The Interview
I never thought I would have to go as far as Australia to write a story on a fellow High School alumnus,
Monica Confides. I was of course always familiar with her track breaking record all through school, but I never had the opportunity to talk with her one on one.
Now here I am in beautiful Sydney, waiting patiently with pen and paper in hand for Monica to finish her interview with NBC. It’s a delightful day with a temperature of about
85 degrees, and the sun shimmering down brightly. I can almost feel the same excitement in the air as Monica must have felt when winning the gold metal.
Nearly an hour and an half after arriving to the
Olympic tent I spot Monica trying to escape a gaggle of anxious reporters. Eventually I get her attention and she calls me over to where she is sitting, the infield grass of the track. After all the congratulations and formalities our interview begins.
She is friendly and open so I enjoy her company
Immediately. She starts off by telling me of her Uncle who was in the 1976 Olympics running for Poland. “He was my mentor, whenever I felt my practices were becoming to intense and wanted to quit he was always there to encourage me to thrive for success.” Unfortunately, Monica’s Uncle Peter passed away in
1996, but Monica says that despite the pain she felt she knows her Uncle is smiling down on her today: “I used to fear the death of a loved one the most, but I realize now that death is a part of life and that a death in this life might signify a birth in another.” Most people don’t realize the nervousness and anxiety that accompany someone to the Olympics. For Monica this plague attacked before her big day. “I went out to dinner with my teammates that evening. It wasn’t until 2 o’clock that morning when it starting feeling as if the kangaroo steaks I had for dinner were shill hopping around in my stomach.” Monica thought that she wouldn’t even be able to compete in, let win the race the next day. But the key break came when she was awarded the inside position, which saves the runner some advantage at the beginning of the race.
What are your plans for the immediate future?
In the article “The Interview” and the documentary “The Central Park Five” both showed injustice and how corrupted the judicial system is in terms of the human experience. Having justice is having equality for all and being fair about it, but in the “The Interview” and “The Central Park Five” it showed the opposite of what having justice is. They proved that the judicial system can be unfair and that innocent people can be arrested for crimes they did not commit even if there are evidence proving their innocence.
In order to be considered a non-evidentialist, one must believe that actual evidence is not required for all of our beliefs. Pascal believ...
-the Wager has been proven to show that it has been said to “gambling people” in order to make them think about converting to Christianity; wagers involve probability as does gambling, so the gamblers have the mind ready to think of everything involved in wagering, so they know the best way to go about choosing their outcome in the wager
There are numerous accounts of inhumanity in Maus. The most obvious and heinous is the mass extermination of the European Jewish population by the Nazis. But the Nazis were just cruel in general. The Nazis were cruel to the Jews before the war started. Art shows Nazis making a Jewish man holding a sign saying “I'm a filthy Jew” and Vladek tells of how the Nazi police took another Jewish man and no one ever saw him again (39). The panel shows one Nazi police officer restraining a Jewish man, while another Nazi beats the Jewish man with a club. Both of those instances occurred before the war offically started, but during the beginning of the occupation of Czechoslovakia. When Vladek is the POW camp in 1939, a Nazi officer refused to feed Vladek and the others because a huge stable was not spotlessly clean in one hour. Vladek said that during a round up in the Srodula ghetto that “Some kids were screaming...they couldn't stop. So the Germans swinged them by the legs against a wall and they never anymore screamed” (110). Some Nazis would just shoot random Jews in the ghettos, without any reason to do so. In the work camps, the Nazis were no better. The “food” they fed the prisoners was never enough and often mixed sawdust or glass (209). Once Vladek wa...
Of these scholarly articles, Pascal’s Wager: A Critique, by Simon Blackburn, may hold the most weight. Blackburn argues against two critical points of Pascal’s theory: the concepts of metaphysical ignorance and religious pluralism. In Blackburn’s objection from metaphysical ignorance, he argues that a logical person cannot assume that there is an infinite gain or loss for believing or not believing in God, respectively. Pascal assumes a Christian viewpoint of heaven and hell. No human is in the position to declare his or her own destiny after death based on whether or not they believe. For example, God could have motives to punish those who believe in him by subjecting them to eternity in hell and nobody would know until after death. However, a reasonable person can disregard this theory because the prospect of God rewarding those who believe is much more likely than God rewarding those who do not. Also, believing that God would punish someone for believing is still a belief in God, and therefore, if that person truly believes that that is what God wants, then he should be rewarded if he is true. Nevertheless, he still justifiably believes in
...nown reason Pascal seemed to think it was not necessary to acknowledge that there are more belief systems then Agnosticism, atheism, and Christianity. It is this lack of reasoning of why we should make a wager on the existence of the Christian god over the gods of Hinduism or the god of Islam that makes Pascal’s argument so weak. The only conclusion I think one could reach from Pascal’s argument is that it is more beneficial for one to believe in at least a higher power than it is to be an agnostic or atheist. Even if one did acknowledge the existence of some sort of higher being or beings it would still not benefit an individual because the chance of selecting the true belief system out of an infinite number of possible belief systems makes it very unlikely for someone to ever make the right choice. In conclusion I feel that Pascal’s Wager is a very weak argument.
