In recent years‚ jail has become a hot topic in the media. With shows such as Orange is The New Black‚ Prison Break‚ and Lockup‚ for the first time‚ we can better understand the lives of people in jail. Not only can we view the workings of every-day life in jail‚ but we can further understand the reasons for them being placed there. It creates empathy towards people in jail and portrays their real experiences. One could say that it almost humanizes them‚ which presents the question of whether
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Black Lives Matter’s Impact on Society My first encounter with the black lives matter was August 2014‚ that was the month Mike Brown was gunned down by a police officer. I was just scrolling through Tumblr when this hashtag #BlackLivesMatter continued to occur on my feed. This movement from an early point already had a presences on the internet. Later this made me think‚ “How has the Black Lives Matter Movement affect other people outside of social media”. So the question that came about
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Do we love our pets too much? My ten year old pitbull mix was having problems with her hips. She barely got up‚ but when she did‚ she would skid on the floor. From doing so‚ she had scrapped off a piece of her skin on her forearm. It got infected after we would clean it and wrapping the wound‚ she wouldn’t stop opening it. She eventually couldn’t get up anymore. We all knew it was her time to go. According to Burkhard Bilger in his essay “The Last Meow” in the New Yorker‚ he explained what people
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It is unconstitutional to violate the second amendment‚ especially when legitimate studies have proven that guns are more beneficial in the hands of the average citizen than it is not. Those who feel that the execution of gun control will limit crime do not realize that they are necessary for self-defense against crime.
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Do we have a Free Will? The brain is a powerful‚ mystical part of every living being. It controls what we think‚ what we do‚ and how we act. Every day we are faced with decisions. As a human being‚ we are given the intelligence and brain to make conscious decisions‚ whether they are good decisions or bad decisions. We have the free will to make them‚ but is our decision truly conscious? There are many things that influence or determine our behavior. The brain works in magical ways‚ sometimes with
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brutality in America. The fact of the matter is that most of these incidents go un-reported or un-noticed. Through research‚ we seek to identify the causes of police brutality‚ and what we can possibly do to end it. Police brutality occurs in unnecessary times‚ constructing it into a serious problem. Police brutality
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environment such as the animals‚ plants‚ waters‚ spirits‚ skies‚ weather and the land. “Like a human mother the land gives us protection‚ enjoyment‚ and provides for our needs economic‚ social and religious. We have a human relationship with the land.” (Coombs & Dodson‚ 1994). Each group of families lives in a specific area that they own in relation to its own ancestral law. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people‚ sea‚ land and spirituality are the core structure on which their culture and civilization
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Where Do We Belong as Citizens? In 2012 at the age of nineteen I migrated to the United States from the Caribbean. I have witnessed cultural citizenship through my personal experience. When I first moved to the United States I have seen a lot of different cultures‚ not just American culture but cultures from all over the world. I still eat the same food‚ listen to the same music‚ and speak the same language as if I was still living back home in Jamaica. Cultural citizenship is to be a citizen of
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Mobile phones have become a necessity for life‚ and without this thin gadget‚ many people would feel incomplete. We now use mobile phones in our everyday life as a phone‚ voice recorder‚ diary‚ alarm clock‚ watch and for making and confirming appointments‚ dealing with clients etc. Mobile phones are for many‚ fundamental when organising their lives. Mobile phones are not simply an electronic gadget‚ and it is difficult to define in one way about the usage of mobile phones. With the advances of technology
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abandon and beaten treated in many different harmful ways every day and can’t get out of all the issues and problems they were force to do or be in people are being killed robbed for many that they did not do or don’t want to do their lives are being wasted and passing them by. Slaves are forced to do lots of beaten that they do not appreciate or like to do they are forced to work for free without pay and cook clean and stay in the heat all day long for so many
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