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    How to deal with stressful situations are work When you are stressed at work it can wreak havoc on the rest of your life. You can become very stressed out and it can go home with you too. You should not let work situations interfere with your everyday life. It is going to become stressful and give you more problems when let stress bother you more than what you should. This may sound easy but it is not. You have to deal with stressful situations at work so that they do not come home with you.  There

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    Why Is Gandhi Unjust

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    un-peacefully when he was shot on January 30‚ 1948 at the age of 78. His assassination was unjust for several reasons buy mainly because he was the commander of the fight for Indian independence from the British‚ was known around the world as a symbol of peace‚ justice and human rights. In spite of his good intentions many believed he was the destroyer of India. The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was unjust because he led the fight for Indian independence from the British. It was an international

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    2010 • 1. In the Apology‚ Socrates recounts how he disobeyed the unjust order of the Thirty Tyrants to arrest a fellow citizen; he also claims that he will never stop philosophizing‚ regardless of what the legally constituted political authority commands. Yet‚ in the Crito‚ Socrates provides numerous arguments for obeying the decision of the legally constituted political authority‚ even though the decision (to put Socrates to death) was unjust. Critically assess whether Socrates’s view about

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    two laws that can possibly explain why the tanker imploded. One of the laws is Charles’‚ this law basically explains that there is a relationship between temperature and volume. When heat is added to a liquid volume and temperature increase‚ but in a molecular level the molecules move faster bouncing around in the container it’s in. The equation to Charles’ is V1/T1 = V2T2 .One of other laws is Boyle’s‚ the law deals with the relationship of pressure and volume. Boyle’s law helps explain how much

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    the sixth king of its capitol city‚ Babylon. During his reign‚ Hammurabi established law and order and funded irrigation‚ defense‚ and religious projects. He personally took care of and governed the administration. In fact‚ in 1786‚ he wrote two hundred eighty-two laws governing family‚ criminal punishment‚ civil law‚ ethics‚ business‚ prices‚ trade‚ and every other aspect of ancient life—this set of laws became known as “the Code of Hammurabi.” Carved upon a black stone eight feet high

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    Hammurabi’s Code was Unjust CURSED!! That’s what happens when you change Hammurabi’s laws. When Hammurabi was king 4000 years ago he established a series of 282 laws. He wrote these laws on his 38th year of ruling. These rules are unfair just like putting an innocent man behind bars. Hammurabi’s code are unjust because of it’s family law‚ property law‚ and personal injury law. In addition‚ injustice is found in law’s 48‚ 53‚ and 54 in the area of property law. For example‚ “If a man has borrowed

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    Monday 7:00 PM Walden (1854) By: Henry David Thoreau I have always been a fan of Henry Thoreau; my house is littered of quotes of his that I like to think I live my life by. One of my favorites is very apparent in this entry from Walden‚ a book that I have read many times‚ “That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest”. Thoreau’s two years that he spent at Walden Pond are rooted in this sentiment‚ and I couldn’t agree more. Thoreau starts off by explaining his two-year project

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    Just War Is Unjust

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    (Return to CO.Quaker.org Home Page) 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "Heading" Just and Unjust War2013-07-09T16:58:18#EndEditable 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "body" by Howard ZinnReprinted (with permission of the author) from the book Declarations of Independence‚ (...also found in The Zinn Reader‚ and Howard Zinn on War) I enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was an eager bombardier‚ determined to do everything I could to help defeat fascism. Yet‚ at the end of the war‚ when

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    of the “Tea Party”. It has made me more aware of the fear attached to new laws implicated in many states which are considered “ Red “or Republican states run from Governorship to federal appointed senators and Congressional representatives. Their fears of the changing racial demographics of the country to more minority majority has fostered voting laws more reminisced to the ages of the southern “Jim Crow Laws”. Jim Crow laws prevented Blacks and minorities from voting due to “poll taxes‚ literacy

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    Community Henry David Thoreau goes to the woods to live away from duties and to live a life of leisure. He moves far away from any method of communication‚ such as the post office. He wishes to live independently and self-sufficiently. The quote “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential facts of life…and not‚ when I came to die‚ discover that I had not lived.” He summarizes his reasons for living in the woods in this quote. Thoreau wants to live deliberately;

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