Existence of the Devil

The occurrence or existence of the devil has origins that are not very clear and that transcend a lot more before human beings created by God as “Adam and Eve” trod the earth for the first time. Satan represents all or many of the names given in the beginning was the same as God's creation of an angel, a right hand that he wanted to ascend to the same level as God himself, for which he was banished from heaven, deleted to ashes and confined to hell. At first they put in place religions "modern" the devil and the gods were not unique characters, but rather there were many evil characters, such as those in charge of ending crops, cause flooding or induce people to commit murder, were also their divine counterparts also only had certain powers conferred and produced only certain events.

Over the years, and the evolution of different religions begin to change the concept of many gods and unifies in a single deity who is all powerful and unique, while in parallel the same with Satan.
Over the years and the emergence of more technology in the Middle Ages the church begins to lose the totalitarian power that had about disease-related information, demons and witchcraft, and opens the way for scientists with accurate information about how things work. This dealt a blow to the church and the Devil begins to lose its power of suggestion on people and passes the background. This event later in the century leads us to wonder if it is that the devil was exaggerated in the way that shaped the church for those years to ensure an even stronger power on the mass because of fear felt by this "being" .

Many references are made to believe in God but deny the existence of Satan or Devil, incredibly in most cultures and religions there is an embodiment of both good and evil, or at least not a physical being but something that affects decisions as to human behavior, in some cultures the evil spirits possessing the mind and body of persons, in other tested simply human beings with a series of temptations and leaving-will their actions to these and other a mixture of earlier. But there are always those who say that evil human being is born, or born with the human being, and that is the simple absence of God in some people, or that self-conscious decision and decides whether good or poor and others who simply adhere to the laws of man on earth.

Humans have very poor range of what is reality, Thomas Alva Edison said that we know just "a really small part of nothing", and seems very true today more than ever, and that paradoxically the more we know and scientific and technological advances seems evident that more is more what we need to know. Discard ideas that still do not understand or they did not even, know the misery of knowledge which we would be crazy, who dismisses the existence of Satan, based on current data is as one who knows only the garden of his home, denied there are elephants because never in his long life has seen an elephant if you want to leave his mark in his garden. It is naive to deny something just because it looks, it would be like denying that there are infrared rays, radio waves and other things imperceptible to our senses but they are there, and like the above should be many more who have not discovered. Modern science has allowed us to discover that the reality is much more than what our senses perceive that there are "invisible beings" and "made invisible" to our limited field of perception then how can we deny Satan just because we do not perceive it?

Satan wanted to get away to himself as it is to be more vengeful, greedy and arrogant of all time, if you could compare with something human would like kamikazes. Remember those Japanese airmen in World War II were thrown to for all his plane into U.S. ships? They did not care kill themselves in order to cause harm to the hated Americans. For the devil is similar. For several centuries, so that men forget God, the Devil is willing to accept that men forget it. For this to wipe your enemy, Satan is willing to delete itself as reality, but why? The answer is obvious, he is the living proof that God exists, if at night, there on the day.

A non-Christian definition of the concept of Lucifer speaks of the evil that man is not equivalent to the evil of the whole universe, so it must have a source beyond the hearts of men, is a world where there terrible diseases, earthquakes, hurricanes, strange and fatal accidents, hunger, fear, stress, laziness etc. No mercy for the weak, old or young. In a strange but striking thesis Burton Russell has been suggested that human tragedies are not entirely attributable to human evil but exceeds the limits of understanding and revenge of a group of people, as the facts of the Second World War Hiroshima bomb, or the massive genocide of Auschwitz by the Nazis. According to Russell the evil of this character beyond human imagination and make it a reality, all attributed to an unknown cosmic entity called the devil or Satan.

To some skeptics Samael (the devil), just a bad metaphor, a personification of inanimate and abstract is just a creation of the folklore of peoples, some say it is as unreal as the bogeyman to frighten children in their cabinet, however, there is no scientific evidence or spiritual or can deny its existence or prove it, say it is only a representation of a human idea, a symbol.

