The Golden Mean Virtue is the mean between two extremes relative to the individuals. Excess-------Mean-------Deficiency Rashness----- Bravery -----Cowardice The good person is one who habitually follows the mean. 6. Contemporary Virtue Ethics Virtue (defined): a trait of character‚ manifested in habitual action‚ which is good for a person to have. Examples
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“THE WATCHER” By: Andrea L. Thornton The painting I have chosen for this assignment is the 1921 oil painting‚ “The Watcher” by American artist‚ Frank Weston Benson. I had the privilege of viewing this painting on February 23‚ 2013 of this young woman standing on a white‚ sandy shoreline gazing out over the waters. The painting was donated to the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington‚ West Virginia. My daughter‚ Noelle assisted me with taking my picture and I dedicate all of my efforts
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How like the winter is my favorite song because of all the combinations of all the parts. And how the music flows with the deep voices of the men in that choir. Another reason I like the song is just how all the parts perfectly put it together to show how challenge it sounds to sing this piece. The tone in this song sounds very deep and very dark because there are no high notes for the men. The amounts of dynamics to sing this song were a lot since they have to know your part and not miss a single
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Question 1) in fear and trembling‚ Kierkegaard talks about Eternal Consciousness. He does this on page 49. What I believe Kierkegaard means by the eternal consciousness is our ability to think. We have this ability to think and make decisions so we have some sort of control over what we do. This becomes clear when Kierkegaard talks about people going through the world like a “ship through a sea”(Kierkegaard‚ p.49) and a “wind through the desert” (Kierkegaard‚ p.49). It seems by using those two examples
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Activity 2.2.1 Observing Mechanisms Introduction A mechanism is a device that transmits movements so that the output movement is different than the input movement. It can be used to change the direction‚ speed‚ force‚ or type of movement. The output of a robot or any machine is motion and force in some form. A drill press‚ for example‚ has two kinds of motion: rotary and linear. The drill spinning provides the rotary motion; moving the drill down through the material is the linear motion. The
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Mackenzie Boulter Jake Syersak September 25‚ 2013 English 101 Essay #1 - Part Two In my creative piece‚ I used Lassel’s technique of depicting photographic moments to convey what home means to me. Just the topic of the southern lifestyles comes as a sensitive yet powerful subject for me. In my essay I decided to thoroughly develop strong mental pictures of the place I was raised and explain what it is that makes that friendly community of Lake Travis‚ Texas so special to me. Pinpointing
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Top Five Passages Taken from “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose 1) “Students will float to the mark you set. I and the others in the vocational classes were bobbing in pretty shallow water... mostly the teachers had no idea of how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond” (2). This text stood out to me because it is a simple concept yet abundantly true. A thorough understanding of this passage will lead to the uncovering of a deeper meaning
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The Ends‚ Ways‚ and Means of US Policy Towards North Korea By Cynthia M. Lewis Inter/National Security Studies Lesson 8 22 June 2012 Instructor: Dr. Bruce Bechtol Jr. Air Command and Staff College Distance Learning Maxwell AFB‚ AL One of the security challenges facing the United States (US) is the US and North Korea relations. The US policy toward North Korea is diplomatic yet firm. North Korea is our longest standing adversary. Policy toward North Korea
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As a learner‚ I am a highly visual person. What this means is I learn best when processing information through my visual sense. I need to be able to see the information in order to grasp a better understanding of the concept. Oftentimes when I am reading information from a lesson‚ I need to be able to visualize either the concept in use (a person actually doing a math equation for example) or an actual image of the lesson (an image of war if I am learning about the Revolutionary War‚ an image of
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Even Fitzgerald would probably think so considering he believed Hemingway was gay. Tyson says‚ “Fitzgerald was ‘not averse’ to implying that Hemingway was gay‚” (Tyson‚ 353) which means Hemingway might have purposely written Jake as a queer coded character. Jake is a little more obvious than Gatsby and Nick though. Jake’s relationship with his best friend‚ Bill‚ for one is very homoerotic and doesn’t follow the homosocial norms. Bill
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