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    In his essay‚ ‘How R Tngz‚ Dude?’‚ Colin Campbell discusses several major problems with the current cell phone culture. Cell phone culture is a relatively recent phenomenon‚ but it has quickly become more than a simple communication tool for most people‚ especially for adolescents. The adoption of cell phone as a primary tool of communication and entertainment has revolutionized our society‚ but it also has brought a distortion of the boundary between personal and public life‚ especially for adolescents

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    In the ‘not-to-distant future’‚ the world of Gattaca is where genetic engineering has become the normal approach to procreation. Gattaca’s society involves a culture of self-advancement through genetic determinisms‚ a caste system of valid and in-valids and social discrimination based on ‘genoism’. This sterile and cold society of elitist collaborations like Gattaca promotes competition‚ isolation and discrimination. This is something that is dangerous to individuals and relationships and shows an

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    Texting while driving has been a problem in the United States ever since texting was introduced. Many drivers think that the safety of their social lives is a higher priority than the safety of the lives around them‚ or even the safety of their own lives. Many states have come to the conclusion that this is a major issue and that it must be addressed‚ so they made it illegal to use a cell phone while driving. Passing a law forbidding the use of cell phones while driving is a good idea because it

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    Danger In Complacency: “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” When man’s reach exceeds his grasp‚ he will bring about his own destruction; this is an idea presented in many of Ray Bradbury’s works. Through irony and symbolism‚ the story indirectly details and warns us of the dangers of letting scientific progress run rampant. In Ray Bradbury’s “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”‚ the author presents the idea that man’s complacency with technology will bring about the world’s destruction

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    which is conducted by Mr. Summers. In which‚ every year they select a random person to be stoned to their death‚ as they are the winner of the lottery. Emphasizing the theme of the dangers of blindly following traditions. This is shown through characterization‚ tone and dialogue. Firstly‚ the theme of the dangers of following tradition is conveyed through literary devices‚ such as metaphor‚ auditory imagery and irony. Dellacroix‚ perhaps the most obvious example of the deadening effect that tradition

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    You wake up early for work and kill your family goodbye. On your daily transit you see a man drop a glass vial in the subway‚ but you think nothing of it. Moments later you become a statistic. A statistic of Bioterrorism. The threat of Bioterrorism‚ long ignored and denied‚ has heightened over the past years and needs to be publicly addressed. Today’s biggest hazards are anthrax and smallpox‚ yet people are left uncertain at what should be done while the government goes undercover to solve the problem

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    In Chelsea Stallings’ “Removing the Danger in a Business Way‚” she “analyzes a strain of the white supremacist vision in Denton‚ Texas‚” focusing on Quakertown. She uses a variety of sources‚ but two main primary sources are from the Denton Record-Chronicle and Dallas Express newspapers. While Stallings is excellent at summarizing the sources’ ideas‚ at points in her argument she forgoes the more interesting details that illuminate the white supremacist vision she is trying to display to the reader

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    Sugar is Not Sugar: The Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup Rhonda Sullivan DeVry University Sugar is Not Sugar: The Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup Every one has seen the infamous TV commercial with the young couple sitting in a park on a blanket‚ innocently sharing a Popsicle made out of High Fructose Corn Syrup. The female offers her male cohort a portion of the frozen treat‚ responding to his hesitance with the disreputable claim hosted by the corn industry

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    In this society‚ there is a serious war going on‚ and no one really cares. People partially understand that the war is going on‚ but they do not care at all‚ because they are selfish and only care about what they want. This is the serious long-term danger of controlling knowledge and memory. It causes people to become selfish and lazy‚ and that is horrible for a society in the long term. Most every good society takes some sort of

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    influences an individual’s sense of belonging to become enriched and sustained‚ or allows the person to develop a limited and superficial establishment of belonging. This is demonstrated in Shakespeare’s play‚ ‘as you like it’ and the speech‚ ‘the danger of a single story’ by Chimamanda Adichie. Belonging to a place is the formed relationship or understanding of that place‚ this is explored in Shakespeare’s play ‘as you like it’ where certain experiences and events that occur in the court setting

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