to see the full picture‚ not just a certain field of vision. There are many different interpretations of what enlightenment is‚ and what the path to enlightenment is like. How does one examine the many different perceptions of enlightenment? Plato - a Greek philosopher‚ Walt Whitman - an American poet‚ and Fr. Adolfo Nicolás - the Superior General of the Jesuits have all discussed what it means to be enlightened. Their interpretations of the path and state of being enlightened vary in places‚ but
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How is the Internet reshaping what we mean by culture? During the 20th century‚ electricity‚ the telephone‚ the automobile‚ and the airplane made the world more accessible to people and transforming our society in the process. Most people had to call their local bank to check their statements. Or wait for the paper invoice in the mail. The latest score for last night’s hockey game were found in the local newspaper. Then came the accessible worldwide system of interconnected networks called the
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What Does It Mean To Be Human? According to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History‚ “Part of what it means to be human is how we became human. Over a long period of time‚ as early humans adapted to a changing world‚ they evolved certain characteristics that help define our species today.” Some of these characteristics include‚ walking upright on two feet‚ larger and more complex brains‚ and a social life that not every living organism has or can do. Although this is more of a physical
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What Does "Islam" Mean? The word "Islam" itself means "Submission to Allah." The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of "Christianity" which was named after Jesus Christ‚ "Buddhism" after Gutama Buddha ‚ "Marxism" after Karl Marx‚ and "Confucianism" after Confucius. Similarly‚ Islam is not named after a tribe like "Judaism" after the tribe of Judah and "Hinduism" after the Hindus. The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one’s will to the will of
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Matthew Thomas Explain the importance of self-interest in Smith ’s economics. How is it related to the wealth of a nation? In order to answer this question we must first be very careful what is meant by self-interest. Smith was primarily a moral philosopher and concerned himself with drawing from history the patterns implicit to human nature. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith‚ 1759) Smith discusses in detail the conclusions he has drawn from this analysis concerning the framework for peoples
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What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World Martin Heidegger’s main interest was to raise the issue of Being‚ that is‚ to make sense of our capacity to make sense of things. Additionally he wished to rekindle the notion that although difficult to understand‚ this issue was of utmost importance (Dreyfus 1991). Heidegger’s study‚ however‚ was of a specific type of Being‚ the human being‚ referred to by Heidegger as Dasein’‚ which literally means Being-there’ (Solomon 1972). By using the expression
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http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Stability of Beta over Market Phases: An Empirical Study on Indian Stock Market Koustubh Kanti Ray Assistant Professor‚ Financial Management at Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM)‚ Bhopal‚ India. E-mail: raykk@iifm.ac.in Abstract The significant role played by beta in diverse aspects of financial decision making has forced people from small investors to investment bankers to rethink on beta in the era of globalization. In the present changing
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the beta of equity from the two comparable companies Orange and Tomy by estimating regression of returns on the market return. Unlever these equity beta using the actual capital structure of these companies to get their asset beta Take the equally- or value-weighted average of asset beta across the two comparable companies The case state that the upgrade will increase risk by 50% Take asset beta estimated in the question above‚ and increase it by 50% Estimate the market historical return using
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032:001:A01-A12 16 September 2012 To Struggle : What It Means To Be a Jewish A foundational part of being Jewish is to struggle. Throughout history‚ the Jewish people have struggled both physically - with the hardships that they had to face – and intellectually - with what is called a cognitive dissonance. In fact‚ one of the earliest struggles can be traced back to the prophet Jacob‚ who had to struggle with God himself. By writing this paper‚ I wish to explain why ‘to struggle’ is such a foundational
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to have try something that will get you other your fear. There a quote that say ‘’She who is brave is free.’’ That mean that if you don’t try the thing that you are afraid of you will never be free. When I was young I always afraid of a lot of thing. When I got older I figured maybe I should get over my fear. The first fear was dogs. The reason why is because they just looked mean in scary. I figured just going to them in try to touching them. In my mind it was like I was really scared but‚ then
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