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    A man seen naked is considered a taboo. The world has grown the culture of covering oneself through the times of stone age where a piece of leave so did the task to the present times of most fashionable jeans to still unfashionable cotton clothes. With the development activities rising with every second‚ alongside the fashion doesn’t stand second to it if not first. Covering of just the major parts with fetish designs to wearing just to the price of the clothes that wouldn’t even be worth its size

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    Most students applying to college are at the age where they question their existence and identity. Commonly they ask themselves who am I? why am I here? what’s my goal in life? They begin to form their identity which is the mold for the rest of their lives. Erik Erikson a famous developmental psychologist‚ explains this in his psychosocial stages “Identity versus Role Confusion”. The process of developing an identity for yourself and finding a purpose in life is scary but exhilarating. Ever

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    Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” considers the best way to achieve happiness. In every human action‚ the individual intends for it to end in some type of good‚ with most of these activities being means to a higher end. Aristotle addresses two types of goods‚ those of which are subordinate and those of which result in higher ends. Subordinate ends may only be means to higher ends‚ such as human activity which brings about pleasures‚ whereas‚ higher goods are goods that are ends in themselves. The

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    Prior to reading Flowers for Algernon‚ I agreed with the statement that the smarter a person is‚ the happier he or she is. I believed that intelligence held a calming peace of mind in a person and somehow knowing everything made a person happier. After reading Flowers for Algernon‚ I realized this is not necessary true. We see the theme of intelligence trying to create happiness in the beginning of the novel. Charlie believed that if he became smart then everyone would want to be his friend and

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    According to Aristotle‚ in order to pursue virtue we must learn to both feel and act correctly. Being a virtuous person entails being affected by pleasure and pain. In book II of “Nicomachean Ethics”‚ Aristotle begins by explaining how virtuous actions are acquired by habit. He writes‚ “Rather‚ we are by nature able to acquire them‚ and we are completed through habit” (Aristotle 18). Essentially‚ Aristotle is saying that we acquire habits as we acquire skills. Virtues are acquired through habituation

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    not want it to be a long‚ boring‚ and uneventful lecture. But to my surprise it was not! To quickly sum up which lecture I went to‚ it was in Smith Hall by Dr. James Peterson talking about “Human Gene Editing Now: The National Academy of Science’s Pursuit of What We Should Do.” Dr. James Peterson first began to talk about nature and how God admired nature. He asked us if our we had a garden would be not improve and restore it. Dr. James Peterson then compared the garden to our bodies. He again said

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    In the article “Life‚ Liberty and the Pursuit of Cheap Stuff” written by Gary Hamel he puts forward a plan to make a change in America. The plan will either make a drastic change or won’t make a change at all. In my opinion I completely agree with Gary Hamel‚ we define our lives by how much stuff we have‚ to a large degree our personal and business relationships are defined by how much money we make. There seems to be no limit to the ridiculous expenditure‚ especially when people are actually willing

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    When asked in class every year which subject I admired the most‚ my answer was always “none”. Although the grades in my core curriculum classes were always excellent‚ I never found interest in the basic subjects. Math was a bunch of numbers with letters‚ science just reviewed our bodies and the how the world was believed to be through one scientist theories and history repeated itself‚ constantly. As a freshman‚ I contemplated tremendously over what major and career I would pursue for the rest of

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    The wound smarted for a long time. Siddhartha took many travelers across the river who  had a son or a daughter with them‚ and he could not see any of them without envying them‚  without thinking: So many people possess this very great happiness ­­ why not I?   Over time‚ Siddhartha became weary. Constantly taking travelers across the river was no  longer appealing to him.   He reflected on his life and felt something missing. Others‚ the  child­people of the villages he had visited in his youth

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    Therefore‚ the education‚ that was supposed to help them move upward in the social ladder‚ failed them because of the lack of funding needed to buy the essential tools of learning. On the other hand‚ African Americans faced many challenges in their pursuit of education that many whites living in poverty did not have to experience. In schools‚ in the rural north‚ “there were sometimes as many different textbooks in use in a school as

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