Next, living the good life is simply pursuing happiness, but it cannot be defined as a definition or criteria because everyone has their own interpretation which is similar to the Hedonistic ideology of pursuing self-interest to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Conversely, the issue is that people do not understand what truly makes them happy. Living the life of contemplation as Aristotle would agree supports this ideology of seeking contentment. For instance, from the movie, “Into the wild”
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Literary Analysis Life is like a game of chess, you use the other pieces to your advantage. This is exactly what Dorian did in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Stepping on the backs of everyone until you stand on top of a mountain of the fallen, how selfish. Dorian proves this theme of learning the results of selfishness when he thinks he is gazing down below from the top, but he is only one step from the edge of despair. The author shows the theme of
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THE IMPORTANT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE IN TODAY’S WORLD Community service is the long held tradition of working without pay in order to serve the common good. In essence, we're talking about helping others either directly or indirectly in order to make the world a little bit of a better place. Often times, community service is different from other volunteer organizations because it is focused on one local issue rather than trying to save the world or focusing on larger problems. The whole premise of
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CHAPTER 2 2.0 Literature Reviews This project on Intelligent Conversation Bot, as presented in this study, relies on several terms as well as theories. The literature review is actually written to Narrate about what has been published on Artificial Conversational Entity in the summary. This chapter provides the most important results in the above mentioned areas. All these literatures were guiding the research of the kind of work have done before. Chapter two sought to find the appropriate foundations
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game from fun or art. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines ‘sport’ as, “physical activity engaged in for pleasure.” The definition is admittedly vague, but does seem to make the necessary qualification of physical effort. For example, chess is a strategic activity which is “engaged in for pleasure,” but it is not a sport because of lack of physical activity. It’s the mix of fun and
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The quote by Gideon Rosen who teaches Philosophy at Princeton impacted me and made think about who I was. Till then I looked at myself only as a Squash player. In between games and matches or during training, my mind started veering towards the above-mentioned words and I could not help but ruminate about what my culture was and what I had taken from it. At the outset, going by the cliched definition, I was a Tamil Brahmin; therefore I belonged to the highest rung of the Hindu society’s hierarchical
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aquaintances where tidbits of feigining appears but fades after a true friendship is established. As you socialize more and more personality traits will start to show. Sometimes its a test from the other to see if you are going to be easily deterred. Its a chess match of sorts. Best friends will have the same interests. These are learned from bonding frequently. Ive only known people with opposite persona's to flourish as best friends because "the best kind of friendship are essential for a happy life" (Vernon
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Internet Operating Systems For years I thought that operating systems were little programs (lines of code) placed inside my personal computer to help it run smoothly and efficiently. Which it is. But not until recently did I discover that operating systems must also be used in larger mainframes and servers as well. After all, servers are computers too! And any computer, regardless of its size or purpose, needs internal instructions. It needs a set of executable code that makes the thing come
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1.INTRODUCTION: Artificial Intelligence is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It includes people,procedure,hardware,software,data and knowledge needed to develop computer systems and machines that demonstrated characteristics of intelligence.It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. Intelligence is basically
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Author’s Note I was at a loss for an idea for the challenge until my father suggested I go and have a chat with Mr David Lewien, a Vietnam veteran. He did not suggest anyone locally, but he spoke about to his interpretations of Leadership and Legacy. I decided to take Chaplain Andrew Gillison as a model for a leader leaving a legacy, as he was in World War One, as was my great grandfather. I have never heard much about my great grandfather’s experiences, because he never talked of the times he
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