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    Are You for or Against Having a Boyfriend or a Girlfriend in Senior High School? When it comes to having a boyfriend or a girlfriend in senior high school‚ I am opposed to it because it may distract students’ studies. Besides‚ teenagers may not be mature enough to choose their ideal partners and their relationship may also affect people around them. First‚ it may influence teenagers’ studies if they have boyfriends or girlfriends in senior high school. They may start failing most of the tests

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    John Constable

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    Stour on 11 June 1776 that artist John Constable was born. The house where John was born is now disappeared‚ but its prosperous Georgian solidity exists for us in a number of his paintings (Peacock‚ 15). Golding‚ Jonh’s father‚ was a miller and the owner of water mills at Flatford and Dedham‚ and two windmills at East Bergholt (Taylor‚ 10). The Constables were a large family‚ John was the fourth of six children. Though much is not recorded of John’s first school experince ‚ he was sent to Lavenham

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    The article Dismissed with “Whatever…” by Anne Taylor Fleming is an article that talks about the effect of “whatever” on our daily lives. After deconstructing the piece of writing and analyzing the content and craft items‚ I can say that this is an effective article. From my perspective‚ I believe‚ that the author has convinced me by the content because he provides the reader the facts about the use of “whatever”. He also brings in real life examples and I can also relate to how the term has conquered

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    Against Racism

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    immigration legislation‚ that state racism is born. And it is the racism of the state – in legislation‚ in government‚ and in the criminal justice system – that put the imprimatur on institutional racism and gave a fillip to popular racism. The fight against that institutional racism‚ which maims and kills and blights the lives of young African-Caribbean and Asian peoples and other minority groups‚ continues. But there is a new racism abroad in the land‚ even more virulent and devastating than the ones

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    Against Interpretation

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    In schools today‚ it is not uncommon for teachers to ask their students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to

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    MacIntyre once wrote “Politics has become civil war carried on the others means.” These means consist of the deeper underlining cultural and philosophical issues in the modern day politics. Charles Taylor in his essay the The Politics of Recognition examines the inherited philosophical issues of the recognizing need of identity within the society. This issue of recognizing‚ finding‚ and defining one’s identity is impossible to do without the strong influence of the public sphere. As a society we

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    the social and the political‚ particularly in the Argentinean case. In the context of the Dirty War—which she calls a theatre of operations—Taylor argues that surviving meant being seen as Argentinean. Therefore‚ the author begins by underlining the inherent performativity of citizenship‚ a status she relates to gender‚ based on Judith Butler’s theory. For Taylor‚ gender and citizenship are “oppositional and exclusionary” (92)‚ as they are both constructed in opposition—one is female when one is not

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    Gods Gift to Calculators: The Taylor Series It is incredible how far calculators have come since my parents were in college‚ which was when the square root key came out. Calculators since then have evolved into machines that can take natural logarithms‚ sines‚ cosines‚ arcsines‚ and so on. The funny thing is that calculators have not gotten any "smarter" since then. In fact‚ calculators are still basically limited to the four basic operations: addition‚ subtraction‚ multiplication‚ and division

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    For and Against CBT

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    Issues and Debates in Counselling and Psychotherapy Critically evaluate the arguments for and against one of the subject areas raised in the issues and debates sessions For and Against Cognitive Behavioural therapy Student number: C7017417 Tutor: Kay McFarlane Words: 3834 May 2013 Introduction The aims of this essay are to critically evaluate the arguments for and against Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I will explore the theory of CBT comparing it to other approaches

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    The debate of plastic against paper traces back in time and is still considered as an ongoing argument. To give my opinion on it I was provided with four sources that share the purpose of comparing which product is more harmful. The first source which is a graph called “Annual Carbon Footprint Performance (Comparative)”‚ shows that paper is giving off a huge amount of carbon dioxide compared to other resources. The second source which is an article by the website Clean by Design called “ Fiber Selection:

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