Light Observations Made on 2-17-05
From the hours of 1800 to 2200 on Thursday 2-17-05, an inspection of the lights found on the exterior of the warehouses, container lots, pipe yard, and dock took place. After searching all the light fixtures on the outside of the warehouses there were only two found that possibly could cause a hazard to someone. The first one found was at bay door 1A-1, the fixture was hanging loose off the wall with wires exposed. 2B-2 was the other site with a possible hazard. The light fixture was missing it’s covering exposing it to the elements as well as anyone who goes to use it.
There were also some lights found that were inoperable upon completion of the inspection. All lights found on the front side of warehouse 1 were in working condition, except for one of the sidelights found on the left of door 1B-3. The same can be said about the backside of the warehouse, the only one that was not working was the one found at 1A-2. Lights 2C-3, 2D-1, 2D-2, and 2D-3 on the front side of warehouse 2 worked, but all others were found to be inoperable. Only one of the sidelights found at 2D-3 on the backside of the warehouse works, but all others were in sufficient working condition.
The light post, closest to 95 found behind warehouse 3, had one bulb that was not working. The second light post found at the back of the pipe yard, right next to 95, also looked like it was also about ready to go out. Light coming from that pole was very dim and in my observation not adequate. In J-Lot down by the gate, the first light that runs along the 95 side turns off and on randomly. This could cause a major hazard concern because the line of sight for individuals is greatly depleted.
When entering A-Lot the light to the right is out. One of the quad lights found at the back of the lot is also out, along with one of the quads found at the front of the lot, facing the water. The whole container area located in Lot-A closest to the water needs to have more light because there is no light coming from the water side, making it very hard to see.
After completing a survey of the dock it was noted that lighting is barely adequate for operation.
Lucie Brock-Broido’s “The Halo That Would Not Light” is a poem about the loss of childhood and its inevitable end. When one is born “the (raptor’s) beak (lets) loose of you” (ll 1-2), and drops your tiny body into the “scarab-colored hollow” (ll 3-4). The raptor letting the tiny body loose into the scarab colored hollow alludes to the old nursery stories of the stork delivering babies in cribs for their new families. When children are young they often have positive outlooks on the world and believe that everything is possible, like the magic in the “hollow hat” (l 13) or the “cardboard box” (l 5). They believe strongly in all in possible wonders of the world and it isn't until their “endless childhood” is finally “done” that they loose the
Augustine’s theodicy is basically- God is perfect and creates perfection (garden of Eden), God gave us free will which we in turn misuse which in turn leads to the fall of man and therefore evil comes into the world. So now the whole world is evil and corrupted, Natural Evil is then a result of this corruption. Everyone after the fall shares in the sins of Adam- Original Sin, until Jesus saves us by dying for our sins on the cross. In the book of Romans (5:12) it says ‘Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death shall spread to all because all have sinned.’ Therefore humanity is responsible for evil. But some may say that God gave us free will in the first place and if God is all knowing then He knew the fall would happen and therefore he is not all loving or all powerful as he knew evil would come into the world and yet did nothing about it.
The book All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer, was not your traditional love and war story. It’s about a young blind girl named Marie growing up in the war, who had a connection with a young boy named Werner who is a part of the Hitler youth. There are a few other characters who are all in different parts of the world, and yet they eventually all meet up together and find out they all have some type of connection between each other. All of the characters in the book were affected by the war, and caused them to change into the characters that they ended up to be.
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According to the act utilitarian whatever the doctors did, produced maximum pleasure over pain for the doctors at that time. The act of hiding the fact of giving the cancer cell injections to the patients, produced the maximum pleasure because by hiding the fact, the doctors thought that they might find a cure for cancer.
Augustine had the conviction that man is naturally good, since man was created by God, and that our nature has not been altered completely by the "original sin", but that our nature has simply been distorted or perverted from its original "good" state. He would say that, because of our corrupted nature, we do things selfishly, or, we do things to benefit ourselves instead of God and our neighbors. We tend to be unable of choosing good over evil in every situation. We have an inability to do what is right, while at the same time, we are completely responsible for what we do. This is not to say, however, that we never do what is right, or that we are pure evil, because evil is simply a corruption of the good. Instead, it means that our every action, when analyzed at the root, has the wrong motive, and ultimately we serve ourselves. Saying that human nature is not at least based on something good would imply that God created evil. Everything that is good is created by God, and there is nothing besides that. This ties into Augustine's belief that evil itself is not a thing, but is simply an absence of good.
