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    Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita By Diego Rivera Diego Rivera was born on December 8‚ 1886 in Guanajuato‚ Mexico. His love of art showed early on as he began drawing as a child. Around the age of 10‚ Rivera was able to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. One of his early influences was artist José Posada who ran a print shop near Rivera’s school. In 1907‚ Rivera traveled to Europe to further his art studies. There‚ he became friends with other leading artists

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    From the arguments discussed in class‚ I choose to evaluate Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument. Aquinas offers a believable case for the existence of God through five arguments. The arguments are “a posteriori arguments” with five strategies (Aquinas 52). The first argues that there is an unmoved mover that originated all motion but the mover‚ itself‚ does not move. The second argument concludes: “there must be a first cause to explain the existence of cause” (Aquinas 52). The third argument says

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    The Motionless Arrow: Aristotle’s Thoughts on Zeno’s Arror Argument Aristotle’s thoughts on Zeno’s Arrow Argument as represented in Chapter 9 of Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study can be understood in such a way that it might not be "next door to madness". In this chapter‚ Aristotle interprets Zeno’s argument of the Flying Arrow as "missing the mark". There are four premises for this argument‚ and in Aristotle’s opinion‚ premise three can be rejected. He does not believe that time is composed

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    Finding a good lady groomer is more difficult than choosing a gynocologist. I don’t get weirded out about doctors looking at my in-between because it’s so clinical. Sure‚ your stuff is being prodded by metallic things while a nurse is standing in a corner watching‚ but at least you’re partially covered with a paper gown. My doctor even puts a sheet over my legs and makes a curtain to hide behind like he’s some kind of Wizard of Vag. And that’s great‚ because then I don’t have to see his face and

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    Aquinas’s Argument During the medieval time period Christianity was practiced by over one-third of the European population. At that time‚ all European philosophers had three different types of arguments to prove the existence of God: the Ontological argument‚ which stated that God‚ by nature‚ must exist; the Teleological argument‚ which stated that the world we live in was made by intelligent design. Therefore‚ a designer must exist to be able to make such a perfect world. Lastly‚ there is the

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    Homemade shoe polish is very important especially to the students. As we can see‚ students now are very sensitive with their looks especially in their school. Background of the study A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Shoe polish is a wax material used for shining the shoes‚ boots or any other foot wears. It makes the shoe clean and smooth all day long. Shoe polish is applied on cloth‚ brush‚ or rag. People can make our shoe shine by gently rubbing the cloth with an amount of the shoe

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    she heard the bells ringing for early prayer. She was surprised that she had thus in her sorrow watched through the whole night‚ and lighted her lantern and went to church. It was already lighted up when she arrived‚ but not as it usually was with wax candles‚ but with a dim light. It was also crowded already with people‚ and all the seats were filled; and when the old woman got to her usual place it also was not empty‚ but the whole bench was entirely full. And when she looked at the people‚ they

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    “Explain the argument from religious experience for the existence of God.”30 marks Expect different forms of the argument from religious experience‚ e.g. inductive argument‚ direct awareness‚ cumulative argument. Also expect reference to Swinburne’s principle of credulity and principle of testimony. Maximum Level 2 if summary of types of religious experience with no reference to argument for God. ------------------------------------------------- Level 7 for one fully developed argument‚ or two that

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    The Design Argument Saint Thomas Aquinas was a Catholic Priest in the Dominican Order and a very important medieval philosopher and theologian. He wrote a book‚ SummaTheologiae‚ presenting five proofs of God’s existence. Each of Aquina’s arguments begins with an observation that is supposed to be easily understood by everyone. Aquina’s fifth argument for the existence of God is what has come to be called the Argument from Design. The Design argument is one of three arguments about the

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    Part B. The ontological argument is a convincing argument. Discuss. The ontological argument was first made famous in the 11th century by St Anslem from Canterbury and was later taken further by French philosopher Rene Descartes. The debate is an attempt to confirm God’s existence as a priori argument. It does not rely on observations of the world around us it simply uses logic and the idea that it is illogical to say that God does not exist as its main factor. There are three elements to St

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