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Descriptive Essay About Tattoos
My heart was racing. I had put my headphones in to drown out the buzzing sound and to help me
stay calm. Breathe. "Done." he said. I sat up slowly taking my headphones out and started inspecting
my arm as I walked to the mirror. It was perfect. He wrapped my arm in a plastic wrap, I could see
some blood under the plastic wrap, not a lot, but enough to make me nauseous. I sat down, the
adrenaline wearing off. My mom was up next. I felt like all the life had drained out of me, I was
exhausted. I did it. I had gotten my first tattoos. Most people don't know about my tattoos. I just tend
to have my tattoos covered, not because they're anything to hide or in places I couldn't show them
off. In fact I love to show them off, I'm just a freeze baby and tend to wear hoodies all the time.
I have drawn on myself all my life. When I was a toddler I'd draw lines on my legs with pens. When
I was about fifteen I'd designed myself several tattoos and would draw them on myself regularly
with a sharpie. I am so glad I didn't get any of them, they were really stupid. The idea of committing
to a permanent mark on my body was terrifying but it was something I'd always wanted. The day I
made that commitment was the most meaningful day of my life.
The only one I got that I knew I'd always wanted was my dot. If you asked my friends they'll tell
you my dot doesn't count as a tattoo but I think since it has meaning it counts more than anything.
You've more than likely seen it and had no idea it was
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The History of the Cosmological Argument for the...
Early elements of the Cosmological Argument were developed by the world renowned philosophers
Plato and Aristotle between the years 400 and 200 BC (Boeree). Medieval philosopher Saint
Thomas Aquinas expanded upon their ideas in the late 13th Century when he wrote, "The Five
Ways." Since then the Cosmological Argument has become one of the most widely accepted and
criticized arguments for the existence of God. My objective in this paper is to explain why the
Cosmological Argument is a reasonable argument for the existence of God, the importance of
understanding that it is an inductive a posteriori argument, and defend my position against common
opposing arguments. To begin, as living human beings on the planet earth we can ... Show more
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This means that he relies only on himself to exist. On the other hand humans and all other natural
things in the Universe are considered contingent. An impossibility would be created if this was not
the case because a non–contingent contingent would be created which is contradictory and not
logical (Thompson, 1955, pp. 345–346). Contrary to Saint Thomas, Theodore Schick Jr. argues in,
"The 'Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God," which is included in our text God, that not all
things are caused. He points out that research in the area of quantum electrodynamics reveals,
"...That an electron, positron, and photon occasionally emerge spontaneously in a perfect vacuum.
When this happens, the three particles exist for a brief time, and then annihilate each other, leaving
no trace behind" (God, 153). Schick's argument against Saint Thomas argues is that since research
has found evidence that–for a fraction of a millisecond–an electron, positron, and photon seem to
appear on their own makes something in existence non–contingent. This effectively debunks Saint
Thomas' nearly 750 year old argument that all things in nature have a cause, right? Not necessarily.
While this finding of modern scientific research cannot yet be refuted or overlooked, inductive
experience still strongly supports the causal premise. Evidence of a cause behind all natural things
still
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The Beginnings of Greek Philosophy Essay
The Beginnings of Greek Philosophy
The Milesians and Heraclitus
Long before the time of Thales, a citizen of Miletus, in the district of Ionia on the west coast of Asia
Minor, Chaldaen astrologers had listed data on the position of the stars and planets. As Thales
studied these tables he thought he discerned a pattern or regularity in the occurrence of eclipses, and
he ventured to predict a solar eclipse that occurred on May 28th 585BC. Some scholars think that
this was just a lucky empirical guess, but if it was the discovery of an astronomical regularity or
natural law, then Thales may be credited with distinguishing Greek philosophy and science from the
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Since, too, a general theory must attempt to explain biological phenomena as well as physics and
astronomy, another reason for selecting water may have been its indepensibility to life. And a little
ingenuity can invent other considerations. But Anaximander (610–545?BC), Thales' successor, in
additions to specific contributions to science, saw a difficulty in Thales' general cosmology. If water
were he basic substance, he thought, fire could never have come into existence, for there is an
essential antagonism between their peculiar qualities. For the same reason, if the substratum were
fire, the existence of fire could not be explained.. Therefore, Anaximander assumed a Boundless that
was neither wet or dry, hot or cold, but rather indeterminately both wet and dry, cold and hot. Thus,
the matter of the universe was Boundless, not merely because it extended throughout infinite space,
but also, and mainly, because it was not bounded, limited, or defined by any quality. This original
substance produces the world and its content by a swirling motion that separates four qualities out of
the chaotic mass. This swirl explains the revolution of the starts and planets.
The third member of the Milesian school, Anaximenes (590–525BC) could not be persuaded to look
for the universal substratum beyond the
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Foster Care And Adoption Is More Common Than Not
Children roam around in schools, at work, on the playground, in the malls, and anywhere else a
child would like to be. Young children are often accompanied by an adult, of which one would
assume to be their parents or primary caregivers.In 2007 forty–eight million americans had
considered adoption. Foster care has a goal, it is to help children in need be safe for the time being
and try to reunited these children with their biological parents. Believe it or not foster care and
adoption is more common than not. Many myths go around making children dread the system when
in all reality the system is a support system there to help those children in need. Once the child is in
a placement with a foster family, their ultimate goal is to provide the child in a safe, loving,
nurturing environment until then can be reunified with their parents. These children get use to their
foster family, some even grow rather fond of them and are attached, is it right to take away the only
family they have ever really truly known? This can cause emotional arousal and distress on the child
and the foster family.
There are many people in the world who for some reason do have have the ability to have children.
This does not mean they should not be a parent or that they cannot be a parent. Many of these
families consider being foster parents or even adopting children so they can experience parenthood.
Not everyone is meant to be a foster parents, although it is relatively easy to become a foster
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Levinas vis-à-vis the Other Essay
Levinas vis–à–vis the Other
Philosophy, arising from its Greek tradition of a "love of wisdom", seeks to critically examine those
questions most fundamental to humankind; it is concerned with essential concepts (or rather,
questions) of being (metaphysics), rightness and goodness, knowledge, truth and beauty. As a
branch of metaphysics, ontology seeks, in particular, to understand the nature of being (or existence)
by placing objects within categories and organized totalities, while always assuming God as the first
cause (causa sui). (Rebidoux) Yet as most philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Descartes each
attest to their distinct definition of "being", there is an exception to these ontological contenders:
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Before evaluating Levinas' humanity–opening theories, however, it seems necessary to understand
the process by which one can come to know the initial Other. For before the subject can enter into a
just, fraternal relationship with the Other, he must be wholly prepared to welcome its face.
According to Levinas, before encountering the Other, one is in a sleeping state within the Order of
Being. Mundane and superficial, this Order allows only for categorization and objectification of
things. At this stage even animate objects are reduced to their formal properties: a cat, for example,
is classified according to its genus and species, recognized only as one instance of "cat"; a human,
similarly, is reduced simply to another instance of humanity. (Rebidoux, 26 Jan 2004)
It is from this state of perpetual sleep, Levinas orders, that one must awaken. Whilst sleeping within
the Order of Being, one is instinctually awoken by the Infinite. This Infinite, according to Levinas,
is a consciousness that occurs in revelation of the transcendence of the Other. (Rebidoux) The
Infinite emerge as an appearance of unending depth that overflows both
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Call Of Duty : Black Ops IIi
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is an upcoming first–person shooter video game in the Call of Duty
franchise, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. The game is a sequel to the 2012
game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and will be released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3,
PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on November 6, 2015. Plot Single–player campaign Call of
Duty: Black Ops III takes place in a dystopian future set in 2065, 40 years after the events of Black
Ops II. Several countries around the world have developed high–tech air defenses that render air
assaults useless. As such, most of the warfare between countries is done by covert operatives
fighting behind enemy lines. Science and technology have radically changed both the landscape as
well as the future of the human race, with society violently protesting and attempting to halt further
advancements touted by scientists as "progress". Military technology has progressed to the point
where robotics play a main role in combat, and supersoldiers have been developed to fight in the
battlefield. Humans have reached the point where they are considered to be more machine than flesh
and blood. As a result, there is speculation and fear about an eventual robotic takeover. The game
will follow a team of black ops soldiers, like previous installments in the Black Ops series, with
supersoldier capabilities. Zombies There are two confirmed Zombies storylines in Call of Duty:
Black Ops III at the time of its
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A Poem Essay: Who Am I?
Who am I?
I am a tall girl with chestnut hair, forest green eyes and sun–tanned skin. My physique sets me apart
from the 7.4 billion other people on our planet. If, however, I were an identical twin, physical
characteristics alone would not suffice to distinguish between my sister and me. Even though we
would look the same, we would clearly be two different people. Therefore, we can conclude that a
mere description of our physique cannot be considered a universal and comprehensive response to
the question at hand, as it neglects other aspects of our identity.
Our identity – encompassing numerous elements of being, among which: family, profession, culture,
religion, sexuality, personality and emotions – is of unimaginable complexity, such that in a
metaphorical sense it may be portrayed as infinite. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
may be answered by the following statement: I am infinity. This holds true from a bio–mathematical
approach and a socio–cultural perspective, as well as in a metaphorical sense and in relationship to
time. However, an element of concern with this definition is, that as a model answer to all, it would
defeat a sense of uniqueness sought by individuals who try to distinguish themselves from their
surroundings using the aforementioned question. Specifically, if I am infinity, and You are infinity
(in the instance when you define yourself as I am infinity), then language alone cannot highlight the
differences between you and me. Thus, the sheer word infinity would be deemed an insufficient
response to the essay question; unless infinity were to be considered an infinite concept – infinity
accounting for a variety of infinities. It is not within the scope of this essay to discuss whether
infinity is truly an infinite concept; but if we were to assume it were not, we would need to
contemplate whether I am infinity should be refined to the statement I am a part of infinity, to allow
for differentiation among subjects answering the
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The Book Of Sand
Finitude is the sole concept which pervades all walks of life; all regions of the world; all aspects of
daily life and human society. It challenges our perceptions and potentially destroys dreams, making
the viable inviable and even some difficulties impossibilities. Yet, are we truly confined to finitude
for an infinitude of time, or is the universe an infinitude in which we, as a species, have yet to
achieve our fullest potential? Jorge Luis Borges, in his short story "The Book of Sand", provides not
only a set of answers to these questions, but also compounds it with remarkable perspective and
insight into the nature of infinitude, our understanding of our own limitations, and how we naturally
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In the first paragraph, Borges writes of the universe in a mathematical manner that relates the
abstract generalization of the known to the unknown: "The line is made up of an infinite number of
points; the plane of an infinite number of lines; the volume of an infinite number of planes; the
hypervolume of an infinite number of volumes..." What we know about time and life, in this
context, is continually growing, unlimited by any external force, such as the starting point of the
evolution of human understanding of the universe. In this case, just as the Book of Sand has neither
a starting point nor an end point, the universe does not have an end point, nor a clearly–defined,
discernible, universally–agreed–upon start point. Infinite dimensions of the universe are infinite
dimensions of thought; we can always expand our horizons, broaden our understanding to any
infinite degree. So long as we operate in a truly infinite plane, our ideas and thoughts are
unrestrained and infinite as
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The Basic Idea Of Science
THE BASIC IDEA
"In the field of physical science it has been proved that absolutely everything can be scientifically
reduced to one ultimate invisible Essence, something which cannot be contacted by the physical
senses. It is therefore only reasonable to say that originally everything must have, and still does,
come from It. According to one 's way of thinking, different names are given to It: Energy, Principle,
Universal Intelligence, Universal Mind, Consciousness, Spirit, God."
The Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, pg. 11
Infinite = One The number that best represents the infinite is not a very big number. Infinity is one,
not two, or three or more. The infinite is not many, but one. The infinite is indivisible and
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That too is an inescapable realization drawn from the premise of an infinite being. The Infinite
cannot be one with just one of us. It must be one with every one of us. Each and everyone is one
with the infinite One, God. If you doubt that Jesus came to this conclusion, then consider one
question: Why did he say that when we pray we should pray to Our Father, rather than his Father?
We are all one with the infinite One. I think that we must accept this premise because it is
reasonable; but my insistence that others think and reason as I do would be unreasonable. Anyone
can ignore the infinite One; they just can 't be separate or apart from It. We can ignore our heritage,
our inheritance and our inherent nature. Nevertheless it is with us, even thou we deny it. You can
ignore reality, but it doesn 't go away.
One Reality The Apostle Paul wrote: "In him we live, and move, and have our being" [Acts 17:28]
Jesus said: "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within
you." [Lk. 17:21] God would have to be very small to be within all, and very large to include all.
However, to resolve these two extremes, God need only be infinite. Remember what Ralph Waldo
Emerson wrote in his essay, History:
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are;
And it cometh everywhere. When we envision a God that is omniscient, omnipotent and
omnipresent we are thinking of the infinite,
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Foster Care Provider Essay
What are the Responsibilities of Foster Carer?
Fostering can be a big responsibility that you need to realize before doing so. You must know all the
process first, the procedures and all other things so you know how to handle a child. Though you
really love to foster a child, you must meet the requirements to be a foster carer. You must have to
follow what is needed for you to foster a child.
Here are the following responsibilities of the foster carer that you must know:
Caring for the children
1. You will provide daily care to the child or children that you need to look after. You need to know
the demands on the child being separated from their family.
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They must be encouraged as well in positive understanding about their origins, culture and religion.
5. You are there to support a child in developing relations to their parents.
6. The child or children must be able to move on to their lives in positive manner.
This is what the first goal of foster caerer in London, the caring for the children where the child
needs to feel this so they can be successfully fostered.
