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    What Saves Us and The Way of Tet by Bruce Weigl are two poems that find the small pockets of beauty in war amidst all of its’ ugliness and elaborates on that beauty with Weigl’s powerful and eye opening writing techniques. Weigl writes with painstaking care and every syllable‚ adjective‚ and break is surgically placed here and there to evoke specific emotions from the reader. Bruce Weigl approach to writing is captivating and pure. In the first poem What Saves Us Weigl writes about a young man who

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    What makes a good statement (or claim)? Jose Leon HUMN 210 Professor Miriam Abbott February 24th‚ 2013 1. You are given the following ten short claims to analyze. Identify which ones are good or bad statements. If they are bad statements‚ indicate why. a. Nobody in the world today is really good. b. The world is not flat. c. I will need an extended period of laborious cogitation to assimilate the missive. d. The number 2 is

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    Natalie PHI 112 Reflection Paper “The human dignity of all individuals must be respected at all times. Everything possible must be done‚ without any kind of discrimination‚ to reduce the suffering of people who have been put out of action by sickness‚ wounds or captivity whether or not they have taken direct part in the conflict.” (Geneva Convention) War has impacted many societies as long as societies have been formed and many civilians have died in time of war. The Geneva conventions were

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    takes to get the problem or challenge done‚ it makes them much more heroic. A hero needs to be a selfless risk-taker. A hero affects a person’s life. A hero doesn’t always have to wear a cape. For example‚ firefighters extinguish dangerous fires every day. Some of them even die‚ but they do it to protect the world. Parents can’t satisfy their children all the time but they always end up being our heroes because they work to buy their children what they need like food and clothes. A hero is

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    What is Philosophy? Philosophy often appears to be one long debate regarding what it means to be humanwhat it even means to be. Does an individual become human or is that individual only that individual? How does being differ from to be? The fundamental capacity to understand the world outside the world of the individual and his or her internal world includes the ability to interpret‚ characterize‚ and associate what seems to be singular things or‚ at least‚ singular groups of things. Understanding

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    Lovie M. Aguilar Section 39390 April 05‚ 2012 Mojave Desert‚ what makes it unique? The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of Southern California and parts of Utah‚ Nevada‚ and Arizona. Named after the Mohave Native Americans[->0] it occupies roughly 54‚000 square miles in a typical Basin and Range topography. The Mojave Desert is bound in part on the western end by the Tehachapi[->1] together with the San Gabriel[->2] and San Bernardino[->3] mountain ranges. The mountain boundaries

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    differences that distinguish the animal man from animals. He asserts that man has reached a level far beyond what animals can ever attain. Mutahhari believes that the extent and breadth of man’s awareness is what grants him a special virtue - separating and raising him above other animals. To illustrate this he compares awareness and desire in man and animals‚ then moves on to what makes man distinctive and then concludes with the relationship between humanity and animality. In his comparison on

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    Kant-No Duties to Animals Animals have been around for just as long as humans have and some believe that neither one is above the other. In Kant’s essay “No Duties to Animals” he argues that humans have first and foremost a duty to anyone from their same “membership”. All humans belong to the human race membership and in no way may abdicate the position. And so a human must enforce direct duties towards other humans and only indirect duties towards animals. However‚ he states that all members

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    hand‚ social media argues that it has brought people together because it lets you talk to whoever you want whenever you want all around the world. On the other hand‚ social media brings us apart because it is not letting you talk to someone face to face‚ therefore they might be lying about who they are. Also‚ it makes common day relationships more stressful than they have to be. Others even maintain that social media is unnecessary . My own view is that social media is nothing but bad news. Teens are

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    story of Gilgamesh starts with Gilgamesh demonstrating many attributes that make him an immoral ruler. He is an unstable combination of two thirds man god and one third human. He is abundant in flaws and virtues‚ he the fiercest of warriors‚ and the greatest of builders. He exhausts his subjects through ceaseless battles and forced labor. He rapes whatever woman he desires with no respect for her social standing. He takes what he desires by indulging his appetites through haphazard uses of power. Here

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