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Zunic view drives into conscience that human civilization is linked to the unwillingness of people to pay attention to the gospel. To the extent of questioning the incarnation of Jesus Christ, I become skeptical in basing my belief on the knowledge of this world. How safe is it to investigate the validity of the creator? It is unsafe, of course! Unfaithfulness is termed as ignorance towards the consequences of sin. The current world is filled with diverse philosophies guiding human beliefs. Atheists believe that there is no God. Other religions are driven by principles that are based on the worship of gods. However, the Bible affirms the true worship and faith that all people should follow. Moreover, through faith, God assures all individuals prosperity. Let us have a look at the scriptures.   * Philippians 1:8: For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.   * Hebrews 11:8: By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed, and went, even though he did not know where he was going.   * Ephesians 6:10: Finally, be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might.   * Psalm 28:7: The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore, my heart exalts, and with my song, I shall thank Him.   * Daniel 2:14-48 shows that: Daniel and his colleagues obtained mercies of God through faith, and that overturned the plans of Nebuchadnezzar to slay them plus other Chaldeans. The power of faith in God saves lives, even the lives of sinners. ( Do you feel compelled to have faith in God? How should we approach God with matters of our lives? Believe that our help can come from another source? Trust in Him from the beginning? The assurance is in Matthew 6:33: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” ) The Power in Unfeigned Faith Faith that is pure, genuine, and legitimate is the power of all people who do God’s will. Timothy is brought up in a family of a mother and grandmother with a sincere belief in heavenly promises. Paul mentions Eunice and Lois as the emblems of faith and role models from which Timothy’s conviction to live purely for God’s purpose stems. Moreover, he gets convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that since Timothy has followed the footsteps of his parent, nothing would have drawn him away from the pure walk with God. (5) What then should form the foundation of our beliefs? Before highlighting the family members of Timothy, Paul, in his letter, mentions his forefathers who served God as his role models. He then advances to emphasize that with a clear conscience, prays and admires seeing Timothy in unfeigned faithfulness to serving God. Paul then motivates Timothy to cheer up and invest his talents in serving God. He reasoned that God had given his Spirit to faithful people, to empower them and impart love that sustains a sound mind. (3-4, 6-7) Please do not take your parents’ faith in
Marriage story is one of the most acclaimed films directed by Noah Baumbach. It addresses divorce, which is one of the most gut-wrenching topics in the current world. In reality, divorce is wholeheartedly devastating to both parties. Although divorce stories are a penny in pop culture, people seldom narrate their painful experiences in real-life situations as the movie makes them. It is sad to see things that started sweet end bitterly with people separating after sharing goods moments. In the film, Nicole moves out of her native home California to star in a TV pilot, deciding her love is not comfortable out, eventually refusing to join her( Marriage story 00:00-13:45). This creates irreconcilable differences that force Nicole to file for a divorce. The film describes divorce as a dead thing without a body. Meaning that something has been lost, and there is denial, anger, and grieving. The movie captures the irony nature of love where two people who care for one another do things they promised they would never do to one another. With the remarkable compassion of the two characters, Baumbach shows how some circumstances in life will turn people into versions they never expected to become. The film shows that the inability to solve challenges is a major contributing factor in divorce cases. Maybe if Nicole could have stayed, they would have sorted their issues. Marriage Story begins with Charlie and Nicole attending a mediation session to solve their issues ( Marriage story 00:00-:25:20). They are requested to write down what they liked about each other to remember why they fell in love. In the end, Nicole gives up and leaves. Finally, after their bitter divorce and custody battle have been resolved, and the divorce has been finalized, Charlie pays a visit to Henry and his father, and Henry shows his father the list of qualities his mother admired in him. Charlie sobs as Henry reads the letter to him aloud. Nicole keeps a close eye on things from behind him. After watching this couple crumble under the weight of the divorce’s emotional, financial, and societal demands, this moment of emotional release feels richly deserved. A simple act that both of them took for granted is shown to them at the end, even though they’ve never stopped loving one another. The majority of divorce narratives depict the situation as either good or bad in black-and-and-white terms. It may be said that the “good” spouse is the shining example of selflessness, whereas the “bad” spouse is the one who is narcissistic and selfish and who is usually
