The interplay of faith and reason in the biblical trial of Job, is similar to that of Abraham and his son, Isaac, as they are both put to trial in order to test their faithfulness to God. Even though this test is beyond logical understanding, reason becomes overridden by their steadfast belief in God, meaning, although God presented challenges that seemed unreasonable to his believers, Abraham and Job both kept faith in Him, even if it meant losing their loved ones and properties, all for the sake of keeping God alive in their life. ... There came a time when Satan approached God so that he...

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Since scientific research has been undertaken using the human embryo as a test subject a number of issues have been raised which cause controversy and divide opinion. ... As human beings we are morally obliged to help those who suffer and by testing on embryos, which perhaps wouldn't be used for any other purpose, we are given the ability to help those in need. If testing on a few "spare" embryos could save thousands of lives, isn't the immorality of embryo research void? ... Even the name sounds immoral, children are not an accessory to be loved only for their perfect appearance ...

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For the most part, humans can volunteer themselves for these tests. ... A patients's personal files need to be kept in a safe place so that the confidential test results will not get in to the wrong hands. ... Sometimes it is impossible to test a hypothesis on a fully informed patient. ... I am in support of human testing and I think that without the use of human participants it would not be possible to get the desired accurate, relative results. ... Sometimes just trying to find a cure or remedy for a disease that they or a loved one may be stricken with would be payment enough. ...

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Since 1916, they have been dedicated to the principles that every individual has a fundamental right to decide when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved (Planned Parenthood). ... The services that they do provide are as follows: For both men and women P.P. offers healthcare, cancer screening, tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, birth control, permanent sterilization, and confidential HIV testing. P.P. does pregnancy testing and counseling, abortion services, special services for menopause, and referrals for pregnancy, healthcare...

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The quote above is indeed correct in the way that scientific societies constantly re-test and preform tests again to see if they will yield the same results. ... When my younger cousins were little, my parents made the generalization that they loved parks. ... Some re-tests may yield different results due to a lack of a scale or simple instrument error. ... Although there are problems with re-testing, there is value in it. ... This constant testing to narrow down possibilities helps our knowledge in researcher's error. ...

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For self-report measures, there are two assumptions that are made, one being that the amount of happiness someone feels can be translated into a numerical number, and two being that if two people both scored a "6" on the same test then they have the same level of happiness no matter what societal level. ... There are different kinds of happiness, such as someone can have an overwhelmingly happy due to the love they from their family and friends even though they have a crappy job as to someone who is the same level of happiness with no family or love but lots of money and wealth. ... After lo...

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However when the two face there first problem in the play, their relationship is really put to the test. ... After the deed is done we see their relationship put to an even greater test than before. ... This shows their relationship has lost the small amount of love and affection that remained and has completely broken down. ... Their relationship at this point had completely lost all love and now MacBeth is just empty, evil and alone. ... At the start of the play the two are blinded by everything bad in the world because they are so deeply in love and they feel the can conquer any challenge...

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He fulfills his promise only because he found a woman to love whom he was no expected, indeed not allowed to marry. ... In 1998, DNA testing on the offspring of Jefferson's uncle, Field Jefferson, identified a different chromosome Y halotype, which was also recognized by DNA tests in the descendants of Eston Hemings. ... The problem presented for investigation is whether the results of the DNA tests and any related historical proof establish that Thomas Jefferson was the father of one or more of the children of Sally Hemings. ... That is a lawful question and must be tested ...

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Two more out of the seven themes discussed are love and happiness; however, throughout Night the story of a boy suffering and experiencing situations in which love is tested. Reacting to the book Morrie would wonder as to why the lack of love towards the Jews was present. ... Love, a passionate affection, is something people experience if their lives can is harder to explain than life in general. Morrie having a deep love for others in his life, if put in the situation that Ellie was put into, would keep that love for what is precious to him until the end. Happiness, the quality of being happy...

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Another instance is after spending time with the psychiatrist Will Hunting takes a more assertive and productive approach to his life by going to find a girl he loves in California and using his intelligence to its potential by finding a good job instead of working as a janitor. ... The psychiatrist Will sees also uses a means of projective testing through conversations he has with Will. Projective tests are personality tests made up of relatively unstructured stimuli in which responses are seen as reflecting the individual's needs, fantasies, conflicts, thought patterns, and other aspect...

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From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his lover unappealing-- "In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note - (Lines 1-2) The beginning line is rather deceitful because Shakespeare's pattern from previous sonnets continues with either an explanation of the persona's blind love that goes beyond physical beauty or the persona's love which withstands the test of time and aging beauty; however the second line unexpectedly continues by the persona stating that his lover has "a thousand- faults. ... In the next line of the ...

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E's, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescription drug, used to reduce appetite and introduced in 1981 to teens in America, who started using it as a recreational drug. ... Regardless of what Ecstasy looks like, you cannot determine its contents without running a test on it. Ecstasy testing kits are portable and discreet testing kits, which are quick, easy to use, relatively simple, and inexpensive products that allow people to test unknown pills to help determine their contents. ... Ecstasy testing kits cost around thir...

