In the name of Allah‚ the most gracious‚ the most merciful The best way to fight ignorance surrounding our Messenger‚ Salla Allahu alayhi wasalam‚ is by getting to know him more‚ by familiarizing ourselves with who this man was. He was a man of flawless character‚ of a generosity like no other‚ a heart like no other‚ the best to his family‚ the best of husbands‚ the best of society‚ the best of friends‚ the best of leaders- a torch of light for the rest of humanity. He made the people who felt
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Education defeats Ignorance There is a commanding belief that our experiences of reality are just simply deceptions of the truth. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ Socrates illustrates his perception about human knowledge. He contends that people are rarely able to escape from personal ignorance and with greater knowledge comes confusion and conflict when their own beliefs are challenged. (Socrates 20) The parallel Socrates makes in the allegory‚ is between a prisoner who breaks from the
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Ignorance is happiness Think about communication now‚ how do people talk to each other? Think about entertainment‚ how do people have fun? Or how about knowledge‚ how do people share information? How do people find out about history? People today use cell phones‚ the Internet‚ and the television. But until about a century ago‚ no one had any of that. No one had Phones or flat screen TV’s. No one had Facebook or Twitter accounts. So how did people back then live and work? The answer is with
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In the past‚ Congress has funded abstinence-only programs over abstinence-plus education. The $102 million (0) currently being spent on abstinence-only programs seems to be intended to serve social and political goals‚ instead of producing positive health results for youth. The government appears to be concerned with how others portray our citizens‚ as immoral beings‚ when sex is an inevitable occurrence. Abstinence-plus education emphasizes the benefits of abstinence while also teaching about contraception
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Louis Braille and Blindness Has anyone ever wondered how it feels to be blind? Imagine being blind‚ standing outside on a nice day without sight. No sight of the beautiful sky‚ nor the sun itself‚ only the feelings and sound. The hot sun‚ the gentle breeze‚ the grass and plants flowing in said breeze‚ all with only audio and touch. This is what it is like to be blind. To read‚ blind people used to have embossed books with embossed lettering. Embossed books and lettering are no longer used today
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Merck and Co. and river blindness MANUEL VELASQUEZ‚ Business Ethics. Concepts and cases 4th edt.‚ Prentice Hall‚ Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey‚ 1998 River blindness is an agonizing disease that affects some 18 million impoverished people living in remote villages along the banks of rivers in tropical regions of Africa and Latin America. The disease is caused by a tiny parasitic worm that is passed from person to person by the bite of the black fly which breeds in river waters. The tiny worms
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Enabling Ignorance By- Roger Kaplan “No child left behind” act (NCLB) passed this year through congress which was originally passed in 2002‚ that shows how can be common sense and experience is replaced. The author‚ Diane Ravitch pointed out in her book that NCLB promotes the weakness in American public school‚ rather than improving their strengths. The idea of passing NCLB proven wrong‚ because it is wasting of federal dollars‚ it increases
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This article is a compilation of historical events and speculation that provide the blurred lines between perception and truth. Neiberg refers to inattentional blindness in correlation to the way our mind perceives our own nation’s accomplishments and ideals. Inattentional blindness is the lack of attention to supposedly irrelevant information generally related to our visual perception; in the article’s context‚ this was our mind’s perception of the information we receive. The article states that
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In the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex‚ blindness is a reoccurring theme which is used in many different ways in the play. Blindness is used quite often and is emphasized with the prophet Tiresias who is literally blind can see the truth unlike Oedipus who is blind to see the truth about his past and the crimes he has committed. It is ironic that the prophets Tiresias who is blind can see better then Oedipus in a metaphorical sense. The prophet Tiresias is physically blind but is able to see much more
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the introduction‚ is to assess change blindness in real life with direct participants rather than through television‚ photographs and computer screens. The experiment tests the hypothesis that people are more likely to detect changes in a scene when directly participating in the experiment. Due to the results of the initial experiment‚ the aim of the study evolved to assess the effect of social groups on change blindness. They hypothesised that change blindness would increase if the participant viewed
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