...Creator vs. Creation Victor Frankenstein creates one of the most horrible creatures known to man; it was also the most human. Sometimes a creation can be more “real” than the creator. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character, Victor, creates a beast that is argued to be more human than the creator. Human characteristics show that Victor’s creature is more human than the creator himself because he thinks of others and feels betrayed. Victor Frankenstein has a mighty ego while his creature feels for himself and others. The creature soon talks to Victor and tells him of his feelings and thoughts. The creature describes himself as “alone and miserable” and is heartbroken because “man will not associate” with him (213). Victor’s monster is ashamed of his loneliness and is sad that no one cares for him. Victor soon understands the pain the monster feels but he does not do anything. Because he is ugly, the monster is alienated and alone. The monster claims that “no mortal could support the horror” of his features and “personality”(43). He feels and knows that he is ugly and that no one will go near him. He feels alone and abandoned because of his looks, but he never gives up hope in man. Victor remembers when he first saw his creation. He claims that “the beauty of the dream vanished” and that “breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart”(42) Victor only cares for himself while the monster sees that caring for others is the key to happiness. Victor cares for himself...
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...Delgado and Van Schaik (2000) argue that, “conservation is of the utmost importance for assuring the orangutan’s survival and for increasing our understanding of hithero, unexplained aspects of their socioecology, sociosexual behaviour and cognition.” (p. 215) Without a solid understanding of these aspects of their life, it deprives researchers in regards to the wealth of knowledge that these animals, and this species in particular, can...
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...Biotechnology The question of whether humans should have the right to clone themselves leads to interesting questions on the nature of human individuality. There is also the ethical question of whether human reproductive cloning in order to replicate ones genetic identity should be allowed at all. If reproductive cloning to create an entire human being were possible, and accessibility and cost were not a factor, should humans have the unrestricted right to clone themselves? The right or even need for humans to clone themselves is as complex a moral or ethical issue as it is a complex bimolecular and genetic procedure. There may be no definitive answer to the ethical or moral dilemmas but in my opinion there is not a reason compelling enough to justify human reproductive cloning of an entire human being, even if it were technically possible at this time. There appear to be too many issues and unknowns in both the science and ethics of human reproductive cloning to allow it even if it were possible. The fear as portrayed in science fiction about armies of replicated humans threatening society and all of our identities being at risk are certainly unfounded as the science proves out (Sommers Smith, 5C - 23). Unlike the renowned geneticist James Watson I am not so certain that having the ability to clone a human would make it a benefit to our society, or should make it a requirement to do so (Grace, pp. 214-215). The unknowns about human cloning seem to far outweigh our suppositions...
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...[pic] College of Natural Sciences Course Final Exam GEO/215 Geography Exam Instruction: You must respond to the 5 questions posted below. Please support your responses with reading materials or points from class discussions from the entire 5 weeks of class. Each question should include a 200-250 word response. This exam is worth 15 points. 1. How does human culture affect geography? Which cultures do you believe have had the most significant influence on geography? I would have to say that humans affect geography greatly because as we tend to live on this earth we adapt and change things where we go. Some of these changes tend to have great affects to the earth and to others who share the earth with us. We tend to cut forest down which has an affect on green gasses put into the atmosphere, we make other changes which is starting to affect global warming and making natural disasters stronger which is affecting where we live. I do now believe that human culture has the most significant influence on geography because of the way we have been altering things throughout history though we think were making it better for ourselves there is always some consequences to deal with but we don’t realize it until further down the road by that time its sometimes too late. 2. What are at least three...
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...Phoenix COM/215 August, 2011 Hope Umansky Organized Religion Organized religion has been a part of society for centuries, and its ideas and concepts have been instilled in the minds of human beings. It has altered the way people think and should be considered a dangerous entity if treated with pure emotions. Organized religion is negatively influential to society because it persuades vulnerable people, creates false belief systems based on faith and not fact, and promotes unnecessary violent world conflicts. When someone loses a loved one, comes down with a terminal illness, or becomes overwhelmed with financial burdens their minds can be vulnerable to persuasion due to their attitudes being negatively altered and their environment changing around them. Bohner and Schwarz states, “learning occurs when responses increase in frequency because they have positive consequences (a process called reinforcement), or decrease in frequency because they have negative consequences (a process called punishment)” (2002, Chapter 19, p3). Someone who is negatively affected from their environment and positively affected from repetitive church visits will alter their mindset to be persuaded by religion with the hopes of being positively reinforced. Once this person alters their mindsets and is experiencing a positive affect multiple times without negative repercussions, the church or The Bible will have the power to alter or persuade the mind. This is a negative affect for human beings; they...