During the last ten years, the demand for organs in the United States has been far more than the supply and this has created a large waiting list of patients for getting the organs. Despite the efforts to meet the growing demand an unknown number of patients die each year, being unable to get the life-saving organs. This raises the question that how the allocation of this scarce resource can be regulated. Distributive Justice On the matter of allocating this resource there are two ethical considerations weigh. They are:   * commutative justice and   * distributive justice. “Commutative justice is about rendering unto this patient what is his or her due, in this case, what he or she needs; it is distinguished from distributive justice, which is about how benefits are distributed in a group or groups of patients. “ Though it is widely acknowledged that medical decisions affecting the patient-physician relationship in general is to be based on the commutative principle when the question of organ transplants come the commentators take a stand that it is both commutative and distributive justice that should be considered in matters involving organ transplants. They hold this view because of the scarcity of the organs available for transplant. From the perspective of distributive justice, every decision about an individual is taken with the implications that decision can have on the group (Davis and Wolitz). This situation gives rise to another question as to whether the gap between the demand and supply of organ making it a scarce resource justifies the intrusion of distributive justice into a patient-physician relationship. If there is an answer in affirmative for this question then the distributive justice affects the way a particular doctor serves his/her patient. It can be argued that just because of the scarcity of the organs we cannot blame a doctor who feels that considering the circumstances of the case, it is most beneficial to the patient he pledged to save to get the organ transplanted in preference to others waiting to get it. This is the principle behind the commutative justice. However, from a distributive justice point of view the action of the doctor to conduct the transplant with the organ obtained cutting the line may not be ethical, since such a decision affects the group. Action of Krampitz The action of Krampitz to advertise in the newspaper and TV shows to get the organ donated could have helped him s
Karl Marx was one of the famous political economists in the early nineteenth century. On the other hand, he remains to be one of the most controversial scholars in the Western world’s history. It was because he continuously criticized capitalism by suggesting that socialism is an inevitable and harmonious economic and political trend for the future. Marxism deeply penetrated Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the early twentieth century through the spread of communism. However, the idea of having socialism as the main political and economic policy in those regions failed before the century ended. The powerful revolutionary force that came with the Marxism and its eventual collapse is based on characteristics of the ideology. One of the main aspects of Marxism can be viewed in terms of the labor theory of value. For instance, if a commodity-A takes twice as long to produce as a commodity-B, then commodity-A is twice as valuable as commodity B. The competitive price of the commodity-A, in the end, will be twice the price of the commodity-B irrespective of the physical input values 1 . Even though the labor theory of value seems impractical, it was dominant among the early economists up to the mid-nineteenth century 2 . For example, Adam Smith applied the theory in his argument for capitalism. Besides, Ricardo systematically developed the concept in the early nineteenth century 3 . Marx would the earlier ideas to develop a model aimed at changing the economic views and trends in Europe and the rest of the Western world. Marx also used the earlier principles and concepts to explain his idea of labor power. He argues that the labor power is determined by the average hours a worker requires to develop the essential capacity that meets the specific standards. According to this new idea of the labor standard, a person has the labor capacity if the number of hours spent working is enough to pay for food, clothes, and accommodation. In other words, the wages given to the workers are determined by the time in hours spent during the production of a given commodity 4 . For instance, six hours of working might be for the worker to sustain the basic need and have the ability to work the next day. The idea was developed to have ideal working hours, which are not to be surpassed. The intention was to criticize the bourgeois and their idea of extending the working hours. Marx deemed it impractical for the capitalists to justify their comfort life while they were not engaged in working directly. In this context, Marx observed that a capitalistic economy se
