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Meet the Caribbean beauties vying for the Miss Universe Crown 2015
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Jan. 23, 2015: Several Caribbean beauties are among those vying for the title of Miss Universe as the 63rd Annual Pageant gets underway in Doral-Miami this weekend, January 25th, on NBC.
Published on Jan 22 2015 // Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos
Aristotle’s Purpose of Life
In Book One of Aristotle’s Ethics, he considers perhaps the most vexing question that humanity confronts: What is the purpose of life? Aristotle argues that everything has a purpose or goal, and that the purpose is always to attain some good. The “Chief Good” for humanity is that purpose for which all human action is performed. Aristotle believes that the Chief Good for humans is Eudaimonia (often translated as ‘happiness’). However, Aristotle’s ‘Eudaimonia’ is not the feeling or experience most modern people associate with the word happiness. This post will describe how Aristotle concluded that the purpose of human life is to attain happiness, and also the definition of Aristotle’s Eudaimonia.
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JANUARY 22, 2015
ILLINOIS, United States, Thursday January 22, 2015 – People who think positive and maintain an optimistic outlook on life are twice as likely to have healthier hearts and circulation than their more negative counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers also claimed that compared to pessimists, they took better care of themselves, had significantly better blood sugar, healthier cholesterol readings, were more physically active, less inclined to smoke and more likely to have a healthier body mass index. Continue reading
| Commentary: Charlie Hebdo affair: Not really about ‘freedom of speech’ | ||
| Published on January 23, 2015 – caribbeannewsnow.com | ||
By Juleus Ghunta
Juleus Ghunta is a peace activist. Contact him at
juleusghunta@gmail.com
The Charlie Hebdo shooting in France has been, quite rightly, widely condemned. Some jihadist groups, however, including the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have celebrated it as an inevitable backlash, in a broad sense, to the West’s violence and neo-colonialist exploits in the East, and in particular, to Charlie Hebdo’s (alleged?) racism and Islamophobia. In what has become a global stand in solidarity, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (I am Charlie) has been flashed across millions of screens. Equally visible, are the views of a growing number of contrarians who have lashed back with hashtags of their own: #JeNeSuisPasCharlie (IamNOTCharlie) and #JesuisAhmed. Continue reading |
