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Vote for Larry. The Gospel According to Larry is a coming-of-age young adult novel by Janet Tashjian. The novel focuses on Josh Swenson, a teenager who preaches his anti-consumerism beliefs under his online pseudonym of "Larry" and must deal with the sudden popularity of his web presence . The sequel Vote for Larry was published on May 1, 2004.
The mere addition paradox (also known as the repugnant conclusion) is a problem in ethics identified by Derek Parfit and discussed in his book Reasons and Persons (1984). The paradox identifies the mutual incompatibility of four intuitively compelling assertions about the relative value of populations. Parfit’s original formulation of the ...
Died. March 1, 2013. (2013-03-01) (aged 79) Known for. Greiner's growth model. Larry Eugene Greiner (December 6, 1933 – March 1, 2013) was an American economist who was Professor of Management and Organizations at University of Southern California USC Marshall School of Business. [1]
Enabling Act of 1802, authorizing residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio. Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory ...
BlackRock Inc (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink was skeptical about the prospects of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for years, but he remained open-minded and eventually came to believe it was a legitimate ...
Larry Temkin is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Rutgers University. Temkin’s research focuses on normative ethics and political philosophy , and his work has been highly influential, particularly his works Inequality (Oxford University press, 1993) and Rethinking the Good (Oxford University press ...
The six stages of moral development occur in phases of pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality. For his studies, Kohlberg relied on stories such as the Heinz dilemma and was interested in how individuals would justify their actions if placed in similar moral dilemmas.
9780739142912. Textual Criticism and Qurʼān Manuscripts is a 2011 book on the textual criticism of the Quran by Keith E. Small, a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Muslim–Christian Relations at the London School of Theology . The book examines a small portion of the holy book of Islam, the Quran —specifically ...