Introduction Package storage and the delivery system combine electronically controlled lockers arranged at or near customer locations. Each locker is unlocked by a courier, preferably with a short-range transceiver or transmitter carried on the courier’s person. The customer can unlock the compartment and receive the delivered parcel. Cryptographically signed communications are employed along with nonvolatile usage logs to diminish the risk of loss of a package or deception by a courier or customer. The cells may be stackable, permitting a delivery courier to add divisions in the event a customer receives too many deliveries to fit into a single portion. Each cubicle has, of course, a physical location, and has linked with it an address code indicative of the physical location, for example by means of a legible or definite representation of the precise latitude and longitude. A batch hand-carried to such a box suitably bears the address code. A merchant can considerably reduce the risk of credit card fraud by requiring the use of such codes for the straightforward reason that a fraudulent transaction may be traced to a specific physical location. A substantial amount of airfreight consists of express-delivery bulk shipments that are carried by integrated carriers. Integrated carriers are companies such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, and DHL, all of which specialize particularly in the air transportation of small packages and the related ground collection and distribution. Such carriers fly high-value or time-sensitive parcels on airplanes that carry only such parcels. UPS is a bigger company than FedEx, it is also more profitable and more financially stable than its rival. This paper analyzes the financial statements and the financial ratios of the two companies to understand where UPS is doing better and where FedEx has the upper hand so to speak and make some recommendations based on the analysis. FED-eX history FDX Corporation is a holding company for Federal Express Corporation and other businesses that provide prompt delivery of packages, letters, and other shipments within the United States and worldwide. Federal Express Corporation, also called FedEx, virtually invented the overnight-delivery industry, and within ten years rose from a startup operation to a $1 billion company. Among the company’s few delinqu
Introduction West Nile virus is a virus which infects people, birds and horses among other animals, when bitten by an infected mosquito, and it is characterized by mild symptoms. It has not been confirmed to be communicable, but its effects are very fatal as shown by Jackson (2013). However, the spread of the virus is very rapid in the south and west of the Nile. Methods of prevention One of the fundamental techniques that are required in order to prevent the spread of West Nile virus is sensitization through public awareness. Other methods which are derivatives of the first method include the control of larval mosquitoes before they develop into adults. As they grow into adulthood, there is need for application of surveillance on them. Thirdly, the spread can be discouraged by using drainage control system to eliminate the breeding areas of mosquitoes. In order to prevent the mosquitoes, one should spray using insecticides. Advantages of spraying Researchers have shown that the spraying method is effective in controlling the adult mosquitoes. It can also be used together with other techniques in order to control the spread of adult mosquitoes (Alireza & Alexander, 2005). Surveys by public health officials show that 90 percent of people in the residential areas prone to habitation by mosquitoes prefer spraying to control the spread of the West Nile virus carrying mosquitoes. As it appears, it is s afe to use spraying since it does a mass killing of the mosquitoes to reduce their population. In fact, spraying does no just kill the adult mosquitoes, but also their eggs. The dangers of the aerial spraying are less than the risks of contacting the disease as studies have shown. In the areas where spraying has been done, the number of cases of the West Nile virus has been found to reduce by large margins, especially in Dallas, Texas (Carruthers, Jackson, & McKinnon, 2005). The health department in Dallas, Texas, argues that spraying is one of the best methods, since it is easy to master, based on simple instruction, rather than the risk and expenses of dealing with the disease after infection (Carruthers, Jackson, & McKinnon, 2005). A few drops of the insecticide are able to kill large numbers of mosquito larva in stagnant waters, which are their inevitable breeding zones. Dangers of spraying Researchers have recommended that spraying should only be done by people who are well trained on the use of dangerous chemicals, and are conversant with the basic safety rules. In some cases, spraying has affected the people who are actively involved in it. It has also been reported to have killed pets, birds and livestock. Scientists recommend that the method should be used with full knowledge of the direction of wind, to reduce chances of humans and animals inhaling the spray (Carruthers, Jackson, & McKinnon, 2005). The other common chemical that is used as a good and effective defense against the West Nile virus is DEET, which is an ingredient in