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...Bring Back The Dinosaurs: What Is Involved For Human Sustainability Kevin Lindsey Communication 215 8/7/2013 Nicholas Courtright Definition of sustainability is: to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability for humans is a question they been trying to solve for years, since they don’t want to become extinct. The fear for humans is that they will not be the most powerful and smartest creatures on the planet. There have been some ideas on how they can sustain as humans, but the big question is how they do it without compromising other species or creatures. Humans also need to improve their quality of life while living within the capacity of the Earth’s eco-systems and stabilize the relationship between human culture and the living world. Finally there is the ethical issue of sustaining human life while preserving other species that will balance out the ecosystems. Human sustainability is just as important as the sustainability of all species and every creature plays its part in preserving life and the natural resources. The difficulties with taking on sustainable issues are lack of leadership, economic and efforts to work together. It seems no one wants to take a firm stand and lead the movement to making more drastic measures of sustainability and let new ideas be brought to government to start holding people accountable. If some lawmaker was to take a more proactive stand there are...
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...Question: Taking into account Figure 3.4 on page 45 of your textbook (Stakeholder Typology: One, Two, or Three Attributes Present) discuss the ‘Ethics in Practice case’ on page 46 (Are Plants and Flowers Stakeholders? Do they have rights?) Freeman (1984, P. 46) popularized the definition of a stakeholder as ‘. . . ANY group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives’. This is a very broad definition meaning that in today’s global business environment any individuals and groups may be business’s stakeholders (Davey, 2015). This sparks the debate about whether or not the natural environment can be identifiable as a stakeholder. In the ethics in practice case ‘Are Plants and Flowers Stakeholders? Do they have rights?’ this topic is highlighted. The following discussion will review the idea of the environment as a primary stakeholder taking into account the stakeholder identification framework of Mitchell et al. (1997), suggesting that stakeholders have a mixture of legitimacy, power and urgency(Davey, 2015). In keeping up with the growing concern for sustainability many argue that the natural environment should be considered among important stakeholders (Davey, 2015). Historically the natural environment has often been neglected because it has never had a spokesperson(Davey, 2015). However as a concern for the environment (particularly global warming) grows so does the number of environmental groups. Groups such as Greenpeace...
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...CAT 1990 Actual Paper Section – 1 Questions 1 to 5 : Each of the following questions has one or more blank spaces indicating where a word / words has been left out. Following each sentence, four words or sets of words lettered a to d have been given. You have to select the appropriate word or set of words to make the sentence most meaningful. 1. The __________, those cellular bodies which contain the __________ particles, the genes, provide us with basic facts of genetic transmission. (a) protoplasm, microscopic (b) globules, fat (c) cytoplasm, minute (d) chromosomes, hereditary 2. The insurance claim was __________ by the relevant documents (a) sustained (b) backed out (c) backed up (d) proved 3. I should not have __________ to talk in such a __________ strain especially when I had not studied the man to whom I was talking. (a) daring, commanding (b) try, bold (c) ventured, peremptory (d) emboldened, reckless 4. High prices are often the __________ of __________ of goods (a) accompaniment, dearth (b) concomitant, scarcity (c) cause, destitution (d) result, glut 5. The recent disturbances in the country will __________ and peace will be restored. (a) blow past (b) blow over (c) pass through (d) come to pass Questions 6 to 10: Choose from among the given alternatives the one which will be a suitable substitute for the underlined expression in each of the following. 6. The marriage of the princess with the commoner...
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...Kristin Mason PSY 215-91 Assignment 1 While scientists argue with psychologist about things that become a factor in human life and development, things happen every day that shape a person. The theory of Nature v. Nurture has always been the biggest argument they have been involved in. Nature is the process of an organism that guides it to develop according to its genetic code. Nurture is the environmental factors that influence the development. Another theory is continuity v. discontinuity where the argument is that human development is a continuous process where learning happens gradually or when biological changes had an effect on psychological changes, where biological changes were the basis for personality development. The third and final theory is active v. passive; where children are seen as active even mischievous and wanting to learn compared to passive beings having to be motivated to learn from instructors. I do not believe that nature or nurture play a bigger role than the other in human development. One would think that I should have brown hair and brown eyes by nature because my parents both have the dominant gene but I received the recessive gene and have blue eyes and blond hair. I believe I got my physical features from my uncle (mom’s brother) and my grandmother (mom’s mother), both have blue eyes and both had light hair when they were younger. I often feel like I am the odd ball from my family or as my dad says “the mailman’s daughter”. My mother always...
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...Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA Essays on the Gita Publisher’s Note The first series of Essays on the Gita appeared in the monthly review Arya between August 1916 and July 1918. It was revised by Sri Aurobindo and published as a book in 1922. The second series appeared in the Arya between August 1918 and July 1920. In 1928 Sri Aurobindo brought out an extensively revised edition in book form. For the present edition, the text has been thoroughly checked against all previous editions and against the manuscripts of the revised Arya. CONTENTS FIRST SERIES I Our Demand and Need from the Gita 3 II The Divine Teacher 12 III The Human Disciple 20 IV The Core of the Teaching 29 V Kurukshetra 39 VI Man and the Battle of Life 47 VII The Creed of the Aryan Fighter 57 VIII Sankhya and Yoga 68 IX Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta 81 X The Yoga of the Intelligent Will 94 XI Works and Sacrifice 105 XII The Significance of Sacrifice 114 XIII The Lord of the Sacrifice 124 CONTENTS XIV The Principle of Divine Works 134 XV The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood 145 XVI The Process of Avatarhood 158 XVII The Divine Birth and Divine Works 168 XVIII The Divine Worker 177 XIX Equality 188 XX Equality and Knowledge 200 XXI The Determinism...