Act utilitarianism believes that whenever a certain action is decided, it should perform the greatest amount of happiness. In other words, act utilitarians act before fully evaluating the morally of the action. It is also important to take in consideration that act utilitarianism is simply concerned on which particular action maximizes the most happiness. Where as, rule utilitarianism is concerned on which rule is followed according to a particular action and would this rule maximize the most happiness (Shafer-Landau, 2014, p.154). Due to these differences, Smart defends act
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He claims that Augustine’s approach was not only brilliant, but it was also practical. “Evil can be phrased in several way: 1) God created all things; 2) evil is a thing; 3) therefore, God created evil”(Koukl). These three theories, stated by Koukl, supports Augustine’s claim that all things created by God is good, evil is not good, therefore evil was not created by God. The problem with this is that in the Confession, Augustine talks about how evil his actions were evil. However, where are all these actions coming from? They must have originated from something and created by something. So, if evil is not created by God, then what or who is it created
He describes how attracting this spirit was and how it felt good to be evil. “The evil in me was foul, but I loved it”( p 103). He saw the will to sin as a characteristic of human being. I loved that he thought this. I agree with him on nobody being perfect. I feel like when we do something “evil” then realize, we have a new found feeling of good. I feel in a way, evil is a wakeup call to keep us on the “right” track. He also formulated the theory of predestination. I don't know how I feel about this. My brother and I have always had this discussion on why bad things, happen to good people. If someone is so religious and devoted to god, but can have such a difficult time. For example, my mom’s aunt. Her life story is so impactful and hard, yet she is a full devotee and won’t give up on her faith. Is this where the whole “things happen for a reason” or “it’s all in God’s plan” comes from? I am really interested in learning more about Augustine, as I feel like his teaching are some what relatable in todays
Augustine’s influence on the church is significant but recently from more of a past historical standpoint rather than a current theological standpoint. This is because of his outdated thoughts of sexual activity and the way he theorized good vs. evil as something physical vs. spiritual.
He did this by making the connection that god is good, so good is god. With this logic, Augustine accredits the source of knowledge to god. Much like Plato, Augustine wrote in a dialectic style and writes a discussion between himself and his student Evodius in “The Problem of Evil”. In this book, they discuss the source of evil. Augustine presents two kinds of evil: “one, of doing evil, and the other of suffering evil,” (Augustine 258). He then continues to state that god is good so he does no evil, but that god is the source of the suffering evil. According to Augustine, god does this by punishing the bad. Augustine and Evodius continue to debate what is good and determine that learning, teaching, and understanding are all good and can’t be evil. After a lot of back and forth discussion, Augustine concludes that the source of sin is passion or the “love of those things which each of us can lose against his will,” (Augustine 263). Although people of good and bad both desire to live a life free of fear, the way they handle fear is different. Good people turn away from the love of things they cannot have while bad people try to remove any obstacle that is in their way of having what they want. Augustine is correct in saying that evil comes from following desires that you shouldn’t have, but his main idea of where knowledge comes from is faulty. He claims that god is good and that there is nothing god doesn’t do
For the vast majority of his years Augustine was confused regarding sinful nature. Even as an infant, Augustine was not free from sin. Observing an infant, even though he is too weak to cause any harm, he shows the first steps of sinning if he doesn’t get what he wants. Later on he concludes that teenagers desire to do evil things because they do not understand the nature of beauty or goodness, which is God. What later troubles him the most, is that his main motive was the desire to sin and do wrong. He proceeds that the sinful nature, along with certain situations and people in his life lead him, and brought him closer to God.
Instead, evil is the darkened will of man, or the natural inclination toward sin that originated in fall of Adam and Eve. Because humans have turned away from God, each human life is filled with inner conflict that cannot be eliminated. In the end, each man will be issued a “divine judgement, either to correct or punish their sins,” and only then will true justice will be achieved. (875) Augustine’s argument hinges on the differentiation between the City of God, a City with a true love of God, and the earthly city, a city founded in love of self. The people of the City of God are on a pilgrimage during their time in the temporal world and intermingled with the earthly city. While human beings in the temporal world may desire peace, they can only desire an “earthly peace” for original sin gives man an inclination for conflict so strong the government must exist to restrain people from falling into constant warfare. Ideally, “[the rulers] do not give orders because of a lust for domination, but from a dutiful concern for the interests of others” and will keep peace by subduing wicked men through fear of punishment (874). However, even under an unrighteous ruler, man is still expected to obey unless they contradict the law of God, for the humility they gain through being ruled “is as salutary for the servants as pride is harmful to the masters.” (875)
Augustine himself was no stranger to evil, and like many of the Saints, he was not one in his early life. Augustine expressed great remorse of some seemingly trivial deeds he had committed when he was a young adolescent. One of the most famous examples he provides is his story of the pear tree. He and his friends had trespassed into a neighbors garden and had stolen all the fruit from his tree. This might seem like only a small sin, however Augustine demonstrates great regret in having participated in this act. Augustine is not as much concerned with the actual act of stealing from the tree, but the they didn 't even eat the fruit. They had no