Religion versus Science I choose a topic: “Religion versus Science” because I found it interesting and cognitive. I was raised Catholic‚ and some historical moments with Catholic religion are quite attractive for me. Science has often challenged religious dogma‚ since Copernicus first upset the Church-approved‚ heliocentric model of the cosmos. However‚ after the Enlightenment‚ when the empirical method of scientific enquiry was fully established‚ science has come to be seen as a competing
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An Abandoned House The mansion stood isolated from civilisation but seemed to be inhabited by somebody. But who? nobody really knew but I wanted to find out. Standing in front of the furtive gates and rusted black iron gates‚ I could feel the cold gaze of people walking past‚ they could probably smell my fear. Gently pushing the gates open ‚they let out an ear piercing screech. Walking up the long and cracked windy driveway‚ I could see strange shaped hedges and unusual lawn ornaments placed
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cause action‚ morality is rooted in us and our perception of the world and what we want to gain from it. Virtue arises from acting on a desire to help others. Hume’s moral theory is therefore a virtue-centered morality rather than the natural-law morality‚ which saw morality as coming from God. Kant’s notion of morality stems from his notion of one universal moral law. This law is pertinent to all people and can be used at all times before carrying our actions According to Kant‚ you ought to act
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Philosophy versus Cosmology A Comparison of Creation in Hesiod’s Theogony and Ovid’s Metamorphoses By Catherine Franklin To fully understand the poems; Metamorphoses and Theogony‚ one needs to understand more about the writers. Hesiod was a greek poet‚ who lived around 700BC‚ and was inspired by muses to write epic poetry. Theogony is considered one of earliest works and concerns itself with the cosmogony‚ or the origins of the world and theogony‚ or the gods‚ and pays specific detail to genealogy
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In this short story‚ "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner‚ one major theme is the evolution in the course of the story of the young boy’s sense of loyalty. He starts out with a forced on family loyalty and slowly evolves throughout the narration to a high sense of horror and justice. There is a persistent conflict of personality between the two main characters; the father‚ Abner Snopes‚ who values only his self-interest and the boy‚ his youngest son named Colonel Sartoris but called Sarty‚ who values
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Nature or Nurture? The Determination of Human Behaviour The nature versus nurture debate has spanned over decades‚ and is becoming more heated in the recent years. Following the mapping of the human genome‚ scientists are pursuing the possibility of controlling human behaviour such as homicidal tendencies or insanity through the manipulation of genes. Is this possible for us to ensure that humans behave in certain ways under certain circumstances in future? This is highly doubtful‚ as the
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“Real versus Virtual” Each individual has his or her perceptions on people‚ places and ideas‚ thus creating one’s definition of reality. With his or her concept of reality‚ either being physical or virtual relationships are conceived and shattered. Sherry Turkle expresses concern in human society regarding this issue. In “Alone Together”‚ Turkle illustrates how physical intimacy between humans is corroding due to the Internet. However‚ in “In the Forest of Gombe” Jane Goodall depicts one can retain
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Literary Analysis A Haunted House The characters in the story are the couple that lives in the home currently and the couple that is dead that use to live in the home previously and wanders through the house. The couple that lives in the house is not afraid. They now that two ghosts are going through their home looking for something. The other couple‚ that is ghosts‚ is harmless. They mean the narrator and her husband no harm. They wander in and out of the house looking for something that is
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1. Background of the Literary Piece Once Upon A Time by Gabriel Okara The poem is written by Gabriel Okara‚ a Nigerian poet. He may have written the poem so that other people may understand how an African person deals with the western ideas. The poem is like a clash of cultures and how the speaker finds a way to adapt to the situation‚ the poem also gives a description about how the speaker wants to forget the ideals of these people. 2. Summary The poem‚ is depicting a man‚ maybe of old age (or
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Afrocentrism vs. Eurocentrism | Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism differ in many ways‚ and have help to advance the cause of both Africans and Europeans throughout history. Some would argue that had it not been for Eurocentrism Afrocentrism would never have existed‚ and in a sense the former is responsible for the creation of the latter. The manner in which both ethnocentric ideas view the world are totally different from one another but they are alike in the sense that they strive to place each
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