The first aspect of superstition impacting our lives we’ll explore is the idea of superstitions causing us to spend money. According to the financial firm Forbes, “Superstition is a billion dollar industry. Every year, Americans spend a substantial amount of their disposable income on superstitious items such as 4 leaf
... god he is talking about as the Christian God. His wager says there is his god or there is not a god. The Wager does not allow any other god but that of the Christians. This view also condemns anyone who does not believe to a life of eternal unhappiness. Seeing as Pascal thinks of the Christian God in this argument and not that there may be multiple gods then that increases the risk of suffering. This risk is increased because if there is multiple Gods or even one God but they are not the one that you put your faith it then that could lead to endless and eternal suffering on the part of the believer. It can also be argued that if the person that holds the beliefs find out that they have been trusting in the wrong god or Gods this whole time that their spirits could be crushed and suffer more pain than they would if they did not put their faith in any deity.
“I was crying and all, I don’t know why, but I guess it was because I was feeling so damn depressed and lonesome” (53), Holden says. As humans, we have a hard time belonging in society. This is the same case for Holden Caulfield, the main character from the Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the rye, a novel by J.D Salinger, is about Holden, a lost boy in desperate need of help. Throughout the novel, Holden seems to be excluded by the world around him. He continually attempts to try and belong in a world in which he is isolating from. In this novel, Salinger uses symbols such as the red hunting hat, the ducks and Allie’s glove to support the theme, belonging and isolation.
The proof for the existence of God is an issue that may never be resolved. It has caused division among families and friends, nations and society. The answer to the question “does God exist?” is almost an impossible one to give with certainty seeing that there is a variety of people, ideas, cultures and beliefs. So how does one know if one’s actions here on earth could have eternal consequences? What is, if any, a “safe bet” to make? Blaise Pascal was a 15th century philosopher and a mathematician who proposed the idea that although one cannot know for certain that God exists, one can make a “safe bet” that it is far better to believe in God than not to believe in God. This is not a proof for the existence of God but rather an idea that suggest that if there is a God, it is in the person’s benefit to believe rather to disbelieve because the odds are in favor of the believer. This gambler-like idea is better known as “Pascal’s Wager” or “The Gambler’s Argument.” Nevertheless, this sort of play-the-ponies idea is not quite precise. Although Pascal’s Wager serves as a stepping-stone for non-believers, it is a rather vague, faithless and inaccurate argument.
One of the main differences of these two arguments is that the teleological argument has examples to back up its claims and Pascal’s wager does not. Another contrasting aspect is that according to Pascal’s wager, there is a possibility that God does not exist. In the teleological argument, there is no scenario where God does not exist. The teleological argument explains this world was deliberately created and offers only one scenario, that God does exist. Pascal’s wager does not explain a purpose and offers two different scenarios.
The employment interview has been the key element used for determining a candidates’ worthiness in filling an open position. Organizations rely on employment interviews as a way to predict the future job performance and work-related personality traits of interviewees. Over the years validity of the employment interview has been under scrutiny, so it is no wonder that is has been the topic of many research papers. The definition of the employment interview is “a personally interactive process of one or more people asking questions orally to another person and evaluating the answers for the purpose of determining the qualifications of that person in order to make employment decisions” (Levashina, Hartwell, Morgeson, and Campion 2013, p. 243).
Interviews are very popular among most individuals especially researchers and scholars as they attempt to obtain information and data from an interviewee. However, there are many factors that influence the interview and which determines its success or failure. Often, the interviewer takes charge of the situation, and they have the sole responsibility of asking the questions while the interviewee provides an explanation or an answer to the question asked. As a result, an interview can be defined as a consultation or a discussion in person through which information and data are exchanged regarding a particular phenomenon event with the intention of establishing the interviewee’s position. It is easy to tell the mood and success of the interview
In conclusion, superstition in the past and today does indeed impact humans and their behavior. When the human brain is unable to comprehend a phenomenon, people turn to superstition to secure his or her self from unexplained fear. Superstitious people can be affected by this in a positive or a negative way. The only person that determines their fate when it comes to superstition is the person themselves.
Life then death, life after death, or life and death, and so on. These phrases represent the varying understandings throughout the world’s cultures of the relationship between life and death and its relationship to living creatures. Throughout, it is understood that all organisms spend time on earth in a specific form and after some time that form will wear away and the physical form of that being will die--the body will no longer function and can return to the earth and nutrients from which it came. However, the disagreement lies in whether or not there is a literal end to that organism’s existence, or its being, its spirit. Both a culture’s understanding of this relationship and historic influences, cause variations of cultural attitudes toward life and death.