John Greavu Professor Joan Tronto POL 1201 11 November 2013 Plato and John Stuart Mill: Valuations of Individual Well-Being with Regards to Social Standing In response to prompt #1: Mill and Plato share a belief in something like “higher pleasures.” As a result‚ despite their great differences‚ both are really trying to do the same thing. Both advocate for a society that allows elites to pursue their own interests‚ at the expense of others. The result is that both are trying to create a society
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Society ignores the things juvenile delinquents went through growing up or what they had to experience in order to get by in life. People need to realize that there is always a story behind a child’s action or behavior. The boys like the ones from True Notebooks end up in the juvenile detention center because they lack a positive role model in their lives. Every child wants to be someone in life but in order for them to be successful they need the support from their family. How could teenagers
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The meaning of true friendship In a society like today many people (teens especially) believe that having someone to call a friend is important but‚ as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned that this isn’t always true. There’s a huge difference between friends‚ best friends‚ schoolmates‚ classmates and associates. They may all sound the same but they’re not just because you meet someone that doesn’t mean you all will automatically become friends. I tell you this from experience ever since I stepped foot
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The convoluted writings of John Stuart Mill can be translated into simple terms as follows: No moral act or rule is intrinsically right or wrong. Rather‚ the rightness or wrongness of an act or rule is solely a matter of the overall nonmoral good (pleasure‚ happiness‚ health‚ knowledge
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Dear Reader‚ If we base our idea of what true love is on fairy tales‚ we might think that finding prince charming or an enchanting princess and living happily ever after is the ultimate goal. But for most mortals‚ striving for such ideals is unrealistic‚ and may even leave us feeling unfulfilled or let down. The reality is that being and staying in love takes continual work and patience‚ even though this might not seem utterly romantic‚ in that storybook sense. Couples who have healthy relationships
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Raymond’s run because it tells the story of his sister’s excitement when she sees him running. Squeaky never thought about her brother as a run‚ she was always so focused on her abilities and skills that she failed to notice that her brother would always‚ “keep up with [her] on [her] trots‚” and he knew how to breathe properly by observing her. At the end of the story it is not about Squeaky and how many times she has won the competition‚ but it is about Raymond’s ability and skills to run‚ and his
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choose to dissect was True Grit .Besides many irregularities with the classic Western films‚ True Grit can nearly be considered a classic Western. Like Stagecoach‚ the film has clearly defined roles of moral and immoral‚ and in the end‚ like in all classic Western’s‚ the bad guy gets it and the good guy’s ride off into the sunset. The leading female role makes it more of a revisionist. In True Grit I believe that it has a little of both a classic Western and a Revisionist Western. True Grit includes many
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of a True Friend What is the definition of a true friend? A lot of people have friends that they can depend on for just about anything. Some just have needy friends that are there when they need or want something. There are so many definitions of what a friend could be. The dictionary’s definition of a friend is a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. Although there are many different ways to describe a friend‚ you will always know when you have a true friend
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How to Run a Marathon Introduction Marathons were introduced into the athletic world in the ancient Greek Olympic games. The idea of running 26 miles came from the story of Phidippides‚ a messenger who ran 26 miles to inform Greek forces of their victory in the city of Marathon. Marathons can be very rewarding‚ but if you train improperly‚ it can impede your ability to race the rest of your life. Pre-training The first step is to select the right equipment. Before running‚ you need to stretch
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A River Runs Through It Fly fishing is not what this story is all about‚ although it might seem so at first. Neither is it about religion‚ even though the father’s first line is: "In our family‚ there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." Yes‚ these two things are themes that run through the story and add to its power. But there is so much more. It depicts a place of beauty‚ history‚ myth‚ and mystery‚ it is a triangle of earth in Montana where the writer grew up. And it captures
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