certain external goods that are not fully in our control: good family‚ friends‚ financial security‚ children‚ beauty. Do you agree? Do our external circumstances determine if we have a good life? Or can we have a good life by becoming independent of external circumstances? Answer: Before I begin to explain my answer to the first question‚ I think it’s important to note that Aristotle acknowledged the existence of contention between what was categorized as characteristics of a good life and characteristics
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Are we free to do what we want? Humans are species with highly developed brain‚ intelligence‚ wisdom‚ and self- awareness. We do also have a free will. Does it mean that we are free to do what we want? Does it give us ability and permission to act regardless of any other features? In the topic of this essay we can notice the construction of argument with its hidden premise. The full argument can sound: ‘If we have a free will‚ then we are free to do what we want and nothing can stop us in achieving
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It was even a crime to have bad thoughts about Big Brother‚ this was called a thought crime.The party wanted the citizens to believe that Big Brother was amazing and that everyone should love‚ and be loyal‚ only to the party. If citizens did not they would be brainwashed. Orwell shows how no freedom
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My Narrative Essay I believe that “Love at first sight” is real. An actual feeling you get when you first lay eyes on that one special person. More special than anybody you’ve ever met. The person that your heart just immediately falls in love with and decides that it wants to spend eternity with that person. I believe in “Love at first sight” because I’ve experienced in before. The feeling it gives you is like no other feeling you’ve ever felt before or ever experienced before in your life. You
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This was a tough time for everybody in my family to adjust too because it will change our lives. We would never expect after moving into a new house that we would eventually become bankrupt. It was hard to know after all these great things happening that we would eventually leave it all. But because of this situation I have learned a lot about life and learned very important lesson. So it all starts off with a normal day I wake up and put on some fresh clothes. I’m all groggy and sleepy so I look
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goodbye to my friends a few weeks back so no one would try to stop me when I finally found the time to do it. It’s been exciting‚ waiting and preparing for this night the last few weeks‚ but everything is scarier up close. Nervous‚ how can I be nervous about leaving? As if leaving wasn’t
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Civilized vs. Natural Life The Oxford dictionary defines civilized as “The comfort and convenience of modern life‚ regarded as available only in towns and cities”. Huck is forced out of the only lifes he knows and into civilization by the Widow and Miss. Watson. Everyone seems to think that because Huck is worth a fortune he needs to be integrated into society and become a proper young man. He is taught civilized people go to school‚ read the bible‚ and have absolutely no fun. As Huck and Jim continue
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having his early years plagued by abuse and hardships like any other slave‚ he was able to overcome these hardships and was able to become a free slave by escape. What sets him apart from other slaves however‚ is that he was able to write with such power and become an example for his people. This is reflected in his autobiography‚ The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. As Douglass recounts the story of his years as a slave and his journey to escape the hold of his masters he uses rhetorical
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Image I play football‚ do you? I am going to tell you about my football season.we have played 5 games already this season. My first game this season was against Norco at there field. We kicked butt that game we beat them 0 to 35. It was so fun everyone got so happy. We celebrated at danny’s pizza. Our second game was against Colton it was a very close game it was 18 to 24 that time we went to pizza chalet that time. We all got tons of tickets we all had fun and everyone said "thank you"
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Good Night. I am German Alvarado‚ I am 25 years old. I have been almost 3 years in the United States with my wife. I Arrived with a student visa and since then I have studied at college. At this time I am waiting for my permanent residence‚ but I have to keep up this visa. I finished at Broward College the accounting program with a high GPA between 4-4.5 For the next fall semester that comes‚ I applied at the University FAU and I was accepted by FAU. But‚ now I have a big problem and that is that
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