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    some people end up sacrificing all they have for the wrong things they value. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the author gave his audience an insight on what it looks like for a person to give up his or her responsibilities in the quest to find passion. Blanche‚ Williams’‚ the main protagonist in this play‚ gave up absolutely everything for passion and desire. She also had no choice but to deal with internal and external conflicts as consequences for her bad decision-making

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    What Makes Us Human

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    Vincent Boisvert Science and History Essay Assignment What Makes Us Human? Submitted to Mrs. Heidi Quinsey Champlain College of St-Lambert Due on Tuesday‚ April 30th‚ 2013 What makes us Human? Living in our modern education system and capitalist society‚ can leave me wondering whether the differences between human beings and animals are simply a matter of degree and diplomas. In this view‚ I fear that mankind would come to forget its purpose to live. Luckily‚ philosophers have

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    GOD I HAVE GREAT PLEASURE IN THIS WONDERFUL EVENING IN WELCOMING OUR CHIEF GUEST MR. OR MRS........ WHO HAS KINDLY CONSENTED TO BE THE CHEIF GUEST OF OUR ANNUAL DAY ‚AND ALSO REALLY HAPPY TO WELCOME OTHER DISTINGUISHED GUESTS WHO ALSO CONSENTED AMIDST THEIR TIGHT SCHEDULE TO SHARE EVERY MOVEMENTS OF THIS WONDERFUL FUNCTION WITH US ‚AND ALSO WELCOME OUR CORRESPONDENT‚ ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ‚ PRINCIPAL‚ TEACHING AND NON TEACHING STAFF. IN TODAY’S CELEBRATION OUR MAIN HEROES ARE OUR STUDNETS SO WELCOMING

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    between physical and attitudinal pleasure is that one is something that you can hold and grab‚ while the other is something that is in your mind. To expand‚ physical pleasure is a temporary thing. For an example: Eating key lime pie. Eating this specific pie for some people give them pleasure because it tastes good; however‚ when the consumption is complete‚ the taste eventually goes away along with the pleasure. On the other hand‚ attitudinal‚ or psychological pleasure‚ is a perpetual kind of happiness

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    The Pleasure Scale Final

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    Habbestad English 104 2 December 2013 The Pleasure Scale As we go through life we will experience different events that will help shape the scales that we use in life. Biss talks about how pain is our own experience and no one else can feel the same intensity of pain that we feel at any given point in the day. I believe that it can also be turned around no one can feel the same type of pleasure that I feel. There is no way that I can write a scale of pleasure that fits every person that is on the earth;

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    The Pursuit of Perfection

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    The Pursuit of Perfection Perfection is a much glorious quality‚ yet is completely unattainable. The desire for perfection stems from a desire to be happy‚ to live in an ideal existence and complete. And it could be imagined‚ disguised‚ poorly emulated‚ and foolishly impersonated. It’s because we do not have a distinct notion of what perfection truly is‚ and when a person attempts to be ’perfect’‚ they are usually transforming into seemingly perfect to their own perception. And‚ one will never

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    The pursuit of excellence 1) Socrates did not write "Apology". Socrates did not actually write anything‚ It was his friend Plato that wrote and documented Socrates’s speeches and dialogs. The "Apology" supposes to be an accurate account by Plato of Socrates’s trial before the Athenian jury in 399BCE. The trial began with the prosecutors presenting their case against Socrates before the Athenian jury. In this trial Meletus‚ the prosecutor‚ argued that Socrates was guilty of corrupting the youth

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    Happiness is one of the most fundamental things we pursue during our life‚ but we‚ sometimes‚ may find it difficult in making a decision whether to make others happy or to find our own pleasure. From my perspective‚ I believe that to do things to fulfill other people’s happiness is of greater importance than to satisfy ourselves. To begin with‚ we are living in an interrelated world‚ in which every living thing has strong connection with each other. Thus hardly can an individual survive without

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    I believe that Chris Hedges book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is spot on how war affects a person and a society. Chris Hedges believes that war is negative and that it degrades the ones who participate in it. War changes the people that fight in it and just like a drug war becomes an addiction‚ once you get a taste of it is hard to stop. War brings out the nationalism of those who fight in it and at the core of nationalism is racism. How People Change People change during war‚ and not

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    Which of our faculties do you think is more reliable - reason or perception? Give reasons. There are four ways of knowing. Reason is the way we obtain knowledge by means of our justifications and perception is the way we obtain knowledge by means of our experiences. People take different views on which one of our faculties is more reliable between reason and perception. As far as I am concerned‚ I would like to prefer reason tend to be more trustworthy. Two thirds of what we see is

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