A Trip to Paradise
If I had no limits as to how much I could spend on a vacation, I would take a trip to different cities in Mexico. My dads side of the family is Latino and many of my relatives live in Mexico. My month long trip would consist of a variety of cities I have visited before and others that I would be visiting for the first time. I would take advantage of Mexicos rich culture by participating in the peoples customs and getting as much experience as possible. The trip would be very meaningful because my heritage is something that I am very proud of and passionate about.
My permanent residence is in Bettendorf, Iowa and the closest airport is in Moline, Illinois. Unfortunately flights dont leave the Quad City Airport for Guadalajara, my first stop, so Ive decided to take a limousine from Bettendorf to Chicago, which would roughly take two and a half hours. Although the limo ride would cost around two hundred dollars, it would be well worth it because I would not be paying OHare Airport to park there for a month. I checked out three websites to obtain airplane ticket information: Expedia.com, CheapTickets.com, and Orbitz.com. All were extremely useful except for Orbitz.com which wanted me to create an account. This discouraged me from spending anymore time at this site. Expedia.com and CheapTickets.com were very easy to use, but were crammed with different advertisements. Despite the clutter, the sites loaded fairly fast. All of the websites included times for departure, length of flight, cost, which airports used, and airlines used. I also found a variety of different flights taking me to the cities I wanted to visit: first class, coach, direct flights, round trip, one- way, etc. Overall, my search for a plane ticket was successful.
My next obstacle was finding hotels to stay in when I wouldnt be staying with relatives. It was difficult trying to find hotels by checking their sites, so I searched city sites which proved to be more successful. Fortunenatey these websites were not packed with different ads. Hotels ranged from one to five star and cost between twenty and one thousand eight hundred dollars per night. Some were all inclusive while others didnt even have swimming pools! They gave information on addresses, policies, and different packages. I used Google.com and MSN.com search engines to find the different cities websites (Gomanzanillo.
The argument of whether humans are pre-determined to turn out how we are and act the way we do or if we are our own decision makers and have the freedom to choose our paths in life is a long-standing controversy. As a psychologist in training and based on my personal beliefs, I do not believe that we truly have this so called free will. It is because of this that I choose to believe that the work of free will by d’Holbach is the most accurate. Although the ideas that Hume and Chisolm present are each strong in their own manner, d’Holbach presents the best and most realistic argument as to how we choose our path; because every event has a cause, we cannot have free will. Not only this, but also, that since there is always an external cause, we can never justify blame. Now let’s review Hume and Chisolm’s arguments and point out why I do not think that they justly describe free will.
Kristiana Kahakauwila's, a local Hawaiian brought up in California, perspective view of Hawaii is not the one we visually outwardly recognize and perceive in a tourist brochure, but paints a vivid picture of a modern, cutting edge Hawai`i. The short story "This Is Paradise", the ironically titled debut story accumulation, by Kahakauwila, tell the story of a group narrative that enacts a bit like a Greek ensemble of voices: the local working class women of Waikiki, who proximately observe and verbally meddle and confront a careless, puerile youthful tourist, named Susan, who is attracted to the more foreboding side of the city's nightlife. In this designation story, Susan is quieted into innocent separated by her paradisiacal circumventions, lulled into poor, unsafe naïve culls. Kahakauwila closes her story on a dismal somber note, where the chorus, do to little too late of what would have been ideal, to the impairment of all. Stereotype, territorial, acceptance, and unity, delineates and depicts the circadian lives of Hawaiian native locals, and the relationships with the neglectful, candid tourists, all while investigating and exploring the pressure tension intrinsically in racial and class division, and the wide hole in recognition between the battle between the traditional Hawaiian societal culture and the cutting edge modern world infringing on its shores.
The seat of faith resides in the will of the individual and not in the leaning to our own reasoning, for reasoning is the freedom of choosing what one accepts as one’s will. In considering the will was created and one cannot accuse the potter or the clay, Milton writes to this reasoning, as “thir own revolt,” whereas the clay of humankind is sufficient and justly pliable for use as a vessel of obedience or disobedience (3.117). The difficulty of this acceptance of obedience or disobedience is inherent in the natural unwillingness in acknowledging that we are at the disposal of another being, even God. One theme of Paradise Lost is humankind’s disobedience to a Creator, a Creator that claims control over its creation. When a single living thing which God has made escapes beyond the Creator’s control this is in essence an eradicating of the Creator God. A Creator who would create a creature who the Creator would or could not control its creation is not a sovereign God. For who would not hold someone responsible for manufacturing something that could not be controlled and consider it immoral to do so? To think that God created a universe that he has somehow abdicated to its own devices is to accredit immorality to the Creator. Since the nucleus of Milton’s epic poem is to “justifie the wayes of God” to his creation, these ‘arguments’ are set in theological Miltonesque terms in his words (1. 26). Milton’s terms and words in Paradise Lost relate the view of God to man and Milton’s view to the reader. Views viewed in theological terms that have blazed many wandering paths through the centuries to knot up imperfect men to explain perfect God.
