BOOKS- OUR BEST FRIENDS Good books enrich the mind by providing knowledge. They also widen the horizons of our imagination an give us an insight into different minds. If a man is known by the company he keeps‚ why should we not‚ then keep the best company; that of good books? Good literature entertains‚ instructs‚ and elevates. It takes us on a flight of fancy‚ away from our humdrum lives‚ to a place or country we want to visit without having to pay for the passage. Pleasures derived from
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Grand canyon The Earth’s greatest gorge” the Grand Canyon is located in northwestern Arizona. Its vastness is 217 mile long‚ and its widest it spans over 17 miles across. It is not surprising that it has been designated one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The walls of the canyon are made of limestone‚ sandstone‚ lava and other rocks. As the day passes the rocks reflect different colors. Many tourists come to the canyon just to watch the rocks change color. Cottonwood and willow trees grow at
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Business Studies PART 1 A) Social Function of a business: [Choice] Businesses provides goods and services to satisfy individual needs and wants by giving the choice of selecting something among a variety of products. Economic Function of a business: [Employment] By creating or providing employment for individuals this minimises the unemployment rate. B) Unincorporated enterprises is when the enterprise has NOT gone through the process of not separating the owner from its
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the years the topic of human nature has been studied and debated by many. Human nature can be defined as distinct characteristics that include how people think and act naturally. Between past and present events‚ there is corruption in human nature. With the corruption of human nature people only do kind acts only out of self interest. Throughout history‚ early American authors‚ such as Jonathan Edwards‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and Olaudah Equiano‚ convey how they view human nature through their literature
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Thomas hobbes theory of human nature is proven by the hunger games ‚ because of killing and the people’s bad behavior. The annual hunger games are based off of bad human nature. In the book ‚ the book quotes “ Taking the kids from our districts‚ forcing them to kill one another while we watch”.( 1.76) By stating this quote‚ this quote proves that human nature is bad ‚ because killing for no legal reason and forcing a child to harm or kill another child is cruel. The competition of the hunger games
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Caitlin Arnold Human Nature Mencius is an ancient philosopher of China around the fourth century B.C. He was believed to have similar view to the philosopher Confucius‚ and he had a strong view on human nature. Mencius believed that human nature was intrinsically benevolent. Mencius believed that people had four virtues that drove their thoughts and actions. Mencius is quoted to say‚ “Therefore‚ it can be suggested that without a mind of commiseration is not human‚ that a person without
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school Believed in the goodness of human nature (ren) Advocated government by benevolence and humanity Xunzi (298-238 B.C.E.) had a less positive view of human nature Believed that humans selfishly pursue own interests Preferred harsh social discipline to bring order to society Advocated moral education and good public behavior Daoism featured prominent critics of Confucian activism Preferred philosophical reflection and introspection‚ a life in harmony with nature Laozi‚ founder of Daoism‚ allegedly
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How Religious Belief Connects with Humans And Nature Humans’ relationship towards nature is complicated. Phyllis Trible‚ a well known scholar‚ mentions in her paper A Tempest in a Text : Ecological Soundings in the Book of Jonah that “Theological language is ecological language” (Trible 189). It suggests that widespread religion has a reflection on the relationship between humans’ belief and nature. Besides‚ the two main characters‚ Arab and Jonah‚ from the movie Moby Dick and the religious book
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restriction of free will. Human beings typically utilize their freedom responsibly and consider the balance between risk and reward. However‚ in the occasion where a force actively attempts to deter the completion of an action‚ the curiosity and reactance of humans will create a desire to do it simply for the satisfaction of feeling “free”. Four hundred years ago‚ William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet‚ a romantic tragedy that centers around this aspect of human nature. Within the play‚ Shakespeare
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Human nature is a very complicated and disputed topic‚ and the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel brings up several questions about what humanity is capable of. The act of killing the young pipel is far more inhuman than the murder of one’s own father for bread‚ killing for food is a basic survival instinct‚ driven by extreme circumstances and starvation‚ killing the young boy is simply cruel. Killing the young boy in front of the whole camp shows no compassion or empathy‚ two key qualities that show humanity
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