|
|
|
» Browse Other Term Papers
Aquinas First Proof Of The Existence Of God
Number of Words: 447 / Number of Pages: 2
... of ability too. When the wood is in this state, it has no action to transfer, and therefore is obviously not the first to act. The fire, although able to transfer the action, must have been at one time in the state of ability too, and therefore was acted upon, making it not the first too act.
The first to act is understood to be God. God is that which has action, but did not receive the action from another object. God was never in the state of ability too. God is only action, making God the beginning action.
Aquinas developed a proof that I can, in some ways, agree with. He basically argues that ...
|
|
The Newbury Centralized School
Number of Words: 1703 / Number of Pages: 7
... first, in 1925, the future school’s price was calculated at $85,000.
This calculation was reached by an architect, whose name was Walter A.
Rabold, was hired by the Board of Education to draw up plans and reach an
estimate (Bottger Newbury’s One Room Schools) . This price was beyond
what the community was willing to pay for it. They were unwilling to pay
as proof shown by a vote which the Board held in May of 1925 for the
community. The people of the township were notified of the vote by an ad
that was placed by the Board in The Geauga Republican Record. After the ad
had been in the paper for a ...
|
|
Making Sense Of The Plagues: The Education Of Pharaoh
Number of Words: 295 / Number of Pages: 2
... and take in your hand the staff that was
turned into a snake. Say to him, 'YHVH, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you
to say, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness." But
until now you have not listened.' Thus says YHVH, "By this you shall know that I
am YHVH." See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is
in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood. (Sh'mot [Exodus] 7:14-17)
In this account of the warning of the first plague (blood), there are several
details which show up again in some - but not all - of the other plagues:
1) Mosheh warns Pha ...
|
|
Are We Alone In This Universe
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... system. Hence Astronomers have to bring about a different technique to solve this problem. One such technique that is developed recently is called spectroscopy. Light coming out of a planet could tell researchers about the nature of the planet. Different characteristics of the planet could be studied and different conclusions can be drawn as to the questions of life and existence. One of the basic things that could be studied is the temperature of the planet. If a planet is very close to a hotter and brighter star, then temperature would obviously be high enough to make life unbearable there. Moreov ...
|
|
Stakeholder Relations
Number of Words: 1494 / Number of Pages: 6
... is a modern high street retailer offering fresh foods, groceries, and household needs.
The Kwik Save division was introduced to Somerfield when they announced their unconditional merger on March 20, 1998. Kwik Save’s philosophy is to provide a full range of quality products at the lowest price on the high street. The idea was all about no frills low pricing. Somerfield started a £1 billion programme to convert Kwik Save stores to Somerfield and also modernising the original Somerfield stores.
Somerfield’s third business is the Convenience division, a group of about 100 store ...
|
|
Research And Development - Bus
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... materials in the most efficient way.
By doing this they must calculate their costs and make sure they can do the above without getting into debts from the costs they produce. The businesses labs keep links between the universities so that they can exchange research findings which they may be able to put into practise by incorporating the new technology in their products possibly to create something innovative. It also can save time and unwanted investment.
R&D must consider factors outside it’s research department in the external environment. When designing a product the designers must ...
|
|
Success In Times Of Paradox
Number of Words: 1759 / Number of Pages: 7
... capacity of China National Public Tel Net has become the second largest one in the world.
Last year, the sales volume of PC broke through three million, which indicated that it had increased by sixty percent than 1996.
......
All the above data depict an exciting success for China -- a developing country. She is laboring at curtailing the gap between developed countries and herself.
Paradox
As the modern information technology (IT) develops rapidly with the increase of social demand, the core status of IT in the development of modern business has become more and more stable. IT can pro ...
|
|
The Future Of Religion
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... Criticising or questioning any part of this plan is strongly discouraged, especially where it touches on questions of morals or ethics. Science, on the other hand, assumes that there are no transcendent, immaterial forces and that all forces which do exist within the universe behave in an ultimately objective or random fashion. The nature of these forces, and all other scientific knowledge, is revealed only through human effort in a dynamic process of inquiry. The universe as a whole is assumed to be neutral to human concerns and to be open to any and all questions, even those concerning human ethi ...
|
|
A Critical Look At The Foster
Number of Words: 4744 / Number of Pages: 18
... numbers. As a result:
Instead of orphanages, we now have so-called "treatment centers"--a "growth industry" which feeds on unwanted children just as the nursing home business depends for its existence on large numbers of the unwanted elderly. And, as is the case with the elderly, the systematic neglect and maltreatment of children in these facilities is being subsidized by the federal government.
In Virginia, former Governor Douglas Wilder discovered the same labeling process to be in use, finding that "children often bounce from agency to agency, from foster to group home to institution, and from fu ...
|
|
Consciousness, The Self, And Personality Theory: A Critical Survey Of Theories Of Philosophical Arguments And Modern Psychological Personality Theories
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... constitute psychology's philosophical background.
The concept of the self is a large factor in the study of personality as
well as philosophy. The self, generally speaking, includes subjective
experience and conscious awareness. In the book Philosophy of Mind the author
speaks about self-consciousness, "...the possession of the concept of the self
and the ability to use this concept in thinking about oneself" (Guttenplan, 213).
This unique quality of human beings allows for the question of thoughts,
beliefs, desires, emotions, intentions, memories; along with the responsibility
of these qualiti ...
|
|
|
