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    For my journal I will be talking about the 2005 movie King Kong. I will be giving a little synopsis over it and also give an analysis on the primate behavior and how I think we are related. The movie starts off in New york where a sketchy movie director wanting to make a movie but ends up taking a different route. The director sets for sail with his crew and an actress he just picked off of the side of the streets. With not much of a plan and him being wanted by police the captain plans on stopping

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    of him. As Jesus walked along the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon Peter and Andrew casting their net into the sea. Jesus said to them follow me, and immediately they left their nets and followed Him. (Matt 4:18-20). Jesus gives a general invitation to everyone to follow Him by accepting his charge and allowing him to be the Lord, leader, and master of their lives. With this invitation and acceptance, Peter and Andrew were willing to give up all earthly possessions to follow Christ

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    Jesus the Christ: Analyse the meanings in a sacred text within a religious tradition The letters to the Ephesians is the 10th book in the New Testament. The texts that were written before and after it, are the letters to the Galatians and the letters to the Philippians respectively. According to tradition, the Apostle Paul wrote the letter while he was in prison in Rome, around 62 AD. Paul wrote the letter to the to Gentile (non-Jewish) followers of Christ, most likely a church in Ephesus. Paul

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    Rule Consequentialism

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    Deriving the ethicality of actions from both the compliance with the rules and the consequences that result from the actions is the basis of rule-consequentialism. First, it is pertinent that the value of a rule is determined, in order to determine whether the value of an action is enough to surpass it. Value, as defined by Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson in their book The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, can be measured by the presence of pleasure and absence of pain, or the fulfillment of

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    The part two of the book "The fifth discipline" wrote by Senge points out eleven laws of "the fifth discipline" which include: "Today's problems come from yesterday's solutions" - it means people usually unable to detect their solutions just move the problem to another part of the system, so they think they have been solved the problem but it still appear in other part of the system. "The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back" - this is called "compensating feedback" in system thinking

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    In the modern age many people no longer believe in Jesus Christ. They claim that modern science and historical data disproves Jesus. In fact, this just is the opposite. Most scholars do not doubt that Jesus of Nazareth existed, but it is His divinity that they doubt. By looking at historical documents and using basic reason one can see that Jesus Christ did exist, and through His actions we can see that he was divine. To find a census of any kind from the first century is quite the daunting task

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    David Rodin claims that, 'the case for both for and against preventative war is made in consequentialist terms' which he believes to be a mistake. Rodin states that, 'Consequentialism suffers from debilitating epistemdpgical problems that renders it effectivly useless as a moral theory of war'. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong however concludeds that conseqentiaism under certain cercumstances can be benifical in preventive war. Sinnott-Armstrong argues that 'conseqentialism raises serious doubts about cases

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    went against the teachings and ideals of official Church Doctrine. Therefore false teachers began to stress these flawed beliefs upon Church communities casting a dark cloud upon the remaining faithful believers. As a dark cloud loomed upon Timothy, Peter wrote Timothy II which was more of and informal friend to friend type letter to serve as a letter of direction. Through this letter “Paul reminds Timothy

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    I learned that the term epistle means letters, written to encourage followers or churches. Determining the purpose of Paul's epistles, is to declare or define the Christian teaching on a particular matter for the church. In most cases the epistles addressed to particular people at particular times. They were also widely circulated among the churches at large. Philemon was written by Paul to his friend Philemon, asking him to care

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    The Australian Greens represent the progressive face of Australian politics and have formulated their policy positions with a reformist framework. Whilst the Greens origins and expansion are primarily a consequence of new social movements, splits within the ALP and its supporter base have enabled them to expand their political voice. The Greens can trace their origins to local party branches across Australia that have merged together to become Australia’s the nationally recognised party Greens Party

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