Beginning this week in Arts & Leisure we will periodically round up some current and recent examples of purpose-made (as opposed to spur-of-the-moment) online video, focusing on original content but also keeping an eye out for hard-to-find television shows and films that have been given a home on the Web.
These African examples of purpose-driven togetherness can serve as touchstones for the sort of collaborative learning environment that Western and African philanthropists need to create for themselves.
Toms stands as a counterintuitive example of purpose actually driving profit.
The virtue of productiveness becomes the central example of purpose (one of the three cardinal values), reason (another cardinal value) becomes its source, and the virtue of pride becomes its result.
While selflessly serving mankind springs to mind, I would argue that a scientist selflessly serving science, an artist serving art, a corporation serving customers or a monk serving God are also valid examples of transcendent purpose.
In 1802, William Paley's Natural Theology presented examples of intricate purpose in organisms.
Notable examples of special purpose entities that Enron employed were JEDI, Chewco, Whitewing, and LJM.
The Mary Rose was one of the largest ships in the English navy throughout more than three decades of intermittent war and was one of the earliest examples of a purpose-built sailing warship.
Her talk around the picture books indicated that she treated the texts as exemplary texts, drawing from within them examples of language use for the purpose of demonstrating to the students appropriate usage of grammatical or language items.
But Mr. Sook said the stations were a "perfect example of the purpose of a shared services agreement".
In defending his notion of literary criticism, Stothard gives the following example of critical purpose: "You don't read a literary critic to explain why a new Ian Rankin is any good -- the people who know about him don't need that explaining".