Providing them the safest and loving environment
1. This is to ensure that they will be kept safe from any harm or abuse and they should know how
they can get help if anything untoward may occur.
2. You must promote secure and safe attachment of the children to the adults that are capable of
giving safe and very effective care.
3. To act to each of the child as advocate.
Working as a part of the team
1. Will work with the agency and is going to work with the other agency staffs and professionals that
are within the guidelines, procedures and policies.
2. Will attend to family meetings, reviews, conferences, court hearings if required, keep any written
records regarding the placements and then contribute to the reports.
3. To join training opportunities then recognize the benefits of the continued training. The
information on fostering will be a big help for
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The Hands Of An Angry God By Jonathan Edwards
For the sinners who fail to cleanse their loathsome, tainted souls, angering the omnipotent God
whose hostility is presented in an infinite wrath, only a painful, torturing hell is held in their
destinies. This terrifying, ominous threat, presented in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by
Jonathan Edwards, amplifies the power of God, and renders a profound hatred toward impure
sinners. Accordingly, through his usage of the powerful rhetoric exposed by allusion, imagery, and
metaphor, Edwards produces a dangerous scene which effectively contributes to his formidable
assertion regarding God's animosity toward those who sin, and his capacity to inflict vengeance
upon those who are suspects.
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The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them"
(Edwards 1); this resolute description provides readers with an intense mental image which cements
the idea that God has every capability to enforce a hellish punishment upon those who sin.
Additionally, it is not only true that God wishes to inflict punishment which is inconceivable without
the reference provided by Edwards, but that God loathes the sinners within a deep and profound
standard, projected by the dramatically detailed metaphor promoted by Edwards. In his metaphorical
message to the "unconverted" sinners, fit for the "pits of hell", Edwards clarifies God's hatred
toward these accusers, stating that "his wrath towards you burns like fire...he is of purer eyes than to
bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most
hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn
rebel did his prince" (Edwards 2). This comparison of hatred to the extreme, and agreeably odious
actions and creatures, effectively describes the rivalry between God and those who commit acts of
sinning.
As presented by Edwards, sinning, an evil, and illicit religious act, prompts violent actions by the
powerful, exasperated God as a method of punishment to those who are loathed convicts. To
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Infinity : A Discussion On The History, Variations, And...
A Discussion on the History, Variations, and Applications of Infinity
Infinity is perhaps one of the most frequently encountered idea in today's world. This concept of
endlessness is what people normally associate with when discussing infinity, and it has become
something that we have integrated into everyday language. Although it may seem to be simple
concept, infinity is actually a widely debated and argued topic, and it has shown to be more complex
than it initially appears to be. There are many types of infinities and over the years, people have
studied, proved, analyzed, and applied the concepts of infinities. It is important to note that,
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From Pythagoras' standpoint, the whole world can be described and defined by a finite set of natural
numbers. This is almost ironic because part of his Pythagorean Theorem results in Pythagorean
triplets,which includes numbers such as √2, which require an understanding of infinity in order to
define (Rucker). On the other hand, Aristotle acknowledged that there existed concepts that point
towards the existence of infinite, but that would contradict his defined and finite world. So, in order
to handle these cases, he came up with the idea of labeling sets as "potentially infinite" and not
"actually infinite." An example of this is the set of integers {1,2,3...}, where Aristotle claims that
they can be "potentially infinite" but not "actually infinite" (Allen). Essentially, Aristotle would
simply deny the existence of an actually infinite set. At this time, people were beginning to study the
notion of infinite more deeply and one of the forefront mathematicians to tackle infinity was Zeno.
Zeno is most well known for his paradoxes that primarily look at infinity via the physical world. His
first paradox deals with dichotomy, or the idea that one must first reach the halfway mark of a
certain point, and then the halfway point of the halfway point, and so on. In terms of a sequence,
dichotomy can be described as the sequence: {...1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1}. Zeno's other paradoxes are
the Achilles and the tortoise paradox,
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Frankenstein Persuasive Speech
On the event, a small, mindless child decides to throw stones and twigs at a fruit–bearing tree, what
would that tree do? Would it be able to retaliate? Refuse to bear fruit? It decides to give to this child,
the cream of it's crop, the best of it's fruit. While the child then runs away with his arms full of the
fruit he had just received, he doesn't think much of what he had just witnessed. A lesson to be
learned. In this same way, we witness nature providing us with everything we would need, yet we
don't appreciate it, or understand it as well. You see, while this that child had gotten the fruit, he
neglected to learn that when negativity, and the worst parts of life are thrown at you, you should
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We fail to realize there is an important system for everything. This stems from the idea that every
living creature has a purpose. Nature has a fragile balance that needs to be preserved, or else it
would fall quickly. One small change will destroy the basis of that foundation toppling everything
that was done. Our system works in the same way. If we would make that one, damaging change,
everything we built would surely fall. Reminding us that, while we accomplished so much, we are
very much prone to making a mistake that could potentially reverse everything. Take in case a while
ago, nearly half a century, wolves were hunted to near extinction at Yellowstone National Park to
allow the elk population to grow. Over 130 wolves were killed, so soon Yellowstone was devoid of
these canines. The elk population did indeed grow, and it spiraled out of control. The same happened
with other
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Argumentative Essay About Hunger Games
The Reaping The citizens of each of twelve districts in Panem are forced to participate in the
traumatizing, Hunger Games. Attempting to overthrow The Capitol, now each District must;
sacrifice a boy and a girl who will later compete against twenty–two other people from the age
ranges of twelve to eighteen. The Capitol established these games as a reminder they are in power.
According to a citizen, Katniss Everdeen says "Attendance is mandatory unless you are at death's
door. This evening, officials will come around and check to see if this is the case. If not, you'll be
imprisoned. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and
one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty–four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor
arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several
weeks, the competitors must fight to the death." Katniss also stated this about The Capitol "this is
the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would
stand for surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. "Look
how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we
will destroy every last one of you." The Ceremony of Twelve In another community a very
important ceremony is happening, The Ceremony of Twelves. At the ceremony, all of the children
must line up in order with
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Welcome Fellow Traveller
Welcome fellow traveller, I understand you have journeyed far to be here. It is a pleasure to make
your acquaintance. I am known to many as Octavian. You may be tired after your long journey,
please come in for some tea. Make yourself at home. In fact you are home! This is a simulated
structure at the centre of your being. Made from good old fashioned imagination! It is your creation
and what a fine job I must say. This crystal castle is one quordinate point within your infinite nature
just as you are one point of view within infinite space. A certain angle of the whole, if you will.
Because your innate essence is formless you have created this castle within your being for us to
have a reference point in which we can discuss and experience a few things. In this space you can
feel safe. A location you can locate your attention too as often as you like. Our meeting spot for you
to project your adventure from. These walls are built from the fabric of stillness, and serenity is its
foundation. Also I feel it is important to mention that this castle contains all the resources you may
require for your adventures. Please feel free to roam around and discover the many delights this
place has to offer. We shall use some of the rooms a little later on but for now I would like to
introduce myself further. As I mentioned before my name is Octavian and I am a member of a
collective known by some as the Wanderers of the Woven worlds. Yet this is not what we call
ourselves, as we
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Blaise Pascal, A 17Th Century Philosopher Known For His
Blaise Pascal, a 17th century philosopher known for his work Pensées, or The Thoughts, serves as a
voice of human limitation. Throughout his aphorisms, he clearly expresses the limitations of man as
he refers to man's "inconstancy, boredom, [and] anxiety" and claims that man should "know [his]
nothingness" (Pascal 33, 28) Pascal holds a pessimistic view towards man's position in the world
and ultimately deems man to be "utter(ly) worthless" (Pascal vii). Pascal's disappointment towards
the limitations of mankind ultimately causes him to contradict the beliefs of Descartes who strives to
find "just one thing, however slight, that is certain and unshaken" in order to distinguish true from
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Infinitely far from grasping the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are for him
invincibly hidden in an impenetrable secret; and he is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness
out of which he is drawn, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up. (Pascal 5) Pascal views the
human condition through a substantially dark, pessimistic perspective. He believes man holds an
incredibly insubstantial position in the world, for he is "limited in all respects" and merely occupies
a sort of mid–position between nothing and everything (Pascal 7). Man lives a short life that stands
as a mid–point between the eternity that precedes him and the eternity that will follow him. Man has
no way of knowing for certain what came before him or what will come after him; after all, how
could such a small, fragile, perishable, and limited thing have any certain knowledge of anything
vast, imperishable, and unlimited? The nature of man is to be nothing more than a part of a whole,
and "if man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going beyond himself" (Pascal 8).
Man, according to Pascal, refuses to accept his puniness and limitations. We refuse to accept that our
very nature is minuscule and limited in the grand scheme of eternity. "Is not the duration of our life
still infinitesimal within eternity, even if ten years be added to it?" (Pascal 8). Unlike the infinite, we
are finite, perishable
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The Physics Of Fractions As A Child
Introduction:
Ever since I first learned about fractions as a child, I was always heavily agitated by the fact that
every time I would ask my teacher about dividing by zero, or have a calculator perform a equation
where a non–zero number was divided by zero, I would just be told there was no solution. I
wondered for years about why there simply was no practical way to express a number divided by
zero, until I learned about something strangely similar to dividing a number by zero, being black
holes, or a gravitational singularity (a single point in space with a certain mass, equating to a density
where the mass of the object is divided by zero). Just like dividing by zero, black holes are usually
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A counterargument could be immediately made that black holes do have a volume, but for
clarification, this is in terms of its' singularity, not its' event horizon (or the critical radius), which is
the black part of the hole that light does not escape from, as it is the point in which light can no
longer escape, as the escape velocity (the speed required to break free of an object's gravity,
according to physlink.com) is greater than the speed of light.
Now that this is established, representing the "infinite" density of a black hole is difficult to
understand, similarly in terms of the function 1/x, because like how the x– value on the graph
approaches the asymptote of zero on the x– axis from positive infinity, the y–value gradually leaves
the asymptote of zero on the y– axis to approach infinity, being not the largest possible number, but
instead a filled space that has no bounds, such as a star that is shining light into all directions in
space forever, therefore filing this ongoing void with light. That is infinity, so in terms of this essay,
the light could be represented as 1/∞. If the light were to be replaced with mass, the volume of said
mass would effectively be the opposite of a black hole, being an infinite number of some sort, with
the density being calculated by dividing it's mass by infinity of some sort, representing it's volume.
In simple fractions, they could likely be expressed as a circle or some other shape split into
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Analysis Of The Poem ' Miss Dawn '
The Infinilights
Rosabelle Dawn was distracted and getting on her teacher's nerves. Rosabelle 's eyes were darting
around the room following a little light that nobody else could see. The teacher, Mrs. Kay, decided
to take care of it, "Rosabelle, What is the 5th root of 32?"
Rosebelle was terrified, she had absolutely no idea. "2?"
"2? Or 2." Mrs. Kay said as she looked straight into Rosabelle's eyes "you need to know these things
Rosabell."
Rosabelle felt that this was about more than math. Lately Mrs. Kay has been asking her to "stand
firm", whatever that means. "I would like to be called Rosie and I know the answer is two." Rosie
said solidly even though she was not completely sure with what she was saying. ... Show more
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When she finished a gold infinity sign materialized on her hand. She started to peal the gold off and
ate the chocolate. Bonnie lit up for a short time.
"That's so cool!" Rosabelle said.
"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet!" Bonnie remarked. Rosie was getting more and more excited.
"Watch this!" Bonnie snapped her fingers so that her pointer finger glowed. She drew an infinity
sign in the air that materialized into a bendy wire. She grabbed the ends of it and bent them together
that formed a sort of wings. The infinilight pinched the little "x" in the middle and strategically
placed them on her back and started... Flying!? "To finish it off..." Bonnie returned to the ground
and traced another infinity sign on her entire body. She lifted the transparent sign off her and moved
her hands as if she was zooming in on a touch–screen. As the infinity sign shrunk she did too!
Rosabell Penny Dawn could not believe her enormous eyes. "That's Impossible!"
"No it's not." Bonnie repeated the process to get back to normal size. She softly pinched Rosie." See
it's all real, Rosie."
"Now I have a HUGE question for you" Bonnie said with a suspicious grin.
"What!?" out of all the surprises today Rosie never could have expected what Bonnie asked her.
***
Bonnie took an exaggerated deep breath,"Do you want to be an infinilight?'
"Uh..." Rosie was absolutely stunned, "well, what
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Infinity Research Paper
The infinity symbol was introduced many years ago. The meaning of infinity was believed to be
used dating as far back as 400 BC. The symbol and definition that is currently used for infinity is
mostly used in mathematics. The infinity symbol and definition has previously had different
meanings, but basic concepts of what infinity represents have remained the same. Throughout
history, not only did it represent mathematical thoughts, infinity had religious representation as well.
The Upanishad, which were texts recorded by people of the Hindu religion, used the idea of infinity.
