According to the Boshongo people of central Africa, in the beginning, there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach ache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the moon, the stars, and then some animals. The leopard, the crocodile, the turtle, and finally, man.
This creation myth, like many others, tries to answer the questions we all ask. Why are we here? Where did we come from? The answer generally given was that humans were of comparatively recent origin, because it must have been obvious, even at early times, that the human race was improving in knowledge and technology. So it can't have been around that long, or it would have progressed even more. For example, according to Bishop Usher, the Book of Genesis placed the creation of the world at 9 in the morning on October the 27th, 4,004 BC. On the other hand, the physical surroundings, like mountains and rivers, change very little in a human lifetime. They were therefore thought to be a constant background, and either to have existed forever as an empty landscape, or to have been created at the same time as the humans. Not everyone, however, was happy with the idea that the universe had a beginning.
For example, Aristotle, the most famous of the Greek philosophers, believed the universe had existed forever. Something eternal is more perfect than something created. He suggested the reason we see progress
Philosophers rarely think about acting in the theatrical sense, but they do have a discourse of 'acts' that maintains associative semantic meanings with theories of performance and acting. For example, John Searle's 'speech acts,' those verbal as- surances and promises which seem not only to refer to a speaking relationship, but to constitute a moral bond between speakers, illustrate one of the illocutionary ges- tures that constitutes the stage of the analytic philosophy of language. Further…
The constant smell of smoke around the city always seems to cause me allergic reactions. I know I’m not the only one with this problem; therefore, I’d like to fix it. Smokers don’t realize that they are not only hurting themselves, but the people around them too. Over 400,000 Americans die because of smoking each year; Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of the 400,000. (Guilfoyle.) A lot of people who don’t even smoke are affected by smoking and there’s no way to stop it. With medical expenses getting…
http://preventcigarettelitter.org/why_it_matters/environment.html A cigarette butt or cigar tip dropped to the ground seems insignificant. But follow that butt as it’s carried off by rain into storm drains and eventually to streams and rivers. It now adds up to a big impact on the places we live: In fact, 32% of litter at storm drains is tobacco products.1 Cigarette butt litter creates blight. It accumulates in gutters, and outside doorways and bus shelters. It’s the number one most littered item anywhere…
The documentary, Streets of Plenty follows Misha Kleider, a college student, who is thrown into one of the worst neighborhoods in North America, the downtown eastside of Vancouver. Kleider starts out with nothing but a backpack, camera and underwear. His primary objective at first is to try and find public services that will help him survive as a person experiencing homelessness. At first this is tough because most of the citizens in the downtown area don’t live there. Most of these people are coming…
The article ‘Butt Out of Smokers’ Lives’ is a passionately argued letter to the editor written by an ‘outraged’ author. This biased article is written from a smoker’s perspective that shares a personal interest and feels strongly towards the matter of smoking and the issue surrounding banning it. The article is centralized around the subject of banning smoking and the government are trying to take matters into their own hands by putting into place drastic measures in order to ban it. Drastic…
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you notice someone throw their cigarette butt down on the sidewalk, or flick it out of a car window? Probably many times a day if you are paying attention Fort Valley State University is such a beautiful campus, the least smokers could do is pick up after themselves." Littered cigarette butts are also harmful to the environment. Many smokers may think their discarded cigarette ends will decompose like paper or cotton but like all litter, cigarette butts harm the environment. Almost every cigarette…
smoke usually throw their butts anywhere such as out a car window, in someone’s yard, or even in a stream. Litter from cigarette butts is such a big problem because they take 18 months to 10 years to biodegrade. According to the New Jersey-based American Littoral Society, experts say: Cigarette butts rank at the very top of litter problems -- not just for their ubiquity, but for their toxicity and non-biodegradable nature…An estimated 1.7 billion pounds of cigarette butts accumulate in lakes, oceans…
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