their understanding of God’s free ability to do other than what he chooses to do. Leibniz allows that God could have done otherwise‚ but only in a logical sense of possibility‚ because God‚ by his goodness and wisdom‚ would always choose the best possible world. Aquinas wisely disagrees with this and asserts that God‚ in order to be a first principle‚ must not have his actions determined necessarily. There has to be real potential‚ not just logical potential. Aquinas’s approach is ultimately far more
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A Talk on World Environment Day Good morning to our beloved principal ‚ Mr Yap Chong Guan ‚ dear teachers and students of Chung Hua Middle School No.1 . Thank you for giving me this opportunity to say a few words on this auspicious day. I would like to focus on the importance of rainforests and why we must save them. We all know that Malaysia has the oldest rainforest in the world ‚ but do we really understand what rainforests do? Rainforests safeguard our existence
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World War Z is a film that was released in 2013 and is based on an outbreak of a lethal disease causing humans to turn into vicious‚ feral carnivores. The star of the film‚ Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt)‚ embarks on a worldwide search to find a cure and halt the spread of this infection. In the opening of World War Z‚ an average American family is distressed by alarming news of an unknown lethal contagion that is rapidly spreading across the world. In only a couple days‚ the outbreak has traveled to their
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seen the pain and misery of the world but still choose to work in their garden. In this essay‚ three points that will be looked at will be Pangloss and his philosophy not lining up with his actions‚Candide having a narrow mind‚ and Candide’s philosophy not lining up with his actions. The theme of happiness‚ which Voltaire shows by Candide
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Cacambo‚ and Martin are individuals who had a major impact on Candide’s development and perspective of life. Candide is a good-hearted but an extremely naïve young man. His mentor Pangloss teaches him that their world is “the best of all possible worlds.”(Candide‚ 521) Candide travels the world and comes in contact with a variety of misfortunes. He idealizes Pangloss and his teachings‚ and continuously tries to apply these teachings to his life. As he is applying these teachings‚ he suffers from a series
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Minecraft: A World at Your Mercy By If you’re one of those people who quite likes computer games‚ but finds the endless mayhem and slaughter a bit unseemly‚ there is another option: putting imaginary things on top of other imaginary things. There are no scores‚ no obvious goals to aim for‚ no point at which you can punch the air and say that you’ve triumphed; you simply move around a randomly and dynamically generated world‚ collecting objects and building things. All at your leisure. Does that
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How is heroism recognized in the real world? How is the ability to persist and to be brave important to our daily lives? When someone goes through a difficult situation or problem with bravery and perseverance and attempts to come out of the situation making the world a better place‚ it makes them of a heroic nature. Anyone could be apprehensive and give up‚ but it takes a real hero to have courage and press on. Because heroism involves courage and perseverance‚ a hero must be brave and persistent
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Beginnings How The World Was Made Cheerokee‚ Retold by: James Mooney “The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water” Long time ago when everything was all water and suspended at the each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down holding the solid rock. When the earth grows old and dulls it’s strings will snap and the earth will sink down just to be water again. The Indians were afriad of that happening. There was all the animals above in the Gälûñ’lätï‚ the sky realm
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decisions that coincide with the major difference of that world. There may even be a world in which you were your generation’s Einstein‚ or their OJ Simpson. In Candide by Voltaire‚ Dr. Pangloss states that we as a people live in the best of all possible worlds‚ when in fact there are infinite possibilities‚ some better and some worse than our own. In my project‚ I used this theory to illustrate that we do not live in the best or worst world‚ but instead we live in one
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World Bank Abdullah Alshawdhabi Coleman University World Bank The World Bank was created in 1944 at a conference called the Bretton Woods Conference‚ also known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference‚ and it is located in Washington DC along with the International Monetary Fund. These two entities work closely with each other. Two men by the names of Lord Keynes and Harry Dexter are the founding fathers of both of The World Bank and The International Monetary Fund. World Bank
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