a different set of key concepts to carefully break down and explain how he believes that our social system is made up and why. Although he has many revolutionary concepts, my paper will mainly focus on three of them: habitus, capital, and field. Born in Denguin, a small village located in Southern France on August 1, 1930, Pierre Felix Bourdieu was born to a working class family. Growing up, he was greatly influenced by his father to pursue the best education possible that his country could offer; because of this, Bourdieu ended up getting accepted to one of the best and most prestigious universities in France--the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. This is where he studied philosophy under Louis Althusser a famous Marxist thinker. After finishing school and receiving his doctorate, Bourdieu went to Algeria in 1958...
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...categories: the belief in a higher power that physically or mentally can have an affect on ones life and is the authority in a “religious culture”; having a set of written or oral scriptures that are passed through the generations, used to teach the people of the culture the ways and traditions of their religion and way of life; and rituals that are carried out within the Religion. A higher power must be one that the “religious culture” believes has an impact on the people and that they view as the one an only higher power. The written or oral scriptures are the center point of the teachings of the religion, detailing the past and helping to pave the future for the religion. Rituals are carried out at certain times, places and events in order to please or praise their “God” or higher power, and as celebrations in the religious culture. These rituals can be but are not limited to, song, dance, praise, worship, meditation, and acts of kindness. The primal religions believe in a “God” or higher power even though they do not identify who or what that higher power is specifically, “The Supreme being is not named because he is unknowable” (“Modes of contemplation through action: North American Indians” in Main Currents in Modern Thought 30, no 2 quoted in Smith, 378). They live their daily lives focused on their “God” and pleasing or worshiping that higher power. The people in the primal religions see the creator of all things as their higher power....
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...Social Comparison and Temporal Life Satisfaction In his theory of social comparison, Festinger (1954) identified the idea that human beings have the drive to look at others in order to evaluate their own opinions and abilities. Social comparison is categorized into two forms, namely downward and upward. Downward comparison occurs when an individual compares to others who are deemed as socially worse off, while upward social comparison acts in the opposite direction. Over the years, there have been various studies on the directional effects of both upward and downward comparison on an individual’s self evaluation. According to Suls, Martin, & Wheeler (2002), both downward and upward comparison can lead to people viewing their situations in a more positive way. Another research study by Buunk, Collins, Taylor, VanYperen, & Dakof (1990), showed that downward comparison evoked a fear in individuals about ending up in the same situation as their less fortunate comparisons. In return, the fear of “it could also happen to me” made people have a lower level of life satisfaction. Despite the various comprehensive researches done thus far, there is still no clear conclusion on the exact impact and effect of social comparison on an individual’s evaluation of his or her own attributes and attitudes and abilities. This is even more applicable to college students who are constantly evaluating their personal abilities and opinions by making comparisons to their peers. The...
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...Petrol price relates to people’s life By reading the news named “91 petrol jumps by 6c a liter to record price”, I realize that the price of petrol has a closely relationship with people’s normal life. It said that the oil companies lifted the price of petrol and diesel because of the Middle East conflicts, and also the annual inflation had increase 4 per cent which was driven by petrol prices one-third higher than a year ago. Because of this situation, the Council of Trade unions said that “high petrol price have a significant effect on low-income workers.” and “unions will continue to push for decent wage increase this year.” Moreover, many motorists are affected by the price hike; they have to spend more on the fuel. Therefore they should start to think about the cost budget or find an economical car. Also they will take a public transport instead of using their cars, someone decided not to travel too far. There are some questions in the article which could help me to understand it well, such as why the Middle East conflicts could cause the petrol price raise, why increasing petrol price will affect low-income worker most, and how the motorists’ decision above will influence the market. All of these questions can be answered by using the concepts of supply and demand. Firstly, in the world oil market, the largest oil supplier is from the Middle East, however the conflict there has a negative impact on the oil expert, because the conflict lead to a decline in number of producers...
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...completely new to me. However, in spite of the fact that I do not belong to any particular religion, I have always felt very connected to my own personal beliefs and to a higher power, so “worldview” actually feels very comfortable. I am excited to begin the challenge of answering the questions below in order to help shape and define my worldview. * Who is God and what are His characteristics? * God is a name given to a higher power; the creator of the universe and of all life forms. * God is a spirit, a parent, and a teacher: As such, his character is compassionate and forgiving. * What is a human being and what happens when you die? * Human beings are one of God’s incredibly complex life forms which are, in a sense, bodies with individual spirits. * When we die, our bodies are left behind on earth while our spirits return to heaven to be with God and our loved ones who passed before us. * What is the nature of the universe? * The universe is the major system that synchronizes the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, and life on earth. * Life on earth would not be possible without day and night made possible by earth’s rotation around the sun (lending to our sleep cycle), the warmth and light from the sun for plant growth needed for sustenance of life (including production of oxygen), and many more multifaceted reasons that will not fit inside this answer. * How do you know what you know? How do you know what...
