Paradox

_______________________ When you look up into the night sky, many emotions, questions can hit you and it can give you a sense of perspective. But have you ever considered answering those questions. Many people will know the gist of what Fermi’s Paradox is but have they put time and effort into thinking about it? The observable universe is about 90 billion light years in diameter. There are at least one hundred billion galaxies, each with one hundred to one thousand billion stars. Recently,…

closely examining the paradoxes that are presented. Though its not easy, paradox-free time travel stories can be told (sider, 58). Through the views of the Sider and Lewis, one can assess the consistency of time travel in the terminator. The film is consistent according to their understanding on how the following paradoxes are inconsistent through reverse causation/backward causation, causal loop, and the grandfather paradox.…

apart of? At most Jews acknowledge Jesus and nothing more and this is very important. Judaism has little regard for Jesus because of religious and societal pressures have pushed him out of the minds of Jews. The Jewish view of Jesus is like a paradox. Jesus was born to Jewish parents, practiced Jewish traditions, lived with his fellow Jews, and even his followers were Jewish (Kessler). He is probably the most influential Jew to walk this Earth, but his legacy is carried out by a completely…

tragedies was the “Tragedy of Macbeth”. In the tragedy of Macbeth the playwright, William Shakespeare uses paradox, struggle, and fate to express that good versus evil ultimately leads to tragedy and death. Shakespeare uses paradox to describe how two opposites work when put together to portray the meaning of good versus evil. A character from the play the Tragedy of Macbeth, the old man uses a paradox “that would be, make good of bad and friends of foes” to portray the meaning of good versus…

The 1960s: The Age of Paradox The term “the sixties” is a misnomer. The period did not merely span the decade of the sixties but instead stretched from the Brown Decision in the 1950s until the Fall of Saigon in 1975. This sixties was a paradoxical time in the United States, on the one hand it was a time of great prosperity while on the other it was a time of great unrest. The quality of American life was better than it had ever been, with more students in college and more individuals working…

Mary Beard defined it as the Pompeii Paradox, or the fact that we “simultaneously know a huge amount and very little about ancient life there.” Although the eruption of Mount Vesuvius preserved Pompeii and facilitated the discovery of many important artifacts, the disordered state of the city means that we may not have an accurate depiction of what life was really like. The earthquake of 62 CE, the relatively slow buildup of the…

This is the Fermi-Paradox. Perhaps it is very hard for complex life to develop. We still haven’t completely figured out how life originated on earth and possibly the perfect conditions required rarely gets established in the universe. The early universe might have been very…

Some people believe that evil is a necessary force in the world, that without it us as humans would not be able to recognize and appreciate the good that comes from the people around us. It is a common belief among theists that God, as our creator, allowed a finite amount of necessary evil in our world so that we can understand the concept of what “good” is. Solely based on the definition of God, that He is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, there should be no Evil that exists is the world. If He…

definition of a crime, to a threshold of evil that can be manipulated to fit or not fit different actions. Genocide, while important, has the detrimental power to create a paradoxical situations for nations that have conflicts some call genocide. The paradox is that on one hand if the conflict has a long history or precursor that may be used to argue that the incident isn’t considered genocide, and that if the legacy includes colonialism…

One of the scholarly articles I have chosen for my paper is, The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration. This article is from 2013, which was very recent. This article talks about how probation, in the era of mass incarceration, providing the first comprehensive evaluation of the role of a probation officer in the criminal justice system. Probation is very serious consequence, and I don’t think people really understand the way it works. “This article…