TEACHING PHYLOSOPHY STEPHEN OBENG (4121190019) OBUASI METHODIST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ‘Skill acquisition is the foundation of learning and an indispensable component of universal education’ It is my desire as a teacher to help my students acquire technical and vocation skills at the early stages of life if he or she is to be useful in their societies. I believe this will be the surest way to achieve universal education considering the different physical and mental abilities of the pupils. Again
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Episode 18: Metamorphic Rocks Read the questions first. Then answer them while watching this episode of "Earth Revealed". The video is available online at http://www.learner.org/vod/video.html?sid=78&po=18 . The index for these programs is online at http://www.learner.org/progdesc/index.html?uid=78 . Each segment is 30 minutes long. 1. What happens during metamorphism? Heat and pressure change the rocks 2. What is a protolith? Original rock that existed before metamorphism 3. What temperature
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Stan Lee Mr. Charles Norris English 101 April 5‚ 2007 Writer’s Checklist for Cause and Effect Essay 1. Have I identified the cause or effect I am analyzing in my thesis? The cause: How fashion is affected by the media and other sources. The effect: How fashion effects a person in today’s society. 2. Have I explained the cause-and-effect relationship convincingly? Throughout the course of the essay I explain how media causes the fads and fashion to change‚ as well as how these changes can
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One thing I will never forget in my Life is the miles I walked to School. I can still remember those muddy and dusty roads I walked just to get to School. Sometimes I have to Stay all day without food and water not just because I wasn’t hungry or thirsty but because my parents had no money to buy them. I did not only walk to school but I did walk without shoes or slippers on. Walking was very normal because we had no cars. There was absolutely no means of transportation. I was just 4 years old when
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The principle of proportionality – that penalties should be proportionate to the severity of the defendant’s criminal conduct seems to be a basic requirement of fairness. However‚ the last two decades have witnessed continuing debate over the rationales for punishing convicted offenders (Hirsch‚ 1992). Whilst retributivist views punishment as ethnical principles‚ which are morally justified because it is deserved and it is inherently right that the guilty suffer for their wrongdoings‚ others such
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In the Analects‚ ren could refer to one desirable quality among others (14.28) but often also the all encompassing ethical ideal (14.4). In the latter‚ broader sense‚ it is the defining characteristic of the junzi (4.5)‚ even more important than life (15.9)‚ and “the benevolent person” is sometimes interchangeable with junzi (12.4‚ 14.28). This broad sense of ren can be understood as the moralization of an earlier‚ pre-Confucian usage where the term refers to the quality that makes someone a member
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Charity‚ Moral‚ and the Condition of Our World When it comes to charity‚ morality‚ and concern for one another‚ humans tend to vary drastically on how we feel and act depending on the circumstance and the individual. What makes this issue so complex is the fact that we are naturally set to want to help one another and be kind (in most cases) while at the same time being naturally focused on the survival and wellbeing of ourselves and loved ones over most other things. These natural settings‚ of
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Cydnee Nichols Bryant & Stratton College PHIL250JR2: Practices Reasoning & Thinking V. Thomas April 20‚ 2013 In today’s world‚ there should be more stringent limits on driving ages‚ regardless of age. Technology has impacted our teenage drivers immensely. There have been so many stories about teens that are texting while driving and end up seriously injured or dead from the lack of attention to the road. Sixteen year olds in this day and age are far less responsible when it comes to
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I strongly believe that W.T. Stace is correct while arguing for the view of soft determinism‚ also known as compatibilism. Stace believes in compatibilism‚ which states that determinism is true‚ but free will still does exist. He puts both views together by studying the definition of free will. Stace asks‚ “How can anyone be punished or rewarded for his or her actions if they have no control over their actions?” That statement seemed extremely convincing to me because both d’Holbach and Chisholm
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Individual: single; separate. Existentialism: a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. Consequentialism: the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences. Nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles‚ often in the belief that life is meaningless. Absurdity: the quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable
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