Essays on Affirming

Several centuries ago, St. Anselm wrote a prayer titled Proslogion. One of the key and thought-provoking aspects of this prayer is St. Anselm’s attempt to prove that God exists. Indeed, the prayer is comparable to Descartes’ argument because it results from an understanding of God’s perfection. Descartes maintained that God must certainly exist due to the fact that he could clearly perceive God and His perfection is such that Descartes could not have devised it on his own. St. Anselm’s argument is similar to that of Descartes because it has the properties of a priori argument. ...

Literature Review

Overview The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement. Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

The Apology chronicles a speech given by Socrates in response to charges brought against him in Athens Greece. Socrates was brought to trial around 399 BC for a myriad of charges. This hearing was recorded by his student Plato and is believed to be the most accurate, even though Xenophon's Memorabilia gives an account of the proceedings. The modern day connotation of the word apology, derived from the Greek word apologia is defined as “a regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure” (Oxford Dictionaries). Where this definition is concerned, and with careful analysis, one cannot refer to this hearing ...

Chaplain Captain Career Course

Hybrid Phase 1 The Theory of Just War Angel L. Berrios Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras The Just War Theory Presenting the Issue ISIS War is Hell Theological Issues Genesis Man’s Bad Choice New Insights Evil and War Seven Rules Possible Solutions Killing – A Necessary Action Purpose of a Military In a periodical entitled, A Killing Mind: Understanding the Psychological Effects of Combat, Dave Grossman writes, “Killing is what we do in the military. We don’t want to kill anyone. We want our enemies to not commit terrorist acts. We want them to not commit criminal acts ...

When we speak of the Irish Renaissance, we can also be referring to a Celtic Renaissance. We call it the Irish Renaissance because it was championed principally by Irish writers, one of which, at least, used the Celtic tradition to invigorate the Renaissance. Ireland at the turn of the 20th century was mired in passions. Rebellion was always on the horizon, economic collapse was always imminent, the catastrophe of the Potato Famine was still a racial memory, and the rule of the English was still unbearable. From this potentially destructive social structure came some of the finest writing of ...

I was leaving home to go to church that morning and it seemed like it could rain and I could get wet, but then something at the back of my mind reminded me that there are times that it looks like it could rain and it never rains. Any decision that I would make, that is, going to church or not solely depended on whether it would rain or not. After giving the whole issue much thought, I decided to go anyway and it never rained that day and so I never got wet. I used conditional reasoning to ...

Introduction

Recent years have seen American public schools experience an influx of students from all cultural heritages and social background. Diversity in the public education system is at the highest level. A modern-day classroom is comprised of students belonging to different social group defined by ethnicity religion, gender sexual orientation and so on. This increased diversity has prompted many schools to re-adjust their structure and functioning in order to accommodate each every culture and therefore affirm diversity. Affirming diversity means rejecting bigotry and stereotypes based on race, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, ability, lifestyle, and religion (Nieto, 1992). It means ...

Introduction

Gun control debate has attracted heated debate on whether the use of gun should be controlled or should not in the United States. Different political sides have assumed hardline stands on the issue. This is evident from the proponents for gun legislation control and the opponents for the control of gun use. President Barack Obama has made his intentions clear on gun control in congress. This was exclusively after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Obama confirmed his proposal on the need of congress to pass the legislations that will check the ownership and usage of guns. The legislation should ...

Rituals are part of every aspect of life and are practiced in different ways. There are rituals that are distinct to religion, sports and even education. In religion, rituals are common are form part of religious practice. Most religions in society today practice different activities that set them aside and distinguish them from each other. Most of the rituals that are practiced in religion serve different purposes and more importantly they serve and represent the beliefs of the different religion. Some of the world religions that indulge in religious rituals and practices include Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, ...

The aim of this paper is to critically assess two arguments concerning the case entitled, “Dennis v. United States Supreme Court”. The two arguments discussed in the paper mark the punishment against Dennis acceptable or unacceptable. The arguments have been made on the basis of Justices Douglas and Frankfurter views of the case.

Argument allowing Punishment

Different revolutions in various parts of the world have been observed. All such revolutions have been made a common view or voice of the masses with the help of speech and usage of different mediums of communication. It is expected that if speeches continue then there is a ...