But why is Satan just a symbol or a reality? According to the French theologian Laurentin both are true, does not any reality is also a symbol? Did not Jesus is both symbol and reality? "Hitler is not so much a symbol as reality? He says that language is symbolic does not mean that is not true. The Devil is a mysterious and invisible reality that can only be represented by symbols. Can you believe in light and deny the dark? "We can say that white and black there is not? That heat and cold occurs only lack thereof? Never missing who thinks he or she is ready and try to answer these questions. As there is total darkness, only minor amounts of light, to which we say, although there is the minimum amount of light is only a matter of time before tripping. The black does not exist is when a material absorbs entire spectrum of light and reflects nothing, Can anyone see something that does not exist? "We can feel something like the cold if it is only the absence of heat? Will it ever be one for being the absence of the other? Well, we say "But perhaps I've been to hell? If anyone can understand what god and therefore perceived evil is, we can say that he felt his life.

There are several works somewhat frightening connotations, referring to pacts with the devil (Lucifer Rofocal specifically), this book called The Grand Grimoire is a series of long scoring guidelines and clauses in two ways to sell the soul to this body in exchange for earthly benefits and trick when seeking to claim their share of the deal. At the end of the day, an eternity of unspeakable torment, in exchange for a few years of material benefits, not a good business for anyone. I mean, this guy who wrote this manuscript meant to trick the Devil, and I wonder how many of you reading this essay would dare to perform this ritual. perhaps many in their ignorance or their " superknowledge" and there is no assurance that such a being to drive out but what sense would take place without it? And if you believe in God and the Devil did you still do it? Why not? because they fear something or someone that does not exist according to the person.



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Artificial Intelligence, clear or not?

This essay is in relation to my University career "Computer Science" and I found a very interesting topic about technology and human behavior, those things in future are destined to be a narrower and narrower relationship until when the technology almost give us the opportunity to develop an anthropomorphic machine with AI(Artificial Intelligence) that can reach our intelligence or inclusive exceed the human being intelligence. This kind of machine is only a dream of some science fiction writers? or the dream of the most radical Scientifics? or these can be based on solid bases of how to reach this kind of new level of technology? Well, this essay try to prove that is a very hard work for who wants to take that journey even with all of the technology that right now is called "Classified" and will make us doubt of what we see with our own eyes.

Artificial intelligence is highly studied by the most ambitious companies in the world of technology, the devices and new intelligent machines are a new market that is more and more demanding, obviously the companies are involved and try to make a machine with more human qualities, and for what? because the humans can work better with machines that can be smarter and similar to our behavior in addition, the machines can play roles that can be risky for a normal human and that is when the A.I. can be used, because in those decisions a machine with "human" like comportment can take a decision using external factors like situation, humans lives in risk, feelings, time to react, perception; those things that are human being specific decisions, this behaviour can be created in a machine? is this possible?

Some Scientifics believe that is impossible for the human create a machine that can take a decisions like a real human mind, and even impossible try to imitate human feelings. The machines can develop tasks for humans, and can be very useful, because a lot of human activities are processes, mathematic problems or something similar, and the machines can be thousands or millions times better for doing those kind of activities, this appears because we emulate the brain in processes and those processes can be expressed with physical or mechanic processes but in contradiction with processes like feelings, because they will never can be reduced to physical or mechanic processes.

How a human with a limited mind and intelligence can create a machine that exceed his creator? this is an open debate, but some affirm that is possible to create a copy of the capacity of the human brain, but make a copy of our brains is not synonym of intelligence, Many mistakenly believe that the brain is the organ that causes thought. However, we prove that this is not true, and that is intelligence, while under the brain, the cause of knowledge. To better explain, you can apply the principle of causality:
"[...] by the principle of causality, which is material can not be because of the spiritual: the cause (material) would be provided for this purpose (spiritual). Therefore, the cause of intellectual knowledge [being the spiritual knowledge] can not only be a spiritual cause is just as smart. "

(Hugo Montes Skertchly, Francisco J. Alvarez Rodriguez-"artificial intelligence (AI) or sham reasoning?")
Like Hugo Montes said, the intelligence and brain is not causality, but instrumental, meaning that while the intelligence needs of the brain to think, not think with him. There is a complete relation between intelligence and brain, but the brain is not the organ of the intelligence proved.

