Personal identification

Health is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as, “The overall state or condition of one’s body or mind” and, “The condition of being well or free from disease”. This definition begs the question: what does it take to achieve wellness? Author Greg Anderson once elaborated upon this definition by saying, “Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being -…

immortality is healthy or unhealthy. Despite this, it is possible to draw conclusions on how religions may view immortality from their teachings and beliefs. Furthermore, some religions believe a form of transcendence is equivalent to immortality because personal immortality has been denied, a belief that your ancestry carries on your legacy and genes. Meanwhile, other…

Whether they offer payday loans online or through a physical store, payday lenders have been under attack for years. Many state legislators and municipal governments have enacted rules regulating the amount of interest lenders can charge for bad credit payday loans, how many loans a borrower can have at one time and how many times a borrower can renew a loan. However, the rules proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mark the first attempt to regulate payday loan industry at the…

Penobscot County Health Penobscot county is one of the sixteen counties in the state of Maine. 153,414 out of the 1,330,089 individuals who live in Maine reside in here. Penobscot County is rated worse than the state of Maine in many measures of health. Overall, in health it is ranked 12th. Demographic factors in the county that are related to the heath status include age and race. Penobscot county has less individuals who are below 18 years of age. 18.7% are under the age of 18 while state…

theories on personal identity – a reductionist view through the eyes of Derek Parfit, and a non-reductionist one, namely, the self-interest theory based on the assumption of a Cartesian Pure Ego. Theories of identity similar to the Cartesian pure ego have been an underlying assumption in many belief systems. Many religions base their beliefs on the assumption of a ‘soul’- an entity entirely separate from its simpler components, such as the body, mind, and experiences. This theory of personal…

Analysing and comparing features of child language, using transcripts from a child with normal language and a child with a speech impairment Introduction Child language is not dominated by one particular theory but instead explained and explored…

which is a feeling Rosa experiences after giving birth to her creation and grasping at it for emotional fulfillment (Prescott and Bogg 168). Within the span of the movie, particularly after Rosa gives birth, the half of the dichotomy focused on her personal life largely hinges on the concept of maternity. The balance of maternity and research is most artfully depicted in the scene beginning at 11:00. In this tranquil scene the camera looks down on Rosa and the chimaera from an almost bird’s-eye…

What is Dignity? Is it even important? Dignity can be many things to many different people. Some believe it is a teachable quality, while others believe it to be a trait that you either have or you don’t. Others believe it to be both a trait and a teachable quality. No matter the opinion, it is common that a person who has dignity is often someone who has respect not only for others but for themselves as well. Respect for oneself is a main point in the concept that is dignity. Many believe this…

Almost all cultures in the world are set up within a binary system. These cultures force people to conform to either adherently masculine characteristics to show they are male or adherently feminine characteristics to show that they are in fact female. From the time a person is born they are taught ways in which they should act in order to conform to their culture’s ideas on their role based on their gender. Anyone who does not conform to these characteristics is chastised and marked as being a…

The debate over the rights of an unborn fetus has raged throughout recent history with many good arguments both upholding and criticizing the legality of abortion. Is legal abortion considered murder? What is murder and how do you define when killing is or is not a murder? This debate is a moral and ethical one. Early term abortions should not be considered murder; nevertheless, people disagree about abortion because essentially we disagree about what defines human nature (Head, 2015).…