Symbolism of Movies Parallels of Star Trek and World Religions Live long and prosper The new star trek is a long journey mainly on the focus of James Kirk and Spok. In the beginning they start out as opposites and in the end they end up as friends. Typical happy ending I know, but the interesting part is that I hope to show the links between Star Trek and World Religions, which I think are both good subjects to explore and correlate. Buddhism, compassion, the middle way, logic instead of
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Module 11 Questions 1. Explain the humorous but meaningful and important phrase of Mill: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”. * Mill responded by describing a different theory of happiness. Human beings have abilities more elevated than the animal appetites. You cannot measure pleasures on quantity alone, but must include quality. Since Mill has come down on the side of Socrates instead of the fool, he
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Is Friedman right to refer to shareholders as owners and employers? Isn’t it odd to refer to corporate expenditures as “taxing and spending?” What do you think of Friedman's "democracy argument" against corporate social responsibility? Instrumental managing for stakeholders means treating them, as the word implies, as “instruments” or “tools” to accomplish the genuine task of corporations: shareholder profits. As tools, managers need to take care of them for them to work well, as a carpenter
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“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a phrase that I have heard before but never gave it much thought until this assignment. In order to really understand it, I had to take a step back and really look at each part of the statement. Ultimately what I understand from this is that a life in which you don’t “stop to smell the roses” as they say is not worth going through. Life is about questioning things and learning new things as you go along. Life is not meant to be coasted through on the way
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Zhiwei Qi Phil105-942 Prof. Daniel Touey 2015-2-15 Week 6 In the article "On the Nonexistent", Gorgias introduces three concepts:1. Nothing exists;2.Even if something exists, nothing can know what it is; 3.Even if something can be known about it, it cannot explain or communicate to other men. These three concepts are the main points of the article. There concepts seem to be logical, practical and even inevitable. However, I have different opinion with Gorgias.
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Abortion When I was growing up, my mother told me the truth that many years ago she wouldn’t give birth to me if she had made her decision. My family back then was not very poor, but my parents already had my older brother and sister. In the late of 1980s, the government in my country advised that every family should only have two children. Parents who had the third child would be fined with higher taxes. Therefore, my father suggested that she should have an abortion because my family couldn’t
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Midterm Study Guide Midterm: March 6th • • • Make sure to bring a pen to class. The midterm will have 15 multiple-choice questions, and 2 short-answer questions. Make sure to read the whole question before answering. The short-answer questions have multiple parts. Make sure to fully answer every part of the question. The Midterm covers all the material discussed in class so far. What you need to know: Logic • • • You should know what the following are: proposition, argument
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The Characteristics of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant Felicia Clark Com/170 December 17, 2012 Shannon DeBord The Characteristics of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant MICHAEL JORDAN VERSUS KOBE BRYANT I am from Greenville Mississippi, we do not have a professional basketball team, so the Memphis Grizzlies are most of my families choice since they are close to us. I usually don’t route for the Grizzlies but I love going to the games to see other teams and players. I have seen several star
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In recent years, the University of Oregon Athletic Department has experienced significant changes. It has undergone 5 different athletic directors over a span of 7 years suggesting possible administrative personnel complications within the department. However, with prominent coaching/administration staffs, state-of-the-art facilities, and media ascendency, the UOAD established a prestigious national brand and is now one of the premier programs in intercollegiate athletics. The UO Athletic department’s
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EFFECTS OF RITA , THE TOWN AND POPS HAVE ON PHIL PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY ''Transformation is a process and as life happens there are tons of ups and down''(Accrding to Rick Warren). This suggests that transformation bring's change in life. It also happens with TV weatherman Phil Connors. He was assigned a job of covering Punxsutawney Phil's emergence in the Groundhog day movie. He was reluctantly covering Groundhog day from
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