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    Jean-Paul Sartre, who happened to live from 1905-1980, was an existentialist philosopher. He famously challenged a particular question and left it available for anyone to interpret it. The question is all about “the self” and everything that comes with it. According to Sartre, “the self lies always in the future; it is what we aim toward, as we try to make ourselves into something. But this means that as long as we are alive there is no self - at least, no fixed and finished self” (pg. 206). By…

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    Both texts are effectively able to present a dystopian vision of life in a society based on inequality and conformity and are heavily influenced by their respective contexts to help the composers shape their visions of the future. George Orwell’s satirical presentation of power in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is far more bleak and shows the extreme physical and psychological control of the masses and is able to present a pessimistic future for humanity to a great extent. However, Fritz Lang…

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    a specific learning context” (Creţu, 2015, p.751). “Motivation is considered a fundamental psychological resource contributing to positive therapy outcomes” (van der Kaap-Deeder, et al., 2014). Motivational Axioms According to Bastable, Gramet, Jacobs, & Sopczyk (2011), motivational axioms are rules that set the stage for motivation and include the stage of optimum anxiety, learner readiness, realistic goal setting, learner satisfaction/success, and…

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    Generosity of Future Me Every day, people talk about their plans to embark on such projects as fundraising for charity or building wells in Africa in the near future when they have the resources to do so. Yet in many cases, these futures never come to pass, and the plans are abandoned. Jon Acuff asserts, in his article “The Generosity of Future Me”, that people should instead focus on giving within their means now. While many argue that delaying giving will ultimately allow them to contribute…

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    It is important to consider on how we reason. The extent that we can trust our decisions that have been made using reason and the fallacies that could arise when reason is misused. We pride ourselves on being rational animals but we often make errors in our reasoning and jump too quickly to conclusions. Furthermore, reason is used differently across different areas of knowledge. Hence, it is important to look at reason and consider the extent in which it can be relied on in trying to make sense…

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    He would know everyone won’t listen to what he has said but those who didn’t listen would have to pay the price of what happens to their children “For example, the case of education. Isn’t it almost a self-evident axiom that the state should require and compel the education, up to a certain standard, of every human being who is born its citizen?” (Mill, p. 69) They help keep the virus’s rate down and not all kids react to the diseases the same. Some of them die because…

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    Wall E Love And Hope

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    Andrew Stanton’s picture film, Wall E, covers a modernized understanding on many religious tales. The leading take of the show is one of ambition and affection, connecting this to biblical tales such as Noah’s Ark and Adam & Eve. Wall E is an excellent film which hope and love are the great focuses of the film and the themes are in the many stories of the Bible and show great significance in this picture film. The connection between Wall E and Eve are a perfect example of hope and love. The hope…

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    Ancient Roman Superstitions The ancient Roman culture was very similar to the ancient Greek culture in many ways, including their use of superstitions to explain occurrences in their everyday lives. Science was still new and unclear during the time of the ancient Romans, since their culture was initially based off of what the ancient Greeks before them had discovered. The Romans came up with some superstitions that we would consider outlandish today, but actually are the origin of common sayings…

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    there are various events of “content-fixation” at different parts of the brain running at the same time, and that results in a whole, on-going narrative, which is what we experience while we are alive. Alternatively, Aleksander & Dunmall proposed five axioms as essential functional properties of a conscious system (2003). Embodiment and situatedness, episodic memory, attention, goals and motivation, and emotions are the requirements proposed. However, as we take into consideration Dennett’s…

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    The founder of the boutique Austin-based Ascendant Capital LLC is none other than Jeffry Schneider. He uses his skills which includes; education, operational services, innovative approach in financial structuring among others, to educate people on how to acquire funds and raise capital. In the same way, he teaches the people on innovative approach in financial approach. Likewise, Ascendant distributes the public offerings across the globe through working with a network of family offices,…

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