Can You Hear Me Now? Essay #1 Raymon Ward July 17‚ 2014 Composition II – Gregory Mccoy “Can you hear me now?” a catch phrase used in a cell phone commercial in which a man roams around with his phone making sure he has a signal. It’s a valid question‚ even in an age where we can communicate in more ways than ever before. It seems as if everyone is more accessible‚ wifi is everywhere‚ and even those who can’t afford to support themselves can have a cell phone. Internet capable technology
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Thursday 1pm The Truth Will Set You Free! Today I will be your guide as we embark on a quest of a lifetime‚ This journey begins First by Presenting a Kantian argument that lying is never permissible. After the presentation of such an argument I will begin to Revise the thesis‚ in the light of some objections by other philosophers ‚ as well as my own personal opinion on this one philosophical argument and how it works. Kant presents two arguments why to never lie‚ First: we could not will a Universal
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Are We Free to Make Our Own Choices? Pre-destination can often bring up the question as to whether we as humans control our own actions. Are we free to make our own choices‚ or is everything we do pre-determined by a supernatural being of some sort? Is it safe to say that we are responsible for our own choices? Do we own a free will that allows us to choose our life path‚ or are our actions pre-determined‚ making our exertions useless? In a society that
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The Truth Cannot Set you Free The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ is a tragic story of injustice suffered by an innocent community who are subjected to the hypocritical‚ prideful judges of their trial. These Judges use their power to eliminate evidence of their mistakes and return their community to puritanical ways. The leaders of Salem are not concerned with seeking the truth and justice‚ but with maintaining their authority and reputations; this objective leads them to consistently
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1. Executives were stupid? It is common to say that the CEO and other executives were stupid. Not likely‚ CEOs and others almost always have great track records in their relevant businesses. Chosen over their peers for being the most able and most competent. Often times come from Ivy League schools and having MBAs and PHDs. Not likely that the executives of failed companies are unintelligent. 2. Executives couldn’t have known what was coming. Even the best executives can be caught off guard by unforeseen
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“It is in serving one another we become free”. – King Arthur (The First Knight) My reaction paper In the movie entitled “The First Knight”‚ there is an inscription carved on the table‚ - “In serving each other we become free”. A Knight literally means a servant or someone who serves a Lord or a King. To make it a better statement it would be “In serving one another we become knights”. Not just a knight who serves but a knight of freedom
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Freshman year I auditioned for my school’s traveling drama group‚ and made the cast for a few plays. One of these plays is called “Bang Bang You’re Dead”‚ and is about Josh- a kid with undiagnosed schizophrenia that combined with his parents inattention leads to him shooting up his school‚ killing 5 people. I’ve now participated in this play for three years and hopefully a fourth‚ should I get in‚ and through the years I’ve matured and gotten more understanding of topics such as school violence
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Do we have a Free Will? The brain is a powerful‚ mystical part of every living being. It controls what we think‚ what we do‚ and how we act. Every day we are faced with decisions. As a human being‚ we are given the intelligence and brain to make conscious decisions‚ whether they are good decisions or bad decisions. We have the free will to make them‚ but is our decision truly conscious? There are many things that influence or determine our behavior. The brain works in magical ways‚ sometimes with
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------------------------------------------------- State of matter From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia States of matter in physics are the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid‚ liquid‚ gas‚ and plasma. Further states are possible but do not naturally occur in our environment: Bose–Einstein condensates‚ neutron stars. Other states‚ such as quark-gluon plasmas‚ are believed to be possible. For a complete list of all
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Summarization I Not Stupid Too is a story about the struggle of sibling‚ Tom and Jerry and their friend Chengchai with their conflicts involving adults around them. Tom and Jerry lived with their parents‚ grandmother and a maid. Even though they are wealthy and brought up well but as their parent is working and always busy with work they seldom spend time with their kids and just communicate through a note on the fridge. if the parent had a chance to meet them‚ only to nag them about their studies
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