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    The Fifth Amendment places constitutional boundaries on police practices. The police officers has an obligation to warn the suspects that they have a right to remain silent‚ that anything they say may be used against them‚ and that they have the right to counsel.[1]‚[2] The Fifth Amendment can be broken down into five distinctive constitutional rights such as grand juries for capital crimes‚ a prohibition on double jeopardy‚ a prohibition against required self-incrimination‚ a guarantee that all

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    Times applauded Fifth Business – the first of the Deptford triptych – as "a marvelously enigmatic novel‚ elegantly written and driven by irresistible narrative force." How true this is. Dunstable Ramsay – later renamed Dunstan after St. Dunstan – may be a retired schoolteacher‚ but what an engaging narrator he is! Shaped by Davies’s colourful writing‚ Ramsay masterfully relays the story of his role as "fifth business‚" the unobtrusive yet vital character in life’s drama. Fifth Business‚ told in

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    Introduction: Meditation is an action or practise which is engaged through imagination‚ emotion and desire to do the prayer. Meditation is a special method of prayer and it can include a range of methods‚ for example reading the Bible‚ listening to music‚ and reflecting on your day. All these methods help with relieving stress and even just knowing who God is and how he can help through change and tough times. Meditation has four main forms which are physical‚ emotional‚ the mind and spiritual ways

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    will argue that the clearest difference between Descartes and Nietzsche here is that whereas Descartes thought that ideas are passive‚ Nietzsche thought the opposite. Well‚ Descartes tries to prove the existence of God‚ which is the condition of establishing/ensuring an external world‚ including inter-subjectivity‚ in his view. God is a precondition of the innate ideas and connection with the surrounding world. There’s no doubt in the mind of Descartes that God exist. Hence‚ he is claiming that faith/religion

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    The Laws of the Fifth Discipline Peter Senge’s 11 Laws of the Fifth Discipline are the following: 1. Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions.” 2. The harder you push‚ the harder the system pushes back. 3. Behavior will grow worse before it grows better. 4. The easy way out usually leads back in. 5. The cure can be worse than the disease. 6. Faster is slower. 7. Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space. 8. Small changes can produce big results but the areas of

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    Transcendentalism and Transcendental Meditation "The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle‚ in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration‚ and in ecstasy."(Emerson 196). These two lines written by Ralph Waldo Emerson exemplify the whole movement of transcendentalist writers and what they believed in. Though to the writers‚ transcendentalism was a fight for a belief‚ unknown to them

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    Meditation‚ Relaxation‚ and its effects When most people think of the word meditation‚ they picture someone sitting Indian style on the floor with their hands out in front of them saying the word “Ohm” repeatedly. Meditation goes much deeper than just a particular sitting position. To some people‚ it’s a way of life. There are people who practice meditation religiously‚ and some who do it every so often. “Webster ’s dictionary defines meditation as an ’act of spiritual contemplation ’. It seems

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    “Forgive yourself for being a human creature‚ Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom.” The Role of Self- Reflection in Fifth Business  By: Brooke von Schilling             Self-reflection makes happiness more accessible. This is shown in the book Fifth Business by a contrast of characters‚ such as introvert and extrovert.  In the book Dunstan Ramezay is shown as an introvert and spends his entire life focusing on the spiritual aspect of himself and others. Dunstan is a self-reflecting person

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    Selene Cordeiro Mrs. Ruffell ENG4U1-05 December 18‚ 2014   Fifth Business Questions  Chapter One: Mrs. Dempster The event that irrevocably altered Dunstable Ramsay’s life was his first encounter with Mrs. Dempster. She was the wife of the town’s Baptist pastor‚ Amasa Dempster‚ and was with child at the time of this untimely encounter. It was 5:58 PM on December 27th‚ 1908 and Dunstable “Dunny” Ramsay was retreating back to his home in Deptford‚ Ontario‚ after a long day of sledding with his lifelong

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    Mindful Meditation and the Brain Some view meditation as new age‚ hippie nonsense because it is not a social norm to sit in silence and dig beneath the surface of the mind. Others liken it to tuning an instrument before playing it. I subscribe to the latter; nonetheless‚ meditation is an ancient practice that can be traced back 2‚500 years. However‚ neuroscientists are just now beginning to measure the effects that it has on the brain. While there are many types of meditation‚ they all have the

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