a Stand In The Moral Equivalent of War by William James, he suggests that men be constricted to serve society instead of the military. Many virtues come from military service. According to James, “intrepidity, contempt of softness, surrender of private interest, obedience to command” are good for society (James). Without these virtues we might invite attack from others. We come from tribal societies when men hunted. Our history is full of warriors and wars. We are inherently warlike. According
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Concordion 1. Who (company or individual) developed the tool? What is the cost to the tool user? How do you acquire it? Concordion was developed by David Peterson, an agile consultant from London, UK. While working at Easynet in 2006, the idea was formed with testers and developers Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman. Concordion was then later ported and improved upon by several developers, specifically Nigel Charman, the designer of the Concordion Extensions API. The Concordion tool is available for
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to kill someone by someone you don’t even know their name; would you even do it? Is that guy cold blooded? Is he responsible for the lost of that person’s life?Or he’ll just stand at the grave for respect and say some nice words? War is never the right path to take! Is war the right path to take? Hey Mr. politician! How much money have you spent? In fact the United States has spent over 4.4 trillion dollars since 2001 or over ¼ of its yearly budget. Why not help the 36 million homeless in Bangladesh
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come to your mind when you think of culture wars? In my opinion, a culture war involves violent acts portrayed against one another’s own culture. However, when I looked at the definition it defines as; “a metaphor used to claim that political conflict is based on sets of conflicting cultural values. The term frequently implies a conflict between those values considered traditional conservative and those considered progressive or liberal. The "culture war" is sometimes traced to the 1960s and has
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they invest capital expenditure in order to improve services. In 1990 when the overall technology growth rapidly and there are more competitor than before, this situation make the condition under pressure, the first impact from this condition is price war, so the market pressure forced him to reduce his own price. After all finally in 1994 , colorscope loss signifant & long term client ( where the client omset is 80 % of his business). If colorscope want to survive in this business they must reevaluate
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English 1010 Memoire The accident that almost cost me my life. Like every Saturday after a long week of school and work, my friend and always meet at the café in my neighborhood and set up the plan of the weekend. But that Saturday something , an special event was going on in my city cotonou. It was the 11th of may, the celebration of the death of Robert nesta marley (bob marley) . on that day something happened in my life. It help me change the way I perceive things and grow my faith. I wish
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Workplace violence is violence against employee physically or emotionally either it’s a threat or assault. Workplace violence can happen in various ways, physical assault, verbal abuse or a threat, the violence can take place at the workplace or even outside the work place. Workplace violence can happen for many reasons, first the employee is working under high work pressure due to poor work load distribution or a conflict between co-workers. Second, the employee subjection to discrimination
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resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.28 million people in 2013 up from 1.13 million in 1990.[3] Of the deaths in 2013, roughly 842,000 were attributed to self-harm (suicide), 405,000 to interpersonal violence, and 31,000 to collective violence (war) and legal intervention.[3] In Africa, out of every 100,000 people, each year an estimated 60.9 die a violent death.[4] Corlin, past president of the American Medical Association said: "The United States leads the world—in the rate at which its children
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different thoughts. By talking about different attitudes people have towards war, O’Brien suggests that the war is not the same thing in everyone’s eyes. Tim O’Brien writes “war is hell, but that’s not the half of it because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discover and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war
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Yes, especially since I cannot find anything resembling the chests of gold among them, maybe they've buried it somewhere in the forest, hmm. With how much of a filthy mess this camp of theirs is in, I cannot tell where they've buried it. At least the chests are indestructible, so nothing will possibly break them open. Without the keys I made there is no way those plebs are going to open them. Still, it's my gold, mine! I was to send it off to finance the expedition of my fellows to the east, friends
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