RUDY YANEZ Professor Dozier English 001A/ 1149 21 March 2011 Is Violence Necessary? We have come to a point where everyone feels unsafe and unsecure because of the countless acts of violence that are happening in our society. There had been so many people in the past who died‚ who became victims‚ who were injured‚ and who suffered because of other people’s violent behaviors. When we open the television‚ we see people killing‚ murdering and abusing other individuals or group of people. We see
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We as Americans are becoming increasingly lazy and gradually isolating ourselves from our everyday surroundings due to technology. Technology is detrimental to society by corrupting our minds and consuming our lives. Although technology allows us to efficiently communicate with one another and helps to make life a little amenable‚ it has made the population alarmingly lazy. Instead of going outside to play with friends in the beautiful fresh outdoors‚ one would simply stay shut in the confines
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Zoos Necessary or Not? We humans have the ability to pass down crucial information to the next generation through zoological parks‚ or zoos. In early civilizations‚ animals were locked up in cages for people ’s amusement. The welfare of the animals was poor because people were indifferent to the needs of the animals. According to The Times of India‚ the first public zoo can be traced back to Egypt in 1500 B.C. under Queen Hatshepsut who collected animals from all over Africa to show her wealth and
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Censorship in Public Schools -A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school board ’s decision to remove Richard Price ’s The Wanderers‚ and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King ’s Carrie and Patrick Mann ’s Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that
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act of censorship. Censorship is when people succeed in dictating their personal‚ political‚ or moral values on others. The government deemed the content to be offensive or inappropriate without taking into consideration the individual’s thoughts or beliefs. The words‚ thoughts‚ or actions of an individual should not be censored by either social pressure‚ the Internet‚ or government worldwide. Censorship of the arts is not limited to a governing body‚ in fact some of the worst censorship comes from
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Final Paper Most people in today’s society rely on cell phones for everything. Essentially due to the fact that many cell phones can do just about anything; from checking your stock to connecting to the web. Certain people prefer more accessible features‚ while others believe a phone should be used for verbal communication. These days phones are a life source to many people‚ they use them for playing games‚ talking to relatives‚ send out important information‚ and conducting business. We claim
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preparing for a test that could make or break your grade. Backpacks overflowing with test taking equipment and eagerly awaiting the next day telling whether you passed your grade or not. Final exams shouldn’t be what states if a student has the necessary skills to move on to the next level. One test is not an accurate assumption of a students skills or what he has learned throughout the year. Final exams have become known as a stressful time for students full of boredom and repetitive reviewing
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FYC Ruoxuan (Catherine) Yuan Internet Censorship has negative effects on China Censorship in China has gained much attention recently because of the conflict between Google and the Chinese government’s self-censorship policies. In fact‚ censorship has been practiced since ancient China and the intensity only increases by the years. Nowadays‚ the most notable measure of censorship is being done on the Internet. More and more restrictions have been put into actions by the Chinese government‚ which
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our society‚ we are constantly being monitored and censored to eliminate ideas the government doesn’t want to be available to the public. In George Orwell’s 1984 there are multiple instances of supervision and censorship that are also found in today’s society. The idea of monitoring ideas and changing them through restriction is similar to censorship in the 21st Century is similar to 1984 because of the ideas of suppression of the media‚ art/music‚ and film. One way we are censored in modern times
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Censorship is the act of suppressing ideas‚ words or images so as to control the information or data that people can access. Private parties or the government can participate in promoting censoring for their benefit or as a way of protecting the community‚ religion or even a state from blasphemy‚ treason or explicit content. Censorship has been there for a long time‚ and it can be traced to as early as 300 Ad where a censorship law was passed in China. Blocking the ideas of people is viewed as a
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