BETWEEN ISLAMIC LAW AND FEMINISM

BETWEEN ISLAMIC LAW AND FEMINISM

Introduction

First of all, in the scope of this paper it is essential to put an emphasis on the fact that the concern of female’s rights from the Eastern and Southern is mainly referred to the Mediterranean, who inhabit the territory of Egypt, rather than in Morocco or Algeria. Those females, who have left the above listed countries for emigrating to Europe, currently represent the paradigmatic expression of the human rights, which is related to the conflicts between local and global in terms of female’s rights protection. For instance, after the events ...

Tax Research Project 2

Introduction: In 1976, Congress amended the tax law to include Section 280A (Lawyer, 1985) in the Internal Revenue Code. Congress’ reason for the amendment was due to concerns that people were renting out their vacation homes so that they could deduct personal expenses that would not, under normal circumstances, be deductible (Lawyer, 1985). Section 280A required vacation home owners to assign expenses connected with the vacation home either to personal use or rental use. Congress apparently hoped that Section 280A would limit or control the business deductibles for expenses sustained on a vacation home during the tax year when ...

Does market Democracy offer an attractive reconciliation between Classical Liberalism and High Liberalism?

A market democracy is also known as democratic capitalism or capitalist democracy. This is defined as a social, political and economic system that is a tripartite kind of arrangement. It is an economy that is market and democratically based. Here, the government gives economic incentives through fiscal policies and free markets. On the other hand, classical liberalism is defined as an ideology and philosophy that belongs to the liberalism school of thought. It emphasizes secure freedom of individuals that has a limited kind of government. In this kind of liberalism, the government does not have much power or control. The power is ...

(Article review)

Part one

The article revolves around hypothesis that tattoos are common among men while body piercing is common among women. Also, among young people, body piercing comes before tattooing.

The dependent variables of the research were people with tattoo and people with pierced bodies.

The independent variables were gender, place of birth, level of education, parent’s education level, number of ornaments, results in school, and age at first piercing or tattooing. Based on the gender of the individual involved in the research as a sample a question was asked to define the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable in the definition of the hypothesis of the paper. Each of the independent ...

Voltaire’s was a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment whose most famous work is the novella Candide explores many of the popular schools of thoughts of the Enlightenment period. 1759, the year that Candide was first published was a time of great change of thought happening in Europe and the novel presents ideas found in three of the dominant school’s of thought, Rationalisms, Skepticism, and romanticism. By exploring these philosophies and showing how Candide treats them, we come to the conclusions that it was not Voltaire’s intent to support any of this particular schools of thought but to ...

Answer to Two Essay Questions

1) Whats all this emphasis on sense data by empiricists? Explain this elusive idea and its place in modern epistemology? Sextus Empiricus and his skepticism did not deny human knowledge or even the possibility of knowledge. In fact, it seems his philosophy appears to be a starting point that attempts to actively seek knowledge acquisition. It was just that he never believed one could get beyond the starting point. Or rather, he withheld his assent as to whether one could move beyond skepticism. He cautioned that one must be very careful before affirming as knowledge anything that went beyond ...

Literature Critique

The association between viewing television shows at an early age and decline in quality of attention span among children has found formidable support from cross-sectional research design. The research under review, however, takes into consideration the importance of conducting a longitudinal study on the subject matter via use of data involving the age of children at the time of exposure to television watching and subsequent effects in later age. Data on children at the time when they were aged one and three (with separate sample sets per age) and detection of subsequent attention span problem signs at age seven has found gauging ...

Introduction

Leadership is a great responsibility in which one person with the help and support of others moves towards the accomplishment of a common purpose. Leadership involves gathering a group of people for the fulfillment of a common objective. Credibility is the principle on which the basic foundation of leadership is laid. Credibility refers to the trust and confidence that a leader earns from his followers. If a leader is not able to institute credibility in the minds of his people for himself, he will be a failure as a leader. As Kouzes and Posner (2003) mentioned in their book "Constituents do not owe leaders allegiance. Leaders earn ...

