At first glance, the idea of whether we are all free seems to have an obvious yes answer; however, further examination often delivers unexpected and controversial conclusions. The question stems around the laws of causation and whether the explanation of this conflicts with the notion we are all free to make choices in life. ... By applying this to agents, we know that the construction of the agent is chemically based, so would have to comply with the laws of nature. ... This states that if determinism is in fact correct, we have no control on what went on before we were born to cause the eff...

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Throughout his writings Nietzsche focused on a key issue where one relinquishes absolute truths, and moves towards a better freer life, with a sort of constructive nihilism. ... Yet in Nietzsche's view this again becomes a falsity, because we try to create the world in an image of ourselves. ... The fact that he asks for a rejection of those ideas implies that he thought they once were absolute. ... If we lived every day of our lives the same way he had done before, then rejecting of redemption myths, accepting God is dead, and moving towards the Overhuman, become as distant as Romantic...

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Also, it talks about the reality of farm animals and what they go through before they end up on our plate and it is true even if we dine at the most expensive restaurants. ... If instead of growing so much corn we were growing natural food and grass then these problems wouldn't arise. ... To combat the bacteria meat is cleansed with ammonia and usually sold to the school system for cheap because they have to give free lunch to students. ... Most of the farmers interviewed in the movie were so scared of Monsanto and what their group of 75 investigators would do if they were found to be sav...

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There were more reports of emotional abuse than physical abuse among the elderly but such cases are hard to detect during investigation (Williams, 2016). ... At home, the perpetrators were usually family members or caregivers who have access to the elder's bank account. ... Older adults need to be careful in providing their insurance information especially to those who offer free medical screening. ... However, there are signs we can observe when an elder is suspected to have been abused sexually. ... Meanwhile, in the hallway there were sounds of beeping machines and an urgent call fro...

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Therefore, it may be less feasible to use community based management system as often as we would like. ... Suppose fish were dying in a county where there was no university and only a handful of biologists or environmental scientists who were equipped to address the problem. ... We can choose to combine state and local controls using various policies. ... This is synonymous saying that market based management systems will greatly reduce the free-rider problem. ... When this is not feasible because of the reasons noted before, a state-management system is to be employed. ...

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Locke and Rousseau were two great philosophers of the Enlightenment. ... If we assume that what he says is true, and that competition is truly a product of society, then there is no reason to question Rousseau's statement that the State of Nature is a better state than present because it is the only time humans are truly free. ... If we cannot trust human nature to reason problems today, how can we expect reason to govern humans in the State of Nature? ... As with Rousseau before, we must question how Locke's State of Nature becomes today's society. ... As mentioned before, thes...

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According to researchers people lived on Bering Land Bridge for thousands of years before they crossed the ice-free corridor, first proposed by Ernst Antevs, 1935. ... The first people who crossed the Bering land bridge to migrate to North America were known as "Clovis People", which were the name archaeologists given to the earliest human culture in the North American continent. Scientists have found new evidence of stone tools dated from 1,000 year before Clovis, there still lack of enough evidence to disproved Bering Bridge theory. ... " (Michael Waters, 2013) The first in...

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With this resentment rapidly growing, we begin to see an emergence of the white supremacist movement that devoured the post-reconstruction South. ... Therefore, this left the states little room to push the freed slaves back into submission. ... Since the states knew that they could not prevent the freed slaves from voting. ... With this in mind, we begin to see the intricately woven tale that Chesnutt uses to demonstrate the emergence of hate crimes in the post-reconstruction South, which were spurred by this bloody battle for white supremacy. ... Happening in the beginning of the story...

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The larger municipal companies of the early 1900s provide standards against which we can rate the different solutions used in Kansas. ... Efforts were being made by individuals and groups to supply electricity to rural Kansas well before the passage of the REA. ... At the initial cost of power from the Berwick Company, 14.4 cents per kwh (kilowatt-hour), such generators were comparable in price. ... REA Cooperatives were responsible for the initial easement acquisition and surveying required to complete a loan application. ... In 1930 it was estimated that 35% of American homes were capab...

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Only for the last thousand years or so have humans been living in orderly societies run by technology relative to their particular time period, but before that, humans lived in Earth's completely natural conditions free of technology and infrastructure for tens of thousands of years. ... Regardless of one's origin, humans all share an undeniable attraction to break free from society and return to nature to just be alone; additionally, it's safe to say that the rewarding feeling that is derived from conquering the unknown and unexpected is truly universal. ... My friend Nick, w...

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From this line, the reader begins to assume that the woman longs to be out in the world, free to leap about as she pleases, free to move about as easily as she did before her old age. ... While reading this poem, it's easy to see that this family is and has been in the farming business for generations, which is stressed in the line, "we planted corn one Spring at Acu/we planted several times/ but this time was different." ... After reading into this line, one assumes that the father was forced into his role because his father was a farmer before him, and his grandfather was a farmer befor...

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It has made access to information and ideas much easier than ever before. ... The line between hate speech and free speech is a thin one, and different setting have different levels of tolerance. ... "They burned embassies and churches and fight with police, at least 200 died and many more were injured" (New York Time, 2009). Issues were raised my European Muslims on how do we draw the line between free expression and respect for religion? ... Thus, we take Internet for granted; we might not realize the issues related to Internet until we face one. ...