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...SOCIAL MEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION Neil Selwyn This essay was first published in The Europa World of Learning 2012. For further information see the final page of this PDF or visit www.worldoflearning.com. © Routledge 2011, all rights reserved. INTRODUCTION Few people will have failed to notice the recent emergence of social media—especially much-publicized applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia. Even the most casual of internet users will now be aware of the notion of social network sites and blogs, maybe even wikis and virtual worlds. Since being declared Time Magazine‘s ‘Person of the Year’ at the end of 2006, social media have come to dominate the ways in which digital technology is now used around the world. Of course, there are distinct geographical and cultural variations within this global adoption—whereas people in the USA may log on to Facebook and Twitter, Chinese users are more likely to access Renren and NetEase. Yet in all these guises, the general principles of social media remain the same. These are internet applications that rely on openly shared digital content that is authored, critiqued and re-configured by a mass of users. Social media applications therefore allow users to converse and interact with each other; to create, edit and share new forms of textual, visual and audio content; and to categorize, label and recommend existing forms of content. Perhaps the key characteristic of all these social media practices is that of ‘mass...
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...imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology. The education of an individual human begins at birth and continues throughout life. (Some believe that education begins even before birth, as evidenced by some parents' playing music or reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will influence the child's development.) For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life provide far more instruction than does formal schooling (thus Mark Twain's admonition to "never let school interfere with your education"). Family members may have a profound educational effect — often more profound than they realize — though family teaching may function very informally. Etymology: The word "education" derives from the Latin educare, meaning "to nourish" or "to raise". Education systems: Schooling occurs when society or a group or an individual sets up a curriculum to educate people, usually the young. Schooling can become systematic and thorough. Sometimes education systems can be used to promote doctrines...
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...data must first be acquired regarding the knowledge or beliefs in their origins, purpose of existence, and view of life or existence beyond mortality. Discovery of this information is the basis that will determine the attitude of the human capacity for religion. Do the majority of humans believe that they were created or evolved by a guiding hand of providence, or do they believe that what they are is the result of accidental evolution? What is their view toward the purpose of existence? Is there something to be gained or lost by the way they live their lives, and what matters most to them? Will their mortal lives reflect anything beyond their mortal existence, and if so do their actions in mortality have any determining factors to what they become? Do they have any hope for individual life or a higher plain of existence beyond this physical existence when they die? Most groups believe that they originated from the creation of a supreme being. The specific details as to how this was accomplished are quite diverse; however, the one most common trait is the perception of the creator as a parental figure. The attitudes and characteristics of the creator range from gender, form, power, and interest in the human race, all of which result in a common practice of worship. Most people will gather in groups of similar beliefs and discus, worship and pray together. The forms of worship vary and are almost solely dependent upon the deity of worship and the beliefs of the group. There are...
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...Increasing Education Increasing success at Higher Education Eng103 By Diamond Whatley Increasing Education Diamond Whatley Eng103 May 4, 2015 We are all aware that learning a foreign language as benefits. But are we overlooking the benefits when it comes to processing higher education? There are many reasons why people learn a foreign language: it can may help you obtain a career in the path of your choosing, increases chances of a promotion, and helps you connect and communicate with many people. However, these benefits tend to be realized after the early stages of one’s education journey. Moreover, a student’s overall interest in learning; in general dwindles over time. By the time a student reaches high school they tend to do the bare minimum to graduate, and that includes taking a foreign language. A student’s interest and attitude toward education greatly effects their success in school and/or life. “We need to get kids interest in learning, to show how it relates to life in the real world...they don’t see the significance …” (Wilson, R. 1988) even though Wilson’s statement is in regards to employment after graduating high school. The same can be applied to, learning a foreign language. Form experience, while in a conversation about learning languages; I often hear “Why are you learning that? You don’t need it right now. Everybody’s learning English.” However, I can see overall benefits beyond the, obtaining a career in the path of your...
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