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Furthermore, the practice is important because we can create a society that will always love the country and not do things that will bring discredit to the country. ... In other words, the matter would be studied formally in the classroom, examination and subsequently tested in practice in daily life. ... In addition, the electronic media should also show films such as "Bukit Kepong", "Paloh", and dramas associated with the spirit of love of country. ... This is so because, patriotism is important to produce citizens who love their country and people will definitely be useful to the nation, ...

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Perhaps driven by the violent experience in his "former life ", Paul preached the notion of love to all. "If I have no love, I am like a clanging gong "1 Corinthians 13:1. In Galatians, Paul notes the importance of love as one of the "Fruits of the Spirit ". ... Rather than testing human capabilities, Paul promoted the idea of keeping faith in the works of God, through constant prayer and reading of God's word. ... An adapted version of his teachings on Eucharist is used in the fraction rite of the Eucharist, which talks of love that is patient and kind, not jealous, concerted or proud, b...

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The Latin wars that Virgil describes bring fearsome heroes together in search of glory and the upholding of family honour, yet these battles are shown to rend families apart as loved ones set out in search of kleos yet, inevitably, never return. ... However, it is not just the followers of Aeneas who are addressed by Virgil in their bitter grief over loved ones. ... However, Aeneas' motives are due to his love of peace, a noble cause, "You ask me for peace for the dead, whose destiny has been to die in battle", he explains to the Latin envoys in book XI, "I for my part woul...

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These individuals are frozen up to their necks in ice, the cold symbolizing a lack of human love and warmth, which they denied others in life. ... In life, these individuals were twin counts of Mangona, but they killed one another in a fight over their inheritance, so in death they are fittingly denied any warmth or human love, just as they denied it to each other in life. ... Ugolino on the other hand resides in the ninth circle because of his brutal and horrendous betrayal of his own children, denying them even parental love, and being profoundly selfish in dishonoring them through cannibali...

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In Brave New World, sex is encouraged because it keeps people happy, though love is not. The state does not encourage the people to fall in love with someone because love leads to the want to start a family and have kids. Although both societies do not want the people to fall in love, Brave New World does a better job of preventing it than 1984's society does, because they train and brainwash the people into believing love is bad. ... Additionally the fact that he called Juliet "idiotic" for loving Romeo indicates that he does not believe in love and devotion. ... In Huxley'...

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That is what the results of his data and testing suggested, but this was not the case. ... Although there were numerous studies and tests that showed that tobacco caused lung cancer, those companies never admitted it. ... Even though it might have taken a few years to get the medicine tested/approved for some pharmaceutical companies, some people with deadly diseases don't have a few years to wait around. ... Some people have nothing to lose and are willing to be used as guinea pigs, so they can be the tests that companies need (Mukherjee 319). It is a win-win situation, because patients ...

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As he has a fierce reputation at the mine to uphold, he complains that Sonny will embarrass him and the family if his failure attempts of exploding experiments continue, such as when Sonny accidentally blew up his mothers rose garden fence after testing out chemicals burning. When one of his test rockets landed near the mine, a very angry Homer yelled at his son about how he had told him to stop launching (Hickam 110). ... Throughout the book, Homer supports Jim and his dream career in football and his desire to earn a football scholarship, although loved the mine and would have wanted his son...

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Matrimony provided a woman with a higher social rank than a spinster and the most important factor in marriage was the social standing of both partners; love was secondary. ... Clueless however, was composed in 1995 within a society that accepted marriage for love and the fact that a woman did not have to wed in order to have financial security and respect. ... This type of persona is used to communicate the idea that one should not be excessively influenced by others, and that a person should follow their heart and not repress their natural feelings because of others' opinions- especiall...

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As veterinary surgeon James Herriott stated 'if having a a soul means being able to feel love, gratitude and loyalty then animals are a lot better of than humans.' ... By subjecting animals to a life of loneliness, continuous testing, or any form of torture we are depriving them of their quality of life. ...

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What, then, is the point of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" if it cannot protect our children from exposure to these alleged immoral individuals, individuals who love their country enough to lie in order to serve in the military? ... Do we then resort to lie detector tests for all recruits? ...

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While this scenario might be a little extreme, I believe that it is easier to teach somebody to love rather than not. ... The gentleman loves and respects his parents very much; as a matter of fact, in the opening section of The Analects he says that "When your father is alive, observe his will. ... A ruling class that allows the group which they are presiding over to stand the test of time are better than a ruling class that allows its subjects and their society to collapse. ... Where the philosopher is taught not to get too attached to other people or to love too much, the sage gets very emo...

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There is an inherent inability among the male characters to understand Desdemona's love for Othello, which ironically includes Othello himself. ... Desdemona's love is divorced from the societal implications of class, gender and race as "there is oneness and indivisibility in Desdemona's love which form its tragic greatness and its weakness. " (F1) Her "insulation from the socio-sexual world of Venice and her wrong assumption of equivalent insulation on Othello's part " (F1) demarcates the tragic difference in their perspective. ... She is the experienced wife in comparison...

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Robinson would pass away and Branwell began courting his newly widowed love again. ... Both men were doomed to die without the love they so desired. ... The secret keeping Heathcliff from being with his love is death, or so he assumes. ... Branwell's forbidden love ended up being his undoing as well. Lydia Robinson, Branwell's love, refused his proposal and then left him empty and broken hearted. ...

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