Why we study literature‚ and its influence on the 21st century. Man has for many centuries‚ used literature as a medium to express his thoughts‚ to educate and inform the masses‚ and literature has been used as a textual tool for pleasure. With the coming and strong influences of the ‘Technological New Age’‚ the fundamentals of literature (reading to educate oneself) have been side tracked to make way for mass media and giant companies that produce technological gadgets such as cellular phones
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education Why do religions have rules? Why do we have rules? We have rules to stop us from doing the wrong things. They are there to guide us. If we did not have rules we would have a world of cruelty and thievery. And no one would like to live in a world full of cruelty and hatred. Religions also have rules but for different things. Religious rules tell you how to behave and respect God. Most religious rules come from priest or monks (very religious people). Others were written by people we don’t
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In every living being we are given the ability to lie when something happens to us or other actions that fall upon. This ability can be useful when something unexpected happen and there is no choice but to lie. However‚ lying to cover up something that is harmful or important can have it’s own consequences for that action alone. There have been many debates over whether or not lying is a justifiable action to take when something comes up. Some argue that lying is not the right action to take because
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Triumph of the Will and Why We Fight : Prelude to War These films were arts of propaganda‚ which is the attempt to control the beliefs and behaviors of people in times of crisis. This was the goal of each film‚ to try to persuade the world by the use of powerful film propaganda of different points of view. The film Triumph of the Will expressed how Hitler and his people wanted the world to see them. The main goal here was to encourage membership in the nazi party by emphasizing mass accommodation
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Recreational drugs affect the players‚ not the game‚ while performance enhancing drugs affect the players and the game. This means that when an athlete is taking drugs that do not have any enhancing effects to it‚ it may affect the rest of the players‚ but mostly the person taking the drugs. (Travis 1) Colleges and universities’ drug testing only extends to athletes‚ while many of them have athletic scholarships. There is
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The argument of school vouchers and charter school systems is a debate and heated topic being argued in small town school boards and also at the large Supreme Court level. The two topics of school vouchers and charter schools are being argued as school choice initiatives because they essentially allow the students’ parents to select the education and institution for their children that are not a part of traditional public school systems. The school voucher initiative or program provides parents a
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not always predict reliable results in humans since most experiments involving animals are flawed and waste animal lives‚ while alternative testing methods are more accurate. Many people believe that animal testing is unethical and unnecessary since we have discovered medical breakthroughs without the help of our furry friends. In this case‚ Alois Alzheimer first described the main features of Alzheimer’s disease in 1906 by studying brain segments from autopsies of patients after they had died‚ which
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Why is there something instead of nothing? This is the question that humans have tried to answer since the beginning of our existence. Why are we here and what purpose do we have? There are many arguments and theories proposed about this topic. The unattainable debate of whether God really exists or not will always be a controversial topic‚ this essay aims to prove that we do not have the mental capacity to prove that God does or does not exist. This essay will present evidence from both sides of
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Should We Eat Meat? In the article “Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian‚” Laura Fraser discusses the reasons why she became a vegetarian and why she chooses not to follow the same lifestyle after fifteen years. Fraser examines that during the time she was a vegetarian‚ she was missing the one protein she wanted the most‚ which was meat. Fraser wasn’t strict when it came to her being a vegetarian. She considered herself as a pesco-ovo-lacto-vegetarian because she ate diary product and eggs‚ as well
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College education being free‚ has been a topic that many debates‚ or come across often. Several countries do provide free college education‚ but this system won’t work in the United States especially in the highly populated regions. Therefore‚ making Community Colleges free‚ our taxes will rise‚ we will have overcrowded classrooms‚ and underpaid professors‚ all leading to poor quality of education. As stated by Mary Clare Amselem in her article ‘Free Community College is a bad deal for taxpayers
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