A critical student is one who does not accept information at face value without first examining it in detail and from different angles or perspectives. Students at first year university level are expected to not only maintain a high level of academic performance, but also, to think, form judgments...

Pascal builds his argument in "Man and the Universe" out of a series of paradoxes, seemingly contradictory truths. In writing, "Man and the Universe," Pascal reflected his views on what is our place in the world as human beings. Pascal's writing shows a harmony be...

The Universal Nuclear Family defined as the family which is the same everywhere, typically the stereotype of mother, father, and children all living under one roof is a myth. Some ramifications in this myth include that a woman must marry a man and reproduce under one roof in one setting, the idea t...

The reason I chose Southern University at New Orleans is because my dream has always been to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge. The only thing that stopped me was family problems (and maybe the fact that I didn't get myself established yet). So I had to reroute my path and attend SUNO. Now ...

The question "what personal goals I want to achieve at University of Phoenix" sounded very simple at first. But as I really began to think about the question I started to realize that it was not an easy question to answer because I had so many. However, I did manage to select some perso...

In London researchers have found that the universe is growing faster than what they thought. At first, they thought that it was growing too slow, then it was speeding up, and now they are saying that it is speeding up way too fast for us. The reason they have found this out is because researcher Ste...

GOD OR DEVILAccording to an opinion poll about belief of God and Devil's existence, done at University of Grenoble, most of people believe in God. They imagine Him in differents ways. An abstract "thought" is the picture of God the most quoted by students. They see Him like something invisible which...

Being in a man-made environment evokes many different feelings as opposed to being in a natural one. It was much easier to find a place predominantly influenced by the hand of man than to find one that had not been altered by humans. I chose the courtyard at Albany University as my man-made environm...

Many people in this world have trouble speaking in front of an audience. Some people hate it because they get nervous about saying the wrong thing or looking like an idiot. These are some of the problems I encounter when I speak in front of a group. This is why taking an oral communication class ...

In David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Cleanthes' argument from design is successful in supporting the idea that the universe has an ordered arrangement and pattern. This argument is not sound in its ability to prove the existence of the Christian God. However, Cleanthes...

When I ask myself why do I want to attend Slippery Rock University a number of thoughts come to my mind. The most prominent reasons to me are the academic program that I'm interested in and the location of the University. The top reason I would like to attend Slippery Rock University is its Park &...

The great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius collected his thoughts and reflections in "The Meditations." He embraced stoicism so much that he spent much of his life time investigating the stoic philosophy and it became his approach to life. The main pillar on which these stoic thoughts are bas...

Every known living person has memories. Some are memories of time full of happiness, and some are filled with death, destruction, and pain. But, are our memories ours? Do we own what we think, or are they manufactured by our brains in a twisted chain of neurological events? If we can create memori...

Choosing a College The choice of a college or university should be made wisely because it will greatly influence your future professionally and personally. It is also a good idea to visit the colleges you are interested in. There are four things you should consider when choosing a college; loc...

Daniel Dennett's Intentional Systems Before I begin summarizing the paper, I would like to, at least for myself, get my personal feelings toward the paper itself and to clear up what I think is meant by Daniel Dennett's term intentional. In my opinion, Dennett does a poor job of e...

The dismissal of absolutes by Camus in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus as an escape from the absurd shows that Camus' commitment to life with joy and passion is another form of escape from the absurd. By embracing religion the cold irrationality of our society may be ignored. Science attempts ...

What is a Self? What is the meaning of self? In his writings, The Meditations, Rene Descartes asks the question, "Am I so dependent on the body and the senses that without these I cannot exist?" With this question, Descartes is pondering on the exact ...

Let me explain it to you in a language you'll understand... Have you ever heard these words before? Have you ever said, or even thought, these words before? I would dare say that everyone that has raised children or has a little brother or sister has found the need to explain something to a chil...

It isn't easy to choose a career today. Hundreds of students are leaving schools and universities every year to seek employment in the various professions, though emplotment opportunites are not increasing propotionately. As a result, there is a lot of umemployment. The inability of the variou...

"They Call Me the Wanderer"Every building started looking the same and the streets were blurring together as I walked the avenues of San Jose, Costa Rica. I was supposed to be at a university called ULACIT over an hour before, and I had the feeling that the other twenty-two Rotary Exchange Students...

Perfect Misunderstanding: As Understood by Epistle I of "An Essay on Man" Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is a crowning achievement, as it enjoys, simultaneously, the arching comprehensiveness of a distinguished volume, and the judicious simplicity of poetry. Bri...

The concept of freedom is not a skill to be learned, practiced or improved upon. Nor could it be utilized or withheld upon volition. It is only optional either in its existence or in its exercise. It can either be increased or diminished by wish or labor. The idea of being free begins when we ...

The Bateman competition, I would have to say that the Bateman competition was perhaps the most exciting and most difficult project I have had at the University of Hartford. The work that went into this project from the entire class was absolutely tremendous. When you told me there was a lot of w...

Ideas of the ParthenonThe Greek people of the 5th century BC created a culture that was deeply rooted in philosophy and the arts. Their endless search for their place in the grand scheme of the universe and in nature around them influenced everything in their lives especially their love of the arts....

The story "Battle Royal" portraits how human race can be capable of such sadisticactions against themselves. Indeed, the only reason why this actions are being taken is onthe account of someone's skin color. The "universal truth" as it's stated, is clearly the real definition of human behavior.By de...