down by the bullets of intolerance that had infested the minds of a few. An irony of fate‚ or a cruel twist of destiny? Godse was sentenced to death‚ an eye for an eye. But‚ the question staring India in the face today is‚ "Does the message of Gandhi matter today?” In my opinion‚ Gandhiji’s message of love‚ peace and non-violence have never been as essential for Indian society as today. Intolerance has not died with Godse. It has survived in the hearts of those who look at the Indian flag and only see
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Living matters are organisms that possess the fundamental characteristics of life. This includes movement‚ respiration‚ sensitivity‚ growth‚ reproduction‚ excretion‚ and nutrition. First off‚ every single living matter is capable of movement. For instance‚ animals can move according to their will; they can change position and transfer from one place to another. Although this trait may not be as noticeable in plants‚ they also show little movements such as when leaves turn towards the direction
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Topic: Grades Don’t Matter Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to see that students who almost failed their grades in college still have the potential to be a great person someday. I. Introduction/Attention A. Attention Getter: What do you feel when people around you say that you’re a failure? That you are lazy‚ stupid and a good for nothing student‚ just because you failed? It hurts right? Especially‚ when you know that you put all your efforts just to have good grades. Even I experienced
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respect and how we view them. Harold Camping had concocted some heinous math equation that led him to publicize his fourth prediction. Although the amount of thought and research he put behind his Christian instinct was impressive; all he managed to do was create a moment of desperation for those of us who lead a “sinful” life‚ and a false ray of hope for those who cling to the prophetic words of people like‚ Harold Camping. As one can imagine‚ the last few days have been driven by the predicted
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Death and change are a part of life that cannot be escaped; everyone at some point in his or her life will have to work through the grief of losing a loved one. Grief is the process that we go through to let go of old habits and starts a new way of life. We all need to examine the way we deal with these changes in our lives. When we understand our reactions to changes that happen in our lives we will be able to accept these changes and the grieving process will be easier. In the book ‘Interpreter
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Why Ethics Matters There are many situations in which ethical perspectives are in contrast to another person’s opinion on the same subject matter. Every person has found themselves looking over his shoulder asking himself "am I doing the right thing?" Ethics is what a person does when no one is watching. Whether it is a corporation or a government entity‚ they all expect their employees to behave ethically. What are ethics? Webster defines ethics as "a set of moral principles" or "a theory or
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Reflection of “IT Doesn’t Matter” article within Harvard Business Review May 2003 issue Kelley Davies Within the Harvard Business Review’s May 2003 issue‚ Nicholas Carr wrote an article‚ “IT Doesn’t Matter” depicting Information Technology’s immense growth and importance for business and economics‚ but yet concludes IT’s decline and fall in business strategic positioning. In class discussion on this article described this author’s point of view as one-sided that Information Technology’s
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Why Religion Matters I was raised Catholic all my youth‚ having been baptized 3 months into my life for the forgiveness of sins that I had yet to commit; I did as I was told and I didn’t question my church or any other authority figure. As I reached my early years of high school I began to do as all teenagers do: Question authority and ask questions when given any commands. Having dealt with an abusive step father‚ an unaware working mother‚ and non existing father‚ God seemed as though he was a
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states "Fear matters‚" "It’s a good thing‚" she adds‚ "because fear makes you do things that keep you alive." It goes back to knowing having prior knowledge in counteracting to fear resulting in the choice of making smart decisions to prevent conflict. Additionally‚ fear matters because it can also push an individual to the edge to display absurd behavior‚ which can lead to a intensified conflict between parties. Fear is a preparation for movement. (Reinhardt‚ 2002) It’s vitally important in hopes
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THE SUBJECT MATTER OF EXPERIMENTS A well-designed experiment tells us that changes in the explanatory variable cause changes in the response variable. More exactly‚ it tells us that this happened for specific subjects in the specific environment of this specific experiment. No doubt we had grander things in mind. We want to proclaim that our new method of teaching math does better for high school students in general or that our new drug beats a placebo for some broad class of patients. Can we
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