Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
Monasticism And Intellectual L
Words: 795 - Pages: 3.... used scriptoria, or writing rooms, to copy different manuscripts. Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the monasteries experienced what one might call a moral decline. The purity and poverty which was the ideal for monks was being abandoned. Simony, the buying of clerical positions, was common, as was the practice of priests being married. In 910, Duke William of Aquataine wanted to do something to correct this problem. He founded the abbey of Cluny, which was an independent monastery. Cluny was kept independent from any kind of secular control. It sought to bring back the ideals of the original monasteries. This came to be known .....
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Omnipotence And St. Thomas Aquinas
Words: 421 - Pages: 2.... possible and nothing is
impossible. If this is true however, things which are necessary (things which
cannot possibly not exist) are no longer so. This is impossible - therefore god
cannot be omnipotent.
Aquinas begins his rebuttals by defining what is encompassed by the
characteristic of divine omnipotence. He explains that god is able to all things
which are "possible absolutely", which he defines as all things which can be
logically expressed without the predicate being in conflict with the subject -
i.e. god is capable of all things which do not involve a contradiction in terms.
This does not imply any defect in the power of god, Aquin .....
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IQ Testing
Words: 503 - Pages: 2.... predict how a person will act in a street fight or in a car accident when their life is on the line; However, if the professor were to look at the takers life history and read that the man has survived ten car accidents went to college for eight years and is blind, maybe then may he judge how capable this guy is of learning.
An important part of "testing" is how the test taker feels. If they are very sick or too confident it will affect their IQ. From personal experience I have learned that the most intelligent people are not the smartest. Two friends of mine Larry and Tony went to high school with me. Larry did his homework the maj .....
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The Effects Of Excuse Validati
Words: 698 - Pages: 3.... excuses were not validated. The results indicated that excuse-validation is an effective form of social support and is necessary for publicly made excuses to alleviate negative affect.
Social psychology is replete with evidence that people who receive information that threatens their sense of self, such as a negative evaluation, will distort the information in self-serving ways (see Miller & Porter, 1988; Snyder & Higgins, 1988; Taylor & Brown, 1988, for reviews). Snyder, Higgins, and Stucky (1983) have demonstrated that making excuses (e.g., trivializing negative feedback, making an external attribution for the cause of an unfavorable outco .....
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Performance Management
Words: 2957 - Pages: 11.... groups are virtually impossible to resolve. This is due to people's contradicting needs; this creates the task of catering for each individual group’s needs, which is unobtainable. Therefore, the council must take an interest in the most significant party, the public; this includes the implications of the other major problems.
Performance management and review can be an aid to this project, by analysing the various options and solutions and deciding on the best course of action. Each of the three main problems may be divided into a list containing various sub problems, which create the overall problems. Each of these problems m .....
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Constructual Building Material
Words: 885 - Pages: 4.... tensile strength.
Chromium steel is used in automobile and airplane parts because of its hardness, strength, and elasticity. Nickel steel is the most widely used of the alloys; it is nonmagnetic and has the tensile properties of high-carbon steel without the brittleness. Stainless steel has a high tensile strength and resists abrasion and corrosion because of its high chromium content. It is used in kitchen utensils, plumbing fixtures, piping for industrial plants, architectural decoration, and other applications where durability is
The exact date at which people discovered the technique of smelting iron ore to produce usable metal is not k .....
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LOUIS RIEL
Words: 586 - Pages: 3.... was the mistake of the government. They
should have sopped the nonsense and threats. For Riel
was a man of ideas. He was a man who was knowledged in
the government. It was obvious since he formed his own
government. Riel would have been an asset to the
Canadian government.
In 1884, Gabriel Dumont rode to Montana and asked
Riel to defend the Métis once again. Riel returned to help
the natives once more. Riel was risking capture when he
returned. This was a very noble act on his part. Instead of
staying nice and safe in Montana, Riel gave up his safety
for the Métis. Riel decided to try an unviolent approach
this time instead .....
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The Church On Homelessness
Words: 391 - Pages: 2.... 2) The witness that the church seeks to give in helping in the search for
a solution to the problems of the poor is a sign of the presence of the kingdom
of salvation and liberation.
3) The mission of the church also consists in helping to make society
more human.
The Catholic Church agrees with these three ideas and also makes its
own judgement on the suffering of these millions of people. From the time of
the earliest Christian communities, the church has always shown a preference
for the poor, the needy, and on the outcasts of society. The way that the
church insists on reaching out to the poor through mission .....
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Savage Inequalities: Children In America's Schools
Words: 1236 - Pages: 5.... because unlike the suburbs, tax money has to meet non-school costs such as: police and fire department expenditures and public health. All are in competition with public schools. The schools in these areas are over crowded, limited in supplies, under-staffed and unfit for teaching. Employing and keeping young teachers is a struggle because of lower salaries than what is offered at schools in the suburbs. Kozol points out that politics play an important role in how monies are distributed. He states that: "In Illinois, as elsewhere in America, local funds for education raised from poverty taxes are supplemented by state contribut .....
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Psychoanalysis Of Fairytales
Words: 2487 - Pages: 10.... of perhaps taboo topics in an illustrative manner.
Tales are said to contain more than meets the eye. Initially, there is the surface, or manifest content; presented and taken, generally, at face value. As with Freudian theories regarding dream interpretation, this is what is 'seen' as opposed to the 'hidden' latent content. It is this constituent that lies open to interpretation, depicting what the tale is 'actually' about, through symbolic representation.
Symbols, as used in the interpretative sense, are objects, colours, people or scenes that represent the inner moods or occurrences around us or needing to be addressed. The argument that .....
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