They were the first to be known for the thought of something being infinite, but not in a
mathematical way their philosophy was "if you remove a part from whole or add a part to whole,
still what remains is whole" (OnlineClock.net). ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Though the definition was not in mathematical terms, the concept related to the idea which was used
in mathematical terms. The Ancient Greeks also contributed to the idea of infinity. At the time
Ancient Greeks did not define the word infinity, but were aware of the concepts from their
surroundings. Since Ancient Greeks spent a lot of time studying the planets and stars, the thought of
there being no beginning or end formed. Which is the current definition for infinity. The scientist
Isaac Newton later made contributions to infinity. Isaac Newton "produced a theory on small
numbers or infinitesimals as they are now known" (OnlineClock.net). Although Isaac Newton did
put some sense to the idea of infinity, there was still some confusion dealing with the concept of
infinity. Galileo Galilei then created the Galileo's Paradox which showed that "set of counting
numbers can correspond with smaller sets of their squares". (OnlineClock.net). The understanding
of infinity that is
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Why Math Is Important To Me Essay
Math is one of those subjects that we tend to find the least accessible and the least applicable to our
lives. After all, who is ever going to need to use Fermat's Little Theorem or the Fundamental
Theorem of Arithmetic in their everyday life besides a handful of individuals? The easiest answer to
this prompt, then, is to say that math is going to influence the ways I create and craft budgets in my
production management career. However, that answer is no more interesting that saying that
knowing how to add helps you pay your bills every week. Perhaps the best answer to this prompt is
not in what math can do for me on a practical level, but rather it is in what math can help illuminate
for me. When I started this course, I believed math to be the essential foundation for our everyday
activities (and that is still true). But as this course ends, I have come to understand math as more
than just how to encrypt information online securely.
Math has the ability to shape how we perceive and understand the complex machinery of the world.
It makes it simpler, certainly, but it also makes us wonder about how intricate and expansive parts of
our lives are. Think about a concept like infinity–an idea I spoke briefly about in my exam, but
which I want to come back to here. I use the word everyday in my life, rarely mathematically, but
often as an abstract notion. After our lesson on infinity, I found myself thinking deeply about what it
means for something to be infinite. Not just in a
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The Mathematical Concept of Infinity
The implications of infinity (co) are actualiy not that old. The Greeks were some of the first
mathematicians recorded to have imagined the concept of infinity. However, they did not actuaily
delve into the entirety of this number. The Greeks used the term "potentially infinite," for the
concept of an actual limitless value was beyond their comprehension. The actual term "infinity" was
defined by Georg Cantor, a renowned German mathematician, in the late nineteenth century. It was
originally used in his Set Theory, which is a very important theory to the mathematical world. The
value of infinity can get a bit confusing, as there are different types of infinity. Many claim that
infinity is not a number. This is true, but it does have a value. So, infinity may be used in
mathematical equations as the greatest possible value. i The value of infinity Infinity (00) is the
greatest possibleivalue that can exist. However, there are different infinities that, by logic, are
greater than other forms of itself. Here is one example: to the set of ait Naturai numbers Z43, 2, 3,
4,...}, there are an infinite amount of members. This is usualiy noted by Ko, which is the cardinality
of the set of alt natural numbers,
Likewise, in the set of ail Real numbers RU, 1.1, 1.11, 1.111,...} there are an infinite amount of
members as weli. This sets cardinality is represented by t' or, as Cantor proved in 1874, N1. it there
are an infinite amount of Real values between each of the infinite amount of
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The Negative Impacts Of Violent Video Games
The negative impacts that are associated with violent gaming are a growing list. These many
negative effects could build up into a more serious situation, with all of the possible outcomes of
these side–effects mixing together it could quite possibly take a turn for the worse. The use of
violent video games could cause players to participate in criminal violence, because of the increased
levels of aggression and rage. NBC News reported of a gory incident in January of 2013, which
involved Nehemiah Griego and his murderous actions toward his parents and three of his siblings in
his home. The fifteen year old boy killed his family because he had been angry with his mother in
the days before the murders. When questioned about his family, the boy was emotionless, but
immediately after the investigators asked what his interests were, his face lit up and he immediately
began reminiscing about his favorite video games, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Grand Theft
Auto (2013). Common sense media explains the game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, with a
vivid description; a "bloody military shooting game with disturbing cinematic moments" (n.d.).
Could Griego's avid gaming schedule, and love for the bloody first–person shooting game be
slightly related to his urge to kill (2013b)? His decision to kill all the occupants of his house did not
solely result from one night of gaming, for it was an accumulation of risk factors. It is likely that his
love for gaming could have had an
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Relation Regress Argument Analysis
In this essay, I will explain and evaluate the relation regress argument against resemblance
nominalism, by arguing in favour of the relation regress argument. Firstly, I will define what
resemblance nominalism and the relation regress argument is. Then, I will look at the plausibility of
and concerns about Russell's relation regress argument, by comparing it to various counterexamples
which argue in favour of resemblance nominalism and are against the relation regress argument.
Finally, I will demonstrate why the relation regress argument seems more plausible than arguments
in favour of resemblance nominalism.
Resemblance nominalism is a type of nominalism which describes that some objects resemble each
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Qualitative economy would be to restrict the kinds of objects to the least, while quantitative
economy is to restrict the number of objects in each kind to the least. It is quantitatively more
economical to admit to resemblance universals than to hypothesise a universal for each resemblance,
according to D. Nolan. So, only the relation of resemblance is accepted as a universal. This seems
counter–intuitive, to accept the existence of universals only when it suits an argument and to decry
its existence outside of that. Therefore, it seems more plausible to admit to the existence of
universals in general, not just as resemblance
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The Miami Heat-Personal Narrative
It all started mid January a few years back. My father asked me if I wanted to go to an Atlanta
Hawks basketball game because, the Miami Heat would be in town to play. So of–course I said yes!
He ended up getting four tickets through his company which meant Amazing seats that were pretty
much court side. Dad told me I could invite anyone I wanted and that he was inviting my friend
Anthony's Dad Tony. Tony was quite the character not one you'd look up to but cool to hangout
with. He was about a foot shorter than me, bald, and couldn't say no to a drink. The next day in
weight training I asked my buddy Rj if he was down to go to the Hawks vs Heat game in which he
uttered the obvious yes. So a Few weeks pass highly anticipating the big game the big night finally
arrives on Saturday. On Friday Rj caught a ride home with me and we were going to hang out at my
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It was slam packed but luckily we got through security fairly quick. We sat down and watched the
game go back and forth the lead switching from team to team. We all got hungry so we headed to
the concessions stands and all the card readers were messed up. This caused an astronomical line at
the ATM which we were sadly in. The only place the card machine was working was the Royal
Crown bar which Tony had went and got his fair share of drinks. Eventually we decided to go sit
back down and finish the game. The heat won by a landslide which came to no surprise. Then we
made the pilgrimage back to Tonys home. Driving back we stopped and Hooters to eat because it
was the only place open at midnight around where we were. We left at 1 am and got to Tonys house
to drop him off about 30 minutes later. We we got there he said , "hey man whatcha think about the
car?" then I told him I loved it. He then asked me over and over again if i wanted to drive it I finally
gave in. I grabbed his
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How Did Plato Contribute To Geometry
Plato and Archimedes: Two Great Mathematicians of All Time
Plato is one of the greatest mathematicians and teachers of geometry to ever live. To some, he is
known as the "maker of math." He himself made an academy that stressed mathematics as a way of
understanding reality. He founded this academy in 387 BCE. According to one website, "... he was
convinced that geometry was the key to unlocking the secrets to the universe." Plato had many
contributions in mathematics and geometry that helped in the past and still help in the present. One
thing that Plato did, that he probably best known for, is his identification of 5 3D symmetrical
shapes. The 5 shapes were: the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the cube, the icosahedron, and the
dodecahedron. The tetrahedron, which Plato represented as fire, is made of 4 triangles. The
octahedron, which Plato represented as air, is made of 8 triangles. The icosahedron, which is what
Plato represents as water, is made of 20 triangles. The cube, represented as earth according to Plato,
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Most Greek's avoided the concept of actual infinity. Even mathematicians like Euclid said that there
were more prime numbers than any given finite number. The same website states, "Archimedes,
however, in the "Archimedes Palimpsest", went further than any other Greek mathematician when,
on compared two infinitely large sets, he noted that they had an equal number of members, thus for
the first time considering actual infinity, a concept not seriously considered again until Georg Cantor
in the 19th Century." That proves that Archimedes was very smart and very exact in his
measurements because he was the only one really to even think and use infinite numbers in a long
period of time. That also proves that he discovered many things and though outside the
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Essay on Arguments Against Skepticism
If I tried to simply tell a skeptic, "That rock will fall from the cliff because of gravity," he won't
believe me because he will simply say, "Not necessarily." In fact, this can be the skeptic's answer to
just about any attempt to refute his position.
It has long been pointed out by opponents of skepticism that such an attitude cannot be taken to its
extreme conclusion in the real world in which we operate– even skeptics must live their lives
according to rules they must rely upon not to fail. Skepticism (and all philosophy) cannot avoid the
cumbersome nature of human language and the simple fact that the only tool humans have to
investigate the nature of existence is the brain, which spawns coherent thoughts in a lingual form. In
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However, insofar as the skeptic poses the external question from the comfort of her armchair,
Carnap will reply that ``Unless and until they supply a clear cognitive interpretation, we are justified
in our suspicion that their question is a pseudo–question, that is, one disguised in the form of a
theoretical question while in fact it is non–theoretical '"****
"Calling philosophical propositions meaningless is usually very antagonistic; it amounts to using
fighting words. Some of the less thoughtful critics of Carnap see him as (solely) making this kind of
pejorative value judgment. Those who use ``positivist'' as a kind of academic curse word regard
Carnap as merely arguing that philosophers should find something more useful (and more
scientific!) to do than chasing their tails worrying about skepticism. This image of an antagonistic
stance is bolstered by Carnap's intimate involvement with the Vienna Circle who is known to have
gone through the Tractatus line–by–line declaring each proposition true, false, or meaningless.
While there are certainly overtones of this pejorative attitude, a moment's reflection on the text will
show how this is a completely wrongheaded interpretation of the claim that skepticism is a
meaningless doctrine.
For Carnap, a terms gets its meaning only in virtue of its role within a linguistic framework. ``If
someone wishes to speak in his language about a new kind of entities [sic], he has to introduce a
system
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Aristotle 's Ideas Of Potential Infinity
Aristotle supported the idea of "potential infinity" but refuted the idea of "actual infinity". He
defined potential infinity by saying if you are counting natural numbers, logic would tell us that we
can always add one to the previous number and that can potentially go on forever. He also said that
we could potentially use this logic in geometry if we imagined a line that extended beyond both
points with no recognizable end. On the contrary, actual infinity seems paradoxical because even if
we had an infinite number of "things" in a category then infinity would still be "whole" in a sense
with a beginning and an end. Aristotle's ideas were supported for many centuries ("Aristotle", n.d.).
The philosopher Zeno of Elea (495–435 B.C.E.) came up with the idea of "infinite divisibility". The
basic concept of the theory was that you could take any object, cut it in half, cut those halves in half,
and so on until you reached the end of the divisibility process and were left with only particles, or
"elements" as he called them. The first conclusion he drew from this theory was that the elements
were essentially nothing, which meant that the sum of all the pieces made the whole object nothing.
The second conclusion was that the elements were something but that they had no size, which meant
that the sum of the whole object also had no size. The last conclusion was that the elements are
something and they do have a size. But that would mean that you would never reach the end of the
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The, And, By Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes addresses a trepidation we may have when giving: our resources will be temporarily
depleted. It is common sense that the more we give, the less we have; but there is a principle at work
which defies common sense, because the appearance of loss and lack is deceptive. Once we have
sown a seed our hands are empty, but the soil is full and soon we will have our hands full with the
harvest of that seed. If we had held onto that seed, there would be no harvest and we would
eventually be empty–handed. However, giving in a principled manner does not incur a loss, but
gains. Giving, as a matter of principle, is the difference between gaining more or having less. Of
course, if we go through the motions of giving – appearing to give, but actually throwing money
away in an unprincipled manner, then we have simply wasted our time, and our treasure. Not every
seed sown, grows; some fall on hard, stony ground and never take root. Not every prayer is heard
and answered; some fall on deaf ears – our own. Having ears, we hear not. Having eyes, we see not.
And having our hands full, we give not. It is a shame, because we could give, have and enjoy more.
DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS
Holmes relates the responsiveness of Life to the idea that Nature abhors a vacuum. In an infinite
universe, there cannot be an empty void, a place where God is not. All space, all vessels, all
containers must be filled with something. So, when something is drawn out of one place, more is
drawn
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Writing to David Vonderhaar, Game Design Director
Writing to David Vonderhaar
Game Design Director
Introduction: Sledgehammer games making the next Call of Duty
It seems like every year since 2007, Call of Duty has been the same game and for the past 6 years,
fans of the series are getting a little frustrated and tired of it. Paying $60 for the same game but from
a different developer each year, well this article has everyone asking these questions:
What do you think Sledgehammer's Call of Duty will be?
What will be the strategies of this tactic?
Will this new studio bring Call of Duty to newer heights?
BackGround: The Purpose of Sledgehammer games getting into the mix with Infinity Ward and
Treyarch
Call of Duty has been around since 2003, Call of Duty 2 in 2005 was a huge hit with the release of
the Xbox 360. In 2006 Call of Duty 3 was not that good of a game. In 2007, Call of Duty
revolutionized the game with a new engine to help with multiplayer but ever since then Call of Duty
feels like it is the same game every year Activision is preparing to fix this problem with
Sledgehammer games creating the next Call of Duty for 2014, they helped with the Modern Warfare
3 multiplayer back in 2011. Activision feels that this move will give the developers enough time to
create better ideas for DLC, (which stands for Downloadable Content) and for the game as a whole.
DLC has been out since 2008 and it is an extension to the game with new maps and cameos with
mainly focusing on the multiplayer
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The Infinite Desert: A Fictional Narrative
Everything was the same this night. The woman's house still stood, isolated on the slopping hill on
the edge of the sleeping town. The single light in the house still shown through red–veined
windows, casting shadows on the chair where the woman sat, but she was not in it. Every night the
woman leaves in the unbroken night. No one sees her leave. She silently dissolves into the night.