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...Bookmarks tab on the left side of this window. ***************************************************** We are the last. The last generation to be unaugmented. The last generation to be intellectually alone. The last generation to be limited by our bodies. We are the first. The first generation to be augmented. The first generation to be intellectually together. The first generation to be limited only by our imaginations. We stand both before and after, balancing on the razor edge of the Event Horizon of the Singularity. That this sublime juxtapositional tautology has gone unnoticed until now is itself remarkable. We're so exquisitely privileged to be living in this time, to be born right on the precipice of the greatest paradigm shift in human history, the only thing that approaches the importance of that reality is finding like minds that realize the same, and being able to make some connection with them. If these books have influenced you the same way that they have us, we invite your contact at the email addresses listed below. Enjoy, Michael Beight, piman_314@yahoo.com Steven Reddell, cronyx@gmail.com Here are some new links that we’ve found interesting: KurzweilAI.net News articles, essays, and discussion on the latest topics in technology and accelerating intelligence. SingInst.org The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: think tank devoted to increasing Humanity’s odds of experiencing a safe, beneficial Singularity. Many interesting articles on such...
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...GRE Analytical Writing ISSUE Essay Topic - 1 "Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time." GRE AWA Analytical Writing ISSUE Essay Sample Solution – 1 “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” ― Niels Bohr[->0] This is a proven fact that truth is the initial stage of progress. However, it is also believed that truth always starts away from the traditions and conventions. Therefore, people consider truths as attacks upon their beliefs, which people are following from ages. Truth also means some new facts that are unknown to us. People do not want to deviate from the facts, which they have learnt from their ancestors, and it is true to say that shedding ones dogmas is often difficult. They feel that it is an attack on their wisdom. If we look at the history of the world, we will find many examples where truth has generated commotions in the society. Different people have different views about the existence of God, life after death and origin of earth etc. For example, people took a long time to accept that the earth is round. Religious leaders and clergymen opposed this idea as it was against what they were teaching. Similarly, when Polish astronomer, Copernicus discovered that the earth goes round the sun and not vice versa, he was opposed by churches for many years. In fact he and his supporters were...
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...KINGDOM PRINCIPLES PREPARING FOR KINGDOM EXPERIENCE AND EXPANSION KINGDOM PRINCIPLES PREPARING FOR KINGDOM EXPERIENCE AND EXPANSION Dr. Myles Munroe © Copyright 2006 — Myles Munroe All rights reserved. This book is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America. This book may not be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or profit. The use of short quotations or occasional page copying for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged. Permission will be granted upon request. Unless otherwise identified, Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken form the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Please note that Destiny Image’s publishing style capitalizes certain pronouns in Scripture that refer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and may differ from some publishers’ styles. Take note that the name satan and related names are not capitalized. We choose not to acknowledge him, even to the point of violating grammatical rules. Cover photography by Andy Adderley, Creative Photography, Nassau, Bahamas Destiny Image® Publishers, Inc. P.O. Box 310 Shippensburg, PA 17257-0310 “Speaking to the Purposes of God for this Generation and for the Generations to Come. ” Bahamas Faith Ministry...
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...Department Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA VOLUME 19 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO Publisher’s Note The first series of Essays on the Gita appeared in the monthly review Arya between August 1916 and July 1918. It was revised by Sri Aurobindo and published as a book in 1922. The second series appeared in the Arya between August 1918 and July 1920. In 1928 Sri Aurobindo brought out an extensively revised edition in book form. For the present edition, the text has been thoroughly checked against all previous editions and against the manuscripts of the revised Arya. CONTENTS FIRST SERIES I Our Demand and Need from the Gita II 3 12 20 29 39 47 57 68 81 94 105 114 124 The Divine Teacher III The Human Disciple IV The Core of the Teaching V Kurukshetra VI Man and the Battle of Life VII The Creed of the Aryan Fighter VIII Sankhya and Yoga IX Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta X The Yoga of the Intelligent Will XI Works and Sacrifice XII The Significance of Sacrifice XIII The Lord of the Sacrifice CONTENTS XIV The Principle of Divine Works XV 134 145 158 168 177 188 200 212 224 234 247 The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood XVI The Process of Avatarhood XVII The Divine Birth and Divine Works XVIII The Divine Worker XIX Equality XX Equality and Knowledge XXI The Determinism of Nature XXII Beyond the Modes of Nature XXIII Nirvana and Works in the World XXIV The Gist of the Karmayoga SECOND SERIES Part I — The Synthesis of Works...
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...The fascination and mystical interest in the study and examination of prehistoric human skeletal remains have been well documented in ancient medical documents and historical records. Anthropologists study and analyze the human skeletal remains to obtain information from a particular sample of ancient individuals in order to understand how the population as a whole experienced and responded to social interactions. Because palaeopathologists have access to all portions of a skeleton, the morbid conditions in all areas of the skeleton are studied and provide a broad understanding of diseases as they affect bones and joints in living populations of our society today ( Ortner & Putschar 2003: 2). The remains of humans offer the...
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