following I will commit myself to the above-mentioned question by firstly reconstructing Anselm´s proof of God´s existence and secondly considering his position in the light of the critique put forward by Gaunilo‚ Aquinas and Kant. St. Anselm (1033-1109) was an Italian philosopher and monk who later left his country to become Archbishop of Canterbury. As Anselm firmly believed in God‚ he wanted to prove God´s existence through use of logic and reason and thus set out to demonstrate it in his most popular
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Recco Smith Dec 15‚ 2014 PT 1420 Introduction to Programming Unit 1 Home work Research assignment Exploring Programming Languages Homework page 26 review questions 1-7 1. Why is the CPU the most important component in a computer? Without the CPU the computer could not run any software. 2. What number does a bit that is turned on represent? A bit turned on represent 1. What number does a bit that is turned off represent? A bit that is off represent 0. 3. What would you call a device
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Huff ENG 206 Feb 5‚ 2013 Not Waving but Drowning People may not always be exactly what they seem on the outside just as a poem may have a deeper meaning than the story that is just on the surface. The poem Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith is a great example of this. The author does a very good job at relating the death of a man by drowning and the reaction it causes in others to the deeper story of how the man is symbolically calling out to others who never come to help him get his
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In the 1500’s and 1600’s‚ some startling discoveries radically changed the way Europeans viewed how and why things happened in the physical world. Three scientists who contributed to these changed were Nicolaus Copernicus‚ Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. These scientist changed some beliefs of which many had been believed for all of time. For almost all of time‚ the geocentric theory was believed to be true. This theory suggested that all planets revolved around the Earth. In 1543‚ Polish scholar
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is the story of an honest man‚ Jeff Smith‚ who is appointed to the senate when a senator from his state dies. Jeff is honest‚ patriotic‚ and nave. He soon learns that Washington is a dirty place where graft is the golden rule‚ and congressmen take orders from greedy money-men. Jeff tries to keep his integrity‚ but soon he is framed by the richest man in his state‚ Taylor. Jeff fights Taylor on the floor of the senate until he is triumphant. One theme that is clearly
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The Supreme Court case of Smith V Cain was an unusual one in which the defendant was claiming that many of his rights were being denied and he was given unfair trial. Smith was being prosecuted for the murder of 5 people in a Louisiana home. The only eye witness was an actual survivor of the shooting whose name was Burl Cain. Cain claimed that Juan Smith was one of the gunmen who murdered 5 innocent people in a Louisiana home. The court case climbed its way from the lower courts due to a writ of
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Innovative. From a young age he was groomed for the military. He rose through the ranks of the Army‚ and became one of the most elite generals of the 20th century. His innovation and tactics still influence the battlefield to this day. George Smith Patton JR. was born on November 11‚ 1885‚ in San Gabriel‚ California. Both his father and grandfather graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Patton’s grandfather was a personal student of the legendary Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall”
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Red Smith: More than Just a Sportswriter There is truly no person that has ever deserved to be called a writer more than Red Smith. As a man who loved and believed in the art of writing‚ he once stated‚ “All you do is sit down and open a vein and bleed it out drop by drop” (Schmuhl xx). Even more‚ he was a hardworking and dedicated man that put his all into each piece of literature‚ despite the constant and restraining deadlines placed on him. His dedication was never more evident than when he
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CASE: ACER‚ INC.: TAIWAN ‘S RAMPAGING DRAGON In comparison to Stan Shih‚ Leonard Liu was a Taiwan-born‚ US based senior IBM executive “with a reputation for a no-nonsense professional management style”. On the other hand‚ Stan Shih had a more frugal approach to management and delegated a decision making responsibilities to his employees to harness “the natural entrepreneurial spirit of the Taiwanese. Shih believed in a “hands off” style of management‚ bias for delegation and an informal manner
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ORTHOPEDIC CONSULTATION Patient Name: Ramsey S. Cotron Patient ID: 023672 DOB: 03/15/---- Age: 2 Sex: Male Consultant: Jessie D. Smith‚ MD‚ Orthopedics Requesting Physician: Reed Phillips‚ MD‚ Pediatrics Date of Consult: 10/01/---- Reason for Consult: Infected Finger. HISTORY: Ramsey is an otherwise healthy 2-year-old Lebanese child who had an injury to the distal failing of his right middle finger the day prior to being seen. The patient is left-hand dominant
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