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    also a group of people who support the moral objectivism. According to their view‚ morality is based on some general facts‚ such as happiness is better than suffering‚ punishing people for the crime that they did not commit is wrong‚ and so on. In their theory‚ morality refers to the rightness‚ wrongness‚ goodness or badness‚ and morality is there to determine if an action or decision is correct or not. Morality is not related with the profit of an individual or a group of people; it’s all about

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    Jozui in her passage argues to the audience that people should stop supporting companies who use celebrity endorsers and that there should be laws to combat this type of advertising. The author supports her claim by first pointing out that companies simply use famous or familiar faces to sway the opinions of their viewers. She continues by giving examples of how certain companies use athletes or talk show hosts are just paid to pretend to be a user of the product. The author’s purpose is to persuade

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    In life‚ one of the actions that people mostly use is communicating. It is known as the everyday norm. Whether it is saying hello to the mailman‚ talking to our boss regarding the next project assignment‚ our spouse about where our next romantic date night will be‚ it is something that we do without on a daily without hesitation. Without communicating‚ people will not able to stay connected and understand each other. In Something Instead Of Nothing‚ the author expresses that besides advertising

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    In this chapter‚ “What To Do?”‚ Carl Hoffman visits a lot of places in India. In the starting of this chapter‚ he plans to visit Bihar. Bihar was the poorest state in India. Carl Hoffman decided to visit there after coming back Bangladesh. The man who was shocked when he saw that Carl Hoffman was talking bus to Patna‚ I was shocked to while reading it because I know the conditions of the bus while going to Patna was not good. I have never been on a bus in Patna‚ but I have heard a lot about it. The

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    Why Do People Buy Hybrid Cars? Consumers are buying increasing numbers of environmentally friendly cars. Increasingly‚ many of these environmentally conscious consumers choose to purchase petrol-electric hybrid vehicles. In this category of “greener-cars”‚ Toyota’s Prius model is reported to be the market leader. In 2009-10‚ it was the best-selling car in Japan‚ an important leading market for automobile trends (Mick 2010). Sales of the Prius keep growing despite well-publicised quality and

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    People do acts of kindness for a reason. People help others because they are in need and because they can get a benefit out of it. For example‚ I live in Texas and over the summer we had many catastrophic events. Including hurricanes through the Houston and Corpus Christi area. There was another through Puerto Rico and many earthquakes happened in Mexico. Many people lost their lives‚ homes‚ and all of their belongings. As a close church community‚ we were able to incorporate other church communities

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    Prisons are places where people give up their freedom‚ privacy‚ control and sometimes even their dignity. Losing your minds in prison is a common occurrence due to the restriction of movement and isolation that many prisoners experience. There are many people around them but they feel alone because they are away from their friends and family. If they are in prison for a lesser crime or a crime committed out of necessity then they feel alone in their ideals because they consider themselves a “regular”

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    WHAT DO YOUNG PEOPLE CARE ABOUT? Many people think that the youngsters are selfish‚ work-shy and uninterested in how their country and the world are goverener . In fact nowadays young people are conscientious and carry about important issues. They worry about the future of National Health Service‚ crime and schools‚ not trendy ‘’youth’’ issues such as legalizing soft drugs. They are generally happy with their lives and optimistic about their futures. Moreover‚ young people feel that educational

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    Why do people Attend College and universities? Colleges and Universities are the main resources for people to gain knowledge and get an education. The education we got from high school is not enough for our lives because it is just the basic material; however‚ professors in colleges or in Universities teach us all the subjects in more detail than in high school. We learn almost everything about our career in college. We learn everything related to our chosen major in college or university

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    Why good people do bad things? “Doing bad is easy but doing well is not”. Yes‚ that saying is the most concrete explanation why good people do bad things. Good people do bad things with good intentions. We‚ humans‚ are all sinful by nature. No one of us can behave perfectly and sinless. But we have the capacity to avoid temptations and to distinguish what’s right from wrong. Good intentions cause most of the world’s great evils. There are many things that happened in the past that can construe

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