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dead (depending on your belief). If you disagree with my top ten list make your own and compare, you 'll be hard pressed to find significant changes. At the start of every day choices are made that in some manner are a direct influence of one of these people. Wake up, working, its not a destiny, although it may feel that way at times. Somehow, the lines become blurry about free will and destiny. Did you have an…

Do You Know The Truth? When you lie are you hurting anyone? When I lie, I like to believe I am doing it for the greater good. Do you think what your lies could do to other people? Before I tell a lie, I think about how it would affect me and other people. I like to ask myself, is it needed? Why would I need to lie? Does this lie only affect me? And is it beneficial to me at all? What do you think of when you lie? In Richard Gunderman 's article, "Is Lying Bad for Us?" Gunderman believes that…

Reason, ideas, questioning, and curiosity are all words that describe Sophie’s World so far. Sophie Amundsen begins to receive strange, anonymous letters. Each letter contains philosophical questions such as, “Who are you?”. The anonymous writer of these letters introduces famous philosophers to Sophie, as well as the philosophical lessons they teach. With each new letter she receives, Sophie begins to question everything she knows and everything she has been taught. Sophie begins to get more…

to get up and do what you have to do. And other days, it can feel really hard to get motivated to do much of anything. It's only natural. Doing the same thing in and out can get boring. Doing new things can be scary. Doing important things can be exhausting. Doing things that you have no desire to do at all can be annoying. In those states, it's hard to get anything done. But, often, doing what you least want to do will have a big payoff for you. You just need to get motivated to do it.…

there. If you are not there how can you love? He is right. You need to be present in order to love. In fact, your presence is the best gift to the person you love. But, being there is not an easy thing. Training and practice is important. Do you have time to love? Can you always be there? You should to ask like those questions. If your love is true love you have enough time to love. Also your mind have to be there when your body is there. The person you love needs to feel that you are…

The PBS website, “Do You Speak American” is broken off into four sections with interesting topics. The first section is titled “Words That Shouldn’t Be.” The title is not only meant to intrigue the reader, but it also gives us an idea of what we will find when we click on this section. This section’s primary focus is the invention of new words and the way language is a social phenomenon. In the subsection titled, “ Sez Who” Walt Wolfram says that language changes, “not by the media; it’s the…

1. If you are present when two friends disagree or have an argument…how do you handle it? What is your involvement? How direct are you? Do you disengage, get involved, try to mediate…? If I were in a situation where two friends are having an argument I would immediately handle it by getting both of them to focus on me rather than each other. My involvement would be to act as a judge during the argument like it was a court debate. I would be as direct as possible with both of my friends yet…

Elora Jacobsen Do You Dare to Ride? It has always intrigued me how much trust we have in rollercoasters. Some people won't drive in the car with a certain person because their driving scares them, but they will get on a roller-coaster without any second thought. You sit in the seat, get all strapped in, and let fate decide the rest. The feeling of the wind blowing through your hair, the sheer force pushing you into the back of the seat, and not once you think about how many accidents have…

is a technicality that I do not necessarily agree with. People make mistakes in life and when those mistakes occur some people learn from them and I feel as though the ones that are juveniles and have a chance at having a good life should not be tried as an adult and made to spend their lives in jail. I personally feel as though some juveniles do not deserve a life in prison but maybe just a few years depending on the crime and malice of one's actions. Another thing I do love about the…

What do you know of Air pollution? Of its effects? How it starts? Air pollution is known by everyone, though very few know of the problems it causes for both our environment and us. Both the environment and we are not the only ones affected the environment changes cause what is known as acid rain and this rain damages all the creations that humanity has made over the centuries. Multiple people know of air pollution and the problems it causes such as problems concerning the body, the changes to…