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    Learner Journal 4: Famine: The Irish experience 900- 1900. What is the reading about? This week’s reading is a chapter is taken from the book ‘Famine: The Irish Experience 900 -1900’. The chapter is titled ‘Conclusion: Famine and Irish History. The author highlights the state the country was in before famine. Clarkson adds that all Famines in Ireland was a result of hundreds of years of starvation. In this text the author aims to explain the due course up to the Great Famine. The author also aims

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    Disappearance of the Anasazi civilization Summary The Anasazi civilization was a wonderment of there time. They were far ahead of any Indian civilization of that time era. They were cliff-dwelling people who where very knowledgeable in architecture‚ astronomy‚ and farming. They had built houses on the sides of cliffs that were more then 5 stories tall with plenty of space and even had religious meeting areas. They had a system for tracking the movement of the sun and the moon and also created

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    Afonso de Solar Student number: 08753644 Understanding Famine: Famine is usually understood to be a decline in food availability. A sudden‚ sharp reduction in food in any particular geographic locale usually results in widespread hunger and famine. Understanding Somalia’s famine or any famine goes far beyond the traditional generalist statement mentioned above. A complex environment influences Somalia’s current and previous famines. Political instability‚ an undefined economic frame and armed

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    Declining Morality

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    less frowned upon than before. One of the most important challenges to humanity today is obviously our drastic decline in morality. Some may say our morals are even being completely redefined. At this rate‚ will our generation’s children grow up in an even worse environment than our current situation? One of the most influential causes for society’s decreasing morality is today’s music. Children as young as three years of age are learning such profane language from listening to lyrics without

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    RELIGION AND MORALITY (i)Examine the views of scholars concerning the idea that religion and morality are linked. In this essay I am going to be looking at all the different view points on why some people may think religion and morality are linked. I will talk about a few things that link them such as conscience‚ divine command ethics‚ Kant ’s view and Aquinas ’ view. Many people believe that morality is based upon religion and the rules written in the Bible and other holy books‚ although some

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    War and Famine Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines Miguel Huerta San Jose State University Professor Andrea Whitson Nufs 139 War and Famine It is hard to fathom that poverty and malnutrition is still a prominent problem around the world. Especially when there is enough to go around so that everyone has food on their plate‚ but people are still dying from hunger‚ malnutrition‚ and food insecurity. What is even harder to swallow is the fact that famine is a socially

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    Ethics and Morality

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    Ethics and morality Ethics is related to morality but it is not the same thing. ’Morality’ comes from the Latin word ’moralis’ which is more concerned with what we believe is good and evil (bad) or‚ right and wrong. Our morality is a set of ’pre-packaged answers’‚ if you like‚ to the question posed by ethics: “what ought I to do?”. Our own individual morality gives us the values and principles for making our decisions when we are faced with that question. There is a position held by some that

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    Buddhism and Morality

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    With Buddhism being non-theistic in nature‚ that is sharing no belief in a personal deity and or omnipotent creator‚ what and where is the source of its moral teachings? Based around this statement my paper will be comprised of the issue around the foundation of Buddhism’s moral and ethical compass based on its lack of a deity that seems to be the driving force behind other theistic religions. Along with this I will analyze how and why a particular set of rules/guidelines bring about a strong foundation

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    Lennie's Morality

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    Steinbeck’s motif of Lennie’s questionable ethics throughout Slim and George’s conversation establishes the theme that morality is a fluid and unclear concept. In the bunk house George and Slim began to converse about Lennie’s morals as Slim states‚ “He’s a nice fella‚” but the two begin to become unsure and repeat themselves as if to solidify the statement as fact: “ He ain’t a bit mean... I can see Lennie ain’t a bit mean.” Through their uncertainty of Lennie’s morals Steinbeck begins to challenge

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    30 Hour Famine Experience

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    the preparation of the 30 hour famine event‚ I had 3 roles. The first role was Juice Collector. I collected juice for the 30 hour famine and made a record about it. Since the beginning of April to the 20th‚ I collected juice and wrote the names of the people who donated and how many juice boxes they brought for the event. In addition‚ I also contributed 21 juices boxes. The second role was poster making. On April 15th‚ I designed a poster advertising the 30 hour famine and all the events that were

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