General Purpose Statement: To Persuade. Specific Purpose Statement: At the end of my speech‚ the audience will realize the importance of getting a flu shot. I Introduction A. 3000-49000 is the number of people per year that have died over the past 30 years from influenza according to the CDC. It started out low but keeps increasing in numbers each year. The percentage of U.S. population that gets the flu each year is on average around 20%. Over 200‚000 people are hospitalized each year due
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In the Sixth Meditation‚ Descartes makes a point that there is a distinction between mind and body. It is in Meditation Two when Descartes believes he has shown the mind to be better known than the body. In Meditation Six‚ however‚ he goes on to claim that‚ as he knows his mind and knows clearly and distinctly that its essence consists purely of thought. Also‚ that bodies’ essences consist purely of extension‚ and that he can conceive of his mind and body as existing separately. By the power of
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Paper #1 September 29‚ 2014 In his meditations‚ Descartes often references a “deceiver” that possess both supreme power and malicious intent. This deceiver uses its powers to deceive Descartes with a false reality‚ forcing him to question everything and take no sensory information as accurate unless said information can be logically proven correct. Of course‚ the malicious deceiver is not real‚ and Descartes does not actually believe it is. In his meditations‚ Descartes is seeking to develop a new
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Brandy Holloway Ms. Dee Speech Animal Laws Should Be More Strict Many people may not know that animal cruelty has been around for hundreds of years. . In the article "Animal Cruelty Prosecution" published by American Prosecution Research Institute found that‚ The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established “The Body of Liberties” found by the Animal Cruelty Prosecution‚ in 1641. The Body of Liberties was a document written for the protection of animals from unnecessary pain and suffering
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No Man is an Island (Page 490 Question 5) In the poem Meditation 17‚ by John Donne‚ is describes death and new beginnings. Writers in Donne’s day often depended on the support of Patrons‚ wealthy supporters of the arts. The young Donne did not publish his poems‚ most of them were printed only after his death. Instead‚ they were circulated among a select literary audience that included Patrons such as the countess of Bedford. After Donne was dismissed from his position with Sir Thomas Egerton‚ he
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CENTRE FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMMES CENTRE FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMMES CENTRE FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMME 1. Course Outline COURSE CODE: LANG1002 | COURSE NAME: Academic Reading‚ Writing and Research Skills | COURSE LEVEL: Undergraduate | YEAR: 2012-2013 | | | | SEMESTER: II | HOURS PER WEEK: 3 | TOTAL HOURS: 45 | CREDITS: 3 | START DATE: January‚ 2013 | END DATE: April‚ 2013 | PREREQUISITES: Successful completion LANG1001
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Persuasive Essay “Open your books kids”. It’s September and your teacher is getting you ready for your class and she is going to teach you a very important science lesson. Over the summer all you’re thinking about is the beach and getting a tan while all of that information just leaves your head. If there was year round school forget that information they learned at school‚ they would enjoy the breaks more because you can go to different places at different times of the year‚ and many students
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himself Pascal does not think such a proof can succeed. Pascal does a good job in his argument because he takes both sides into account and comes to a reasonable conclusion using mathematics. Overall‚ Pascal’s wager is preferable to Descartes’ meditations because they contain many errors and do not appeal to people outside of Descartes’ own mind or beliefs. Pascal focuses on the question: Should one believe in God? He takes the basic variables and puts them together and weighs the outcomes. The
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One of the popular TM techniques is‚ so called Nature Meditation explained in the very famous book "The Art of Meditation" by Robert Elias Najemy A Nature Meditation You are resting by a silently passing brook in the country side. It is springtime plus everyday life is moist and green? Sitting on a stone‚ the views and sounds of the rushing water start to do the job their mystical technique right into your nerve system. Slowly‚ using the plain repeating of the water’s music and the harmonious
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begins his first meditation by calling all our current beliefs to suspicion. His purpose of this practice was to stripe away all the falsehoods that we have acquired since childhood by the use of our senses. He also wanted to build anew a stable foundation of beliefs that he can be certain are of undeniably truths. In Descartes work he mentions that our senses are not to be trusted‚ for they have deceived us once and surely will deceive us again. As he clearly stated in his meditation‚ “All that up
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