Stephen Henriquez Mr. Nelson IB TOK 01/24/10 When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Our senses should be trusted in certain circumstances. Our senses can only provide us with raw information‚ but in order to gain knowledge and understanding of the information we need to implicate other ways of knowing. There is a limitation to trusting your senses because our perception will only go as far as our sense organs will allow us‚ but other ways of knowing such
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your family members who will “win” the lottery next year? As humans‚ we defined ourselves as the most intelligent creatures on the Earth. Full of knowledge and understanding‚ we seem to use the moral code at every step we make. But‚ unfortunately‚ among our society‚ there is one thing that seems to be an exact contrary of ethics. I think you all know what part of heritage I am talking about - the lottery tradition. Therefore we‚ the members of Better Future Organisation‚ believe that giving it up
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“A Rose for Emily” is an appealing story not only because of its complex chronology‚ but also because of its unique narrative point of view. Most people think that the narrator‚ who uses “we” as though speaking for the entire town‚ to be young‚ impressionable‚ and male; however‚ after re-reading the story several times‚ you realize that the narrator is not young and is never identified as being either male or female. The character of the narrator is better understood by examining the tone of the
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Emily Macal Narrative Essay 1 "We Lie Loudest When We Lie to Ouselves" We all know liars. The majority of us even become liars from time to time. Some people will tell a fib for just about anything. Maybe its to get themselves out of trouble‚ possibly to spare someone else hurt feelings‚ or simply because that is what one is used to doing. Unfortunately‚ I’ve told a lie to my parents and it didn’t turned out to not be such a good idea. I ended up with all my stuff being taken away‚ dealt with
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When Should We Trust Our Senses to Give Us the Truth? Sight‚ smell‚ sound‚ taste‚ and touch make up the five senses that we have all become very familiar with. We have been able to depend on your senses for years. The question I pose is; when can we trust our senses to give us the truth? An account of what “true” means does not have to tell us what is true‚ nor tell us how we could find out what is true‚ therefore we must wonder if our senses can give us the truth. It is first important to
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information-processing approach whereby: Information is examined from the outside world is received and encoded storage and representation of this information to ourselves ways in which this information is manipulated and used by the individual and how we output information back into the world to be received by others. Many cognitive psychologists have used the computer analogy‚ where they have conceived the human mind as being similar to a computer‚ in that both can be seen as information processors
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The topic of my paper is whether we should keep the Olympics or should not keep the Olympics.I think that we should keep the Olympics. I believe we should keep the Olympics because it is a fantastic way for the best athletes in the world to show what they can do. Also‚ it is a good way to keep athletes healthy. People are saying we should not keep the Olympics because the Olympics do not have all the sports. Yes they do not have all sports‚ but the Olympics keep growing so they could add the sports
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forbid all forms of active euthanasia and most forms of passive euthanasia. This is because any act that intentionally brings about death is considered murder also euthanasia is not permitted due to your life being a gift from God and only God decides when your death comes‚ the sanctity of life. Ordinary treatments such as food and water must continue but extraordinary treatments such as complicated operations can be withdrawn. Although Roman Catholics do not allow euthanasia‚ they permit hospices
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Genetic Engineering: Should we or Shouldn’t we? Genetic engineering is a process in which scientists transfer genes from one species to another totally unrelated species. Usually this is done in order to get one organism to produce proteins‚ which it would not naturally produce. The genes taken from one species‚ which code for a particular protein‚ are put into cells of another species‚ using a vector. This can result in the cells producing the desired protein. It is used for producing proteins
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We Can‚ But Should We? Chamberlain College of Nursing NR361 Information Systems in Healthcare Kathleen Fabian‚ Professor Fall B 2010 Radio frequency identification‚ also known as RFID‚ is a breakthrough in technology and could just be the next big step in surveillance. Yet‚ how far is one willing to go to be sure that all of their past history is accurate? This sounds a little like George Orwell’s 1984; a chip inserted into one’s skin‚ embedded with data that can be transferred to a reading
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