Yes, we should avoid waste of paper, but since we will use it for a good cause, I think it is justified. ... The chances are high that many people will still neglect it, but we if we get attention of at least 30% students, I think it's still a good beginning. ... In addition, if we really manage to get those trash cans and make posters, we could emphasize this action on our presentation at IUS which could take place on the International Earth Day on April 22nd. International Earth Day + Planting trees Concerning this, I was thinking how we could hand out the environmental survey to t...

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George, the author seems to find much interest in the overuse of "sweet" when he describes people and the earth, but in this he seems to have a very esteemed outlook on the earth and the people who are in it. In describing the "earth and sky" as being married, it seems he is theorizing about how we as people of the earth (including the sky) will all end up being destroyed at the point that he specifies it will happen. ... This is overall a very creative poem but just as among various other authors, he has good intentions, but a bad sense of what life is truly all about, which is God"s son J...

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To me the world is separated into good and evil. The good is basically the straight mind. ... There is no in-between between good and evil. ... These balances also created the twins trying to always conquer one another that lead to the creation of earth. ... Without these two characteristics in the world, which may never be combined, the earth may never prosper. ...

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Technology has made our society about feeling good; everything is adapted to make sure people feel good, altruism is an extension of this. Technology teaches us to do what feels good, and helping people feels good. ... Good morals can be useful in a number of areas including, to help one make decisions. ... "Forgiveness and how the turning the other cheek is a universally appreciated gesture" (De Waal 663) are used as methods to be moral while living on earth. ... The use of technology was not created from the earth; instead it was created from the evolution of the human mind. ...

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Technology has made our society about feeling good; everything is adapted to make sure people feel good, altruism is an extension of this. Technology teaches us to do what feels good, and helping people feels good. ... Good morals can be useful in a number of areas including, to help one make decisions. ... "Forgiveness and how the turning the other cheek is a universally appreciated gesture" (De Waal 663) are used as methods to be moral while living on earth. ... The use of technology was not created from the earth; instead it was created from the evolution of the human mind. ...

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That would be good both going and coming back." ... Just when he is about to completely escape from all of his aversions of the earthly world, losing himself in imagination and being catapulted freely into the sky, he is gently brought back down to earth. ... The fragrance of flowers, and of new-mown hay; the genial warmth of sunshine, and the beauty of a sunset among clouds; the comfort and cheerful glow of the fireside; the deliciousness of fruits, and of all good cheer." ... Frost reveals he so enjoys swinging back down toward the ground because "Earth's the right place for love." ...

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Although the central issue as adulthood versus childhood has good validity, the central issue is in fact the speaker's struggle between reality and imagination. ... As the poem continues the obvious metaphor is the birches are a ladder between heaven and earth. Near the end of the poem the speaker admits too wanting to get away from earth for a while, but then later wishing to return to life where he left off. The speaker discusses going to heaven by climbing a birch tree to the very top until he could go no further, and then gently being placed back down on earth by the tree. ... Thi...

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Epicureans believe the highest good in life is pleasure: a peace of mind, or freedom from anxiety. ... Being an ethical person is to have good morals and know what is wrong from right. ... The soul of the deceased lives through the living, and stays here on earth with the ones they spend their past life with. ... If a person associates themselves with good people, with good intentions they tend to act as rational as those people around them. Stoicism states that the Earth is made of a fiery spirit, consisting of rationality, nature, fate, and god. ...

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The use of "bell" in this line is to show the exit from earth and the entrance into heaven. ... In the last stanza the solitude breaks, and all that was once good is dropping, as if this was the wrong choice. ... Once the speaker "lands" back on earth, the speaker starts a new life. ... Heaven and earth's descriptions contrast each other so much, but no matter how peaceful Heaven seems, the gloomy karma still lurks throughout. ...

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Plato was supposedly a pupil of Socrates, and it therefore has to be kept in mind that he would have been biased for Socrates and would have wanted to portray Socrates in a good light. ... In this speech, Socrates gives the jury the picture of himself that is normally portrayed others who are ignorant of his thinking, saying that he is known as a "wise man" who "ponders everything about the earth and investigates everything beneath it, and turns the weaker argument into the stronger" (18b-c, page 28, Defence of Socrates, Oxford World Classics, Plato). ... He insists that the picture of him "tr...

