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    own function, including human beings. By fulfilling that function in an excellent way, one can achieve Eudaimonia. The idea later becomes to be known as the Ergon argument. This paper is intending to argue for the ergon argument. Aristotle enquires the best benefits for human beings. First, he starts by saying that everything in natures has its own function. For example: the hammer’s function is to hammer the nail, or a tree’s function is to grow effectively. Human being is not an exception. The

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    Humans have come a long way. To think that the only way you could create a fire was to use sticks and coal and now it only takes a lighter or a match to create a fire. To think that we as humans use to think the world was flat and now where flying in space to different planets. As humans we have done so much in this world but there are still a lot of question that still are unanswered and the biggest one is what does it mean to be human? There are a wide range of implications to being human. Being

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    Reflect Like human beings, a civilization will talk to itself, using art as the favored medium. A culture’s enduring literature mirrors the conversation. Dickens reflected social guilt over the treatment of the poor and pilloried the arrogance of the rich. In War of the Worlds (1897), a work eagerly translated worldwide, H.G. Wells reflected international insecurity over an Industrial-Age world war—an insecurity that became reality in less than two decades. Consequently, it is wise to listen

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    Media Influence on Human Beings Every minute and every hour, the world we know revolves around the Internet. Relying on the Internet for every important aspect of life. People depend on the Internet for research, bills, communication, and most importantly reading. Through experience, the Internet helps ease many obstacles but it also aids in generating greater complications. Nicolas Carr, author of is Google Making Us Stupid? Argued the negative effects of using the Internet (Carr). Carr explained

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    Morality is an important component of a human being because it helps shape the ethical foundation that every human being has. Whether to be good, evil, honest, or deceitful are just some of the traits morality helps us develop. Thus, it is evident that morality is a crucial component of a human being. However, what ultimately drives moral action? This question is debated and investigated against many philosophers, a few of them being Thomas Hobbes, Frans de Waal, and David Hume. Hobbes believes

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    bond of human beings with the land has a strong connection. Centuries have gone by and throughout the many years, humans have relied on the land to provide for Humans, they need to evolve, survive, and move forward with their lives. The land provides for humans in a non costly manner. The land provides humans free shelter. For example, Humans use the dirt we walk on to build shelter. The Earth provides humans natural resources, such as water from lakes, streams and rain. The land gives humans bountiful

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    The idea of how technology is affecting us as human beings is a largely argued topic nowadays. For example, a professor of science, technology, and society at MIT University named Sherry Turkle seems to claim that all this digital communication we have access to now is not such a good thing. Turkle has a sample of an essay of hers in the book, They Say, I Say. The name of the essay is “No Need to Call,” and Sherry Turkle 's claims could be implied by this quote from her essay, “subscribing to a new

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    Human beings are obsessed with time. Compared to other species, like giant sequoias which can live to thousands of years old, our time on the Earth is short. This causes us to construct a system of time to better guide and manage our lives. Timothy the tortoise rejects this idea. Due to her lengthened reptile lifespan, Timothy has no concept of time. Due to her time with humans she sometimes adopts their measurements to tell her story, but she is shown to prefer her own existential outlook on life

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    Rodriguez � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Alex Rodriguez ENC 1102 11/18/2009 Genetic Engineering Were "Factor X" absent from human beings, all would be deprived of the "essential quality underneath that is worthy of a certain minimal level of respect" (Fukuyama 149). "Factor X" is the key factor in human beings that justify our equality. Francis Fukuyama categorizes "accidental characteristics" by skin color, social class and wealth, gender, cultural background, and even one's natural talents as nonessential

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    Neanderthals, the neighboring evolutionary kinsfolks of modern human being, existed in enormous parts of Europe and western Asia before endangered 30,000 years ago. We also realize that they probably like our own ancestors. Couple of years ago some scientists and their team publish graph genome and turn down love own genes today and review more and more secrets about Neanderthals and human relatives. Research by Dr. Svante Paabo(1996) retrieve species of all from Neanderthal. They found DNA of Neanderthals

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