Interpretative phenomenological analysis: mental Illness

Abstract There are various anomalous experiences reported as enhancing instead of showing poor mental health. The experiences are out of body where the person’s body and self are said to be phenomenologically separated. The objective of the study was to look into these experiences and their after effects. A phenomenological, idiographic, qualitative approach was used. Participants were three individuals who took part in face to face interviews that were semi structured. Interpretative phenomenological analysis found out that off body experiences occurred during personal significance times. They were linked to the lives of participants beyond the occurrence point ...

Scientific advancements are generally associated with Europe at a point in history when superstition, fear and absolute devout to religious beliefs got replaced with reasoning and knowledge. Up until a change in people’s view of the world started by the help of the great scientists of history, the whole of Europe and the then discovered world saw its habitation, the Earth, and everything happening in it with the eye of religion, mostly the teachings of the bible, so their values were basically world-denying. Great kings and kingdoms of that age ruled and governed majorly by biblical teachings and the church ...

Why Descartes provided the theory of nature of human error

The aim of the Descartes fourth meditation is to deal with a problem that arises within him because of his conception of God as perfect and hence as all-good. The problem is how to explain why a perfect, all-good God allows error. There is no explicit reference to what is usually called the “problem of evil” in the society-how God tolerates evil and allows people to damn themselves-it is obvious that the problem of evil that Descartes addresses is of major concern to the any given society. According to Descartes, many people believe that making mistakes is just of their ...

RE: Mr. and Mrs. Julio Zavala I have reviewed the memo regarding the requests of Julio and Clara Zavala regarding their taxes. The couple is married. He has enough money at his disposal that he was able to quit his 9 to 5 job and travel extensively. Here is a summary of the four main tax issues according to the information you provided. The first issue to consider is whether or not Julio Zavala’s expenditures can be considered as tax deductions. These trips were combination of work objectives and leisure activities to entertain his potential clients who are ...

PART I A. Background of the Study Smoking has been associated with several health problems such as heart diseases, respiratory diseases and cancer. Since smoking is an addictive activity, smokers have incurred the impression that they spend high costs on health care. They react to ailments and diseases associated with smoking by spending on medicine and medical services but they find difficulties in quitting the habit (Longest, 2009).

B. Statement of the Problem

1. Research Question Does smoking result to high costs in health care? This study will seek to address whether smoking could enable ...

Many scholars consider lyrical poetry as the epitome of Chinese traditional literature. While the literary aspect of Chinese poetry is conventional knowledge among Chinese Literary scholars, there is a conventional agreement that the Tang Dynasty 618- 907 played a critical role in the development of Chinese Poetry. In China, poetry played a role that was distinct form that in the West. During the Tang Dynasty, poetry became a language of communication that went beyond literature and entertainment. Poetry became a tool of communication, a demonstration of affection and a custodian of secrets among the members of the society. In such a poetic world, defining a poet became a ...

I have reviewed your memo regarding our client Howdy Brewster which describes his business activities and the recent events which may impact his 2011 Federal Tax Return. Here is a review of the factual information about Brewster which pertains to the income tax questions. His business is an eight hundred fifty acre farm and dairy operation. About 150 Holstein milk cows are part of the dairy operation. Approximately 150 Black Angus steers are raised to sell. Brewster has one part-time employee. He employs his two teen-age sons for the daily farm work. The land has been in the family for ...

Different Forms of Segregation US Schools

Different Forms of Segregation in US Schools

After the last world war, people in the United States took the initiative to promote equality, disregarding skin color as determinants of social significance. African Americans and other race migrated in the United States are given equal opportunities by the law. Despite the law preventing racial discrimination, there is still evidence of racial intimidation in some aspects of the society. One of that is the segregation of students in schools. Primarily the parents are given the right to choose what they think would be the best school for their children. There are ...

The purpose of my YouTube advert is to persuade viewers to help people who are suffering as a result of poverty. The advert is designed to install in viewers that there are people around the world who are desperate for our help.

In the initial ten seconds of the advert I have used simple words and phrases to highlight to the viewers what the advert is going to address. Also, the words such as ‘we can change… world poverty’ appearing on the screen will immediately channel the viewers’ minds into the desired thought processes.

For the first half of my ...