The woman travels to the same place every night. She is always unaware of the journey she had
taken to come to this place, to stand with weary, weathered feet on this distant earth that was not so
unfamiliar anymore. She was not concerned, just tired from her journey here she always presumed.
The earth beneath her scorched her bare feet. The torrid sands surrounded the woman, stretching
themselves like waves infinitely in all directions. This place knew no night. It was always day and
the sun, which loomed over the sands, selfishly monopolized the sky. Having traveled to this place
every night for the past three years the woman knew that if she walked west she would come to an
isolated arrangement of statues. She walked west, after a time not feeling the sands beneath her feet,
not feeling anything. When she came upon the statues she sat down before them as she did every
night enjoying their mild company in this desolate place. The five statues stood in a crescent
configuration. They were all depictions of human forms carved from a pure white, metamorphic
stone. The woman
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Pascal : The Benefits Or Drawbacks For Believing
Blaise Pascal used probability theory to show the benefits or drawbacks for believing in God. Pascal
believed that reason could not show if God existed or not. He proposed that people must "wager"
one way or the other on the sides of believing in God. He states God will, reward whoever accepts
him, and infinitely punish or abandon whoever rejects him. Pascal's argument is wise in the aspect
that it persuades people to believe in a being, without proof of this being. Pascal's wager is stout as it
appeals to people's own happiness/self–interest, but displays a weakness as only discusses the
possibility of the existence of an all–good God which can be refuted by his own statement. Pascal's
wager does a tremendous job in pitting the ideas of infinite gain and infinite loss against each other.
Pascal's wager goes as follows, if one accepts God and God exists, then a person will gain an
infinite reward, but if God does not exist one will suffer some finite loses or if one does not accept
God and God exists, then a person will suffer infinite loss, but if God does not exist one will gain
some finite rewards. This argument can be expressed mathematically for the acceptance of God as
well, if the probability of God existing is any number greater than zero, then the infinite multiplier
from God existing would result in the utility being infinitely positive. The other aspect for if God
does not exist, would result in the multiplication of the minute probability of God existing,
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Character Analysis Of Clara In Isabel Allende's The House...
Most people have strength. Some are weak, but those who believe in themselves show courage. In
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty–Four, Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild some of the characters represent courage . Clara in "The House of the spirits "
represents strength since she described to be very calm and patient . Clara never fights her destiny.
She's not, however, passive. Usually those who wants to know their destiny goes insane but Clara
knows what she has to do to experience it . When she faces a situation that she does not like, she
proceeds to change it in quiet, subtle ways, such as adding little rooms to the big house. Clara's
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Meanwhile, Vladimir Makarov, one of Zakhaev's former lieutenants, begins a campaign against
Europe by committing brutal acts of terrorism over the course of five years. In Afghanistan, U.S.
Army Ranger PFC Joseph Allen assists his commanding officer Sgt. Foley in training the local
soldiers until he gets called to run a training course overseen by Lieutenant General Shepherd, who
was recruiting one of the Rangers for a special operation. After completing the course, Allen and the
rest of the 75th Ranger Regiment assists in the taking of a city from local OpFor soldiers. Impressed
by Allen's abilities, General Shepherd recruits him into "Task Force 141", an elite, multi–national
counter–terrorist unit under Shepherd's command. Meanwhile, two other members of 141, Cpt.
'Soap' MacTavish and Sgt. Gary 'Roach' Sanderson infiltrate a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan
mountains to retrieve an ACS (Attack Characterization System) module from a downed satellite.
During their infiltration, Soap orders Roach to plant explosives to cover their escape, but
compromised while retrieving the ACS. While they are pursued by enemy forces, both men manage
to escape with the module.Allen later sent on an undercover
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Call Of Duty: Call Of Duty Modern Warfare
Call of duty is a game franchise that amazes with every new release and with the new cod infinite
warfare, coming in November. One would like to celebrate it by comparing Call of duty stories to
real life war. Warning one will only be using the story from Cod Modern Warfare up to black ops 3
so there will be no call of duty classic or the originals or Cod Ghosts. There will also be some
zombies content. let's see how it fairs with Cod4 or Call of duty Modern warfare. It was released in
2007. In the game you play as the Americans and only the Americans even though you play as 3
different people. You play as John, Soap, Mactavish and Sergeant Paul Jackson, and captain Price
who back then was probably a private. (http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Modern_Warfare(series))
In one of the missions there was an assault on Al–Asad's capital. Where someone detonates a
nuclear bomb killing off Sergeant Jackson. Sadly, one wasn't able to find information on this so this
could not be correct. In call of duty World at war which was made in 2008 you play as 2 factions
well countries military forces. The first few missions you play as the United States military and you
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Note I won't be using the past stories in the game only futuristic parts. In the future you are hunting
a bad guy named Raul Menendez who killed Woods team and captured him.
(http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II) Woods wanted revenge on Raul for
his team and in 2025 they have more tech. There are V–tols or planes that take off like helicopters
are real except they are unmanned. (http://www.popsci.com/military) Those are actually pretty cool
now one would love to have one. Oh yeah in multiplayer there is something called a hunter killer
drone the Air force wants them in real life. They want there to be thousands of them to take down
missiles and enemy planes. Send in the
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Question 2. Review The Scholarly Literature Within The
QUESTION 2
Review the scholarly literature within the field of your program specialization related to your
proposed (or School–approved) dissertation topic. Analyze the reviewed literature to determine what
is already known about your proposed (or School–approved) dissertation topic and what remains
unknown. Synthesize your findings and evaluate how a study on your proposed (or School–
approved) dissertation topic could be designed to advance the scholarly research in this area while
maintaining ethical research requirements.
Literature Review
The purpose of this paper is to present a literature review on the school–approved dissertation topic:
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Studies about FPM in the foster care system indicates that engagement is an important component to
achieving permanency for foster children (Boldis, & Tomlinson, 2014; Crampton, Usher, Wildfire,
Webster, & Cuccaro–Alamin, 2011). It has been demonstrated that FPM increases biological family
members ' participation in permanency planning (Crampton, Usher, Wildfire, Webster, & Cuccaro–
Alamin, 2011; Gladstone et al., 2012; Montserrat, L?pez, Bravo, & del Valle, 2013). Permanency is
more likely to be long term when biological families are active members of the FPM (Balsells,
Pastor, Mateos, Vaquero, & Urrea, 2015; Boldis, & Tomlinson, 2014; Crampton, Usher, Wildfire,
Webster, & Cuccaro–Alamin, 2011; Steen, & Duran, 2013). However, there is a gap in research on
FPM and permanency planning through the team approach of decision–making that is inclusive of
foster parents. The school–approved topic is "How do foster parents describe the experiences and
engagement in family partnership meetings and permanency planning?" This study looks to expand
on the concept of foster parents as professional members of a multidisciplinary team through their
engagement in FPM and permanency planning.
Role Theory
Role theory is a
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Saas Provider : A Private Data Center Essay
In this paper, we assume that there is a SaaS provider who owns a private data center which
comprise a finite number of local servers which implements virtualization concepts to run user jobs.
The SaaS provider is assumed to have the ability to seamlessly scale up the capacity of its services
by renting for On–demand VM instances from the public Cloud when there is a spike in resource
demand. The provider can as well scale down the rented VM instances once they are not needed.
Since the rendering of service with local servers and the renting of the public Cloud resources is
associated with much monetary cost, it is imperative for the SaaS provider to reduce such cost. The
obvious challenge of the SaaS provider is therefore, how to reduce the operational cost involved in
leveraging the resources available (private and public Cloud) to process the incoming dynamic user
jobs. This involves the decision on the number of VMs to rent and when to rent them so that cost is
minimized, whereas user performance requirement is not sacrificed even in the presence of compute
node(physical server) and communication link failure. Generally, a job is first directed to the private
Cloud. However, once the private VMs are busy and the waiting time of the job has exceeded its
threshold delay value Wk, then the scheduler decides on the number of VMs to rent based on the
runtime estimate of the job, the availability–state of the VMs and their associated prices. In
subsection 4.1, we give the
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Questions On The Nature Of Interpretation
Hypothetical Misinterpretation
Jerrold Levinson, a prominent hypothetical intentionalist, through his explanation of the relationship
between artworks and exploratory interpretations, has gone under criticism for allowing
misinterpretations to be deemed as valid "could mean" options. However, one finds when reading
"Two Notions of Interpretation" and "Intention and Interpretation in Literature" that these criticisms
are effectively countered by two arguments that Levinson presents. Firstly, although the exploratory
mode of inquiry can have multiple, if not infinite, could mean answers, it also has could not mean
answers. These could not mean interpretations provide insight into the work and allow for
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Because they are ludic and not grounded in physical realities one can come up with multiple
"correct" interpretations that are sound but mutually exclusive.
To construe what something could mean, Levinson proposes that we, as interpreters, be pragmatic
and use logic in combination with our given knowledge of the contexts of works to determine their
interpretations. Although there exists an impulse to either exclusively use does mean or could mean
modes of inquiry, like an x–ray for the former and a metaphor for the latter, the two modes actually
have mutual implications. To examine an x–ray for what it means is to postulate what it could mean
and then come to an apt conclusion. To examine a metaphor is to find what is a plausible response in
a determinative context of semantic possibilities. There also exist instances of purely could mean
inquiries, says Levinson, like the infinite volumes of Babel, but without a does mean interpretation
available, as there are no intentions behind the works, the infinite possible could mean
interpretations create an absence of meaning. It is here I would like to extend the definition of does
mean interpretation beyond scientific knowledge based answers, to include hypothetical DM
interpretations. Although we will see how authorial
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Pascal, The Founder Of The Pascal 's Wager
Blaise Pascal was the founder of the Pascal's Wager. Pascal was a French philosopher, an inventor, a
mathematician, a scientist and a theologian. Pascal extended a reason to believe in God, even though
other people had beliefs that God is not real and his existence is not inconceivable. The Pascal's
Wager was a second–person communication. It showed that Pascal conceptualizes an individual
forced to decide between the belief in God and not to believe in him. An example of what Pascal
would demonstrate this as if, one was in a coin toss game, one side you conclude to believe and the
other side you don't. There are different outcome each time you play and there are different
circumstances that can affect the outcome. There are a few possible outcomes are the following. You
bet that he does exist, the outcome is he does, that 's an infinite gain for you. You bet that he exists,
the outcome is he doesn't, that's an infinite loss for you. You bet that he does not exist and the
outcome is he does, that's an infinite loss for you. You bet that He does not exist, and the outcome he
doesn't, that's an infinite gain for you. Pascal claimed betting on his existence was irrational. That if
you bet on the existence of God that there stands of an infinite reward (gain) that he does exist that
can be represented by an eternity in paradise, and the uncertainty of a miniature risk that can be
represented by whatever physically causes your happiness would waive during your life. A
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Comparison Of Halo And Call Of War
Let's analyze this. Halo and its single player campaign held a vast universe and followed the Spartan
warriors into battle to save the Earth from the alien invasion of 2 different races while Call of Duty
has switched from World War 2 and the Modern era. I must say, the World War 2 story lines were
quite boring, being the same in almost every way, but the Modern Warfare story line caught my
attention. With the evil villain Makarov and the twists and turns the story made in Modern Warfare
2, I was on the edge of my seat. But, Halo was in every way better in the single–player front.
Following genetically enhanced Spartan warriors into battle fighting off hordes of aliens I was
amazed with how deep the story got and how Bungie used every asset they could to enhance the
story further in a not so crazy way.
Ah co–op. The lovely days of playing a game with a friend right beside you on a Saturday will never
be forgotten. When co–op was finally introduced into the CoD series in World at War, I was very
impressed. The co–op campaign ability never really took for me, but what really got me and the rest
of the world was Zombies. Nazi ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
This finally paragraph will analyze the uniqueness of each game. Starting with Halo, the Forge
mode brought to us by Halo 3 revolutionized multiplayer maps and gametypes far beyond what we
could've imagined. Also, the theater mode brought by Halo 3 helped the creative minds of the
community. Now Call of Duty...well Call of Duty didn't really bring that much uniqueness but it did
help evolve the modern fast paced shooter into what it is now. In addition, the 60 frames per second
on that game makes it a Call of Duty title while Halo and basically all other games lack that aspect.
As I've said too many people, Halo is a crappy game at the start that eventually evolves into a giant
while CoD is awesome until exploits in the game are
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The Traversal Of The Infinite
Finiteness has to do with the existence of boundaries. Intuitively, we feel that where there is a
separation, a border, a threshold – there is bound to be at least one thing finite out of a minimum of
two. This, of course, is not true. Two infinite things can share a boundary. Infinity does not imply
symmetry, let alone isotropy. An entity can be infinite to its "left" – and bounded on its right.
Moreover, finiteness can exist where no boundaries can. Take a sphere: it is finite, yet we can
continue to draw a line on its surface infinitely. The "boundary", in this case, is conceptual and
arbitrary: if a line drawn on the surface of a sphere were to reach its starting point – then it is finite.
Its starting point is the boundary, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
The second thesis is that every substance is made up of simpler substances. The two mathematical
antinomies relate to the infinite. The answer to the first is: "Since the world does not exist in itself
(detached from the infinite regression), it exists unto itself neither as a finite whole nor as an infinite
whole." Indeed, if we think about the world as an object, it is only logical to study its size and
origins. But in doing so, we attribute to it features derived from our thinking, not affixed by any
objective reality.
