A Personal Matter Essays

  • Hillary Clinton: Strategies and Goals

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    with the President, as well as the most personally involved in the subject matter involved with the impeachment. Since Bill Clinton’s wrong-doings stem from sexual misconduct, as his wife, Hillary Clinton has an extremely great involvement. Due to her great involvement in this personal matter, the public audience seems to associate their thoughts with her own (34% of the public thought that the scandal was a personal matter as long as Hillary Clinton was fine with it [U.S. News]). Meaning, the public

  • Feudalism in Men With Guns

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    economy, some being more explicitly demonstrated than others, but important and evident all the same. In a feudalist society, distinction between private rights and public authority oftentimes disappeared and local control tended to become a personal matter. Feudal leaders often took over the responsibility for the economic security of "their" territories and dictated how resources were to be produced and used. There was also generally a contract of some sort between the workers and the bosses, such

  • Irving Kristol's Pornograpy, Obscenity, and hte Case for Censorship

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    like to see this on television. Kristol relates the claim to sex, saying that it is a private moment and shouldn’t be viewed by the public. He says viewers wouldn’t want to watch the old man losing his bodily fluids on himself because it’s a personal matter and it just needs to stay private and unseen by the public. In paragraph [8], Kristol again rebuts his major claim when he relates humans to animals. He claims sex is like death, it is found both within humans and animals. As Kristol (1971)

  • Personal Financial Matters

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    Personal financial matters depend on how we handle it and the way we handle it can affect our everyday life. Sometimes our financial decisions or the way we handle it involves in many reason such as on how we save, spend, or invest. There are lots of ways to learn on how to handle our financial matters and some people make mistakes buy just looking at the numbers without enough knowledge on how to handle it. I myself had made mistakes on many ways, but I have been trying and learning more about how

  • The Personal Matter of Death

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    The Personal Matter of Death The "right to die" argument is building moral, ethical and legal issues. The proponents for physician aid in dying are arguing from the perspective of compassion and radical individual autonomy. However, we cannot take the life of another human being in our hands and play the role of God. The case against physician-assisted suicide, which is essentially a moral case ("thou shall not kill; thou shall not help others to kill themselves"), is straightforward and clear

  • Stuff Matters Personal Statement

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    Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our and future generations. I intend to combat this man-made disaster by applying materials science for sustainable technologies. Ever since reading “Stuff Matters” by Mark Miodownik, I have been fascinated by materials and their seemingly boundless potential to improve the world. Every breakthrough, either creating new materials or a developing a deeper understanding of old ones, shakes the course of modern progress. Sustainable practices have

  • Personal Narrative: Matters Of Faith

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    Matters of Faith offers an array of things such as music, messages/devotionals and sometimes even a guest speaker. It is a place for many people to come together and hear not only about their own religion but other religions, as well. As a matter of fact, those are some of the reasons that had me intrigued and wanting to see what Matters of Faith was really all about. I chose to attend Matters of Faith for many reasons. One being that I was curious to know if it was a club, bible study or even something

  • Why Geology Matters Personal Statement

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    how it was formed for the first time, that is by prolonged erosion. Subsequently, my interest in Earth Science piqued so I tried identifying the type of rocks in my collection to no avail until much later. I was also prompted to read “Why Geology Matters”. Understanding the processes and coincidences that shaped earth overwhelms me as their grandeur belittles us who only existed for a tiny fraction of Earth’s 4.5 billion years. Studying Earth makes sense since she still has so much left undiscovered

  • Abortion: A Matter of Personal Choice and Rights

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    There are a lot of debates surrounding the term, “Abortion.” Some believe that abortion is a choice, while others groups like conservatives believe that it is a Sin, and should be illegal. Individuals have their own reasons to why they want to get an abortion, and that should not be limited by legislators. Abortion should be legal because it is the individual right whether to have a baby or not regardless of their situation. The second reason is in the case of rape and incest, the third reason is

  • Personal Narrative: The Black Lives Matter Movement

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    last few months I have been stepping back from my daily routine to observe in as wide a scope as possible, the endless number of things happening. As I mentioned earlier, for many years I made it a point to keep my spiritual life separate from my personal. Furthermore, the news seemed to be an endless meditation on negativity; draining to say the least. From where I stand now imposing that artificial separation between spiritual and person seem rather trite and juvenile, despite the fact that it was

