1. Choose an issue that you have an opinion about and write a letter to the editor stating this opinion. Your issue can be something that is happening in Indianapolis‚ the USA or another country. Or it can be a more local issue that affects you as a teenager‚ an ISI student or an international student. You can either be writing to a real newspaper (local‚ national or international)‚ or pretend there is a school newspaper and write about an issue that directly affects you here at school. Remember
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men‚ but that men will begin to think like computers. This quote‚ relayed by Sydney G. Harris‚ has many meanings to it. The basic meaning that Harris is trying to convey is that one should "open up his/her minds" and realize what is really occurring‚ not what is being covered up. These days‚ the tendency is generally for one to think about how one day‚ computers might be able to think like humans‚ and the problems that that might generate
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Football is America’s favorite sport‚ with 111.9 million people watching the last Super Bowl. In a 2014 poll by Harris Polls‚ a whopping 35% of people called professional football their favorite sport‚ and 11% said college football. To put these numbers into some perspective‚ baseball‚ the next most popular‚ was behind professional football by 11% of the votes. So it is practically inevitable if you are a parent that your son would ask if he could play football. What should you do? Football is a
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Help the world be a better place‚ stop bullying Bullying is defined as using superior strength or influence to someone‚ typically to force him or she to do what one wants. It could happen to anyone‚ anywhere. The reasons why many people bully‚ vary. Examples of why people decide to bully are appearance‚ skin color‚ religion‚ and social classes (Modern Language Assoc.). It is most commonly demonstrated in two ways: verbally and physically. Verbal bullying is the usage of language to gain power over
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Immigration: Proud To Be An Illegal Immigrant? Immigration is an important part of the American history‚ and how the nation was founded. Immigration has allowed for people who have low income and low education to come to America to better their lives for themselves and their families. It has allowed many people to leave harsh‚ dangerous conditions in search for a better life‚ which can be found with hard work and determination. These conditions can also be found in the constitution in Life‚ Liberty
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Devin Rogers Professor Hodges English 201H February 26‚ 20 The Danger of Knowledge Man will always desire knowledge they do not know‚ but some knowledge is not intended for man to know. Men believe knowledge will make one powerful‚ but some things are better off not known. In Genesis Adam and Eve have perfect lives in the garden until they eat from the tree of knowledge‚ because they want to know what God knows. In the Old Testament of the Bible Job suffers many trials‚ and he wants to know
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Opposition of position Charles Mattison EN1420 Computers are taking over the world‚ and no one can do anything about it. Summary In my first opposition I find the tale of science fiction over the mind. Here we see a lot of people believe TV over facts far as most things go. The idea here though is that computers will never take over because they are not built to. Most computers don’t even know the things they are program to recognize. For instance the GPS will get u close but
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Tazkira Shafat Sattar Sheikh Shams ELP 601 4th December 2008 Religion Causes More Harm Than Good It’s the twenty first century. Scientists have found evidence of water on Mars‚ they have successfully cloned human embryos‚ and everyday‚ they are getting closer to finding a cure for cancer. Still‚ in a world of groundbreaking facts and evidences‚ where the newest discovery leaves older ones out of commission‚ we fool ourselves into blindly putting faith on a series of chronicles conceived
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Computers Hold So Much Information; Sometimes Causing More Harm Than Good After reading a few short stories and conducting research on the subjects‚ I have found some interesting facts about how the computer has changed people’s lives. Computers have become the basis on which our society now depends; they are the key to communication‚ business‚ and success for many. Problems can arise however and privacy can be a major issue especially when it comes to certain websites such as MySpace and
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The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.The problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch SpongeBob‚ or the slower-paced PBS cartoon Caillou or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments‚ the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched SpongeBob did measurably worse
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