Kant made no serious attempt to distinguish the infinite from the infinite regression series, which led
to the antinomies. Paradoxes are the offspring of problems with language. Philosophers used infinite
regression to attack both the notions of finiteness (Zeno) and of infinity. Ryle, for instance,
suggested the following paradox: voluntary acts are caused by wilful acts. If the latter were
voluntary, then other, preceding, wilful acts will have to be postulated to cause them and so on ad
infinitum and ad nauseam. Either the definition is wrong (voluntary acts are not caused by wilful
acts) or wilful acts are involuntary. Both conclusions are, naturally, unacceptable. Infinity leads to
unacceptable conclusions is the not so hidden message.
Zeno used infinite series to attack the notion of finiteness and to demonstrate that finite things are
made of infinite quantities of ever–smaller things. Anaxagoras said that there is no "smallest
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Descriptive Essay About Tattoos

  • 1. Descriptive Essay About Tattoos My heart was racing. I had put my headphones in to drown out the buzzing sound and to help me stay calm. Breathe. "Done." he said. I sat up slowly taking my headphones out and started inspecting my arm as I walked to the mirror. It was perfect. He wrapped my arm in a plastic wrap, I could see some blood under the plastic wrap, not a lot, but enough to make me nauseous. I sat down, the adrenaline wearing off. My mom was up next. I felt like all the life had drained out of me, I was exhausted. I did it. I had gotten my first tattoos. Most people don't know about my tattoos. I just tend to have my tattoos covered, not because they're anything to hide or in places I couldn't show them off. In fact I love to show them off, I'm just a freeze baby and tend to wear hoodies all the time. I have drawn on myself all my life. When I was a toddler I'd draw lines on my legs with pens. When I was about fifteen I'd designed myself several tattoos and would draw them on myself regularly with a sharpie. I am so glad I didn't get any of them, they were really stupid. The idea of committing to a permanent mark on my body was terrifying but it was something I'd always wanted. The day I made that commitment was the most meaningful day of my life. The only one I got that I knew I'd always wanted was my dot. If you asked my friends they'll tell you my dot doesn't count as a tattoo but I think since it has meaning it counts more than anything. You've more than likely seen it and had no idea it was ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 3. The History of the Cosmological Argument for the... Early elements of the Cosmological Argument were developed by the world renowned philosophers Plato and Aristotle between the years 400 and 200 BC (Boeree). Medieval philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas expanded upon their ideas in the late 13th Century when he wrote, "The Five Ways." Since then the Cosmological Argument has become one of the most widely accepted and criticized arguments for the existence of God. My objective in this paper is to explain why the Cosmological Argument is a reasonable argument for the existence of God, the importance of understanding that it is an inductive a posteriori argument, and defend my position against common opposing arguments. To begin, as living human beings on the planet earth we can ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This means that he relies only on himself to exist. On the other hand humans and all other natural things in the Universe are considered contingent. An impossibility would be created if this was not the case because a non–contingent contingent would be created which is contradictory and not logical (Thompson, 1955, pp. 345–346). Contrary to Saint Thomas, Theodore Schick Jr. argues in, "The 'Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God," which is included in our text God, that not all things are caused. He points out that research in the area of quantum electrodynamics reveals, "...That an electron, positron, and photon occasionally emerge spontaneously in a perfect vacuum. When this happens, the three particles exist for a brief time, and then annihilate each other, leaving no trace behind" (God, 153). Schick's argument against Saint Thomas argues is that since research has found evidence that–for a fraction of a millisecond–an electron, positron, and photon seem to appear on their own makes something in existence non–contingent. This effectively debunks Saint Thomas' nearly 750 year old argument that all things in nature have a cause, right? Not necessarily. While this finding of modern scientific research cannot yet be refuted or overlooked, inductive experience still strongly supports the causal premise. Evidence of a cause behind all natural things still ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 5. The Beginnings of Greek Philosophy Essay The Beginnings of Greek Philosophy The Milesians and Heraclitus Long before the time of Thales, a citizen of Miletus, in the district of Ionia on the west coast of Asia Minor, Chaldaen astrologers had listed data on the position of the stars and planets. As Thales studied these tables he thought he discerned a pattern or regularity in the occurrence of eclipses, and he ventured to predict a solar eclipse that occurred on May 28th 585BC. Some scholars think that this was just a lucky empirical guess, but if it was the discovery of an astronomical regularity or natural law, then Thales may be credited with distinguishing Greek philosophy and science from the somewhat aimless observations and disjointed information of the Eastern wise ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Since, too, a general theory must attempt to explain biological phenomena as well as physics and astronomy, another reason for selecting water may have been its indepensibility to life. And a little ingenuity can invent other considerations. But Anaximander (610–545?BC), Thales' successor, in additions to specific contributions to science, saw a difficulty in Thales' general cosmology. If water were he basic substance, he thought, fire could never have come into existence, for there is an essential antagonism between their peculiar qualities. For the same reason, if the substratum were fire, the existence of fire could not be explained.. Therefore, Anaximander assumed a Boundless that was neither wet or dry, hot or cold, but rather indeterminately both wet and dry, cold and hot. Thus, the matter of the universe was Boundless, not merely because it extended throughout infinite space, but also, and mainly, because it was not bounded, limited, or defined by any quality. This original substance produces the world and its content by a swirling motion that separates four qualities out of the chaotic mass. This swirl explains the revolution of the starts and planets. The third member of the Milesian school, Anaximenes (590–525BC) could not be persuaded to look for the universal substratum beyond the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 7. Foster Care And Adoption Is More Common Than Not Children roam around in schools, at work, on the playground, in the malls, and anywhere else a child would like to be. Young children are often accompanied by an adult, of which one would assume to be their parents or primary caregivers.In 2007 forty–eight million americans had considered adoption. Foster care has a goal, it is to help children in need be safe for the time being and try to reunited these children with their biological parents. Believe it or not foster care and adoption is more common than not. Many myths go around making children dread the system when in all reality the system is a support system there to help those children in need. Once the child is in a placement with a foster family, their ultimate goal is to provide the child in a safe, loving, nurturing environment until then can be reunified with their parents. These children get use to their foster family, some even grow rather fond of them and are attached, is it right to take away the only family they have ever really truly known? This can cause emotional arousal and distress on the child and the foster family. There are many people in the world who for some reason do have have the ability to have children. This does not mean they should not be a parent or that they cannot be a parent. Many of these families consider being foster parents or even adopting children so they can experience parenthood. Not everyone is meant to be a foster parents, although it is relatively easy to become a foster ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 9. Levinas vis-à-vis the Other Essay Levinas vis–à–vis the Other Philosophy, arising from its Greek tradition of a "love of wisdom", seeks to critically examine those questions most fundamental to humankind; it is concerned with essential concepts (or rather, questions) of being (metaphysics), rightness and goodness, knowledge, truth and beauty. As a branch of metaphysics, ontology seeks, in particular, to understand the nature of being (or existence) by placing objects within categories and organized totalities, while always assuming God as the first cause (causa sui). (Rebidoux) Yet as most philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Descartes each attest to their distinct definition of "being", there is an exception to these ontological contenders: Emmanuel Levinas. By ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Before evaluating Levinas' humanity–opening theories, however, it seems necessary to understand the process by which one can come to know the initial Other. For before the subject can enter into a just, fraternal relationship with the Other, he must be wholly prepared to welcome its face. According to Levinas, before encountering the Other, one is in a sleeping state within the Order of Being. Mundane and superficial, this Order allows only for categorization and objectification of things. At this stage even animate objects are reduced to their formal properties: a cat, for example, is classified according to its genus and species, recognized only as one instance of "cat"; a human, similarly, is reduced simply to another instance of humanity. (Rebidoux, 26 Jan 2004) It is from this state of perpetual sleep, Levinas orders, that one must awaken. Whilst sleeping within the Order of Being, one is instinctually awoken by the Infinite. This Infinite, according to Levinas, is a consciousness that occurs in revelation of the transcendence of the Other. (Rebidoux) The Infinite emerge as an appearance of unending depth that overflows both ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 11. Call Of Duty : Black Ops IIi Call of Duty: Black Ops III is an upcoming first–person shooter video game in the Call of Duty franchise, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. The game is a sequel to the 2012 game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and will be released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on November 6, 2015. Plot Single–player campaign Call of Duty: Black Ops III takes place in a dystopian future set in 2065, 40 years after the events of Black Ops II. Several countries around the world have developed high–tech air defenses that render air assaults useless. As such, most of the warfare between countries is done by covert operatives fighting behind enemy lines. Science and technology have radically changed both the landscape as well as the future of the human race, with society violently protesting and attempting to halt further advancements touted by scientists as "progress". Military technology has progressed to the point where robotics play a main role in combat, and supersoldiers have been developed to fight in the battlefield. Humans have reached the point where they are considered to be more machine than flesh and blood. As a result, there is speculation and fear about an eventual robotic takeover. The game will follow a team of black ops soldiers, like previous installments in the Black Ops series, with supersoldier capabilities. Zombies There are two confirmed Zombies storylines in Call of Duty: Black Ops III at the time of its ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 13. A Poem Essay: Who Am I? Who am I? I am a tall girl with chestnut hair, forest green eyes and sun–tanned skin. My physique sets me apart from the 7.4 billion other people on our planet. If, however, I were an identical twin, physical characteristics alone would not suffice to distinguish between my sister and me. Even though we would look the same, we would clearly be two different people. Therefore, we can conclude that a mere description of our physique cannot be considered a universal and comprehensive response to the question at hand, as it neglects other aspects of our identity. Our identity – encompassing numerous elements of being, among which: family, profession, culture, religion, sexuality, personality and emotions – is of unimaginable complexity, such that in a metaphorical sense it may be portrayed as infinite. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... may be answered by the following statement: I am infinity. This holds true from a bio–mathematical approach and a socio–cultural perspective, as well as in a metaphorical sense and in relationship to time. However, an element of concern with this definition is, that as a model answer to all, it would defeat a sense of uniqueness sought by individuals who try to distinguish themselves from their surroundings using the aforementioned question. Specifically, if I am infinity, and You are infinity (in the instance when you define yourself as I am infinity), then language alone cannot highlight the differences between you and me. Thus, the sheer word infinity would be deemed an insufficient response to the essay question; unless infinity were to be considered an infinite concept – infinity accounting for a variety of infinities. It is not within the scope of this essay to discuss whether infinity is truly an infinite concept; but if we were to assume it were not, we would need to contemplate whether I am infinity should be refined to the statement I am a part of infinity, to allow for differentiation among subjects answering the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 15. The Book Of Sand Finitude is the sole concept which pervades all walks of life; all regions of the world; all aspects of daily life and human society. It challenges our perceptions and potentially destroys dreams, making the viable inviable and even some difficulties impossibilities. Yet, are we truly confined to finitude for an infinitude of time, or is the universe an infinitude in which we, as a species, have yet to achieve our fullest potential? Jorge Luis Borges, in his short story "The Book of Sand", provides not only a set of answers to these questions, but also compounds it with remarkable perspective and insight into the nature of infinitude, our understanding of our own limitations, and how we naturally perceive the foreign concept of infinity as ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the first paragraph, Borges writes of the universe in a mathematical manner that relates the abstract generalization of the known to the unknown: "The line is made up of an infinite number of points; the plane of an infinite number of lines; the volume of an infinite number of planes; the hypervolume of an infinite number of volumes..." What we know about time and life, in this context, is continually growing, unlimited by any external force, such as the starting point of the evolution of human understanding of the universe. In this case, just as the Book of Sand has neither a starting point nor an end point, the universe does not have an end point, nor a clearly–defined, discernible, universally–agreed–upon start point. Infinite dimensions of the universe are infinite dimensions of thought; we can always expand our horizons, broaden our understanding to any infinite degree. So long as we operate in a truly infinite plane, our ideas and thoughts are unrestrained and infinite as ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 17. The Basic Idea Of Science THE BASIC IDEA "In the field of physical science it has been proved that absolutely everything can be scientifically reduced to one ultimate invisible Essence, something which cannot be contacted by the physical senses. It is therefore only reasonable to say that originally everything must have, and still does, come from It. According to one 's way of thinking, different names are given to It: Energy, Principle, Universal Intelligence, Universal Mind, Consciousness, Spirit, God." The Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, pg. 11 Infinite = One The number that best represents the infinite is not a very big number. Infinity is one, not two, or three or more. The infinite is not many, but one. The infinite is indivisible and inseparable. If ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... That too is an inescapable realization drawn from the premise of an infinite being. The Infinite cannot be one with just one of us. It must be one with every one of us. Each and everyone is one with the infinite One, God. If you doubt that Jesus came to this conclusion, then consider one question: Why did he say that when we pray we should pray to Our Father, rather than his Father? We are all one with the infinite One. I think that we must accept this premise because it is reasonable; but my insistence that others think and reason as I do would be unreasonable. Anyone can ignore the infinite One; they just can 't be separate or apart from It. We can ignore our heritage, our inheritance and our inherent nature. Nevertheless it is with us, even thou we deny it. You can ignore reality, but it doesn 't go away. One Reality The Apostle Paul wrote: "In him we live, and move, and have our being" [Acts 17:28] Jesus said: "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." [Lk. 17:21] God would have to be very small to be within all, and very large to include all. However, to resolve these two extremes, God need only be infinite. Remember what Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay, History: There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere. When we envision a God that is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent we are thinking of the infinite, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 19. Foster Care Provider Essay What are the Responsibilities of Foster Carer? Fostering can be a big responsibility that you need to realize before doing so. You must know all the process first, the procedures and all other things so you know how to handle a child. Though you really love to foster a child, you must meet the requirements to be a foster carer. You must have to follow what is needed for you to foster a child. Here are the following responsibilities of the foster carer that you must know: Caring for the children 1. You will provide daily care to the child or children that you need to look after. You need to know the demands on the child being separated from their family. 