Introduction The problems and issues centering the topics of race have been engendered in society since times immemorial. People have traditionally been disturbed by matters relating to race and community. In the rapidly changing and ever-evolving global scenario, these petty issues have now begun to be overlooked by most individuals. Further, with the advancement of technology and an increased emphasis on education, racial issues are receding and giving space to primary issues of progress, health and social living. The doctrine of living and let live has never been so well accepted and practiced now than ever. There is a greater stress on acceptance and tolerance of multi-racism and multi-cultural societies and the practice of racist and religious tolerance has shown great signs of success and advancement. People have now begun to accept that racism will do more good than harm and it is important to treat all people as descending from one single human race, discarding the prejudices of race and color from our perceptions. Nevertheless, there do exist, some problems and inequalities in society with regard to racism, posing some problems in the various communities in which people reside. Body I am an African American male, residing in the city of Lanett located in Chambers County, Eastern Alabama. According to the 2000 census, the city has a population of about seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven with the majority population comprising of Blacks or African Americans accounting for 53.8% of the total population. Cotton milling is one of the prime industries of Lanett. Lanett comprises of people of numerous races and colors including Americans, Hispanics Irish Scots among the many. The mean household income for a single household in the city of Lanett is twenty-six thousand, one hundred ninety-seven dollars and seventeen percent of the families of the city live below the poverty line. Issues related to low-quality education among the color groups including African Americans and Hispanics, have been a constant issue not only in the history of Lanett but across the entire nation. Poverty brings about with it numerous problems and issues, impacting not only the health of individuals but also their basic access to a better and enhanced lifestyle. Besides, poverty is one of the major deterrents of education. Obviously, when there are not enough resources to feed hungry stomachs, it is but natural that education will never be a priority in life. Research has indicated that race and ethnicity of students play a crucial role in defining their educational access and that there are numerous structural barriers to education among the ethnic community groups (Clark, 1960). In another study by Williams (1990), it was reported that African American students do not aspire to pursue higher education due to several factors, one of which is the absence of “role models”. Education is a powerful knowledge-based tools in the hands of those who achieve it successfully and the Black community must be empowered with this to
Delayed gratification is an essential factor in understanding human psychology and professional success. Many people believe that delayed gratification contributes to personal prosperity and leads to achievement. There are different opinions on this matter, and for practical analysis, it is necessary to consider other points of view. Delayed gratification is one of the main manifestations of patience and willpower, which is evidence of a strong character. Certainly, as a rule, people with strong character achieve success. Besides, it is necessary to consider the marshmallow experiment, the results of which indicate the veracity of the statement about the dependence of success on delayed gratification. The purpose of the work is to critically evaluate whether delayed gratification affects professional success based on a variety of opinions and demonstrate own opinion in this regard. Delayed gratification is part of long-term thinking and manifestation of the strength of will. Considering the example of saving money for retirement through cigarettes or a cup of coffee, one may notice how long-term perspective manifests itself. In other words, at the expense of the present moment, one will benefit in the future. However, the problem is that, according to scientists, the human brain is predisposed to thinking at the moment (Nenkov, 2019). Thus, throughout the history of human evolution, the brain has been tuned in such a way as to analyze the current situation and immediately respond to danger. It articulates the difficulty of delayed gratification since the future is not prioritized over the present moment. The difficulty lies in the fact that, given the historical perspective and the rapid development of the modern world, the human brain does not have time to adapt to the new pace. In the past, short-term thinking was important for the individual in the context of survival (Nenkov, 2019). However, today, when a person’s lifestyle implies a civilized existence, such things are not a priority. Additionally, long-term thinking is not beneficial for some businesses, as to sell more goods, it is necessary that the population does not deny themselves immediate pleasure. It includes baked goods, fast food, restaurants, entertainment centers, game consoles, and others. The example of saving money for retirement is an obvious demonstration of the personal economic benefit of delayed gratification. By forgoing a cake now, the money will have proceeded in one’s account in the future. Moreover, patience formulates a virtue if one is willing to demonstrate it during the preparation, planning, and completion of any process (Norling, 2015). It is also worth noting that patience, as the basis of delayed gratification, is one of the character traits of leaders, which contributes to professional success (Folta et al., 2012). In other words, the leader usually has the ability to predict the situation and think in the long term. As it was identified, long-distance think