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    FERNANDO PAMPANGA City of San Fernando (P) ONLINE ORDERING OF CASKETS FOR ST. THOMAS FUNERAL SERVICE Jellie S. Garcia Nancy M. Salvador March 2013 A Capstone Project presented to the City College of San Fernando Pampanga in partial fulfillment of the Degree in Bachelor of Science in Information Technology ADVISER’S RECOMMENDATION The Capstone Project entitled Online Ordering of Caskets for St. Thomas Funeral Service was reviewed and assessed as compliant to the requirements

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    St. Augustine ’s Confessions: The Connection between Character and Evil Saint Augustine ’s powerful prayer to God tells the story of his struggles that led towards his conversion to Christianity. This journey toward Christ was difficult for Augustine‚ as it required him to overcome his misunderstanding of evil and his own sin. In Augustine ’s adolescents‚ a strong desire for lust overtook his life‚ not only hurting him spiritually‚ but also hurting the one woman who supported his conversion‚ his

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    Theology of Suffering: A Contrast To suffer means to submit or be forced to endure (something unpleasant); to endure death‚ pain‚ or distress. It is known to happen to everyone‚ that it is a part of this world that we live in and essentially‚ there is no escaping it. Looking at it through a scientific lens‚ the second law of thermodynamics helps with the definition. That the whole world is in a slow downward spiral into death and that is inescapable. Just the thought of this for some people

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    The argument presented by St. Thomas Aquinas is superior to the argument presented by Ghandi because it is consistent with and in accordance to what know to be truths concerning justice. But before we discuss the merits of the arguments‚ it is important to state why murder is wrong and why killing is not wrong. Based on the most undeniably objective moral truths‚ all human beings have natural rights or natural entitlements‚ or natural abilities inherent in their nature‚ regardless of the existence

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    Marlo Thomas Specific Purpose Statement: To inform the audience about Marlo Thomas and her involvement with St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Thesis: Marlo Thomas has influenced the world by keeping her fathers hospital running and helping cure children’s illnesses at no cost to them. Introduction “Give thanks for the healthy children in your life and give to those who aren’t.” this is the slogan for the Thanks and Giving campaign created to raise money for the St. Jude Children’s Hospital by Marlo

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    Aquinas’ Fifth Way Aquinas’ fifth way deals with things that lack cognition‚ and the ends these things function for. Thomas states: “For we some things that lack cognition‚ viz. natural bodies [i.e. the elemental bodies]‚ function for an end. This is evident from the fact that they always or very frequently function in the same way and end up resulting in what is best” (Aquinas 105). Aquinas goes on to make two claims: the first discusses God and his insurance that good things can and will come from

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    evaluate The Problem of Evil: Against the Existence of God. I believe that the following argument is unsound because there is a premise missing. If the addition of this premise was present‚ I believe that the structure of the argument from premise 3 and down would change. This change would allow the argument to be both valid and sound. I feel as though it is missing the point where humans were given free will. In doing so‚ humans would be allowed to choose between doing good or doing evil. Therefore

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    Richard Swinburne’s "The Problem of Evil": God’s Existence Philosophers have looked for ways to explain God’s existence for centuries. One such argment that the believer must justify in order to maintain the possibility of God’s existence is the problem of evil. In his essay‚ "The Problem of Evil‚" by Richard Swinburne‚ the author attempts to explain how evil can exist in a world created by an omniscient‚ omnipotent‚ omnibenevolent Being‚ namely God. Swinburne uses to free-will defense and

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    question of the existence of evil in the world with their differing yet equally intellectual theodicy’s. Leibniz attacks the problem of evil with the concept of our world being the best possible world that God could create. Plantinga explains the hardships in the world with a free will theodicy‚ in which the world exists in its manner due to the free will of humanity. I argue that while each theodicy brings up a pertinent view to assess the issue‚ none solve the problem of why evil exists in a world with

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    Essay #1: Aquinas’ 3rd Way: Aquinas’ third way argument states that there has to be something that must exist‚ which is most likely God. He starts his argument by saying not everything must exist‚ because things are born and die every single day. By stating this we can jump to the conclusion that if everything need not exist then there would have been a time where there was nothing. But‚ he goes on‚ if there was a time when there was nothing‚ then nothing would exist even today‚ because something

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