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    inconvenient truth

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    “The Inconvenient Truth” Based on the movie‚ it the facts of the differences of Earth’s topography and nature nowadays compared to the times long ago. The differences of the facts were caused by this intriguing global warming that alarmed all the people in the world. This global warming is the result of the gradual increase of greenhouse gases in the ozone layer‚ thus trapping the sun’s heat in the earth’s atmosphere. These greenhouse gases result from human activities like fossil fuel burning

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    Universal Truths

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    Mandy Huang 5/21/13 Universal Truths Universal truths can decipher lessons about life which can be found in different genres of text. The three texts‚ “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty‚ “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ and “The Journey” by Mary Oliver share a similar universal truth and themes. The universal truth found in the three texts presents struggle and determination. Each author presents the universal truths in a resembling and diverse way. In the story‚ “A Worn

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    The Truth of Oedipus

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    “No Point in Ignoring the Truth" Thesis/Map: The truth of Oedipus’ fate is expressed by a blind prophet‚ Jocasta‚ and a servant. I. The blind prophet presents Oedipus with the fate that was cast to him years ago. A. Tiresias is brought in to help decipher Apollo’s message. B. Tiresias claims Oedipus is the murderer. C. Oedipus’ ignorance keeps him from hearing the truth. II. Oedipus’ wife‚ Jocasta‚ comes in to talk with him. A. Jocasta tells him the story of hearing the fate of

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    Moment of Truth

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    Moment of truth The crowd was deafening. A few drunken chants‚ a boo here and there was all I could make out over my asthma-like pants. I didn’t blame them though. For two rounds I’ve been dodging‚ shifting‚ and shoving myself around the ring. I didn’t stand still‚ I couldn’t stand still. I wasn’t going to win this one. He was too big‚ too bulky‚ too mean looking. “There’s no way he’s 76 kg‚ there must have been some sort of mistake” I kept telling myself. I was a half expecting the referee to

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    An Inconvient Truth

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    Teachers Preparatory Tichina Class 10R 2/19/13 Inconvenient Truth is a descriptive title because it explains the inconvenience towards our global warming problem; and puts the truth towards our planets slow destruction. What makes this a good title is because the truth that Al Gore explains to the viewers is current. He explains the relationship between all the weather changes and global warming and how it is affecting the natural world environment. The inconvenience part explains

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    come to mind when writing about the individual are Henry David Thoreau who wrote "Civil Disobedience" and Walt Whitman who wrote "One’s-Self I Sing." Thoreau was known for being an individualist‚ who fought against materialism and social conformity. Whitman was similar to Thoreau in that he too took powerful and devoted stands against the social and cultural directions of individuals. Whitman also used his own character as a standard of self‚ submitting his own essence as equal with that of the everyday

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    What Is the Truth

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    What is Truth? The Merriam Webster Dictionary says “truth is sincerity in action‚ character‚ and utterance.” It also says truth is “in accordance with fact.” Let me begin with sincerity. Sincerity is honesty. To be truthful we must be honest in what we do‚ honest in our personality‚ and honest in what we say. Therefore a truthful person is not deceptive or fraudulent. There is absolute proven truth‚ objective truth‚ and then there is God (Christian truth) which has a large element of faith. The

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    Philosophy of Truth

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    There are many theories on the meaning of truth‚ and with those theories come beliefs and questions as to why one is more adequate than the others. The theory that I will discuss as the most adequate is the correspondence theory. Honestly‚ I don ’t possess the capabilities to fully determine the most sufficient theory of truth. I do‚ however‚ have empirical evidence and solid reasoning to support the correspondence theory. There are many valid arguments and questions of this theory that I am not

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    The Self

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    Part 1: Summarize “The Self” by George Herbert Mead George Herbert Mead begins his article by highlighting that self is not something we are born with but rather a process we develop through our experiences and interactions with our social surroundings. Mead adds that we create an incomplete self-image through what we can see with our eyes such as our hand and feet but reflects that we create a complete image of what we can see and can’t see through our social interactions. He mentions how social

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    compared to the process of becoming and distinctly separate concepts for Plato‚ Pieper‚ and Thoreau and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. For Plato (384-322 BC)‚ the physical things of the world must‚ of necessity‚ have bodily form. They must be both visible and tangible‚ yet their state of being-ness is not the same thing as their essence. Plato‚ through his stories of Socrates and Socrates views‚ began the debate that has served both as an intellectual argument and an effort to understand

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