The discussion is intense in this moment, maybe in a future; not near, someone can prove that is possible create a machine with our kind of thinking, but is only a copy of the best organic machine in existence, the technology don´t stop and develops fantastic things if someone have the opportunity to create such incredible things we need to think how to use responsibly that impressive technology, maybe when the human can develop that technology the human being could be prepared to charge with the moral and values that those things bring together.

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Ethnic Conflicts

In many countries and many periods a person’s ethnic identity has had profound consequences for his or her physical safety, political status, and economic prospects. Violent confrontation along ethnic lines is the most apparent form of ethnic conflict, and it recently has claimed lives in such diverse places throughout the world. The three most terrible ethnic conflicts have been the conflict in Rwanda, in former Yugoslavia, and The Holocaust during World War II in Europe.

In Rwanda the conflict is based in two different cultures that start living together around the XII and XIII century in Africa. Those two cultures are the Tutsis and the Hutus. The differences trough the years increased the pressure in the fragile society of Ruanda; controlled by the Tutsis and the hate raising between the parts. Corruption, and traffic of weapons prepared a tragic combination in a country fulfill of problems and racial discrimination. Back in 1994 the genocide touch the higher levels and now the victims are calculated around 500.000 and 1 million of Tutsis, this is one of the worst genocides in the modern era.

By the contrast with the Rwanda and their problems with the tribes, in Yugoslavia around the year of 1989 when the socialist countries in Russia start to crumble the country adopts a capitalist government. There is an historical place of wars because that zone is a path to the middle east and central Asia and it is known because is a door for those markets. When the government was established the new president Slodoban Milosevic started a repressive campaign against the Albanian people who fight for the control of Kosovo. The president of Unite States argued that "our goal is to pay a high price for the repressive policies of Milosevic, and severely degrade the military capacity to maintain that policy. " under the command of the coalition of eight countries, 25 March 1998 alleged attack began bombing military targets. In June it signed an agreement under which Milosevic withdraw his troops from Kosovo and give up the presidency.

And finally the biggest and more known genocide in the history can be the holocaust doing by Adolf Hittler in the Nazi Germany. The Nazi Germany persecuted a lot of different kind of religions not only the Jews, and different kind of ethnics from the countries like Poland and Russia the same situation with politics and even the handicapped people were "clean" with the Nazi politician of "racial inferiority" . The holocaust is the worst and the most explicit act of persecution by a regimen without any respect of life, human universals and hate by a human being.

Ethnic conflicts such as in Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, and The Holocaust during World War II triggered the worst feelings a human being can have. Any country or society can go through such terrors. Different religion, race, and beliefs are not good reasons to kill each other. It depends on new generations not to repeat the terrible crimes against




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Advantages and Disadvantages of Immigration

The immigration is not only the sweet dream that anyone had have imagine, there are a lot of obstacles in way to this dream. The first thing to be count when we decide to immigrate to other country is the opportunity of improve our style of live than in our current country, and how we easily would find a good paid job. In order to reach the goal in a different country is necessary a compromise with the hard work and need to be cautious and try to focus on our goals. Second thing and a necessity is to deal with the legal immigration plan in the country of destiny, because the major part of the immigrants will go to USA, and the immigration in United States is very restrictive. By the other hand the immigrants would receive a kind of "discrimination" because they are immigrants, and in every country the people feel that the natives are more important than any other human being in their country, and this situation produces some discrimination for foreign people. The immigrant people must to put the pros and cons together and try to define what is the best thing to do with her o his situation and the possibility of choose a better country to make a future full of good things.

Secretariat Essay

Everyone needs a hero. In this story we have two. One is a huge horse, Red color, known to friends and the family as the Big Red but then it will be called Secretariat. The other is a self titled housewife from Denver, less recognized, she is so gentle and charismatic as she can. Her name is Penny Chenery Tweedy, and the faith that has boost in her horse will launch the whole country, will revolutionize the horse racing and eventually change the course of her life completely.