2. You need to be also responsible in implementing child's care plan including the tasks ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They must be encouraged as well in positive understanding about their origins, culture and religion. 5. You are there to support a child in developing relations to their parents. 6. The child or children must be able to move on to their lives in positive manner. This is what the first goal of foster caerer in London, the caring for the children where the child needs to feel this so they can be successfully fostered. Providing them the safest and loving environment 1. This is to ensure that they will be kept safe from any harm or abuse and they should know how they can get help if anything untoward may occur. 2. You must promote secure and safe attachment of the children to the adults that are capable of giving safe and very effective care. 3. To act to each of the child as advocate. Working as a part of the team 1. Will work with the agency and is going to work with the other agency staffs and professionals that are within the guidelines, procedures and policies. 2. Will attend to family meetings, reviews, conferences, court hearings if required, keep any written records regarding the placements and then contribute to the reports. 3. To join training opportunities then recognize the benefits of the continued training. The information on fostering will be a big help for ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 21. The Hands Of An Angry God By Jonathan Edwards For the sinners who fail to cleanse their loathsome, tainted souls, angering the omnipotent God whose hostility is presented in an infinite wrath, only a painful, torturing hell is held in their destinies. This terrifying, ominous threat, presented in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, amplifies the power of God, and renders a profound hatred toward impure sinners. Accordingly, through his usage of the powerful rhetoric exposed by allusion, imagery, and metaphor, Edwards produces a dangerous scene which effectively contributes to his formidable assertion regarding God's animosity toward those who sin, and his capacity to inflict vengeance upon those who are suspects. This horrifying malice is portrayed within ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them" (Edwards 1); this resolute description provides readers with an intense mental image which cements the idea that God has every capability to enforce a hellish punishment upon those who sin. Additionally, it is not only true that God wishes to inflict punishment which is inconceivable without the reference provided by Edwards, but that God loathes the sinners within a deep and profound standard, projected by the dramatically detailed metaphor promoted by Edwards. In his metaphorical message to the "unconverted" sinners, fit for the "pits of hell", Edwards clarifies God's hatred toward these accusers, stating that "his wrath towards you burns like fire...he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince" (Edwards 2). This comparison of hatred to the extreme, and agreeably odious actions and creatures, effectively describes the rivalry between God and those who commit acts of sinning. As presented by Edwards, sinning, an evil, and illicit religious act, prompts violent actions by the powerful, exasperated God as a method of punishment to those who are loathed convicts. To ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 23. Infinity : A Discussion On The History, Variations, And... A Discussion on the History, Variations, and Applications of Infinity Infinity is perhaps one of the most frequently encountered idea in today's world. This concept of endlessness is what people normally associate with when discussing infinity, and it has become something that we have integrated into everyday language. Although it may seem to be simple concept, infinity is actually a widely debated and argued topic, and it has shown to be more complex than it initially appears to be. There are many types of infinities and over the years, people have studied, proved, analyzed, and applied the concepts of infinities. It is important to note that, although infinity is essential to mathematics, there exist types of infinity beyond the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... From Pythagoras' standpoint, the whole world can be described and defined by a finite set of natural numbers. This is almost ironic because part of his Pythagorean Theorem results in Pythagorean triplets,which includes numbers such as √2, which require an understanding of infinity in order to define (Rucker). On the other hand, Aristotle acknowledged that there existed concepts that point towards the existence of infinite, but that would contradict his defined and finite world. So, in order to handle these cases, he came up with the idea of labeling sets as "potentially infinite" and not "actually infinite." An example of this is the set of integers {1,2,3...}, where Aristotle claims that they can be "potentially infinite" but not "actually infinite" (Allen). Essentially, Aristotle would simply deny the existence of an actually infinite set. At this time, people were beginning to study the notion of infinite more deeply and one of the forefront mathematicians to tackle infinity was Zeno. Zeno is most well known for his paradoxes that primarily look at infinity via the physical world. His first paradox deals with dichotomy, or the idea that one must first reach the halfway mark of a certain point, and then the halfway point of the halfway point, and so on. In terms of a sequence, dichotomy can be described as the sequence: {...1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1}. Zeno's other paradoxes are the Achilles and the tortoise paradox, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 25. Frankenstein Persuasive Speech On the event, a small, mindless child decides to throw stones and twigs at a fruit–bearing tree, what would that tree do? Would it be able to retaliate? Refuse to bear fruit? It decides to give to this child, the cream of it's crop, the best of it's fruit. While the child then runs away with his arms full of the fruit he had just received, he doesn't think much of what he had just witnessed. A lesson to be learned. In this same way, we witness nature providing us with everything we would need, yet we don't appreciate it, or understand it as well. You see, while this that child had gotten the fruit, he neglected to learn that when negativity, and the worst parts of life are thrown at you, you should throw your best back. Of course, mankind ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... We fail to realize there is an important system for everything. This stems from the idea that every living creature has a purpose. Nature has a fragile balance that needs to be preserved, or else it would fall quickly. One small change will destroy the basis of that foundation toppling everything that was done. Our system works in the same way. If we would make that one, damaging change, everything we built would surely fall. Reminding us that, while we accomplished so much, we are very much prone to making a mistake that could potentially reverse everything. Take in case a while ago, nearly half a century, wolves were hunted to near extinction at Yellowstone National Park to allow the elk population to grow. Over 130 wolves were killed, so soon Yellowstone was devoid of these canines. The elk population did indeed grow, and it spiraled out of control. The same happened with other ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 27. Argumentative Essay About Hunger Games The Reaping The citizens of each of twelve districts in Panem are forced to participate in the traumatizing, Hunger Games. Attempting to overthrow The Capitol, now each District must; sacrifice a boy and a girl who will later compete against twenty–two other people from the age ranges of twelve to eighteen. The Capitol established these games as a reminder they are in power. According to a citizen, Katniss Everdeen says "Attendance is mandatory unless you are at death's door. This evening, officials will come around and check to see if this is the case. If not, you'll be imprisoned. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty–four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death." Katniss also stated this about The Capitol "this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand for surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. "Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you." The Ceremony of Twelve In another community a very important ceremony is happening, The Ceremony of Twelves. At the ceremony, all of the children must line up in order with ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 29. Welcome Fellow Traveller Welcome fellow traveller, I understand you have journeyed far to be here. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I am known to many as Octavian. You may be tired after your long journey, please come in for some tea. Make yourself at home. In fact you are home! This is a simulated structure at the centre of your being. Made from good old fashioned imagination! It is your creation and what a fine job I must say. This crystal castle is one quordinate point within your infinite nature just as you are one point of view within infinite space. A certain angle of the whole, if you will. Because your innate essence is formless you have created this castle within your being for us to have a reference point in which we can discuss and experience a few things. In this space you can feel safe. A location you can locate your attention too as often as you like. Our meeting spot for you to project your adventure from. These walls are built from the fabric of stillness, and serenity is its foundation. Also I feel it is important to mention that this castle contains all the resources you may require for your adventures. Please feel free to roam around and discover the many delights this place has to offer. We shall use some of the rooms a little later on but for now I would like to introduce myself further. As I mentioned before my name is Octavian and I am a member of a collective known by some as the Wanderers of the Woven worlds. Yet this is not what we call ourselves, as we ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 31. Blaise Pascal, A 17Th Century Philosopher Known For His Blaise Pascal, a 17th century philosopher known for his work Pensées, or The Thoughts, serves as a voice of human limitation. Throughout his aphorisms, he clearly expresses the limitations of man as he refers to man's "inconstancy, boredom, [and] anxiety" and claims that man should "know [his] nothingness" (Pascal 33, 28) Pascal holds a pessimistic view towards man's position in the world and ultimately deems man to be "utter(ly) worthless" (Pascal vii). Pascal's disappointment towards the limitations of mankind ultimately causes him to contradict the beliefs of Descartes who strives to find "just one thing, however slight, that is certain and unshaken" in order to distinguish true from false with absolute certainty by identifying a firm, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Infinitely far from grasping the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are for him invincibly hidden in an impenetrable secret; and he is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he is drawn, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up. (Pascal 5) Pascal views the human condition through a substantially dark, pessimistic perspective. He believes man holds an incredibly insubstantial position in the world, for he is "limited in all respects" and merely occupies a sort of mid–position between nothing and everything (Pascal 7). Man lives a short life that stands as a mid–point between the eternity that precedes him and the eternity that will follow him. Man has no way of knowing for certain what came before him or what will come after him; after all, how could such a small, fragile, perishable, and limited thing have any certain knowledge of anything vast, imperishable, and unlimited? The nature of man is to be nothing more than a part of a whole, and "if man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going beyond himself" (Pascal 8). Man, according to Pascal, refuses to accept his puniness and limitations. We refuse to accept that our very nature is minuscule and limited in the grand scheme of eternity. "Is not the duration of our life still infinitesimal within eternity, even if ten years be added to it?" (Pascal 8). Unlike the infinite, we are finite, perishable ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 33. The Physics Of Fractions As A Child Introduction: Ever since I first learned about fractions as a child, I was always heavily agitated by the fact that every time I would ask my teacher about dividing by zero, or have a calculator perform a equation where a non–zero number was divided by zero, I would just be told there was no solution. I wondered for years about why there simply was no practical way to express a number divided by zero, until I learned about something strangely similar to dividing a number by zero, being black holes, or a gravitational singularity (a single point in space with a certain mass, equating to a density where the mass of the object is divided by zero). Just like dividing by zero, black holes are usually represented as an undefined point in ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... A counterargument could be immediately made that black holes do have a volume, but for clarification, this is in terms of its' singularity, not its' event horizon (or the critical radius), which is the black part of the hole that light does not escape from, as it is the point in which light can no longer escape, as the escape velocity (the speed required to break free of an object's gravity, according to physlink.com) is greater than the speed of light. Now that this is established, representing the "infinite" density of a black hole is difficult to understand, similarly in terms of the function 1/x, because like how the x– value on the graph approaches the asymptote of zero on the x– axis from positive infinity, the y–value gradually leaves the asymptote of zero on the y– axis to approach infinity, being not the largest possible number, but instead a filled space that has no bounds, such as a star that is shining light into all directions in space forever, therefore filing this ongoing void with light. That is infinity, so in terms of this essay, the light could be represented as 1/∞. If the light were to be replaced with mass, the volume of said mass would effectively be the opposite of a black hole, being an infinite number of some sort, with the density being calculated by dividing it's mass by infinity of some sort, representing it's volume. In simple fractions, they could likely be expressed as a circle or some other shape split into ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 35. Analysis Of The Poem ' Miss Dawn ' The Infinilights Rosabelle Dawn was distracted and getting on her teacher's nerves. Rosabelle 's eyes were darting around the room following a little light that nobody else could see. The teacher, Mrs. Kay, decided to take care of it, "Rosabelle, What is the 5th root of 32?" Rosebelle was terrified, she had absolutely no idea. "2?" "2? Or 2." Mrs. Kay said as she looked straight into Rosabelle's eyes "you need to know these things Rosabell." Rosabelle felt that this was about more than math. Lately Mrs. Kay has been asking her to "stand firm", whatever that means. "I would like to be called Rosie and I know the answer is two." Rosie said solidly even though she was not completely sure with what she was saying. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... When she finished a gold infinity sign materialized on her hand. She started to peal the gold off and ate the chocolate. Bonnie lit up for a short time. "That's so cool!" Rosabelle said. "Oh, you haven't seen anything yet!" Bonnie remarked. Rosie was getting more and more excited. "Watch this!" Bonnie snapped her fingers so that her pointer finger glowed. She drew an infinity sign in the air that materialized into a bendy wire. She grabbed the ends of it and bent them together that formed a sort of wings. The infinilight pinched the little "x" in the middle and strategically placed them on her back and started... Flying!? "To finish it off..." Bonnie returned to the ground and traced another infinity sign on her entire body. She lifted the transparent sign off her and moved her hands as if she was zooming in on a touch–screen. As the infinity sign shrunk she did too! Rosabell Penny Dawn could not believe her enormous eyes. "That's Impossible!" "No it's not." Bonnie repeated the process to get back to normal size. She softly pinched Rosie." See it's all real, Rosie." "Now I have a HUGE question for you" Bonnie said with a suspicious grin.
