determine who should live or who shall die. A younger person may be able to do more‚ but he/she has a lot more to learn and will have a lot of mess ups. An older person will have more knowledge. In the article‚ “Calculating the Value of a Human Life” by Matthew Hutson‚ it says‚“...whose murder would be more wrong-that of an infant‚ or that of an elderly person.” Most people would say that of an infant‚ but they are both wrong so why would it matter which one got killed. The family of the one who died would
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Christian Gooden‚ cgooden@post-dispatch.com St. Louis Christmas Tree Lots: Oligopoly and Game Theory Since Christmas is drawing near‚ the annual Christmas tree lots are beginning to open. This brings memories of my father cursing in the car every Sunday before mass because half the church lot is taken up by trees. For a few weeks Ted Drew becomes the king of Christmas not the king of custard in St. Louis. Pretend the image I selected is not taken from the St. Louis Post Dispatch but is in fact my
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Davey Oetting 12/1/06 History of St. Louis St. Louis was acquired from France by the United States under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803‚ as part of the Louisiana Purchase. It was founded by the French in 1764 when Auguste Chouteau established a fur-trading post and Pierre Laclède Liguest‚ a New Orleans merchant‚ founded a town at the present site. They named it after King Louis XV of France and his patron saint‚ Louis IX. From 1770 to 1803‚ St. Louis was a Spanish possession‚ but it was ceded
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Leonardo da Vinci‚ Virgin and Child with St. Anne‚ 1510‚ oil on panel This piece‚ painted in about 1510‚ was rumoured to have been commissioned by Louis XII to celebrate his daughter’s birth in 1499 but by the time da Vinci had finished the piece and was satisfied with it‚ it was too late. Two women and a small infant child dominate the frame and are all seated in a very idealistic outdoor‚ natural setting. St Anne is seated centrally‚ her body covered by the Virgin Mary who sits on her
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St. Jerome in his study and the Arnofini wedding are two very famous masterpieces‚ both were created in the early renaissance‚ when art was flourishing in new life. Despite both art works being created around the same time frame they were fashioned very differently‚ Jan Van Eyck the Arnofini Wedding was an oil painting while St. Jerome in his study by Albrecht Drer was engraved into a slat of wood then stamped onto a canvas. Although crafted differently they both have microscopic details and both
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Evaluation of Sources The St. Louis was a German transatlantic liner. On May 13‚ 1939 the St. Louis and it’s captain‚ Gustav Schröder‚ departed Hamburg‚ Germany with 937 passengers that were all searching for a better life in North America. After being turned away by the government of Cuba the refugees hoped to be accepted by the United States‚ however‚ president Franklin D. Roosevelt also turned them away. So now the question is‚ was FDR responsible for the fate of the St. Louis‚ and how did his reaction
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adopted on March 1‚ 1967. The exact design has varied. The current flag is cerulean blue‚ with a gold isosceles triangle below a black arrowhead. The upper edges of the arrowhead have a white border. The flag was designed by Saint Lucian artist‚ Dunstan St Omer.The blue color stands for the blue sky and blue ocean that surround the island‚ and for fidelity. Gold stands for sunshine and prosperity. The black and white portions symbolize racial harmony‚ although the majority of black shows the dominant
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The type of economic impact that St. Jude has is huge (The Commercial Appeal‚ 2015). A recent study‚ conducted by the University of Memphis‚ showed that St. Jude’s operations created more than $2 billion in economic activity. This activity was powered by 14‚710 jobs and brought in more than 70‚000 visitors to the city of Memphis. St. Jude and ALSAC employ more than 4‚400 people‚ who contribute to the economy through their residence in Memphis (Park‚ 2013). In 2015‚ the hospital revealed a plan
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St.Kyle Lind St. Lucia 1. It is an MDC because It is a small island developing state with all the inherent challenges such as a narrow economic base and a high vulnerability to external shocks and natural disasters. Agriculture in St. Lucia is in a transitional state after tropical storm Debbie hit the island in 1994. The country’s economy is traditionally based on agriculture (bananas and other crops)‚ but has a growing services sector centred on tourism and a manufacturing. There are also
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St. George Slaying the Dragon Carlo Crivelli was alive during the Italian Renaissance in the 1400s. He was highly influenced by the Church and all of his works certainly represented that because everything he did was about religion. St. George Slaying the Dragon was completed in 1470 and is arguably his most prominent work. The empty sky makes him the focal point of the art along with his sword and halo allow him to stand out pretty easily from the rest of the objects in the painting. One would
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