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Should Humans Try To Represent Their Gods
Should Humans Try To “Represent” Their Gods?
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Should Humans Try To “Represent” Their Gods?
What do you think? Should humans try to “represent” their gods, or do we diminish their divinity by limiting them to tangible form?
From time immemorial and especially in art, gods have been represented in so many different ways and different forms. However, the question of whether it is right to represent god comes as one who needs scrutiny. This is because gods have been represented for a long period, and the desire not to represent god in any way leaves a question of how much we value our God or gods. In the ancient period of Sumeria and Egypt and Mesopotamia and Greek and coming down to Romans, the medieval period and all the different periods of history studied in this course gods have been represented (Schönborn, 1994). They are revered so much, and their representation through art has to be perfect in all ways since they are very important to the people.
Therefore, it is okay to represent gods in our own little ways and through this, we show how much we love them, just like history. Basing the argument of the catholic church’s teaching, representation of God is okay as long as people do not fall into the sin of idol worship whereby they begin worshipping the representations of their God instead of praying to him. Therefore it is important to separate imitation and representation as well as worship. We do not diminish God’s divinity by representing him. However, when the object of representation becomes our worship, the divinity of God is diminished and there is a very thine between representation, imitation, and worship.
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Schönborn, C. C. (1994). God’s human face: the Christ-icon. Ignatius Press.
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Should humanity abandon space for terrestrial problems?
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Should humanity abandon space for terrestrial problems?
Space exploration has been one of the most ambitious plans which human beings have pursued vehemently. Various individuals inspired the audacious plans to explore space in space ships, which include the famous Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969 as well the first flights led by Alan Shepard and Yuri Gagarin (William & Turnock, 2011). Despite the various terrestrial problems that human beings face, they must stick to their space exploration efforts due to its importance in technology inventions, and future benefits such as the use of resources from the solar system.
One of the reasons why a human being should not abandon their quest for space exploration despite their terrestrial problems is because space exploration has led to significant benefits for human beings. Over the years, space exploration has opened the door for the invention and advancement of various technologies among human beings (NASA, 2013). Some of the most inventions aided by space exploration include fitness heart rate monitors, solar energy, and water purification systems. The inventions mentioned have significantly improved the livelihood of human beings. Future space explorations will no doubt contribute to various devices and systems, which will elevate the lives of human beings.
Another reason why human beings should not abandon space exploration is due to the current state of human civilization. The current human civilization is characterized by a rapid and ever increased demand for material resources and energy. According to xxx, there is evidence that the limits for mineral resources, as well as non-renewable sources, are fast approaching. The current resources will not sustain the human population. As a result, space exploration provides an opportunity for human beings to solve their diminishing levels of material resources and energy resources. The solar system has a huge number of untapped resources. It is only a matter of time before space exploration provides evidence on how to extract the resources.
One of the most cited problems by opponents of space exploration is that the activities of space exploration lead to the use of a high number of terrestrial resources. However, this argument can be countered by the fact that space exploration provides an opportunity for human beings to acquire and utilize extraterrestrial resources. According to Crawford (2016), studies indicate that future space activities will provide extraterrestrial resources such as indigenous water resources from Mars and the moon, which can be used as a source for both hydrogen and oxygen as well as drinking. The use of space resources will ultimately reduce the burden and costs of lifting resources from the earth and help scientists to carry out research projects with ease.
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Human beings have for years made significant attempts to explore and study the space. Space exploration has provided numerous benefits, which include technological advancements. Future space exploration promises to limit resources excavated from the earth while also helping the earth to acquire new sources of energy. Therefore, it is crucial to keep up with the quest for space exploration. Therefore, human beings need to pursue space exploration as it is the future of humanity.
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Crawford, I. A. (2016). The long-term scientific benefits of a space economy. Space Policy, 37, 58-61.
NASA. (2013). Benefits Stemming from Space Exploration.
Williams, D. R., & Turnock, M. (2011). Human space exploration the next fifty years. McGill Journal of Medicine: MJM, 13(2).