  • 36. "What!?" out of all the surprises today Rosie never could have expected what Bonnie asked her. *** Bonnie took an exaggerated deep breath,"Do you want to be an infinilight?' "Uh..." Rosie was absolutely stunned, "well, what ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 38. Infinity Research Paper The infinity symbol was introduced many years ago. The meaning of infinity was believed to be used dating as far back as 400 BC. The symbol and definition that is currently used for infinity is mostly used in mathematics. The infinity symbol and definition has previously had different meanings, but basic concepts of what infinity represents have remained the same. Throughout history, not only did it represent mathematical thoughts, infinity had religious representation as well. The Upanishad, which were texts recorded by people of the Hindu religion, used the idea of infinity. They were the first to be known for the thought of something being infinite, but not in a mathematical way their philosophy was "if you remove a part from whole or add a part to whole, still what remains is whole" (OnlineClock.net). ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Though the definition was not in mathematical terms, the concept related to the idea which was used in mathematical terms. The Ancient Greeks also contributed to the idea of infinity. At the time Ancient Greeks did not define the word infinity, but were aware of the concepts from their surroundings. Since Ancient Greeks spent a lot of time studying the planets and stars, the thought of there being no beginning or end formed. Which is the current definition for infinity. The scientist Isaac Newton later made contributions to infinity. Isaac Newton "produced a theory on small numbers or infinitesimals as they are now known" (OnlineClock.net). Although Isaac Newton did put some sense to the idea of infinity, there was still some confusion dealing with the concept of infinity. Galileo Galilei then created the Galileo's Paradox which showed that "set of counting numbers can correspond with smaller sets of their squares". (OnlineClock.net). The understanding of infinity that is ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 40. Why Math Is Important To Me Essay Math is one of those subjects that we tend to find the least accessible and the least applicable to our lives. After all, who is ever going to need to use Fermat's Little Theorem or the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic in their everyday life besides a handful of individuals? The easiest answer to this prompt, then, is to say that math is going to influence the ways I create and craft budgets in my production management career. However, that answer is no more interesting that saying that knowing how to add helps you pay your bills every week. Perhaps the best answer to this prompt is not in what math can do for me on a practical level, but rather it is in what math can help illuminate for me. When I started this course, I believed math to be the essential foundation for our everyday activities (and that is still true). But as this course ends, I have come to understand math as more than just how to encrypt information online securely. Math has the ability to shape how we perceive and understand the complex machinery of the world. It makes it simpler, certainly, but it also makes us wonder about how intricate and expansive parts of our lives are. Think about a concept like infinity–an idea I spoke briefly about in my exam, but which I want to come back to here. I use the word everyday in my life, rarely mathematically, but often as an abstract notion. After our lesson on infinity, I found myself thinking deeply about what it means for something to be infinite. Not just in a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 42. The Mathematical Concept of Infinity The implications of infinity (co) are actualiy not that old. The Greeks were some of the first mathematicians recorded to have imagined the concept of infinity. However, they did not actuaily delve into the entirety of this number. The Greeks used the term "potentially infinite," for the concept of an actual limitless value was beyond their comprehension. The actual term "infinity" was defined by Georg Cantor, a renowned German mathematician, in the late nineteenth century. It was originally used in his Set Theory, which is a very important theory to the mathematical world. The value of infinity can get a bit confusing, as there are different types of infinity. Many claim that infinity is not a number. This is true, but it does have a value. So, infinity may be used in mathematical equations as the greatest possible value. i The value of infinity Infinity (00) is the greatest possibleivalue that can exist. However, there are different infinities that, by logic, are greater than other forms of itself. Here is one example: to the set of ait Naturai numbers Z43, 2, 3, 4,...}, there are an infinite amount of members. This is usualiy noted by Ko, which is the cardinality of the set of alt natural numbers, Likewise, in the set of ail Real numbers RU, 1.1, 1.11, 1.111,...} there are an infinite amount of members as weli. This sets cardinality is represented by t' or, as Cantor proved in 1874, N1. it there are an infinite amount of Real values between each of the infinite amount of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 44. The Negative Impacts Of Violent Video Games The negative impacts that are associated with violent gaming are a growing list. These many negative effects could build up into a more serious situation, with all of the possible outcomes of these side–effects mixing together it could quite possibly take a turn for the worse. The use of violent video games could cause players to participate in criminal violence, because of the increased levels of aggression and rage. NBC News reported of a gory incident in January of 2013, which involved Nehemiah Griego and his murderous actions toward his parents and three of his siblings in his home. The fifteen year old boy killed his family because he had been angry with his mother in the days before the murders. When questioned about his family, the boy was emotionless, but immediately after the investigators asked what his interests were, his face lit up and he immediately began reminiscing about his favorite video games, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Grand Theft Auto (2013). Common sense media explains the game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, with a vivid description; a "bloody military shooting game with disturbing cinematic moments" (n.d.). Could Griego's avid gaming schedule, and love for the bloody first–person shooting game be slightly related to his urge to kill (2013b)? His decision to kill all the occupants of his house did not solely result from one night of gaming, for it was an accumulation of risk factors. It is likely that his love for gaming could have had an ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 46. Relation Regress Argument Analysis In this essay, I will explain and evaluate the relation regress argument against resemblance nominalism, by arguing in favour of the relation regress argument. Firstly, I will define what resemblance nominalism and the relation regress argument is. Then, I will look at the plausibility of and concerns about Russell's relation regress argument, by comparing it to various counterexamples which argue in favour of resemblance nominalism and are against the relation regress argument. Finally, I will demonstrate why the relation regress argument seems more plausible than arguments in favour of resemblance nominalism. Resemblance nominalism is a type of nominalism which describes that some objects resemble each other and others do not. The resemblance ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Qualitative economy would be to restrict the kinds of objects to the least, while quantitative economy is to restrict the number of objects in each kind to the least. It is quantitatively more economical to admit to resemblance universals than to hypothesise a universal for each resemblance, according to D. Nolan. So, only the relation of resemblance is accepted as a universal. This seems counter–intuitive, to accept the existence of universals only when it suits an argument and to decry its existence outside of that. Therefore, it seems more plausible to admit to the existence of universals in general, not just as resemblance ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 48. The Miami Heat-Personal Narrative It all started mid January a few years back. My father asked me if I wanted to go to an Atlanta Hawks basketball game because, the Miami Heat would be in town to play. So of–course I said yes! He ended up getting four tickets through his company which meant Amazing seats that were pretty much court side. Dad told me I could invite anyone I wanted and that he was inviting my friend Anthony's Dad Tony. Tony was quite the character not one you'd look up to but cool to hangout with. He was about a foot shorter than me, bald, and couldn't say no to a drink. The next day in weight training I asked my buddy Rj if he was down to go to the Hawks vs Heat game in which he uttered the obvious yes. So a Few weeks pass highly anticipating the big game the big night finally arrives on Saturday. On Friday Rj caught a ride home with me and we were going to hang out at my house. We spent most on the night up late on the Xbox 360 playing ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It was slam packed but luckily we got through security fairly quick. We sat down and watched the game go back and forth the lead switching from team to team. We all got hungry so we headed to the concessions stands and all the card readers were messed up. This caused an astronomical line at the ATM which we were sadly in. The only place the card machine was working was the Royal Crown bar which Tony had went and got his fair share of drinks. Eventually we decided to go sit back down and finish the game. The heat won by a landslide which came to no surprise. Then we made the pilgrimage back to Tonys home. Driving back we stopped and Hooters to eat because it was the only place open at midnight around where we were. We left at 1 am and got to Tonys house to drop him off about 30 minutes later. We we got there he said , "hey man whatcha think about the car?" then I told him I loved it. He then asked me over and over again if i wanted to drive it I finally gave in. I grabbed his ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 50. How Did Plato Contribute To Geometry Plato and Archimedes: Two Great Mathematicians of All Time Plato is one of the greatest mathematicians and teachers of geometry to ever live. To some, he is known as the "maker of math." He himself made an academy that stressed mathematics as a way of understanding reality. He founded this academy in 387 BCE. According to one website, "... he was convinced that geometry was the key to unlocking the secrets to the universe." Plato had many contributions in mathematics and geometry that helped in the past and still help in the present. One thing that Plato did, that he probably best known for, is his identification of 5 3D symmetrical shapes. The 5 shapes were: the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the cube, the icosahedron, and the dodecahedron. The tetrahedron, which Plato represented as fire, is made of 4 triangles. The octahedron, which Plato represented as air, is made of 8 triangles. The icosahedron, which is what Plato represents as water, is made of 20 triangles. The cube, represented as earth according to Plato, is made of 6 squares. The dodecahedron, which Plato describes it as "the god used for ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Most Greek's avoided the concept of actual infinity. Even mathematicians like Euclid said that there were more prime numbers than any given finite number. The same website states, "Archimedes, however, in the "Archimedes Palimpsest", went further than any other Greek mathematician when, on compared two infinitely large sets, he noted that they had an equal number of members, thus for the first time considering actual infinity, a concept not seriously considered again until Georg Cantor in the 19th Century." That proves that Archimedes was very smart and very exact in his measurements because he was the only one really to even think and use infinite numbers in a long period of time. That also proves that he discovered many things and though outside the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 52. Essay on Arguments Against Skepticism If I tried to simply tell a skeptic, "That rock will fall from the cliff because of gravity," he won't believe me because he will simply say, "Not necessarily." In fact, this can be the skeptic's answer to just about any attempt to refute his position. It has long been pointed out by opponents of skepticism that such an attitude cannot be taken to its extreme conclusion in the real world in which we operate– even skeptics must live their lives according to rules they must rely upon not to fail. Skepticism (and all philosophy) cannot avoid the cumbersome nature of human language and the simple fact that the only tool humans have to investigate the nature of existence is the brain, which spawns coherent thoughts in a lingual form. In day ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... However, insofar as the skeptic poses the external question from the comfort of her armchair, Carnap will reply that ``Unless and until they supply a clear cognitive interpretation, we are justified in our suspicion that their question is a pseudo–question, that is, one disguised in the form of a theoretical question while in fact it is non–theoretical '"**** "Calling philosophical propositions meaningless is usually very antagonistic; it amounts to using fighting words. Some of the less thoughtful critics of Carnap see him as (solely) making this kind of pejorative value judgment. Those who use ``positivist'' as a kind of academic curse word regard Carnap as merely arguing that philosophers should find something more useful (and more scientific!) to do than chasing their tails worrying about skepticism. This image of an antagonistic stance is bolstered by Carnap's intimate involvement with the Vienna Circle who is known to have gone through the Tractatus line–by–line declaring each proposition true, false, or meaningless. While there are certainly overtones of this pejorative attitude, a moment's reflection on the text will show how this is a completely wrongheaded interpretation of the claim that skepticism is a meaningless doctrine. For Carnap, a terms gets its meaning only in virtue of its role within a linguistic framework. ``If someone wishes to speak in his language about a new kind of entities [sic], he has to introduce a system ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 54. Aristotle 's Ideas Of Potential Infinity Aristotle supported the idea of "potential infinity" but refuted the idea of "actual infinity". He defined potential infinity by saying if you are counting natural numbers, logic would tell us that we can always add one to the previous number and that can potentially go on forever. He also said that we could potentially use this logic in geometry if we imagined a line that extended beyond both points with no recognizable end. On the contrary, actual infinity seems paradoxical because even if we had an infinite number of "things" in a category then infinity would still be "whole" in a sense with a beginning and an end. Aristotle's ideas were supported for many centuries ("Aristotle", n.d.). The philosopher Zeno of Elea (495–435 B.C.E.) came up with the idea of "infinite divisibility". The basic concept of the theory was that you could take any object, cut it in half, cut those halves in half, and so on until you reached the end of the divisibility process and were left with only particles, or "elements" as he called them. The first conclusion he drew from this theory was that the elements were essentially nothing, which meant that the sum of all the pieces made the whole object nothing. The second conclusion was that the elements were something but that they had no size, which meant that the sum of the whole object also had no size. The last conclusion was that the elements are something and they do have a size. But that would mean that you would never reach the end of the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 56. The, And, By Ernest Holmes Ernest Holmes addresses a trepidation we may have when giving: our resources will be temporarily depleted. It is common sense that the more we give, the less we have; but there is a principle at work which defies common sense, because the appearance of loss and lack is deceptive. Once we have sown a seed our hands are empty, but the soil is full and soon we will have our hands full with the harvest of that seed. If we had held onto that seed, there would be no harvest and we would eventually be empty–handed. However, giving in a principled manner does not incur a loss, but gains. Giving, as a matter of principle, is the difference between gaining more or having less. Of course, if we go through the motions of giving – appearing to give, but actually throwing money away in an unprincipled manner, then we have simply wasted our time, and our treasure. Not every seed sown, grows; some fall on hard, stony ground and never take root. Not every prayer is heard and answered; some fall on deaf ears – our own. Having ears, we hear not. Having eyes, we see not. And having our hands full, we give not. It is a shame, because we could give, have and enjoy more. DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Holmes relates the responsiveness of Life to the idea that Nature abhors a vacuum. In an infinite universe, there cannot be an empty void, a place where God is not. All space, all vessels, all containers must be filled with something. So, when something is drawn out of one place, more is drawn ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 58. Writing to David Vonderhaar, Game Design Director Writing to David Vonderhaar Game Design Director Introduction: Sledgehammer games making the next Call of Duty It seems like every year since 2007, Call of Duty has been the same game and for the past 6 years, fans of the series are getting a little frustrated and tired of it. Paying $60 for the same game but from a different developer each year, well this article has everyone asking these questions: What do you think Sledgehammer's Call of Duty will be? What will be the strategies of this tactic? Will this new studio bring Call of Duty to newer heights? BackGround: The Purpose of Sledgehammer games getting into the mix with Infinity Ward and Treyarch Call of Duty has been around since 2003, Call of Duty 2 in 2005 was a huge hit with the release of the Xbox 360. In 2006 Call of Duty 3 was not that good of a game. In 2007, Call of Duty revolutionized the game with a new engine to help with multiplayer but ever since then Call of Duty feels like it is the same game every year Activision is preparing to fix this problem with Sledgehammer games creating the next Call of Duty for 2014, they helped with the Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer back in 2011. Activision feels that this move will give the developers enough time to create better ideas for DLC, (which