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    Characteristics of Personhood Rationality The ability to reason is seen as being one of the defining characteristics of personhood. Rationality can be summarised in our ability to make considered choices and decisions at a higher intellectual level. Rationality is illustrated in our ability to justify our thoughts and actions through reason‚ scaled to emotional or practical variables. Aristotle considered that the thought-processes that precede our actions are pivotal to personhood. Such thought-processes

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    Be Data Literate

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    Be Data Literate – Know What to Know by Peter F. Drucker             Executives have become computer literate. The younger ones‚ especially‚ know more about the way the computer works than they know about the mechanics of the automobile or the telephone. But not many executives are information-literate. They know how to get data. But most still have to learn how to use data.             Few executives yet know how to ask: What information do I need to do my job? When do I need it? In what

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    Characteristics of a Wise Person 1. They Educate Themselves. Educate yourself. Wise people learn the basics of personal finance‚ including information about budgeting‚ retirement accounts‚ mortgages‚ and life insurance. You can’t make solid decisions about money without a deep understanding of all of the elements involved in your finances. 2. They Are Disciplined. Wise people exercise self-control. If you’ve invested in a stock as a long-term investment opportunity‚ don’t panic and sell the stock

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    Uneducated Literates

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    BE EDUCATED……NOT LITERATE Birthday celebration occupies a special place in my heart (even if it’s not mine!). Last summer I was at one such celebration. It was the birthday of my neighbor’s daughter who had turned one. Her parents had thrown a grand party. It seemed as if they had invited the whole town. The birthday girl looked adorable; she surely deserved the grand party. I was really enjoying myself until I heard the little girl’s grandma talking to my mom‚ I quote-“I had always wanted a grandson

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    Joanna Sandoval Professor Salwak ENG 101 January 14‚ 2013 The way you are on the outside can be different on the inside. Why do people always want to belong or to feel as they are a part of something? Is it because they are lonely? Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” is a story about how she is expressed as a lonely‚ critical‚ and fragile elderly woman. As a round character‚ “Miss Brill” is forced to face a disturbing reality through her routine events. Mansfield describes Miss Brill as an elderly

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    Learning to Become Literate

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    Learning to Become Literate "In any literate society‚ people constantly see the best way to teach children how to read and write so that the younger generation can become fully functioning members of that society." (Savage 15) This is obviously an important goal of any society that wants their children to be well educated and succeed in the world. Learning to be literate is a very important developmental milestone that is recognized cross-culturally. Its social importance is shown in the fact that

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    lack the characteristics that propel others to see them and call them a lady.   If a man is seen opening and holding a door for a lady to walk through‚ he is considered a gentleman. I remember my friend and I talking about her boyfriend‚ and she said he was a gentleman because he would hold the door open for her when they go out‚ and he is always the one carrying her handbag when they go out. To her‚ these features shown by her boyfriend makes him a gentleman. A well-rounded person is a person that

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    1. BIBLE QUIZ 2013 1. 2 CHRONICLES 1 2. Who was King Solomon? Son of David ch1verse 1 2. What did Moses‚ the servant of the Lord make in the wilderness? a. The tent of meeting of God ch1 verse 3 3. Who made the bronze alter? Bez`alel 1verse 5 4. Who was Bez`ael? Son of Uri/son of Hur 1verse 5 5. What did God say to King Solomon when He appeared to him in the b. night? Ask what I wil give you 1verse 7 6. Who said these words‚ "O‚ Lord God. Let they

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    THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN PERSONS Part One: In Relation to Our Selves 1. As human persons‚ we have INTELLECT and FREE WILL. a. We can grasp‚ recognize‚ and appreciate truth and goodness. b. We can reason and decide freely. c. We can choose among options: either to work for or to disregard truth and goodness. • Parents who push their children to take up nursing despite children’s capacity for higher learning‚ say‚ medicine‚ computer engineering‚ law—and all in view

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    because of the many ways it contrasted from a public school. Becoming familiar in a new area of life is considered becoming literate. According to Patricia Aufderheide‚ “Literacy is the ability to access‚ analyze‚ evaluate‚ and create messages in a variety of forms.” (qtd. in Livingstone 3). Evaluating how I became literate in a new school is a form of literacy. Becoming literate in a new school included changing my wardrobe‚ study skills‚ and personality that would heavily impact my middle and high

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