Should college athletes be paid
Should college athletes be paid?
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College is the most fun time of life, where most athletes making their future and know in which field they should go(Dayton, 2013). College life offers many kinds of chances to grow and provides competitive sport as the opportunity to grow as professionals. College’s offer many kinds of services to the athletes but it’s still going on and many associations are formed regarding them. The NCAA basket ball tournament offers annual revenue to their athletes. College’s also giving annual revenue to only to basket ball players whereas players of other sports activities don’t receive annual revenue. The committee tries to give them various services like free education; money making polices etc which according to me is not enough. Athletes put lot of their effort and stamina in their sports so it’s the duty of associations to pay them good so that they are more motivated to give their best towards college and other tournaments. If the associations don’t think it’s right to pay them than they should not stop the players also from entering the professional games as well where they are paid very good and according to their capabilities’. Athletes work towards building the prestige of the college so its necessary that they should be paid (Dirlam, 2013).
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College athletes are one of the hardest working persons around as they have to go through intense games, competitions, high degree practices etc. these players have tremendous amount of weight on their shoulders(Dayton, 2013). The compensation for athletes has been a very delicate topic since years. College athletes should obvious be paid for their jobs as this is their profession and these athletes like other human beings have responsibilities to look after them and many colleges earn good amount of money from them. The associations should understand that education is not money, a scholarship given to a student has significant value but t still cannot be exchanged for money as well. Education is just a nebulous form of payment. The market value of any athlete should be determined how much does an individuals and how much sessions he wins as well. Fixing a proper salary cap for them is necessary so that they don’t feel de motivate towards their work and doesn’t enter into activities like sports fixings etc. when athletes are not paid enough they work for other teams illegal which is an overall harm for the colleges only(Dirlam, 2013).
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Jamar Samuels was a great college athlete but was not allowed to play in tournaments that CBS and Turner paid because he had received and amount of $200 to feed his family so where everyone was paid in cash , he was not given anything. According to me he should have been equally given the amount because he also prepared well for the game. Let us discuss universities are paying them and how it is not enough by the following chart:-
This chart shows how the colleges are making money by their athletes and in the recent years of support activities. The data composed by USA Today shows the income generated by the athletic programs at the institution of higher education of Texas, sports. Over just the last seven years, revenues have increased 82.1% at Texas, while the cost of the scholarship has risen just 62.7%. And from 2011 to 2012 alone, revenues rose 8.6% while scholarship costs rose just 4.4%.In addition, 6.4% of revenue went to pay for scholarships in 2005. In 2012 it was just 5.7%. In other words, the athletes are actually receiving less of the pie every year.
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Many people think that college athletes should not be paid as the associations think that signing bonuses, multiyear salaries etc is a very bog work etc. Some people think it send a bad message to the school students as the other students who are actively another activities think that colleges are only paying for these kinds of activities and not other activities. All the people should be paid according to their own qualification and their own talent (whitlock, 2013). It’s necessary that associations make contracts with the athletes so that they are paid yearly. The difference between a salary of a athlete and fair market value is a fund which should be redeemed upon completion of the contract. When their fours years are completed the players should have an option When their four years as an athlete are over, collegiate players would have the option of rotating fully pro, taking benefit of their certain admittance to their school or captivating their fair-market recompense out into the earth as an adult.
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Thus I would like to conclude by saying that athletes obviously should be paid as they put their soul, heart in their profession. Like all profession has values and respect this profession should also be treated equally. These college athletes are the one who after some years go on becoming great sports personalities in their fields. These players are the ones who turn the college name and just paying them by scholarship is not a very game. The associations working for it should take positive step towards developing strategies so that they get fair compensation and don’t feel disheartened.
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Dayton, K. (2013). Should college athletes be paid?. Retrieved from http://sportzedge.com/
Dirlam, Z. (2013). There’s no crying in college: The case against paying college athletes. Retrieved from http://bleacherreport.com/
whitlock, J. (2013). Paying college athletes can work. Retrieved from http://msn.foxsports.com/