Those who are compassionate are more capable of giving spare change while others carry on with their busy lives. ... , the author contends that humans and animals only carry out acts of altruism because they have a hidden agenda (Dingfelder, 44). In particular, we commit acts of kindness because we want good things to happen to us in return but this is not always true. ... When we are young, we do things naturally to please others such as picking up an item that is dropped, opening doors for others when their hands are full or simply sharing toys. ... For example, if a person felt the need to ...

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Trying to imagine this huge boat could carry all the animals in the earth on it, Noah, and his family is quite fun and as a child your imagination can run wild. ... He is grieved at what man is doing because they are not following him and they are looking to do evil. ... It did not seem feasible that the ark could have carried every single animal that ever existed and that the animals could have spread out to every part of the earth. ... The only way I can explain things such as that is there was catastrophic event that put things in places where they could not have been put without God us...

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Collectively we have made great strides in technology and are now able to do astounding things. ... It is my assertion that though they are well intentioned, Blooms' goals are much too small to have any permanent effect. ... It was not even enough to carry it over into the subsequent generations. ... Ultimately everything comes down to the students and whether or not they are able to carry the torch of their predecessors. ... That way the needful things would be considered not only plausible but instead easily achieved. ...

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Throughout the novel the audience is presented with very few things that are not ruined, or covered with dirt. ... When they did not they were punished with three and a half years of rainfall. ... The fire that the man and the boy are carrying is the fire that is supposed to be stoked and brought back to life. ... As hard as it gets and as much suffering as they will have to endure they will survive because they are carrying the fire. ... Colors fill humans' everyday lives, they add character and emotion to regular day things. ...

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Cars, clothes, sports, not these physical things but the use of them will enhance anothers sexual attractiveness. Many species carry several similiar aspects of sex, for example, a chimpanzee, or even more a bonobo. ... Male being Y chromosome(small and only carries sexual characteristics) and female being X (large and carries traits for nonsexual traits as well). ... They are accepted very much in many societies; while in others they are frowned upon. ... Because that is just who they are. ...

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Horses have strong legs, they shall carry me. Sheep have thick wool, they shall clothe me. Cows have rich milk and good meat, they shall feed me - and so on. ... Another field of natural science, Genetics, analyzes the biological structure unique to living things. ... Genetics in essence give us a sense of what causes us to do things on a molecular level. ...

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A novel can be judged in many ways for many things. ... It wasn't long before Frankenstein realized he carried an interest for the mysteries of life. ... Although in a way they took it upon themselves to do something that could either harm or help the human race, they were the ones who got things accomplished. But because they were ones that got things accomplished doesn't mean that this group didn't have their failures. ... One of these things is teenage pregnancy. ...

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This is important because in the present individuals are too concerned with meeting ends meet that they forget to enjoy the simpler things in life. ... Countries such as China have such standards in place, but we cannot afford to wait as long as they did to implementing our own. ... We have reached the earths carrying capacity and if we continue to support everyone extinction is inevitable. ... The driver enabling our numbers to shoot so far over long-term carrying capacity has been the one time gift of erodible soils and the vast store of nutrients they contained- until we began to irreversib...

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Everyone wants to believe they have free will. ... It is easy to simply say that because of the vast influence of environment on one's actions, decisions are not being carried out by "you" but by your experiences. ... If a person doesn't learn to not touch a hot stove, they will keep on doing it. ... The things that happen in human life don't simply act to force people around like puppets on strings, they act to guide them like a blind man's seeing eye dog. ... With the exception of things like finger prints (which are developed in the womb), and things like nutrient defici...

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In Frankenstein's story, society becomes afraid of the "monster" but what I feel is that they are afraid of it because they are afraid of things about which they know nothing. They only guide themselves by physical appearance. ... Regardless of the yellow skin of the monster, which would unplease and scare most people, there is no need to carry over that emotion to judge the monster's intellectual attitude. The mind and body are two very different things. ... Would they throw me away? ...

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The adults put meanings on those things that we as youth did not understand. ... That is why no one person's reality is the same because based on your social grouping the meanings that you carry may be different than the meanings of someone else. ... So far I have discussed perspectives and social environment and how they help create the uniqueness in human reality. ... Perspectives, social environment, society, and symbols are all things that I feel help to make the human reality unique. ... Are these people crazy or are they in fact serving a function that is needed fo...

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The adults put meanings on those things that we as youth did not understand. ... That is why no one person's reality is the same because based on your social grouping the meanings that you carry may be different than the meanings of someone else. ... So far I have discussed perspectives and social environment and how they help create the uniqueness in human reality. ... Perspectives, social environment, society, and symbols are all things that I feel help to make the human reality unique. ... Are these people crazy or are they in fact serving a function that is needed fo...

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Many of the actions that the characters carried out in the play were all due to irrational decision that is caused by passions. ... He described nations warring against each other through the passion of "ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern", "quarrel between two princes", "enemy is too strong", and "neighbors want the things which we have, or have the things which we want." ... Even though with money human can buy all the things they need to survive, but to Gulliver, he thinks that "they could never have enough of it to spend or to save." ... They ...

