.... also become quite often. These people are incapable of handling the stress of living on their own. These people get kicked out of their homes and are to ashamed to go to their families because of their illness, so we see them on the streets struggling to stay warm. Teenage mothers are also forced to live on the streets because their families will not help them. The fathers are not there and that forces them to live on the streets. So they must resort to prostitution to pay for the food that their young ones need to stay alive. There are many other people that become for many different reasons. Some of these people can not help becoming . Some of these people are the ille ....

.... go outside I will get wet, and therefore I take an umbrella with me. The functionalists define a mental state strictly through its cause and effect relationships, through its function. This thinking leads to the conclusion that the human brain is little more than a big, complex computer. All we humans do is take input, process it, and accordingly create output, just like a computer. In fact, functionalists who support strong AI go so far as to say that an appropriately programmed computer actually has all the same mental states and capabilities as a human. In AMinds, Brains, and Programs,@ John Searle outlines this argument: AIt is a characteristic of human beings= story un ....

.... turned in papers a week late in high school and still received a grade of 70 % on them. This is coming back to hunt me in college because I now have a big problem meeting deadlines.Although I do not like to admit it, if high school had been stricter in this respect I might not be going through these many difficulties right now. Most public high school teachers are astoundingly underpaid and overworked with sometimes over fifty students in a single classroom.In the last ten years the average class size doubled according to a Time magazine study published in 1995 stating that throughout the whole nation classes have doubled in size.The article mentions that this problem ha ....

.... realize this. Upon graduation from highschool, I, like the majority of other highschool graduates, had no clue what direction my life was heading or even what I wanted to become. So after graduation I decided to explore my options at the University of Pittsburgh. Wow, was this a mistake. Not only was the college to big for my own well being, but the big University provided too many distractions. This is why I feel I have finally taken the right and first step in securing my future. Currently, I am attending Waynesburg college in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, majoring in computer science and minoring in business. I have always had a fascination when it comes to computer ....

.... it. The second premise is that the introduction of cyclamates is bad. The third premise is that if we can prevent the introduction of cyclamates without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance. The conclusion is that we ought to prevent introduction of cyclamates abroad. With the knowledge they had about cyclamates, Libby, McNeil, and Libby should not have introduced cyclamates into the foreign markets. Cyclamates could be very damaging to one’s health, and that is why the FDA banned their use in America. Based on Singer’s first premise, if we can prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable moral signific ....

.... it is not. People play sports all the time, football and basketball. Sports are a very important part of life. Hunting is a hobby, that needs to exist. People get killed in sports such as football and rugby, just animals get killed in hunting. Animals, they do not think on the same level, so why is it such a big deal? Hunting is just a sport for a different class of people. You may ask why do we need to kill animals. A major reason is for the balance of animals. If you have to many deer in a population, all the plants would be eaten. Leaving mice nothing to eat. When mice die owls die that rely on them for food. So you see when you kill a mouse you are ju ....

.... gambling industry each year. Over eighty-five percent of this wagering took place in casinos that are now legal in twenty-seven states compared to twenty years ago when if a person wanted to gamble they had to go to Nevada. Proponents of the gambling industry feel that this growth is a good thing and that it is helping the national economy. Also, defenders of the gaming industry insist that gambling is good clean fun, and that since so many people are enjoying this form of entertainment it can not be wrong. Furthermore, proponents are quick to point out that fun is not the only issue; in addition, these new casinos have created thousands of jobs. Not only have casinos c ....

.... three times the size of Rhode Island [Puerto Rico][Dominican Republic]. The two nations are climatically identical. They both have tropical marine climates with little seasonal temperature changes. The two also have natural resources of metals with Puerto Rico having the potential for oil mining. The Dominican Republic’s population (over 7 million) is bit less than double the amount in Puerto Rico (about 3.8 million)[Age Structure][Dominican Republic]. Their birth rates are similar as well but the Dominican Republic’s is slightly higher. Culturally they share similar backgrounds. Both countries have Black and Hispanic origins and the official l ....