Kristopher Yates 1/29/17 Leading Lives That Matter Apply Themes of Authenticity‚ Virtue‚ and Discernment to Living a Personally Significant Life To be Authentic means being actually and exactly what is claimed. Authentic implies being fully trustworthy as according with fact; it can also stress painstaking or faithful imitation of an original. To me to be an authentic person means a variety of things. You’re not into materialistic things‚ everyone likes nice things but it should be
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1599‚ depicts the historical events surrounding Julius Caesar’s assassination. The ideas of manipulation and fate versus free will are presented through literary devices in “The Prince” and dramatised staging features in Shakespeare’s play. While virtue is presented as a key theme in both texts‚ its portrayal differs due to the context in which it was set or written. While manipulation is not
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Compare and Contrast: "Dune" by Herbert and "Star Wars" by Lucas The novel Dune by Frank Herbert‚ and the novel Star Wars by George Lucas have many comparisons and contrasts. Even though they were written more than 10 years apart‚ they are both very entertaining. In Dune the story takes place on a dry desert planet called Arrakis‚ where water is very scarce‚ and only the rich own it. Similarly‚ in Star Wars the story starts out on a desert world called Tatooine‚ where water is very scarce and
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shareholders. Looking at Enoc from the Western perspective‚ we can say that it is both‚ duty and virtue ethics. Duty ethics is the principles‚ obligations or rule based ethics; Enoc has its’ own ethical principles that they follow which makes them duty oriented. In addition‚ virtue ethics is when the significance is on an individual character as the key element of ethical thinking; Enoc has also shown virtue since they don’t only follow the principles‚ but they
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Out of the three theories that we looked at the second half of the semester‚ utilitarianism‚ deontology‚ and virtue‚ I think the virtue theory is the most accurate of them all. The theory says a person is determined good or bad based on their character. I think that is most accurate because if a person is constantly acting badly‚ then they would be considered a bad person. If a person is constantly acting good‚ then they will be considered a good person. Looking at the other two theories‚ utilitarianism
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Plato & Socrates: Excellence in Virtue introduction “Socrates’ positive influence touches us even today” (May 6) and we can learn a great deal about him from one of his students‚ Plato. It is in Plato’s report of Socrates’ trial a work entitled‚ Apology‚ and a friend’s visit to his jail cell while he is awaiting his death in Crito‚ that we discover a man like no other. Socrates was a man following a path he felt that the gods had wanted him to follow and made no excuses for his life
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Loving Junk Food: Its Virtues There is a famous saying one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. This is true for there are some people who go around digging into dumpsters and other people’s garbage for junk they turn into treasures. For example‚ you have carpenters that go looking for old furniture that people throw out and they go and turn it to precious work and they go and sell what they made. Junk food‚ like these treasures‚ has many benefits‚ as well. They are cost efficient‚ time saver and
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George Gey is introduced into The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks as the head of tissue-culture research at John Hopkins hospital. He was about 52 years old when he discovered the immortality of Henrietta’s cells‚ and this was most likely the peak of his life‚ thanks to this brilliant discovery. However‚ he came from an interesting background. Gey was born in 1889 and grew up with his parents in Pittsburgh. He was always adventurous and liked to make do with what he had. He was always looking
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to them as "the lost tribes of Israel." A movement called "British Israelism" claims to have found the ten "lost tribes‚" however‚ and in some very unlikely places. For many years‚ one of the leaders in the British Israelism movement was Herbert W. Armstrong‚ founder of the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Church of God." Especially for Americans‚ Armstrong was
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George Westinghouse II The Westinghausen family tree stretches back to that of the ninth century in Westphalia‚ Germany. Some of the family decided to emigrate to Europe and later settle in the United States. In the nineteenth century‚ George Westinghouse decided to move all over the former United States and settled in Central Bridge‚ New York where he had George Westinghouse II. Born into a family of ten (which would become twelve later on) on October 16‚ 1846‚ George Westinghouse Jr. (son of
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