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    How We Became a Throw-away Society To throw away something means to get rid of something‚ to dispose of something that you do not need or want. It means that you do not keep something. Everyday we throw things away‚ things such as candy wrappers after we have eaten the candy or Styrofoam cups after we have drank our coffee. Or‚ we might throw something away which is broken and cannot be repaired. (Helium) So‚ what does a throw away society mean? Well‚ id does

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    Are we or are we not the prisoner or our own conceptions? In the cave allegory‚ Plato describes the human condition as a type of blissful ignorance. I agree with Plato that we are prisoners of our own belief. In this essay‚ I describe my own opinions and issues to answer some of the questions. The first question that I would like to discuss is‚ Are we prisoners to our own beliefs and notions of truth? I believe that we are prisoners to our own beliefs because since childhood different beliefs

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    In the United States today‚ we use the Electoral College to decide who is going to be the next president. The presidency is not necessarily won by popular vote. The founding fathers opted for the Electoral College‚ because they were afraid of the masses. They wanted the president to be chosen by those who are qualified‚ well informed‚ and have the ability to chose a president more efficiently then the so called "mob." Although I believe the Electoral College needs many changes‚ it is necessary in

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    A Depiction of Indian Culture. Nissim Ezekiel is the father of modern poetry who has depicted Indian culture through his poetry as it is. He has tried to produce poem the way are held in situation and a very common situation of life. When we read his poetry it seems like our poetry that has taken from our origin. Nissim was the first Indian poet to catch and voice these trends in his poetry. As a modern poet in India‚ he started to voice his own thoughts and opinions‚ his own experiences

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    Is Cell Phone Usage Taking Over Society? The cyber technology we have become accustomed to in the technological generation‚ is causing danger to our growth and‚ quite literally‚ our lives. As we “text” our way through an argument‚ and email our way into someone’s heart‚ we impel a high risk of becoming slaves to the destruction of human interrelation and interaction. Will cell phones cause yet another distraction or impairment while driving? “According to the National Highway Traffic Safety

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    what extent are they really meaningful? Should they really be saying‚ "...With liberty and justice for all that are willing to conform"? Ken Kesey’s novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest" is the by-product of many factors. Although there are many themes behind this novel‚ the key premise behind the novel is that the society that we call ’liberated’ may not be as free as it is made out to be. Kesey establishes this theme through the manipulation of setting‚ and indirect characterization of McMurphy

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    Fordism and post-Fordism 1. Does it matter whether we are in a Fordism‚ neo-Fordism or post-Fordism society? 8. Critically examine the differences between Fordism and post- Fordism Answer for question 8 As the economic changed significant over the past years‚ many people argued that there was a transition from Fordism to post Fordism. Both systems have a close relationship with people’s life because they have a great impact to our society. In this essay‚ I’m going to clarify the differences

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    Kelsey Lowe Conforming to a Demanding Society One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is considered to be a outburst of social protest against the policies of government‚ and what really makes us humans sane or insane. The “system” known as our government suppresses the individual spirit and mandates that everyone must conform to his or her mold of a model citizen. Those who don’t fit this mold are filtered into the “asylum” and deemed as mentally ill. Kesey demonstrates this concept

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    International problem: Over fishing Fishing once thought of as a leisure activity is now causing serious issues on the marine environment. Fishing‚ when taken to the extreme can cause species to deplete in numbers and over turn the natural food chain. Many people are involved in over fishing all over the world. The reasons they take part in the practise are also altering. However many of the fisherman are from poorer countries and they see it as‚ the more fish they return home with the more they

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    OVER POPULATION “Whether we accept it or not‚ this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our planet. It will come about in one of two ways: Either we decide to manage our own numbers‚ to avoid a collision of every line on civilization’s graph – or nature will do it for us‚ in the form of famines‚ thirst‚ climate chaos‚ crashing ecosystems‚ opportunistic disease and wars over dwindling resources that finally cut us down to size” – Alan Weisman

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