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With the instruction of a teacher, a person can be taught to be virtuous and to perform well by carrying out rituals. By stating that "If man has no teachers to instruct them, they will be inclined towards evil and not upright; and if they have no ritual principles to guide them, they will be perverse and violent and lack order" (Hsun-Tzu 158) Hsun-Tzu points out that a man must be trained to become orderly and to conform to the "way." ... By nature, man has a love for beautiful things, sounds, flavors, profit, and ease (Hsun-Tzu 160), and so must surpass these in order to be virtuous. H...

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They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it (10). ... When attending to church with them, he is amazed that while the preacher preaches about brotherly love, both the Grangerfords and the Shepardson were carrying guns. ... I wished I hadn't ever come to ashore that night, to see such things (127). ... I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. ... Huck feels sorry for they punishment even though they have deserved it. ...

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"If people think they are at times unselfish, so the argument goes, they must be hiding the selfish motives from themselves. ... All living things have genes; some are more closely related than others, "human DNA differs from chimpanzee DNA by only just over one percent" (Goodall 312). Another reason that species are so selfish is because they want their genes to be carried on for as long as possible, "Genes are said to be our rulers, and to strive for their own replication" (De Waal 650). Therefore, when someone sees a member of their family in trouble they rush to help them with the subconsc...

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"If people think they are at times unselfish, so the argument goes, they must be hiding the selfish motives from themselves. ... All living things have genes; some are more closely related than others, "human DNA differs from chimpanzee DNA by only just over one percent" (Goodall 312). Another reason that species are so selfish is because they want their genes to be carried on for as long as possible, "Genes are said to be our rulers, and to strive for their own replication" (De Waal 650). Therefore, when someone sees a member of their family in trouble they rush to help them with the subconsc...

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It was somewhat overwhelming, but at the same time I felt a great opportunity to broaden my horizons and learn some things about conservation biology - a subject about which I knew absolutely nothing. ... Although many people probably do not have a love for learning about the environment, the things we do in everyday life, Wilcove explains, can have a great impact on the future of our wildlife. ... Because humans thought they knew more than they actually did, the prairies became scorched and desolate. Had the fires been left alone, they surely would have been better off. ... In each case,...

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He is in the mountains to support and carry out "a plan of which [he] heartily approves." ... (para.3) He shows us that he has no doubts and completely agrees that in order to restore the wilderness, he must carry out the plan. ... We can already see that when they speak to him, he will listen, that he will be open and trusting of what they have to say. Upon hearing that they are on their way to White Pass, Owens completely changes his persona. ... Owens is willing to change all of his ways of doing things because he realizes that they are wrong. ...

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He is in the mountains to support and carry out "a plan of which [he] heartily approves." ... (para.3) He shows us that he has no doubts and completely agrees that in order to restore the wilderness, he must carry out the plan. ... We can already see that when they speak to him, he will listen, that he will be open and trusting of what they have to say. Upon hearing that they are on their way to White Pass, Owens completely changes his persona. ... Owens is willing to change all of his ways of doing things because he realizes that they are wrong. ...

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A person without self-awareness could not tell you or show you feeling, merely because they would not be aware they have a feeling. ... According to Lycan, based on the facts that he is capable of carrying on intelligent conversations, displaying his emotional state, looks and feels like a person etc., he can be considered a person. ... Robots with rights are the last things we need, especially when we only want them to man factories or do chores around the house. ... There are many things accepted in today's society that would have been seriously shocking and unsetting to the social ...

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However that purity is carried only by those who have not had any sort of influence whatsoever – infants. ... This method of thinking could be applied to terrorists who we view as the definition of evil, but really they fighting for a cause that they believe will bring them prosperity. ... As you can see, all actions by non-insane people have traces of good intention behind them, even the ones which are carried out in appalling ways. ... "Many studies have shown that we care more about the threat of bad things than we do about the prospect of good things. ... Infants have absolutely...

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The Neanderthals lived in groups of 30 to 50 individuals, they invented many of the tool types that were to be perfected by fully sapient peoples, they had weapons adequate to deal with both the cave lion and cave bear, they used body paint, buried their dead. ... They are thought to have had fire. ... However, they did have a human awareness for many things. ... It is this aspect of humanity, that was improved and carried on by their successors, Cro-Magnon man, who later dominated the world. ... Plus their art is an evident in the tools and weapons they made. ...

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They superstitiously believe that the sacrifice will bring them a bountiful corn harvest. ... However similar things still happen in communities that still cling to their traditions which have been passed from generation to generation. ... In contrast, the mob mentality in the lottery is presented as very unreasonable because they stone the victims without thinking about the victims' fate but they are driven by the expectations of their tradition while the mentality of prosecution spectators in today's world is very rational and they can express their opinions through public means of...

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Happiness is explained as the goal or end for individuals as they complete their functions with virtues. ... Aristotle believes that, in order for human beings to achieve happiness as the highest of all realizable goods, he should carry a contemplative life with reason and virtuous acts. ... First off, utilitarianism as a consequentialism tells us that the suffering of a relatively small number or minority of people is acceptable as long as they increase the overall amount of happiness in the total population. ... To exemplify, the pain one experiences from a physical wound differs from that ...

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