Why should we have good manners? Good manners are important to live happily among people. Without good manners we are only slightly better than animals. The modern society consists of more people than it did in the past. These people are of various cultural‚ racial‚ religious and professional backgrounds. It therefore requires great powers of endurance and abilities of mixing with people. Good manners enable one to tolerate the disagreeable attitudes of others to a great extent. They also help
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Do we have a throw-away society? A Swedish proverb says “don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water”. The sad story is that most of us today are throwing away so much‚ it is very likely that there will be no resources in the future. Many of our practices today are putting a lot of stress on future resources and we might soon find many of our needs unsatisfied because of our throw away attitude and careless practices. There are many reasons as to why we are subject
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In the movie‚ the scene where Nullah says‚ “when Mrs. Boss first come to this land‚ she look but she not see. Now she got eyes open for the first time.” This is an example of Ideological landscapes and how Lady Sara see’s the land. The audience can see Lady Sarah pause on her gaze in awe as the camera pans from the herd of cattle up to a spectacular rock formation. Lady Sarah leaves in England all her‚ so see the land differently suggest a kind of attitude because she was expecting to see the kind
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Explication Essay “I Sit Beside the Fire and Think” Imagine that you are an older person who is close to dying. Thinking about your past and all the great memories you have had becomes a common past time. You might start to think about the future and the things that you will miss. In the poem “I sit beside the fire and think” by J.R.R Tolkien an older man is sitting by the fire and thinking of the great life he has had‚ along with the future and the things that he still want to accomplish before
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Why do we have laws in society? Laws are rules that keep stability in our community. These laws provide social cohesion‚ which attempts to create an atmosphere of social harmony and social change. Laws are put in place to ensure safety to the general public. In Celtic times society’s structure was based on clans. Rules were made and enforced by the Druid’s. If someone was to go against these rules they would be punished no matter the nature of the crime. In Elizabethan times society was structured
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What is a Leap Year? A leap year is a year that has one extra day in it. A leap year occurs roughly every four years. Most years have 365 days‚ but a leap year has 366 days. The extra day is added onto the end of the shortest month‚ February; in a leap year‚ February has 29 days (instead of its usual 28 days). February 29 is called leap day. Why Do We Have Leap Years? A year is defined as the time it takes for the Earth to orbit around the sun once. It takes the Earth about 365 1/4 days to make
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Many people have questioned whether they would ever consider to buy a wildlife animal as a pet. Although owning a wildlife animal would seem out of this world‚ it’s not worth risking the lives of these poor animals who are meant to be out in the wild. Wildlife animals are not as domesticated as dogs. They have wildlife instincts even when they are in captivity; this is very dangerous for us humans who would own one of these exotic animals. By owning a wildlife animal it’s hard to have all of the resources
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“America is right . . . If we are not educated together‚ we will live in fear of one another. If we are to stay together forever‚ why should we have separate schools?” said a spokesman in Kenya for the Luo tribe. This represents the fact that America is known to be a united country‚ although it had to suffer some tough times. For example‚ the 1950’s was a difficult era for African Americans. Separate but equal was used phrase because African- Americans were supposedly equal due to what the 14th Amendment
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Text analysis “I Have a Dream” To be born Negro in the US in till late 1970s meant to be unequally judged‚ discriminated and segregated according to skin color. One of the active freedom fighters was a Martin Luther King‚ who made fundamental contribution against racism in the US. King’s speech “I Have a Dream” marked the beginning of new era‚ era of freedom and equality. This paper will try to critically analyze the speech “I Have a Dream”‚ look at the references King made and try to identify effects
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Education: "We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom To Think" This essay is about the article called "We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think." It was written by Kie Ho‚ a business executive who was born and raised in Indonesia. Ho writes this article about why he thinks that American education is‚ in many ways better than any other in the world. He raises the question‚ "If American education is so tragically inferior‚ why is it that this is still the country of innovation?" Everyone
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