...The Problem of Evil McCayley Hendricks MWF-2pm #3564 November 17, 2014 One of the most prominent arguments against the existence of God today would be the problem of evil. Not only is it a problem for Christians, who want to provide a defense for their faith, but it is also a problem for Christians, who being faced with suffering and pain on account of evil, and without knowing the thoughts or intentions of God, wish to reconcile the two ideas together. In spite of Mackie’s Logical Argument of Evil proving, some would say, that it is not possible for both God and evil to exist, I believe that it is in fact possible that they exist simultaneously. My reason for believing so stems from the Free-Will Defense, coupled with a deeper understanding and more clearly defined description of the attributes of God and how they work together. I will also highlight scripture that incorporates both the existence of evil as well as the existence of God, who remedies the evil into a greater good, reiterating a point made in premise 4 of Plantinga’s Free Will Defense. In order to walk you through my thought process, I will start with a basic outline of Mackie’s Logical Argument, as well as include why this is a problem for theists. I will then define some ambiguous terms in his argument, and shed some light on the culture-saturated definitions of Christian lingo used in the argument. And finally, I will present the Free-Will Defense and show how this paired with the previous information...
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...Rona Gem Intia IV- Serenity 10. Give your synthesis of the book in the context of your plans about your future. This is a personal statement of you, by you and for you. * My plans about my future are to be a successful person, to reach my dreams for my family, to build a family business and to be rich. I want to make my parents proud because of me and to fulfill my dreams. To build a big house for my family and go to other country with them. 1. Who are Rich Dad and Poor Dad to the author? Describe and give their significance to the book. * Rich Dad, he is highly educated and intelligent; he had Ph.D. and completed four years of undergraduate work in less than two years. Poor Dad, he never finished the eighth grade. They were both successful in their careers, working hard all their lives. Both earned substantial incomes. Yet one struggled financially all his life. The other would become one of the richest men in Hawaii. Both were strong, charismatic and influential. Both men offered Robert Kiyosaki an advice, but they did not advise the same thing. 2. What is RAT RACE? Do you want to be in it? * Is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape while running around a maze or in a wheel. I don’t want because I hate doing something that I’m not happy and enjoying. 3. What did the author meant by “LIFE PUSHES ALL OF US AROUND?” * Each push is life saying ‘Wake up. There’s...
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...that the government is not winning. Mexican drug cartels still do what they want no matter how much time and effort is put into it. Gangs have been around for a very long time now so I don’t think that there is ever a chance at this problem being solved. Gang members like to recruit local kids throughout their neighborhoods and also new members can be recruited during school also. They tend to pick up people that are young to put all their bad influences on them early in their lives. Different gangs conflicting with each other, causes innocent bystanders to be injured and possibly murdered sometimes due to their childish nonsense. The result of these actions has some harsh effects for these people. Death is a big part in these gangs. They kill each other over dumb reasons such as, living in a different part of town they don’t like, robbing people, and just wearing different color clothing. Innocent bystanders, families, and even the individual gang member can suffer from this problem. The whole community can be affected by these neighborhoods nuisances. It’s never a good thing when living somewhere that you wouldn’t feel safe. A few solutions to help solve this problem would be to promote more after school activities to...
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...followed the phases of a security incident response to investigate the event, contain the malware, eradicate the suspicious files, re-test the system in readiness for returning it to service, and complete a detailed security incident response report in the provided template. You used AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition to scan the infected workstation and documented your findings as you proceeded. Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1. When you are notified that a user's workstation or system is acting strangely and log files indicate system compromise, what is the first thing you should do to the workstation or system and why? Have the user of the machine cease all activity and contain the infected machine by disconnecting from the network (unplug Ethernet cable or disable wireless), leaving it isolated but not powered off. It should be left in its steady state. This isolates the contaminated workstation from the organization’s network and Internet, as well as preventing the contamination from spreading. Logs, memory forensics, footprints, and other malicious activity must be kept in its steady state untouched until you arrive on scene. 2. When an antivirus program identifies a virus and quarantines this file, has the malware been eradicated? No. The file is identified containing malware or a virus and moved to a non-standard location and folder, the file is renamed, may be marked hidden, and possibly...
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...Welcome to Biol 342 Molecular Biotechnology 1 Dr. Michael D.J. Lynch Biology 342 Molecular Biotechnology 1 Instructor: Dr. Michael D.J. Lynch Room: B2 - 249D e-mail: mdjlynch@uwaterloo.ca office hours: Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm If you need to speak with me outside scheduled lecture time, please contact me via email to make an appointment – that way I can be sure to set aside time for you. Prerequisites: Biol 130, 239, 240, 309. Biol 241 recommended Required textbook: Glick & Pasternak Molecular Biotechnology 4th edition, 2010. ASM Press. Available from UWaterloo Bookstore. 2 copies on reserve at Davis library. Students find this textbook very useful, and I refer to it often for lectures. A worthwhile purchase. This text is also used in Biol 432. LEARN ● ● ● ● ● ● lecture notes (slides in .pdf) Podcasts (screencasts) of lectures course info, important dates tutorial information practice exams announcements Use your Quest/UWdir ID and password Accessing the podcasts…….. Check that you are using a LEARN-approved browser! Goals for this course: ● Understand the fundamentals of molecular biotechnology, primarily in the context of the methods that are employed in the field ● Develop skills in the designing of molecular approaches to biotechnology ● Develop critical thinking skills ● Effectively communicate concepts learned Assigned readings and student notes: Readings from the text will be assigned in lecture notes on...