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He also believed that one was placed on this earth before they could distinguish between other objects or other human beings. ... This is one of the main reasons that there are so many interpretations of the same things, but it is good that people have so many different views on things. ...

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My ears were already badly aching from descending hundreds of feet, until finally we knocked on the Earth's front door. ... Close enough to another later, we checked in to the hotel and signed the entire lark that comes with the "good" holiday packages. ...

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The idea that in the beginning everything was good. ... This is understandable because though at one time unicorns could have roamed the earth it is hard to prove they did the only possible way is that they were before the flood, and literally missed the boat. ...

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Plato also believed that the animals and humans of the world are just minor portions of it just as the Earth is a minor portion of the galaxy. ... He believed that all men strived to be good because good was moral. ...

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The message of getting off the beaten path in the example of the Grand Canyon isn't a good one; I don't think that it isn't very realistic. ... I think that the actual idea of getting out of the routine and the limitation of society is a good idea, but maybe not on as big of a scale as going to "the South Rim though a wild terrain" (Percy, 590). ... He understands the perfect person who is unlikely to ever walk the earth. If this person walked earth there would be no shared feelings. ...

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The farmer had good reason to believe, as he did believe, that he worked longer hours, under more adverse conditions, and with smaller compensation for his labor than any other man on earth (Hicks, 118). ... And the government did not make a good program or even a little help for the farmers. ... If the government and others do not give them a hand to help them, no one in this country of America will get really good....

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Thought Essay Every day, millions of people live their lives in fear, fear of not knowing what to expect. This may sound bad but it is the way the world has survived for millions of years. There are people that are murderers and there are people who work for charity. The fact is that everyone i...

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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" depicts a misunderstood old woman's last day on earth. ... Granny Weatherall is displayed as having good natured intentions inside, while yet her outward actions are often quite bitter. ...

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God created us, the heavens, the earth, and everything in between. ... I know in the long run, these skills can only do good and benefit me, despite the current hardships. ... But our minds are perhaps the most important of these, because that is what separates us from other creatures on this earth- we are able to think and comprehend and make decisions based on them, not just on our instinct. With God's blessing, we become the most capable beings on this earth, and we should be thankful to God for it. ... Jesus will return to this earth and reward the righteous, and punish the unsave...

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Not only do these two beings help me live my life they are the reason that I am on the Earth today. ... This guy has not only become a good friend of mine, but my best friend and I think I have learned more from him that I could begin to teach. ... I believe very strongly that everyone should have someone to admire if not someone to call his or her hero for the simple fact that everyone is on this Earth to become a better person. ...

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Moreover, his visit to the Central station, manifests the idea about that the deeper Marlow goes into the dark forest, the deeper does he travel into his own mind: The earth seemed unearthly. ... Kurtz who he had so high thoughts about turns out to be a greedy person who is nearly dead when he meets him: I had turned to the wilderness really, not to Mr Kurtz, who, I was ready to admit, was as good as buried. ... I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night .(101) ...

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Moreover, unlike factory workers, they do not need to be motivated to do a good job. ... or 'Good morning, how are you doing today?'. ... As there is no development on earth that come without any scarifications, if we have to sacrifice part of our humanity for a better developed future, why not?...

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Brave New World tells the story of a futuristic earth in which thought is controlled. ... Even so, in spite of his high position in the system, Mond wishes that people could think deeper and explore more tantalizing avenues, but understands that for the good of the public limits must be kept. ... He knows that the work is good and ought to be read, but to maintain peace in the culture it cannot be ingested by those "unsettled minds" (line 15). ...

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"He was not interested in arguing for the sake of arguing, he wanted to discover something important, namely, the essential nature of knowledge, justice, beauty, goodness and especially traits of good character such as courage... Anytus charged him with studing things above the sky and below the earth; dereliction and that he madethe weaker arguement look stronger. ... Three reasons, justice, family and that death is a good thing. ...

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Stimuli, or motives, created from our environment produces impressions in the brain that may be "good or bad, agreeable or painful", or one that just resides in the memory. ... If God has a meaning for you to be on earth, a designated purpose of life for you, then in a way you have no chose to choose your future or your own purpose. ...

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