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    The author of The New York Times article “The Campus Crusaders” David Brooks discusses students high sensitivity level in education today‚ Professors must be cautious of what they say during lectures‚ so they aren’t accused of violating students personal or emotional feelings. The reason is campus activists are reacting emotionally to their idea of fighting for a moral cause or issue. According to the author‚ the theory is ”... the ultimate source of authority is not some hard-to-understand truth

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    immigrants would migrate here. Some came for the better economic opportunity while some came for the better change. Without speaking a hint of English‚ their life would soon be reshaped as their life will unravel soon. In the monograph The Long Way Home by David Laskin‚ he shared the lives of a dozen immigrants in their point of view. Laskin‚ a graduate from Harvard college is an American writer. In his book‚ Laskin detailed the hardships that they had to withstand. From trying to find their family knowing

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    Executive summary David Jones Limited is an Australian based department store chain that was founded by David Jones in the year 1838. Currently‚ the company has about 37 stores located in most Australian states and territories. The Australian department store industry is mostly dominated by large players which are David Jones and Myers‚ alongside smaller and independent companies. The report analyses David Jones’s external environment using Porter’s Five Forces model alongside the PEST model. The

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    ‘The Culture of Control’ and Prisons There are many neo-Foucauldian scholars who expanded on Foucault’s critique of the prison and the prison system. David Garland’s perspective about the prison posits a cultural understanding towards penal systems. However‚ Garland believes that the sociology of punishment has to be understood in both ways‚ in term of how penal culture shapes and reflect both the larger society‚ and how the larger society affect the penal culture (Garland 1990‚ p.22). Furthermore

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    David- Michelangelo vs. Bernini The Baroque period of the 17th century had both incorporated and rejected the ideals of the antecedent High Renaissance art. Like High Renaissance art‚ Baroque art focused on making idealized and natural artwork. However‚ Baroque art introduced a way of involving the viewer into the artwork that was new and differed from High Renaissance art‚ which instead kept the viewer at a distance. The composition and diagonal movement in the space are two of the features of

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    In David Brooks’ article‚ “The cost of Relativism‚” and Nicholas Confessore’s article‚ “Tramps like Them” gives a detailed description of generations that are caught in a recurring loop of stress and family breakdown. This has created eroding of citizens American virtues. In both articles they talk about books that explains breakdowns of generations. One of the books are called “Our Kids” by Robert Putnam which illustrates the differences between college graduate parents and high school graduate

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    In his article‚ “A Right of Self-Termination?” J. David Velleman asserts that one should not end their life to make it better‚ since value should be placed in life itself and not how well it is actually going. The act of suicide involves the intentional termination of ones’ life‚ for the sole purpose of making life better on the whole. Vellemans’ argument in denying the right to end one’s life includes that: 1. One should value their life over how well their life is actually going. 2. Ending one’s

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    People Like Us When first reading the piece by David Brooks I was shocked about the bold statement that he made. Growing up I always believed I surrounded myself with others that were not all the same as me‚ however the more I look into my actually life and each piece there is a fair amount of truth behind his “admission”. I can look at different aspects of my everyday life‚ and see how I actually am not surrounded by a diverse group of people. I live in a mainly white Republican neighborhood‚ upper-middle

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    While Gladding discussed Saul‚ David‚ and Solomon‚ Tullock only discusses the stories associated with Saul and David. Tullock begins the chapter by introducing Samuel and describing his roles of a judge‚ prophet‚ and king maker. Chapter 6 states that Samuel was impressed by Saul’s abilities and looks on the first sight that he believed that Saul would be the Lord’s first choice to be the Israelites’ king. The significance of Saul and Samuel was the act of anointing Saul before being crowned king

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    Chapter eighteen of David Bornstein’s How to Change the World is titled “Six Qualities of a Successful Social Entrepreneur”. As the title implies‚ Bornstein‚ based on data he has collected for his book‚ lists the six qualities he believes are exhibited by successful entrepreneurs. He begins this chapter stating that though many people believe “highly successful entrepreneurs are more confident and persistent than most others” (Bornstein 238). He quickly debunks this idea by explaining that the

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