The discovery of the Comb jelly which was the first animal fossil was a shocking and unexpected event to most scientists in the world. Scientists had a specific view about evolution. They thought that organisms evolve from a simple state to a more complex state. But that was not the case for the comb jelly which unlike what scientist thought was a very complex specie. It was so complex that it had a nervous system and tissues. But that was not the only misconception that they had to face. Another
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Do you think the American dream is still possible? Despite what you think the American dream is no longer possible. The American dream is to be able to work an average job and be able to pay the bills and still have spending money for wants. In today’s society increased cost of living and decreased or stagnate wages have led to the American dream difficult to accomplish without a high paying job. The American Dream is no longer accessible because the economy is down‚ property is too expensive and
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Gulliver’s Travels is still relevant today because it presents a variety of social critiques and condemnations of branches of human activity that still exist today. I believe the goal in Swift’s novel was to create something to achieve just that goal‚ or the goal of timelessness. It should already be a mediocre testament to this claim that students are required to read portions of Gulliver’s Travels during their high school senior year. Swift makes a very relevant analogy between English society
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Descartes was a believer in God‚ but he decided to question everything he knew to find out if he was being deceived or if everything he knew was the truth. Before he proves that he exists‚ he must doubt everything that he knows. He even contemplates the idea of God being a deceiver because he feels that everything he senses is in someway a lie. He concludes that it is not God that deceives him‚ but there might be a more powerful “demon” that has the goal of deceiving him. Descartes proposes to himself
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reader and audience. The child in the poem in “Still Life in Landscape” by Sharon Olds interprets the poem as being reality and see’s for herself the dangers that exist. The child’s description of what she sees send a strong image to the reader that reality does exist and these things happen everyday. The gruesome imagery in this poem is used to make a strong statement about reality. All these examples can be explored even further. The author in “Still in Landscape” uses some very descriptive gruesome
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PS101 Position Paper: Does MPD Really Exist? Imagine you’re having a conversation with a friend who is a slender‚ attractive young woman. It’s a casual chat about nothing in particular between friends. You take out a pack of cigarettes and immediately sense a change‚ your friend’s body twitches slightly and her mannerism changes. Her shoulders square‚ she puts her feet flat on the floor and assumes an instinctively masculine pose. Placing her hands on her knees‚ she leans toward you‚ and says
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treating him or her inversely than other groups because they are from another ethnicity. In today’s society racism is said to be judging a men not by his characteristic or his brain but by his race. Majorities of people today think that racism does not exist in America‚ but every single day people in the United States are raising their children to believe that it is ok to think lower of other people and actually teaching their young ones how to hate people who are simply different from them. Racism is
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During the 1980s many people were ignorant to the fact that gender inequality still existed in an advanced nation such as Canada. Due to the technological advancements‚ and the betterment of various social services (i.e. healthcare‚ welfare‚ child care‚ etc.); the natural assumption was that women discrimination too had decreased and didn’t pose a serious enough threat in the society. However‚ the anti-feminist rage at L’école Polytechnique on December 6th‚ 1989 shattered this perception and opened
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Does true altruism exist among humans? Critically discuss with reference to theories of group selection‚ kin selection and reciprocal altruism. Altruism has proven over the years to not only be an extremely hard characteristic to explain but to also define. Whether it is from a biological view‚ which was constantly challenged from Darwin to the present day‚ or from a psychological stance where we consider peoples’ motives for such behaviour. Either way it remains an elusive topic where evolutionists
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Martin Luther King Jr once wisely said: “ The time is always right to do what is right “. He faced challenges because of his skin color and the time period he was in. True heroes exist today because people face challenges. The first reason why heroes exist today is that people are brave. Bravery is when someone goes towards danger and aren’t scared. Melissa Hawkinson that bravery by saving a young boy’s life. The article from Reader’s Digest says “ she tugged on the window until it opened and then
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