The setting of a story can change its plot and character development dramatically. For example, take two short tales, “Old Man of the Temple,” by R.K Narayan and, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” by Both of these stories have strong cultural settings and characters that are influenced by their surroundings. Setting influences characters and story events by changing the way characters deal with situations, changing cultural understanding of characters, and different settings can change a character’s voice.
...he Persian army, which gave way for the Spartans to shine at Plataea. So without the Athenian naval ships fighting, the war would have been lost as the Greek superior hoplites would have been outweighed by the incredible numbers of the Persians.
If I were to visit anywhere in this world I would visit Cancun , Mexico. There are many things to do such as climbing,snorkeling,and extreme sports. There is also an amazing view. Mexico offers endless possibilities for adventure. There are plenty of oceans , deserts , forests , and jungles.
The film, To The Land of Bliss, takes place in modern China. The narrator explains that she is Chinese; she left and came back on a spiritual journey. The film portrays the life and death of Buddhists. The goal in any Buddhists life is to ultimately reach the path to Nirvana. They must be taught the recognition and awareness of suffering is the first step onto the path to Nirvana. To anyone who practices Buddhism, Nirvana is absolutely sacred to them. Buddha-nature is found through meditation because it is a happy state. To ascend to the path of Nirvana, you must see the truth in things.
Greece and Persia grew tension between one another due to different ways of life and different views. Also, Greek cities repelled against the Persian King Darius in the Asia Minor, which was the first Persian invasion of Greece. This invasion was later called the battle of Marathon, the battle was between the city of Athens, and of course Persia, the battle ended with Athens taking victory of the Persian Army, and led to the death of King Darius. The death of the Persian king Darius gave rule to his son Xerxes. This victory of the first Persia had an effect on the second invasion (The battle of Thermopylae) because not only did it cause Xerxes to delay the next attack
This generation is in need instant gratification from all sources. What used to be the norm like going to the store to shop compare prices is now done on line form the house. The attention span of the average millennial is short. At any given time a person has roughly 3 seconds to capture the attention of a person before they are on to the next subject.
Many seek out the true secret to living the perfect life at some point. C.P. Cavafy’s “Ithaca” and Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Falling” hint at their own ideas concerning living fully. “Ithaca,” a Hellenistic poem, alludes to Homer’s Greek epic the Odyssey, pertaining to Odysseus’s ten year journey home to Ithaca. Similar to “Ithaca,” “Failing and Flying” alludes to Icarus, another mythological Greek figure. Icarus flies with wings of wax and feathers and, despite his father’s warning, soars to the sun where he then falls and dies in the sea. While both poems expose the importance of raw experience to fully live, “Ithaca” emphasizes an unhurried adventure of life while “Failing and Flying” highlights living passionately, despite other’s pessimistic views, as life will ultimately end.
The Persian Wars was also one of the most important events in Western Civilization because it allowed the Greeks to become dominate and their culture spread throughout the known world. The Greeks victory of the Persian Wars also puts a stop to the Persians. The Persian Wars started when Athens aided the Ionian slave revolts in the Asian Minor and ended with the Spartans victory at the Battle of Platea. The Persian Wars consist of three battles: the Battle of Marathon, Battle of Salamis and Battle of Platea. Two Greek victories of Salamis and Platea will allow Greece to win and stop the Persians. At the Battle of Platea is where the Spartans finally put a stop to the Persians. (Williams) After these victories the Greeks started to see themselves as Greeks, not as their own
Freedom, or the concept of free will seems to be an elusive theory, yet many of us believe in it implicitly. On the opposite end of the spectrum of philosophical theories regarding freedom is determinism, which poses a direct threat to human free will. If outside forces of which I have no control over influence everything I do throughout my life, I cannot say I am a free agent and the author of my own actions. Since I have neither the power to change the laws of nature, nor to change the past, I am unable to attribute freedom of choice to myself. However, understanding the meaning of free will is necessary in order to decide whether or not it exists (Orloff, 2002).
Our parents had arranged for a cruise from Houston, Texas with stops at Cancun and Cozumel, Mexico. Then a one-day stop in Honduras and back to the U.S.A.
Rainer, Thom S. (2011). The Millennials: Connecting to America’s Largest Generation. Edition #1 . Pages 18-24.
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