  • Comparing Oe, A Personal Matter By Kurosawa's High And Low

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    Leeana Nguyen Hist 354 High & Low - A Personal Matter In the prewar and wartime periods, Japanese individuals were constrained by power hierarchies with the state as centered of everything. In the post-war era, individuals were subjected to the human need hierarchies mainly focusing on personal feelings versus society expectations. Within Oe, A Personal Matter, and Kurosawa’s High and Low there were illustrations of the individual's feelings against what was expected of them from society. Through

  • Subject Matter Jurisdiction Essay

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    are subject matter and personal jurisdictions. Subject matter jurisdiction is said to be the court’s power to determine a case depending on the cause and the subject of dispute. On the other hand, personal jurisdiction is the power of a court to look into a case based on the people involved and make a decision binding the two parties together (Klerman, 2014). Situation 1 Apparently, Jim is not right as there is subject matter jurisdiction. The fact that federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction

  • Am I Me Or Am I Someone Else?

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    establishing my identity. In Derek Parfit’s writings Reasons and Persons and “Personal Identity,” he discusses his ideas on what would matter most, personal identity or survival, and he claims that it is survival, rather than personal identity that matters. Where Parfit expresses this view, this is where I disagree. I believe that where survival is there must be personal identity. Both should go hand in hand and there is more to personal identity than psychological/bodily continuity. I believe to an extent

  • Personal Identity by Derek Parfit

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    In his 1971 paper “Personal Identity”, Derek Parfit posits that it is possible and indeed desirable to free important questions from presuppositions about personal identity without losing all that matters. In working out how to do so, Parfit comes to the conclusion that “the question about identity has no importance” (Parfit, 1971, p. 4.2:3). In this essay, I will attempt to show that Parfit’s thesis is a valid one, with positive implications for human behaviour. The first section of the essay will

  • Personal Identity

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    search of personal identity throughout a person’s life. I’m going to be capturing the images of life that almost everyone may or may not have experienced. To address the 4th Dimension, time will be represented by capturing images throughout the subject matters lifespan. From birth to adolescence to adulthood. My intended choice of media will be social media. Primarily through the photo and video sharing app Instagram, the final product will be presented there. SUBJECT MATTER:My subject matter will focus

  • Defining Personal Fulfillment

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    No matter what the world believes personal fulfillment means, the only thing that matters is what the idea means to you. Achieving this goal is neither, bad, nor good, because this preconceived idea of personal fulfillment is false. I believe personal fulfillment is construed, planned and accomplished by you, the individual. Therefore, you as an individual, along with the influences of society, can come to a safe conclusion on how you will achieve personal fulfillment. A safe conclusion would be

  • The Morality Of Derek Parfit: The Importance Of Personal Identity

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    Your personal identity is what makes up the person that you are from one day to the next. Many philosophers question what personal identity truly is. Some philosophers agree that personal identity has great rational and a moral significance. Today, I will be talking about the philosopher that says the exact opposite of that: Derek Parfit. First, Parfit believes that at some future time, I shall either exist or I shall not exist. His second belief is that there some matters that are important to

  • Argumentative Essay On Personal Identity

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    Philosophy 06 Midterm Paper The argument of Personal Identity goes at the two most common views that are perceived to be the foreground for majority of early conversations of personal identity. The first view is the view that all everything that’s ever been asked about personal identity must have an absolute conclusion. It is known fact by all that at some point in the future we will either exist here on planet earth, or not exist at all. Questions concerning personal identity are definitely yes or no. The

  • Essay On Personal Identity

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    A person can be physically identifiable based on the matter they are composed of but their Personal Identity is far more than that. Despite any changes such as mentality and physical change, referred to as qualitatively changes, a person remains who they are. The philosophical question is, What it is to have a personal Identity? There are different theories discussing what is necessary and sufficient to define an individual's personal identity. So is there any theory that has truly capture the

  • Melchizek's The Alchemist

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    pursue his Personal Legend. Throughout the story, it shows us how Santiago goes through an entire transformation that demonstrates his inner growth and understanding of his Personal Legend. One key moment in Santiago's character development was his first step in pursuing his personal legend. Towards the beginning of the story Santiago gets approached by Melchizedek, and has a deep conversation about Santiago's personal journey. As Melchizedek encourages Santiago to go and hunt for his personal legend