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year I tried to get myself more active‚ so I joined the swim team. I was one of the fastest newbies on the team that year. We’re almost done with our season‚ and it’s time for KVAC’s. I was very nervous at KVACs because we weren’t competing against just one team. There were a lot of teams there. I had a 50 yard freestyle individual‚ and as I was waiting on the block for that bright flash of light and the always too loud whistle‚ I can remember thinking that I was going to win. Looking at the times
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A Critique of Plato ’s Ideal Regime in the Context of Ancient Athens Thesis Statement: Plato ’s classification of citizens within a given society is detrimental to the progress and‚ possibly‚ the survival of a city-state structure like that of ancient Athens. Introduction: This paper attempts to critique Plato ’s structure of the social classes. The researcher would hope to dismantle Plato ’s social structure in his Republic and the presuppose good of such a system to a city-state setting like
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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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definitions is that mercy is compassion or kindness. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson gives us a different but deeper understanding of what the word “mercy” honestly means‚ however‚ his experience changed his meaning of it forever. Reading this book also opened my eyes to what the real definition is; Not the one that is commonly known. Stevenson changed my definitions‚ used key points‚ and influenced my desire to seek out justice. Before I read Just Mercy‚ my view on justice and mercy was exactly like
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WEEK 3 Discussion Question 1: Just Following Orders? Do you believe the sentence she received is just? Wasn’t she simply following orders? Why did Ms. Vinson make the ethical decisions that she made? In my opinion‚ from the two articles read I do not believe that the sentence of 5 months in prison that Ms Vinson received coincided with her level of involvement. Ms Vinson was the Senior of Corporate Reporting Department; for two years she chooses to continue to misrepresent and inflate
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nearly 2 Million Civilian/Military Casualties‚ was this battle justified? The Just War theory provides a basis as to whether a war was just or evil and this will be applied to the Battle of Stalingrad to perceive whether or not this battle meets with the 3 different Jus in Bello / Jus Ad Bellum criteria necessary to be a just war. The Battle of Stalingrad can be deemed as unfulfilling of the conditions of the Jus Ad Bellum – Just Cause/Right Intention as the war must be fought not to pursue
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inevitability of war after outlining Walzer’s objections to the realist’s point of view on the morality of war. In Just and Unjust Wars‚ Walzer argues against the realist’s view on the morality of war; namely‚ that war is inevitable therefore eliminating freedom of choice. Before delving into the argument‚ it is important that we understand a realist’s belief; Realism‚ as presented to us in the book‚ holds that states are motivated by concerns for national security and self-interest. Realism then concludes
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All of his work is visual because when one is reading it‚ they visualize what he is talking about. It is like the words disappear and one is seeing what he or she is reading. The way he writes is just amazing. He paints a picture with his words. The three poems being discussed are “Buffalo Bill’s‚” “in Just-“ and “o sweet spontaneous”. To start with‚ “Buffalo Bill’s” is talking about Buffalo Bill and how he died. Cummings explains that he dies in the first two lines‚ “Buffalo Bill’s/defunct” (lines
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Just in time (JIT) is described as a philosophy‚ managerial concept or manufacturing strategy. It achieved fame in the late 1970’s through Taiichi Ohno and is used in many companies till this day especially automotive industries. Just in time was originally a practice of the Toyota motor company in Japan. Chakravorty and Atwater 1995 (cited in Singh and Ahija‚ 2015) suggest that the fundamental of Just in time philosophy is continuous improvement in process through removal of all types of waste.
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