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In January 1775 five regiments of Hanoverians became British mercenaries; three regiments were sent to Gibraltar to release British troops and the remaining two were sent directly to America. ... His Majesty's army was already in a precarious position; it was in grave danger of losing control of the colonies before the year was complete. ... Samuel Johnson quipped: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" Even before Lord Dunmore's proclamation and the signature of the Declaration of Independence slaves had presented themselves to the Bri...

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Introduction: "We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. ... After seven years of labor the servants were free to start a new life. ... The indentured free servants ran into the Native Americans where they confront numerous amounts of conflicts. ... Most of these laws were already on the books for consideration well before Bacon was elected to the Burgesses. ...

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Roosevelt, with his broadcasted "fireside chats- and revolutionary "New Deal- program which helped bolster American confidence and get the country out of financial disaster, people were beginning to recover; to many, the world finally seemed to be returning to the worry-free paradise that they had so enjoyed in the 1920s. ... And fight back we did. ... Still today, warnings of possible nuclear-based terrorist attacks, and of North Korea's development of a nuclear arsenal, strike fear into the hearts of free citizens of the world. ... But for better or for worse, the early fourties...

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In establishing the absence of free will within the Kantian ethic, two approaches are necessary: the definitional prohibition of free will and the philosophical inconsistency of free will. Before delving into the thesis, however, one caveat is necessary. ... For example, if an agent lied, it would eliminate the concept of truth if lying were a universal maxim. ... Finally, the philosophical basis of free will requires that the agent be free to choose. ... The first we have briefly dealt with in our earlier analysis but the second requires further detail. ...

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In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. ... At first the British were frighten of the French who devastated their settlements but they were able to recover after William Pitt was at the command of the operations. ... Whatever may be the consequences, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over". ... Our...

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Howard Zinn (2009) argued that racism towards the African people began before the slave trade's beginning in 1600. Before Africans were associated with the slave trade, the color black was literally and symbolically distasteful to Europeans. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, before 1600, it was defined as: "Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, dirty, foul. ... Fergus agreed with Zinn in that racism towards the Africans began before the slave trade. ... Christians were desensitized to the belief that all people are equal and have free will. ...

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Goals of NAFTA were such that trade barriers were to be eliminated and the elimination of tariff over a 10 year period. ... With the implementation of NAFTA free trade seems to be a step away; however we are far from that. ... The Americans argued that since the majority of the Canadian forests were government owned lumber prices were subsidized, therefore selling below the market price while American private companies were suffering. The cost of Canadian softwood lumber was now around 32 percent higher than before after it a tariff was placed by Americans, making their lumber prices look more...

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Locke's view of a 'free to do whatever you want' type of state of nature is the reason why people would side with Locke's view. ... Locke's view of a state of nature free of laws and government may seem great and amazing to some but to me it sound's quite ridiculous. ... If there were no laws, no rules or government to live by people would feel free to do whatever it is that they would like, such as stealing, assault, and even go as far as murder. ... Without government countries would collapse and crumble right before our very eyes. ... That is why we do what we ...

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Gelder of Stanford says, "look at what pills and powders they ingest before deciding that scientists play a too eminent role in today's world" (Gelder 1). ... If we become a nation of people "dissatisfied by what our youth should naturally look like, than what do we say about ourselves as a whole? ... One mother even said, "I finally now have the first baby in six generations that can say that he is worry free. He will not contract Alzheimer's like the five generations of men before him" (Schmitt 111). ... Whether it be Down's syndrome or Alzheimer's, genetic en...

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Few slaves rose from their original status to the ranks of the slave elite or even the free-black. ... In the years before the Civil War, white southerners virtually halted the formal education of slaves. ... In his free time, Douglass and his friends would learn to write with the use of a Webster's Spelling Book . ... If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be completed; they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field, and we should be safe. I am not certain that we would not do it, if we could find out the process and that on the plea of necessit...

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There will be nearly 275,000 animals dead this time tomorrow that were not dead right now. ... The problem that we are faced with today is not a difficult one to fix. ... There will be nearly 275,000 animals dead this time tomorrow that were not dead right now. ... The problem that we are faced with today is not a difficult one to fix. The technology is available for us to use and we should take advantage of our advanced alternate methods....

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However the other side would point out that there are numerous layers to the issue, some moral and ethical, and that we lose much more than we gain by preserving what could be considered an archaic example of our nations violent past. ... In colonial times executions were performed in public, and were considered to be an acceptable form of entertainment. ... The state of Illinois, facing exonerating evidence, has set free more death row inmates than it has executed. ... If someone spends years locked away from their family and friends before being exonerated there is no way to ever replace t...

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This linked people together and let people openly criticize the government, which they were not allowed to do before when Britain was ruling them before the American Revolution. ... In the south, if a free black was caught even playing cards with a slave, they were sentenced to "thirty nine lashes on his bare back" (48). ... Women started getting jobs as well because there were many new opportunities. ... The new jobs like this were all formed because of the Jefferson beliefs. ... After the American Revolotion Americans started to evolve into what we are today. ...

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