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...Learning Style Analysis Kathie Kaiser Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V June 23, 2013 Learning Styles Analysis Everybody has their own way of learning, how they like to receive information, process it, and file it in their brain for future use either for their jobs or for formal education. The most common styles of learning are Visual, you like to see what you are learning, Aural, you like to hear what you are learning, Read/Write you like to see on paper in words what you are learning, Kinesthetic, you like a hands on approach to learning, and Multimodal you learn best using different styles. This writer completed the VARK questionnaire to discover her learning styles. The VARK questionnaire has 13 questions and indicates the preferences in which learning is taken in. It is not a definitive measure of learning, just a tool to discover learning preferences. VARK Questionnaire with scores From the profile generated from the VARK questionnaire, this writer confirmed that she enjoys a variety of learning styles, this is known as multimodal. The VARK learning scores were Visual=5, Aural (hearing) =10, R (read/write) =12, and K (Kinesthetic) =7 for a total score of 34 (Fleming). This is very close to what the writer already knew about her preferred learning styles. Preferred learning styles According to the VARK questionnaire this writers’ strongest learning preference is read/write. When listening to a lecture, writing notes and seeing a power point presentation...
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...________________________________________ Semester Project ________________________________________ The Big Picture - A Business Recommendation There are no final tests in the course. Instead, the final project is a business recommendation. You are going to write your own paper, but you will be part of a group that will give you feedback about your paper before you turn it in for a final grade. In the workplace, good communication is almost always near the top of list of desired traits. It is also on the list of big problems! So, our final project is aimed squarely at communication. Specifically, you will be providing background information on a technical topic, presenting alternatives to solve a business problem related to this topic, and then recommending one of these alternatives to a business audience. In short, you are writing a business recommendation! Our overall goal is to be able to make technical recommendations to business audiences. An extra goal is to learn more about a topic related to telecommunications and present this information to fellow students so that they can learn more about it, too. The bi-weekly assignments guide you as you build your business recommendation one milestone at a time. This gives you a chance to get feedback from your fellow students as you work toward the final milestone. At the end, the information should be solid, all of the small mistakes should be fixed, and the final paper should be ready to grade. Your final recommendation...
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...MEMORY IS LEARNING THAT PERSISTS Why We Forget 1. Negative self-concept: we think of ourselves forgetting things. 2. We have not learned the material well. If something is to be retained, it must be correctly, clearly and forcibly impressed on the mind. We must give it the necessary attention and interest. Self-questioning and spaced or periodic reviews are essential. 3. Psychological reasons: defensive forgetting Generally, unpleasant things are remembered better than pleasant things (especially by pessimists) and both pleasant and unpleasant things are remembered better than materials we are indifferent to. Freudian theory holds that unpleasant things are often barred from consciousness. This is often referred to as active forgetting. 4. Disuse Memories fade away rapidly when not reviewed or used. The curve of forgetting is like a playground slide; we forget most immediately after we learn -in the first 24 hours; then it proceeds slowly. Motor learning seems to be better retained than verbal learning because a motor act has to be completely done to be done at all and so requires a higher degree of organization and competency which involves over-learning. But "forgotten" material can be relearned in less time than is required for the original learning, even after many years' disuse. EVEN MATERIAL THAT WE DO NOT RELEARN HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ATTITUDES AND VALUES THAT FORM THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR JUDGMENT...
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...an inherent thread of truth for almost any organization. Any organization that fails to learn from the knowledge they hold, is most likely doomed to failure as an organization. Organizations all have missions; they state these concisely in their mission statements, briefly outlining their reason for being. This is their focus and ultimate goal and while these goals are normally quite lofty the real question is how they are going to accomplish this goal. All resources are going to be directed to the achievement of this goal, and in reality, probably the most overlooked yet undoubtedly most important resources is found in organizational knowledge. Organizational knowledge can take many forms; it can be books, lessons and training, files on a network or computer, even what an individual employee knows and more. In its most broad sense, it is each and every one of these things, from all sources and employees collectively under the umbrella that is the organization itself. It behooves the organization to take the time in which to foster and continue to build upon this foundation. Each of the examples given here was already built over time and a different basis of information. For employees it could have been education, or even prior employment experience in which they brought with them, each individual situation lending its own...
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...ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND By Lewis Carroll This book, Alice in Wonderland, is a Mid-Frequency Reader and has been adapted to suit readers with a vocabulary of 4,000 words. It is about 27,500 words in length. It is available in three versions of different difficulty. This version is adapted from the Project Gutenberg E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/). In this book, the adaptation involved replacing over 152 word families. There are 82 different word families at the 5th 1000 level and 62 words beyond that, totalling a target vocabulary of 144 words. It was adapted by Sonia Millett. This famous children’s story written in 1865 is an early example of the fantasy or nonsense genre. The story plays with time, imagery, logic and language and for this reason remains popular with adult readers as well as children. You will meet many species of talking animals as well as characters from the pack of cards. You will encounter unusual interesting usages of language such as 'curiouser' and 'uglification'. CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had looked into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her...