stands for Downloadable Content) and for the game as a whole. DLC has been out since 2008 and it is an extension to the game with new maps and cameos with mainly focusing on the multiplayer ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 60. The Infinite Desert: A Fictional Narrative Everything was the same this night. The woman's house still stood, isolated on the slopping hill on the edge of the sleeping town. The single light in the house still shown through red–veined windows, casting shadows on the chair where the woman sat, but she was not in it. Every night the woman leaves in the unbroken night. No one sees her leave. She silently dissolves into the night. The woman travels to the same place every night. She is always unaware of the journey she had taken to come to this place, to stand with weary, weathered feet on this distant earth that was not so unfamiliar anymore. She was not concerned, just tired from her journey here she always presumed. The earth beneath her scorched her bare feet. The torrid sands surrounded the woman, stretching themselves like waves infinitely in all directions. This place knew no night. It was always day and the sun, which loomed over the sands, selfishly monopolized the sky. Having traveled to this place every night for the past three years the woman knew that if she walked west she would come to an isolated arrangement of statues. She walked west, after a time not feeling the sands beneath her feet, not feeling anything. When she came upon the statues she sat down before them as she did every night enjoying their mild company in this desolate place. The five statues stood in a crescent configuration. They were all depictions of human forms carved from a pure white, metamorphic stone. The woman ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 62. Pascal : The Benefits Or Drawbacks For Believing Blaise Pascal used probability theory to show the benefits or drawbacks for believing in God. Pascal believed that reason could not show if God existed or not. He proposed that people must "wager" one way or the other on the sides of believing in God. He states God will, reward whoever accepts him, and infinitely punish or abandon whoever rejects him. Pascal's argument is wise in the aspect that it persuades people to believe in a being, without proof of this being. Pascal's wager is stout as it appeals to people's own happiness/self–interest, but displays a weakness as only discusses the possibility of the existence of an all–good God which can be refuted by his own statement. Pascal's wager does a tremendous job in pitting the ideas of infinite gain and infinite loss against each other. Pascal's wager goes as follows, if one accepts God and God exists, then a person will gain an infinite reward, but if God does not exist one will suffer some finite loses or if one does not accept God and God exists, then a person will suffer infinite loss, but if God does not exist one will gain some finite rewards. This argument can be expressed mathematically for the acceptance of God as well, if the probability of God existing is any number greater than zero, then the infinite multiplier from God existing would result in the utility being infinitely positive. The other aspect for if God does not exist, would result in the multiplication of the minute probability of God existing, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 64. Character Analysis Of Clara In Isabel Allende's The House... Most people have strength. Some are weak, but those who believe in themselves show courage. In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty–Four, Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Jon Krakauer Into the Wild some of the characters represent courage . Clara in "The House of the spirits " represents strength since she described to be very calm and patient . Clara never fights her destiny. She's not, however, passive. Usually those who wants to know their destiny goes insane but Clara knows what she has to do to experience it . When she faces a situation that she does not like, she proceeds to change it in quiet, subtle ways, such as adding little rooms to the big house. Clara's character changes very little as she grows from a young girl ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Meanwhile, Vladimir Makarov, one of Zakhaev's former lieutenants, begins a campaign against Europe by committing brutal acts of terrorism over the course of five years. In Afghanistan, U.S. Army Ranger PFC Joseph Allen assists his commanding officer Sgt. Foley in training the local soldiers until he gets called to run a training course overseen by Lieutenant General Shepherd, who was recruiting one of the Rangers for a special operation. After completing the course, Allen and the rest of the 75th Ranger Regiment assists in the taking of a city from local OpFor soldiers. Impressed by Allen's abilities, General Shepherd recruits him into "Task Force 141", an elite, multi–national counter–terrorist unit under Shepherd's command. Meanwhile, two other members of 141, Cpt. 'Soap' MacTavish and Sgt. Gary 'Roach' Sanderson infiltrate a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan mountains to retrieve an ACS (Attack Characterization System) module from a downed satellite. During their infiltration, Soap orders Roach to plant explosives to cover their escape, but compromised while retrieving the ACS. While they are pursued by enemy forces, both men manage to escape with the module.Allen later sent on an undercover ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 66. Call Of Duty: Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Call of duty is a game franchise that amazes with every new release and with the new cod infinite warfare, coming in November. One would like to celebrate it by comparing Call of duty stories to real life war. Warning one will only be using the story from Cod Modern Warfare up to black ops 3 so there will be no call of duty classic or the originals or Cod Ghosts. There will also be some zombies content. let's see how it fairs with Cod4 or Call of duty Modern warfare. It was released in 2007. In the game you play as the Americans and only the Americans even though you play as 3 different people. You play as John, Soap, Mactavish and Sergeant Paul Jackson, and captain Price who back then was probably a private. (http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Modern_Warfare(series)) In one of the missions there was an assault on Al–Asad's capital. Where someone detonates a nuclear bomb killing off Sergeant Jackson. Sadly, one wasn't able to find information on this so this could not be correct. In call of duty World at war which was made in 2008 you play as 2 factions well countries military forces. The first few missions you play as the United States military and you are battling Japan's military. In real life ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Note I won't be using the past stories in the game only futuristic parts. In the future you are hunting a bad guy named Raul Menendez who killed Woods team and captured him. (http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II) Woods wanted revenge on Raul for his team and in 2025 they have more tech. There are V–tols or planes that take off like helicopters are real except they are unmanned. (http://www.popsci.com/military) Those are actually pretty cool now one would love to have one. Oh yeah in multiplayer there is something called a hunter killer drone the Air force wants them in real life. They want there to be thousands of them to take down missiles and enemy planes. Send in the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 68. Question 2. Review The Scholarly Literature Within The QUESTION 2 Review the scholarly literature within the field of your program specialization related to your proposed (or School–approved) dissertation topic. Analyze the reviewed literature to determine what is already known about your proposed (or School–approved) dissertation topic and what remains unknown. Synthesize your findings and evaluate how a study on your proposed (or School– approved) dissertation topic could be designed to advance the scholarly research in this area while maintaining ethical research requirements. Literature Review The purpose of this paper is to present a literature review on the school–approved dissertation topic: "How do foster parents describe the experiences and engagement in family ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Studies about FPM in the foster care system indicates that engagement is an important component to achieving permanency for foster children (Boldis, & Tomlinson, 2014; Crampton, Usher, Wildfire, Webster, & Cuccaro–Alamin, 2011). It has been demonstrated that FPM increases biological family members ' participation in permanency planning (Crampton, Usher, Wildfire, Webster, & Cuccaro– Alamin, 2011; Gladstone et al., 2012; Montserrat, L?pez, Bravo, & del Valle, 2013). Permanency is more likely to be long term when biological families are active members of the FPM (Balsells, Pastor, Mateos, Vaquero, & Urrea, 2015; Boldis, & Tomlinson, 2014; Crampton, Usher, Wildfire, Webster, & Cuccaro–Alamin, 2011; Steen, & Duran, 2013). However, there is a gap in research on FPM and permanency planning through the team approach of decision–making that is inclusive of foster parents. The school–approved topic is "How do foster parents describe the experiences and engagement in family partnership meetings and permanency planning?" This study looks to expand on the concept of foster parents as professional members of a multidisciplinary team through their engagement in FPM and permanency planning. Role Theory Role theory is a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 70. Saas Provider : A Private Data Center Essay In this paper, we assume that there is a SaaS provider who owns a private data center which comprise a finite number of local servers which implements virtualization concepts to run user jobs. The SaaS provider is assumed to have the ability to seamlessly scale up the capacity of its services by renting for On–demand VM instances from the public Cloud when there is a spike in resource demand. The provider can as well scale down the rented VM instances once they are not needed. Since the rendering of service with local servers and the renting of the public Cloud resources is associated with much monetary cost, it is imperative for the SaaS provider to reduce such cost. The obvious challenge of the SaaS provider is therefore, how to reduce the operational cost involved in leveraging the resources available (private and public Cloud) to process the incoming dynamic user jobs. This involves the decision on the number of VMs to rent and when to rent them so that cost is minimized, whereas user performance requirement is not sacrificed even in the presence of compute node(physical server) and communication link failure. Generally, a job is first directed to the private Cloud. However, once the private VMs are busy and the waiting time of the job has exceeded its threshold delay value Wk, then the scheduler decides on the number of VMs to rent based on the runtime estimate of the job, the availability–state of the VMs and their associated prices. In subsection 4.1, we give the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 72. Questions On The Nature Of Interpretation Hypothetical Misinterpretation Jerrold Levinson, a prominent hypothetical intentionalist, through his explanation of the relationship between artworks and exploratory interpretations, has gone under criticism for allowing misinterpretations to be deemed as valid "could mean" options. However, one finds when reading "Two Notions of Interpretation" and "Intention and Interpretation in Literature" that these criticisms are effectively countered by two arguments that Levinson presents. Firstly, although the exploratory mode of inquiry can have multiple, if not infinite, could mean answers, it also has could not mean answers. These could not mean interpretations provide insight into the work and allow for interpretations to be judged on a scale ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Because they are ludic and not grounded in physical realities one can come up with multiple "correct" interpretations that are sound but mutually exclusive. To construe what something could mean, Levinson proposes that we, as interpreters, be pragmatic and use logic in combination with our given knowledge of the contexts of works to determine their interpretations. Although there exists an impulse to either exclusively use does mean or could mean modes of inquiry, like an x–ray for the former and a metaphor for the latter, the two modes actually have mutual implications. To examine an x–ray for what it means is to postulate what it could mean and then come to an apt conclusion. To examine a metaphor is to find what is a plausible response in a determinative context of semantic possibilities. There also exist instances of purely could mean inquiries, says Levinson, like the infinite volumes of Babel, but without a does mean interpretation available, as there are no intentions behind the works, the infinite possible could mean interpretations create an absence of meaning. It is here I would like to extend the definition of does mean interpretation beyond scientific knowledge based answers, to include hypothetical DM interpretations. Although we will see how authorial ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 74. Pascal, The Founder Of The Pascal 's Wager Blaise Pascal was the founder of the Pascal's Wager. Pascal was a French philosopher, an inventor, a mathematician, a scientist and a theologian. Pascal extended a reason to believe in God, even though other people had beliefs that God is not real and his existence is not inconceivable. The Pascal's Wager was a second–person communication. It showed that Pascal conceptualizes an individual forced to decide between the belief in God and not to believe in him. An example of what Pascal would demonstrate this as if, one was in a coin toss game, one side you conclude to believe and the other side you don't. There are different outcome each time you play and there are different circumstances that can affect the outcome. There are a few possible outcomes are the following. You bet that he does exist, the outcome is he does, that 's an infinite gain for you. You bet that he exists, the outcome is he doesn't, that's an infinite loss for you. You bet that he does not exist and the outcome is he does, that's an infinite loss for you. You bet that He does not exist, and the outcome he doesn't, that's an infinite gain for you. Pascal claimed betting on his existence was irrational. That if you bet on the existence of God that there stands of an infinite reward (gain) that he does exist that can be represented by an eternity in paradise, and the uncertainty of a miniature risk that can be represented by whatever physically causes your happiness would waive during your life. A ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 76. Comparison Of Halo And Call Of War Let's analyze this. Halo and its single player campaign held a vast universe and followed the Spartan warriors into battle to save the Earth from the alien invasion of 2 different races while Call of Duty has switched from World War 2 and the Modern era. I must say, the World War 2 story lines were quite boring, being the same in almost every way, but the Modern Warfare story line caught my attention. With the evil villain Makarov and the twists and turns the story made in Modern Warfare 2, I was on the edge of my seat. But, Halo was in every way better in the single–player front. Following genetically enhanced Spartan warriors into battle fighting off hordes of aliens I was amazed with how deep the story got and how Bungie used every asset they could to enhance the story further in a not so crazy way. Ah co–op. The lovely days of playing a game with a friend right beside you on a Saturday will never be forgotten. When co–op was finally introduced into the CoD series in World at War, I was very impressed. The co–op campaign ability never really took for me, but what really got me and the rest of the world was Zombies. Nazi ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This finally paragraph will analyze the uniqueness of each game. Starting with Halo, the Forge mode brought to us by Halo 3 revolutionized multiplayer maps and gametypes far beyond what we could've imagined. Also, the theater mode brought by Halo 3 helped the creative minds of the community. Now Call of Duty...well Call of Duty didn't really bring that much uniqueness but it did help evolve the modern fast paced shooter into what it is now. In addition, the 60 frames per second on that game makes it a Call of Duty title while Halo and basically all other games lack that aspect. As I've said too many people, Halo is a crappy game at the start that eventually evolves into a giant while CoD is awesome until exploits in the game are ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 78. The Traversal Of The Infinite Finiteness has to do with the existence of boundaries. Intuitively, we feel that where there is a separation, a border, a threshold – there is bound to be at least one thing finite out of a minimum of two. This, of course, is not true. Two infinite things can share a boundary. Infinity does not imply symmetry, let alone isotropy. An entity can be infinite to its "left" – and bounded on its right. Moreover, finiteness can exist where no boundaries can. Take a sphere: it is finite, yet we can continue to draw a line on its surface infinitely. The "boundary", in this case, is conceptual and arbitrary: if a line drawn on the surface of a sphere were to reach its starting point – then it is finite. Its starting point is the boundary, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The second thesis is that every substance is made up of simpler substances. The two mathematical antinomies relate to the infinite. The answer to the first is: "Since the world does not exist in itself (detached from the infinite regression), it exists unto itself neither as a finite whole nor as an infinite whole." Indeed, if we think about the world as an object, it is only logical to study its size and origins. But in doing so, we attribute to it features derived from our thinking, not affixed by any objective reality. Kant made no serious attempt to distinguish the infinite from the infinite regression series, which led to the antinomies. Paradoxes are the offspring of problems with language. Philosophers used infinite regression to attack both the notions of finiteness (Zeno) and of infinity. Ryle, for instance, suggested the following paradox: voluntary acts are caused by wilful acts. If the latter were voluntary, then other, preceding, wilful acts will have to be postulated to cause them and so on ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Either the definition is wrong (voluntary acts are not caused by wilful acts) or wilful acts are involuntary. Both conclusions are, naturally, unacceptable. Infinity leads to unacceptable conclusions is the not so hidden message. Zeno used infinite series to attack the notion of finiteness and to demonstrate that finite things are made of infinite quantities of ever–smaller things. Anaxagoras said that there is no "smallest ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...