Paul of Tarsus

The emotional state is a tricky business because it’s like a complex abstract puzzle with limited pieces that can only be solved by perceptions of sight and sound. We’ve spent centuries trying to understand emotions but it can’t be accurately explained since each person experiences and feels their emotions differently than the next person. Even though emotions can’t precisely be defined, there are clues, or puzzle pieces if you will, that indicate a person’s emotional state. These puzzle pieces…

According to Paul Ekman, Ph.D., emotions is what unifies all of humankind, also, that all individuals have the same emotions. There is evidence that there are about six or seven types of emotions. But what are the characteristics of emotions? Paul Ekman informs us that one of the first characteristics of an emotion it that it’s unbidden. Unbidden is arising without conscious effort, we don’t choose to have an emotion. For example, we don’t get to say, “alright now I’m going to be happy”. But…

Do you have what it takes to be in the NBA? Standards are very high! Did you know players on average are getting smaller, but are actually jumping higher and farther. The NBA playing style has changed in many ways. One reason is that point guards are playing different than they used to, and they are becoming the center point of offenses. Also, the NBA has thrived on shooting three pointers. There even is talk about adding a four point line. Today, big men play different and are less physical…

These agencies and their “varying rules and standards led to certain entities not being regulated at all, with others subject to less oversight than their peer financial firms organized under different charters” (Morrison & Foerster, 2010, p. 6). After the financial crisis, analysts pointed to the “many regulatory failures” and gaps in oversight as the reason unethical and illegal practices were overlooked or ignored (Madrick, 2010, para. 3). As a result, the provisions set out by…

The Beatles mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs…

The Beatles bade their affiliated careers goodbye with the releasing of the album and single “Let It Be” in 1970, shortly following the announcement of the dissolution of the group. For many, the song, “Let It Be”, not only represents keeping hope through difficult times but additionally symbolizes the four members moving on from the group. The mixture of the instrumental and vocal makeup of “Let It Be” formulates to constitute a gospel ambience. With context in mind, the meaning of the song has…

In his essay “What Faith Is”, philosophical theologian Paul Tillich discusses humans and their “ultimate concerns”. These concerns demand a person’s whole being and life, requiring total surrender in order to achieve total fulfillment. They are acts of personality, centered by the human mind, both conscious and unconscious. A true ultimate concern involves the self, whereas a false concern involves an object. Considering Tillich’s definition, I find that there are several values and lessons that…

The Rwandan Genocide refers to the systematically performed mass murders of the Tutsi people by their longstanding rivals the Hutu, in which approximately 1 million Tutsi people were killed in a quick and brutal manner by the predominant Hutu government. For as long as history in Rwanda has been recorded, there has always been a long standing feud between the Hutu (85% of the population) and the Tutsi (13% of the population) because of disputes about the Tutsi’s true origins and their distinctly…

rise to an interference. Looking at an example such as (4) tends to gives rise to the inference in (5). (4) Some students passed (5) ↝ Not all students passed Looking towards the pragmatic approach, implicatures were firstly introduced by theorist Paul Grice (1975). He developed a theory a very well know theory referred to as the cooperative principle. Grice suggested that conversation is based on the cooperation principle. “Make your conversational contribution what is required, at the stage…

Understand how to make good use of social skills and managing emotions are the first conditions to all employees who need to interact with customers in their jobs; for instance, hospitality industry, but also to everyone interacts with others in daily life. However, people start interacting with each other by using their electronic devices and create a phenomenon of social corrosion due to the development of technology. Nevertheless, the essay will discuss what benefits of having a highly…