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In the unit “States of Consciousness”, we discussed the concept of conscious will, and whether our everyday actions are determined by the choosing of our own free will, or if our conscious experience in making choices is merely a delusion of grandeur. It’s difficult to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary actions, especially if we are unaware of the extent to which we have free will. The idea is that we are already in motion of preparing for action before we even realize or actively…

The Ministry has created a guide to assist with a Harmonized Practice for Identifying and Linking Providers. This practice consists of four steps which are listed below and the Ministry document is attached for your review Harmonized Practice - How to Identify and Link Duplicate Providers 1. Search for all duplicate provider records. 2. Review all records and identify the winning provider record. A winning record is the record to be used on a…

God, Design, and Critiques When discussing the arguments from design for God’s existence a few names transcend into our thoughts higher than the others. St. Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, and David Hume are these people. Aquinas was born in the year 1225 and was a Dominican monk. Paley was born in 1743 and worked as the archdeacon of Carlisle. Hume was a skeptical empiricist born in Scotland in 1711. They have used their brain power to write various literature discussing whether the design we…

Dr Heidegger invited four of his elderly friends over including Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherley to his rather eerie study. All of them have used up their fortunes, and now they are unhappy. The three men used to fight over Widow Wycherly when they were younger, it was said to be that Widow was very beautiful when younger. When they guests arrives at Dr. Heidegger's house, they go to his study. His creepy study contains, among other things, a bust of…

The movie Fight Club takes place in Wilmington, Delaware and starts off with a narrator, whose name is unknown, that works for an auto insurance company. He suffers from insomnia and his doctor refuses to prescribe him medication for it. Instead he suggests that he attends a support group for testicular cancer victims. Once the narrator attends the support group, he realized that it gives him some sort of emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He quickly becomes addicted to attending…

David Hume, in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, claims a reasonable person should not be able to believe in miracles, especially if informed of a miracle through testimony; his argument concerning why people should be incapable of believing miracles is cogent, but he fails to adequately explain why people do believe in miracles even though they should not be able to. His theory is based on a previously outlined idea which Hume calls “constant conjunction”; people use a constant…

Comprehensiveness- To support information about the Chupacabra through critical thinking, the evidence about the creature must be comprehensive. order to reasonably analyze evidence of the Chupacabra or an attack from one, you must recognise the possibilities of it not being a Chupacabra. To consider any slightly odd killing of a farm animal to be a Chupacabra attack would be unreasonable and senseless. Many different animals are capable of killing goats, sheep, or chickens. To recognise a…

Fight Club is a perfect novel for the times. Many American men, including myself, have found that they are frustrated with modern day society’s views are how we should behave. Chuck took this issue head on, creating a character who was well behaved on the surface, but haunted by something dark deep down inside of him. This in turn made him want to fight, or “destroy something beautiful” not for any particular reason, but to just feel the pain from it or to feel anything at all. Justin Garrison…

Fight Club is about how an average man is unfulfilled with his life. He’s an insomniac that goes to these support groups that help people go through diseases in hopes to get a nights sleep. He discovers that his spirit animal is a penguin; penguins are flightless birds that always wear a suit and are weak. He creates this masculine alpha male he wants to become in his mind. The theme is masculinity. Tyler Durden is what the narrator wants to be; confident, charismatic, powerful, sexually…

A hero is someone who did something ordinary in an extraordinary way. Thousands of years of reading about heroes in Greek mythology or, seeing Oprah donate five hundred million dollars to a school in Africa. Heroes have helped people and inspired them to go out and do unbelievable things. Heroes are usually very selfless and humble. Humility has always been seen with heroes with some not till an eye opening event or, even death. Other heroes show humility through their entire life and give a lot…