What are the consequences of challenging societal expectations? This is a question that comes up often in everyday life. One typically runs into consequences when one defies society and does something different than the expected social norms. One may run into a consequence when challenging society shown in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s text‚ “Self-Reliance” and Jon Krakauer’s novel‚ Into the Wild. Both works are centered around defiance and they both consist of prime examples of consequences when one challenges
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Clay Thompson article‚ “The Lost Boys: California is Trying Kids as Adults-and Locking Them Up for Life. No One Knows How Many”‚ on the project censored website‚“ In California alone minors as young as 14 are being punished into the adult criminal justice system. As a result children face adult punishments sometimes as severe as life in prison” (Thompson). We have age limits on things because it is quite obvious that youth are not fully capable of making the right decisions. For one‚ the brains of
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How do certain human actions lead to tragic consequences? “I am only wondering how I may prove what she. Abigail told me‚ Elizabeth. If the girl’s a saint now‚ I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud‚ and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone—I have no proof for it.”-Proctor. This relates to the prompt because Abigail isn’t a saint and she causes drama between everyone and she leads it to have consequences against everyone. An example my own life is when I become jealous of
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Costs and Consequences: Sweated Labor and Consumer Bargains Introduction: In order to make a wide variety of goods available at ever-decreasing prices or to maintain profits‚ retailers rely on low labor costs and working conditions that are often illegal in the United States. Tasks: Based on the information in the "Student Voice" section of Chapter 2‚ pp. 18–20‚ of your textbook‚ would you stop shopping at certain retailers? Is the consumption of food and clothing somehow different from the
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Consequences of Accidents at Workplace a) Financial Costs ●It also requires spending on repairing the damaged equipment and compensating the effected employee. The employer has to spend on training the new recruit. Some people may even have to work over time to make up for lost time and will require overtime payments. Preparing accident reports and starting the investigation process also adds additional expenses. All these things combine to cause heavy financial loss to the worker. b) Losses
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A negative consequence that is a short term impact of the consumption of alcohol would be an adolescent experiencing hangover‚ due to parties or family gatherings. Hangover symptoms typically begins when your blood alcohol drops significantly and is at or near zero (Although‚ this is depending on what and how much the adolescent has consumed‚ this causes them to feel physically weak and tired‚ in full effect the morning after a night of heavy drinking of feeling awful from the pain in their head
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“An analysis of the effects of collectivisation on the USSR” Contents page Abstract.......................................................................Page 2-3 Introduction..................................................................Page 4-7 Investigation................................................................Page 8-15 Conclusion...................................................................Page 16-17 Bibliography:....................................................
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Weak and failing states need the international communities’ attention because it acts as an important problem for international order. These failing states create danger for the international community because they can breed terrorism‚ create regional chaos‚ increase crime‚ diseases and environmental catastrophe (Mazarr 2014‚ 113). Successful conflict management can allow failing states to change for the good. To reconstruct weak states many different diplomatic components of conflict management
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If you think there are true advantages of stealing‚ consider the consequences. There are a number of negative results from stealing‚ especially if you get caught. There are social or cultural rules‚ religious rules and personal morality beliefs against stealing. Social and cultural consequences The greatest deterrent to stealing is that it is against the law. If you are caught‚ you can be punished by being jailed or imprisoned—often for a long time. In some Arab countries‚ they cut off one hand
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Causes and Consequences The Deepwater Horizon oil spill also referred to as the BP oil spill or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been named largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill occurred on 20 April‚ 2010 which lasted for 87 days and end on 15 July‚ 2010. The oil spill was caused by an explosion which resulted from high-pressure methane gas from the well that expanded into the drilling riser and was released onto the drilling rig‚ where it ignited
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