Living Wills Imagine yourself lying in a hospital bed oblivious to the world around you‚ unable to move or show any signs of life. Your own existence controlled by an I.V.‚ a respiratory machine‚ and a feeding tube. In essence‚ you are dead. Your body is no longer able to sustain life. Your life’s entire purpose is now replaced by a machine. You are being kept alive by artificial means. At this point‚ the question arises: Should you be kept alive by these means or should you be allowed to
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hopping from job to job‚ unsure of where life would take her. Then it all changed one day in June when she peed on a stick. She found out on that hot‚ sunny day that she was pregnant and her life would forever be changed. It was then that she knew she had no choice but to get her life together. Four years later this girl is exactly where she wants to be. The girl that I described in the previous paragraph is me and my story of my life before I had responsibility and before I grew up to make my life
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1David Kennedy CTH 248 Essay #2 10/27/14 Happiness as an Effect‚ from Living a Moral Life The journey of life is a trying one. It is filled with twists and turns that can not always be anticipated or expected. Add the pursuit of happiness‚ and the already daunting navigating nightmare has become even more elusive and difficult. Many have tried to capture the equation for happiness. However‚ Aristotle and Epicurus are two philosophers that have realized that happiness or eudaimonia (the flourishing
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My family’s journey from Fuheis to America to look My family mostly lived in the Middle Eastern country Jordan‚ until my grandparents came to America and had my father. Before coming to America‚ my grandfather lived in Fuheis for all of his life and worked in a cement factory. In early 1963‚ he married my grandmother‚ and soon after‚ they moved to the US on a massive commercial boat trip over with hundreds of others in order to look for new opportunities. After 6 months‚ their trip had finally ended
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Well shit. How do I even end up in these kinds of situations? It’s like‚ one minute I’m at home playing video games‚ and the next minute I’m trying to run away from the Time Cops in 1997. I mean‚ I know that there are rules to time travel‚ but can they just ease up on the whole "Time traveling is banned" stuff. I mean what kind of dictatorship is this? Anyway‚ now back to the story. But‚ before we pick up from where I’m getting viciously chased down by the Temporal Police and their AI companions while
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Essay for Internship As a kid growing up in a series of foster homes‚ whenever the social worker would show up at the door it would brighten my day. Even if I didn’t particularly like the social worker who showed up‚ just their personal appearance would mean at least a few days of relief from the usual abuse that went on. Since I didn’t attend the one-to-one session between the social worker and my foster parents I was never quite sure whether they were acting out of fear or guilt when they would
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Imagine everything that you know being ripped away from you all in the period of one day. Moving to Utah from Texas was a big change but moving from a house next to your school surrounded by your friends and daily experiencing social media and constant contact to an all girls therapeutic home with no electronics and not knowing anyone. That was a huge change for a sixteen about to be seventeen year old. Going to Re-Creation Retreat was a life changer for me. I don’t see how anyone could not
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A personal quality that is important to me is my willingness to try new things. This quality did not surface until I graduated high school-- I felt somewhat restricted during those years. After my first semester at community college the eagerness to explore new activities‚ and learn about new topics began to appear. Because of this quality-- a quality that can sometimes hide amongst the rest-- I would not have discovered by passion for my desired major. During my time in community college‚ I have
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How Athletics Shift The Focus Away From Learning Contrary to what most people think‚ athletics shifts the focus away from learning. Sports require and focus on a lot‚ such as dedication‚ practice‚ critical thinking‚ time‚ effort‚ confidence/responsibility‚ and commitment to a goal. When practicing for a sport athletes should mentally be ready to train‚ listen to their coach’s instructions and apply them instead of just going through the motions. Effort is a big part of dedication which determines
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“The winner of the Tom & Eddie’s burger challenge was…The Krunch Burger!” A smile slowly expanded on my face‚ and as I looked around the classroom. All of us had huge‚ goofy grins‚ and we had every right to look this way. Our burger had just won in a competition against five other Introduction to Business classes. As a reward‚ not only did we get to stay on the menu‚ but the experience from obtaining the prize was irreplaceable. The surveying‚ advertising‚ and networking we had to execute for this
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