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...glowed with pride for her. Now he felt cold and empty. Lost without her. At the funeral, she was not there to oversee it, so he had been at the back while her blood relatives took all the front rows in the synagogue… A strange man, perhaps some distant relative, approached him now, dressed all smartly in a black suit. He was asking Jack to come into a side room … “Is this really the time?” said Leah sharply. “I am a lawyer and legal matters cannot wait,” said the strange man unctuously. Jack followed the lawyer numbly into a side room. “You are Mr John Rothman, nee Lilywhite?” said the lawyer without preamble. “Of course,” muttered Jack. Perhaps Leah was right. He did not need to be dealing with a lawyer’s nonsense right now. “You are the sole inheritor of Miss Davinia Rothman, although her relatives contest it.” “I’m sure they do.” The lawyer shuffled through a sheaf of papers. “You are her adopted son and you never moved out… you were certainly not a genetic dead end.” “What do you mean?” said Jack sharply. “There have been ah… investigations into her clinic. You were employed there, I understand.” “Yes, I was.” “And you were a sperm donor there?” That felt like an insulting personal question coming from this lawyer. “What business is that of yours?” “It is my business… there has been investigations as I have said and it turns out that the only sperm used was your own. It has come to light that your sperm...
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...Gosh. This late night driving sure is exhausting. In particular, after a continuous series of business meetings, two days in a row. One's depth perception, color recognition and outlying vision, all descent when the sun goes down. I crack open the car window to let in some fresh air to help chase away the sleepiness that fogs my tired brain. I have to drive for another hour and I can't fall sleep. Perhaps, some music would work. I turn on the radio; the loud music fills my ear and I become wary. My office documents and files are dispersed over the passenger seat next to me. It was a hectic week. My company had offered me a proposal I couldn't deny. It would be a profitable share for my production. One day, I would be a rich and powerful...
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...are most passionate about. This is especially true among the younger members of the labor force who generally go for transient or part-time employment in order to have more time for activities they love most. The no less than 8 million "freeters" in Japan, who shun regular work and the country's lifetime employment culture, is a glaring example of how a broad group of able-bodied and qualified members of the labor force value their personal time. And the rest of the world is no exception. Even in America many people are on double jobs, doing part-time pay-based work for 4-5 hours daily and pursuing a different vocation e.g. painting, writing, teaching, and other crafts for the balance of the day and on weekends. In essence, regular work just becomes a financial bridge for the conduct of things employees are most interested in. How can businesses then address the competing essence of work in the employee's mind? What can a company do to attract and retain the services of a virtuous employee? What can motivate an employee to continued high performance and extended stay in the company? Which set of ways in treating employees generate the most...
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...Sexual harassment in the workplace is described as actions that are sexually directed and unwanted whether verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature, which subjects the employee to unpleasant employment conditions or creates an unfriendly work environment. It is a vital concern in many corporations and can occur in a variety of workplace relationships. Sexual harassment can occur between a boss and a subordinate, coworkers, and even non-employees that have business transactions with employees (Mathis & Jackson, 2006). Sexual harassment is described as a form of gender discrimination which is a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Title VII, applies to private and most public employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, and joint employer-union apprenticeship programs with 15 or more employees. The law makes certain employers responsible for preventing and stopping sexual harassment that occurs on the job. Sexual harassment is very widespread and affects women in every workplace setting and at every level of employment. Surveys indicate that almost half of all working women have experienced some form of harassment on the job, a proportion that has not changed since the issue gained visibility in the early 1980s (Heathfield, 2009). No occupation is immune from sexual harassment, but the incidence of harassment is higher in workplaces that have traditionally excluded women, including both blue collar jobs like mining and white collar...
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...there exists a stationary linear combination of nonstationary random variables, the variables combined are said to be cointegrated. | | The old woman and the boy are unrelated to one another, except that they are both on a random walk in the park. Information about the boy's location tells us nothing about the old woman's location. | | The old man and the dog are joined by one of those leashes that has the cord rolled up inside the handle on a spring. Individually, the dog and the man are each on a random walk. They cannot wander too far from one another because of the leash. We say that the random processes describing their paths are cointegrated. | The notion of cointegration arose out of the concern about spurious or nonsense regressions in time series. Specifying a relation in terms of levels of the economic variables, say , often produces empirical results in which the R2 is quite high, but the Durbin-Watson statistic is quite low. This happens because economic time series are dominated by smooth, long term trends. That is, the variables behave individually as nonstationary random walks. In a model which includes two such variables it is possible to choose coefficients which makeappear to be stationary. But such an empirical result tells us little of the short run relationship between yt and xt. In fact, if the two series are both I(1) then we will often reject the hypothesis of no relationship between them even when none exists. For there to be a long...
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