Based on a true story, the chronicle SECRETARIAT is spectacular because it wins the Triple Crown in 1973.Housewife and mother, Penny, agrees to manage the Meadow Stable in Virginia belonging to his sick father. Against all forecasts and with the help of a veteran trainer, Lucien, manages to break through in this business dominated by men, who would eventually be hosting the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and, but, the best racehorse of all time.

The secretariat movie is a story about a horse and his owner, Penny Chenery . Penny is a housewife with some kids and a accountant husband, the story is more around the life of Penny than the history about the horse, obviously the horse challenges are the best parts of the movie but this is full drama between his owner and over the risk of losing all the farm where his father was engaged in horse breading all his life, trough financial issues. The horse is named in first place to "Big Red" but for something related to rules the name was changed to "Secretariat".

When Penny decide to lead the farm his father is very affected by a Alzheimer´s disease and the person in charge of the vital part of the farm that is the horse breading is corrupted and are selling horses without the owners authorization and for that reason she fires the person in charge and thinks about to lead the farm. Now she have a farm to lead, without any much experience. With very high hope she decides to sell one of two horses at the disposal, a mare or a male who is a millionaire racehorse, decides at random by flipping a coin to purchase the horse, leaving Penny the horse which then becomes a legend.

Personally, we think that this is a great movie, because it teaches us not to surrender to the obstacles we face in life. There is nothing impossible to do in this world. Nowadays there are many people who give up often for silly things that make no sense, other personas give up for things hard to overcome, but in the end they all give up easily, without knowing that there is always something to do about it. Also based on the movie, we think there should be no discrimination in all of us, we should not discriminate against people because of their sex, color or their preferences, we can all accomplish the same goals or pursue the same dreams.

In conclusion, this film was made for this we talk before, to make people awareness about life, to let them know that in life, it will always exists good times and also difficult times. But no matter what, pursue your dreams and as the saying goes ''perseveres and you will succeeds.''

Proves of Global Warming

Three main examples show that global warming is real. The first evidence is clearly visible at the poles where icebergs are melting down, increasing the sea level quickly. Isabella Velicogna, the study's lead author and a research scientist at Colorado University at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences said: "The ice sheet is losing mass at a significant rate. It's a good indicator of how the climate is changing. It tells us we have to pay attention." The second prove involves migration of the species native of warmer zones into the "traditional" cooler environments, and as consequence of that the lack of control of foreign pests and diseases. For example, once confined to land near the equator, West Nile Virus is now found as far north as Canada, infected more than 21,000 people in the United States and Canada and killed more than 800. The third evidence is that the climate disorders increase the number of storms and hurricanes. Over the past century, the number of hurricanes that strike each year has more than doubled. Scientists blame global warming and the rising temperature of the surface of the seas. These examples show us that global warming is real, and is related to all people in the world to stop it.

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Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence and Consequences

Domestic violence has serious physical psychological and social consequences on the victim. The first one, physical violence: Includes injuries of all types: injuries, wounds, burns, forced sex, sexually transmitted diseases, risk pregnancies, abortions, and deaths. According to Teletica in 2010 the number of women killed by their partners was increased until 36 deaths. The second one the psychological aspect cause a lot of problems in the person who lives in this environment such as: depression, suicide attempts, abuse of alcohol, psychotropic drugs, sexual dysfunction, and using violence on their own children. Psychologist Steven Stosny, PH.D., based in Germantown, Maryland, argues that battering also does terrible things to batterers themselves. “You can’t hurt someone you love and feel good about yourself. The brain´s not designed that way”, says Stosny. The last one, but no less important is related to social involves social isolation that causes deleterious to health; the magnitude of risk associated with social isolation is comparable with that cigarette smoking and other major biomedical and psychosocial risk factor. In conclusion, the domestic violence must be controlled in order to warrantee the social well being.
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