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    Golden Rice

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    Golden rice Vitamin A is one of the most important vitamins to humans‚ and it plays an inevitable role in our daily life‚ thus Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects millions of people‚ causing serious health problems. Therefore‚ scientists are searching for the most effective method to let people obtain enough Vitamin A as possible. As a consequence‚ the scientific program of cultivating Golden Rice has attracted people’s attention. “Golden Rice is a new type of rice that contains beta-carotene‚ a

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    Aristotle's Final Cause

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    the action of something else as means towards the end‚ e.g. reduction of flesh‚ purging‚ drugs‚ or surgical instruments are means towards health. All these things are ’for the sake of’ the end‚ though they differ from one another in that some are activities‚ others instruments. This then perhaps exhausts the number of ways in which the term ’cause’ is used.” In this essay I will begin by extracting the arguments from the extract‚ outlining Aristotle’s explanation of the four ‘causes’

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    The Golden Ratio The theory of the Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano is extremely present today. While he was trying to sort out the number of rabbits that mated in a year‚ he discovered a series of numbers‚ that are profoundly consistent in man‚ nature & animals. This discovery was extraordinary‚ but he also found that the ratio always resulted in 1.618. Although it is called differently‚ this ratio is often called „the golden ratio“

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    The Golden Lotus Tarnishes Only one unrelenting force lies behind the saga of mankind: Time. It treads wearily along while all the events of history unfold around it; lands are formed and reformed‚ great empires rise and fall‚ countless nations unify and splinter‚ trends come and go‚ and people climb to glory one minute and are overthrown the next – the Golden Lotus and its most exalted possessors are no exception. Feng Jicai’s novel‚ The Three Inch Golden Lotus‚ describes a peasant woman’s rise

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    understand the world we needed to use them. The four causes are Aristotle’s way of explaining the existence of an object‚ with the ‘final cause’ being the most important aspect of his theory as it gave the best explanation of an object. The final cause is the theory that all objects have an ultimate purpose for their existence‚ an important part of what it is. The route to the final cause is as follows‚ the first cause

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    Thomas Huynh Period 2 Golden Rice Vitamin A deficiency is one the most common nutritional deficiencies in developing regions. Deficiency in vitamin A can negatively affect growth‚ cause blindness‚ and suppress the immune system. To solve this problem green leafy vegetables and yellow fruits and certain animal produces B carotene are used to synthesize vitamin A. This can be done by direct manipulation of an organism’s genome using biotechnology; first isolating and copying the genetic material

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    The Golden Rush was the digging struggled with success and failure. The gold of California was the attraction to the eyes of the world; the perfect land with all the possibilities to get richness in a short time. Argonauts undertook a dangerous journey to arrive after several days in California‚ some of them did not make it to their destiny for hunger or diseases. Others took advantage of the situation and made business such selling jerked beef‚ blankets‚ medicines‚ axes‚ and many items necessaries

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    negated. Further‚ the second argument entails that since Aristotle can depict an excellent human and define the human good‚ does not mean there is any reason for anyone to actually be good or that goodness follows as a function. Both of the responses I provided disprove to this claim and eliminate the argument entirely. The first reply involves linguistics. Aristotle’s argument begins with “if” rather than “because” but he is not claiming his premises are undoubtedly true to prove his point. He explicitly

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    Aristotle’s View of Politics Political science studies the tasks of the politician or statesman (politikos)‚ in much the way that medical science concerns the work of the physician (see Politics IV.1). It is‚ in fact‚ the body of knowledge that such practitioners‚ if truly expert‚ will also wield in pursuing their tasks. The most important task for the politician is‚ in the role of lawgiver (nomothetês)‚ to frame the appropriate constitution for the city-state. This involves enduring laws‚ customs

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    Aristotle's Rhetoric Theory

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    Rhetorical Theory centered on the 4th Century BC writings of Aristotle. Aristotle’s Rhetoric was the seminal work which was later revised by others including Kenneth Burke (dramatism) and Toulmin (argument model). George A. Kennedy (2004) wrote the most respected‚ authoritative and explanatory translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric but an older translation by W. Rhys Roberts (1954) is available online for free. Aristotle’s mentor‚ Plato (385 BC)‚ reacted to the unjust rule of Athenian culture

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