IS PATRIOTISM good for democracy? Or does a commitment to patriotism threaten democracy? Educators do not agree on this issue. Chester Finn (former assistant secretary of education in the Reagan Administration) argues that‚ since September 11‚ “American education has generally made a mess of a teaching opportunity” by focusing on “tolerance and multiculturalism‚ not civics and patriotism.”1 In an essay titled “Patriotism Revisited‚” he worries that “it’s become a JOSEPH KAHNE holds
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Jacob Phaneuf 10-20-12 Eng 101 (Compare & Contrast) When buying a new car‚ many people do not stop to think about what kind of transmission that they would like. While most cars today come in automatic versions‚ there are also five and six speed standard transmissions available on most car models. While certain people may not even know how to drive a standard transmission‚ it is not the popular choice‚ but for the people who enjoy using both feet to drive there is always the option
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Homebirth Versus Hospital birth: A Compare and Contrast Essay Women have been delivering babies at home since the beginning of time. The option to deliver a baby in a hospital is only a few generations old. Society tends to view hospitals as a safer place to deliver babies and has frowned upon women who choose to have planned homebirths as irresponsible and uneducated. Current research does not support this common belief or show evidence that hospital birth is safer than planned homebirth for low-risk
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E-BOOKS VS PAPER BOOKS Reading has become one of the important elements in our life. We have been exposed to the books and learn how to read since we were still children. Couples of books innovations have been created since the past couple years. It started out with paper books or what we can call it as ‘traditional books’ and as the wave of publishing changes‚ we have the ‘modern books’ or known as virtual books that we can just keep it in our pocket‚ portable and flexible. However‚ some prefer
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Personally I do not shop at Victoria Secret‚ I only shop at Victoria Secret Pink. When going on to VS PIINK’s website the first thing that pops up is the newest trend of clothing and the popular sellers. These clothes they advertise and push to sell so the buyers are ready for the new season and look good. The layout is pretty simple. Right now they
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Black Mamba vs. The King Throughout the history of professional sports critics are always comparing players and trying to decide where to rank certain players amongst their respective leagues. Critics will do whatever they can to persuade others to believe in their opinion‚ or will try and find any information to help make their argument stronger or use the information to try and tear another player down. Well in today’s National Basketball Association (NBA) and over the last decade the argument
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Michael Jordan English Comp 1 23 October 13 Compare and Contrast: College living and Home living College is an experience that we anticipate our whole lives. We hear stories about how great it will be‚ how we’ll find many great and diverse friends‚ and how it will be the best times of our lives. What we don’t think about is the transition from home living to living at school. There will be many changes some good‚ some bad. In some ways‚ things will remain the same. These changes and experiences
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Running of the bulls In Spanish it’s called The Encierro By Ashlee T Is a practice that involves running in front of a small group of bulls that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town’s streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the seven-day festival of Sanfermines in honor of Saint Fermin in Pamplona The origin of this event comes from the need to transport the bulls from
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by Ted Hughes and ‘The Cat And The Moon’ by W.B.Yeates share many similarities and contrasts. The main communality is that of the subject of the poems. They are both about cats. However the cats have many contrasting qualities to one another. Both the poems are in first person narrative. This makes the reader feel like the story of the poem is told directly to them‚ which involves them emotionally. However they vary in that of structure. Their structures are based on the cats‚ one is well structured
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Fresh Water Fishing vs. Salt Water Fishing Fishing dates back to nearly forty thousand years ago as one of the earliest forms of finding food. Ancient people used hand gathering‚ spearing‚ netting‚ angling and trapping as techniques to catch fish. Humans all around the world continue to rely on fishing as their main source of food. Because of the vast availability of fish‚ fishing is readily available to anyone near a body of water. Most people can easily reach water because it makes up seventy-one
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