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- 9771: Martial Arts
- ... as early as 1500 BC There are two major types of Japanese martial arts. They are Bujitsu, and Budo. The bujitsu martial art is a relatively new one. It emphasises combat and willingness to face death as a matter of honour. Budo, which was started during the late 1800's, focuses on developing moral and aesthetic developments. Karate-do and Judo are forms of Budo. People who learn budo learn it ...
- 9772: Floor Exercise
- ... minor injuries such as bruises and serious injuries such as broken bones, dislocations and muscle pulls. Unfortunately, as in practically every sport the risk also includes very serious injuries, such as permanent paralysis or even death from landing or falls onto the back, neck, or head. It is important for you to learning floor exercise from a good coach in a well- equipped gym and to listen carefully to your coach ...
- 9773: Bull Fighting
- ... the end. The banderilleros usually run in a quarter circle leaning over the bull's horns to place the banderillas. On the fifth trumpet blast, the matador removes his black winged hat and dedicates the death of the bull to the president or the crowd before beginning his faena. The faena is the most beautiful and skillful part of the fight. This is where the matador must prove his courage and ...
- 9774: The Shield of Achilles
- ... each city. In one a quarrel breaks out and is brought to judgement. Surrounding the other, two armies fight along the river banks killing men and dragging off the dead. Both cities are tainted with death, and both house love. In the former two men quarrel over the blood price for a murdered kinsman and take their case to a judge to decide the outcome. In the latter, children and housewives ...
- 9775: Socrates' Moral Decision To Not Escape
- ... certain legal defences. The defences of duress and self- defence are valid today, with the exception of severe crimes such as murder. It must be recognized that also, in situations like emergencies or life-or-death situations, a citizen may ignore laws applicable to the situation. Take for example; the person whose father is having a heart attack, or a pregnant woman going into labor. These people probably wouldn't obey ...
- 9776: The Hippocratic Oath and Kevorkian
- ... addresses three major points. The first of these states that no deadly medicine should be given to anyone by diagnosis or if asked. The emphasizes the belief that no sician is to aid in the death of another person. Another major point in the Hippocratic Oath is that any houses entered by a physician should be entered for the benefit of the sick only with no acts of mischief or corruption ...
- 9777: Hercules: 12 Labors of Hercules
- ... Labors The first task was to kill the lion of Nemea, a lion that could not be hurt by any weapon. Hercules knocked out the lion with his club first, then he strangled it to death. He wore the skin of the lion as a cloak and the head of the lion as a helmet, a trophy of his adventure. The second task was to kill the Hydra that lived in ...
- 9778: The Effects of Aristotelian Teleological Thought on Darwin's Mechanistic Views of Evolution
- ... we see it in man or one of the higher vertebrate, was made with the precise structure it exhibits, for the purpose of enabling the animals which possesses it to see, has undoubtedly received its death blow" (Ayala, 228). Darwin realized that with the teleological approach contrary to his views, he should attempt to shed doubt on the ideas of a fixed relationship between an organism and its environment. One example ...
- 9779: Zen's Influence on the Art of the Sword
- ... noted, it was “ not mere recklessness, but self-abandonment, which is known in Buddhism as a state of egolessness.” This is the ideal which the samurai warrior sought; a state of being wherein life and death were meaningless and all that he had to concern himself with was his duty to his master, or if he was ronin (rogue samurai without a master), with his duty to his own code of ...
- 9780: Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind
- ... to refer to the conscious, rational agency in his famous structural model of the mind; powered by the instinctual drives of the id, the ego imposed moral restraints derived from the superego. After Freud's death, several of his associates, including Anna Freud and Erik Erikson, extended the concept of ego to include such functions as memory, sensory abilities, and motor skills. It could also be said that there are other ...
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