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    People are not free to make moral decisions. Discuss [35] Is it right to say that our actions are determined‚ or are they free? Hard determinists argue that when we make a moral decision‚ we have no free will. This is significant because if we do not choose our actions we cannot be held morally responsible. Given our experience of decision making this determinist position is hard to accept and perhaps the compatabilist approach of soft determinism is more valid. Soft Determinists recognise that

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    Television as an invention has clearly transformed both the professional and private lives of the citizens of the developed world. It has been a profound and played a significant role on social lives in varies ways which provide people with a plenty of different capabilities and improving some early ones from the 1940s until the 2000s. (Lule & Jack‚ 2016) When John Logie Baird from Scotland invented the TV in 1925‚ he could not have imagined how the TV has changed people’s way of life or where it

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    Time goes by quickly‚ too fast sometimes and with it comes changes. I am very much the type of person that struggles through having to do things differently. It is not because I like to do the same old things‚ but because changes interfere with my plans. Two changes I have gone through were my life in high school and my life in college. Since I started college everything seems unclear to me. I still cannot get used to the idea that I have grown. I have problems readapting from one place to the other

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    interest increased and now I want to visit the Moon for many reasons . The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System. It is the only celestial body other than Earth on which humans have set foot. The tides on the Earth are mostly generated by the gradient in intensity of the Moon’s gravitational pull from one side of the Earth to the other‚ the tidal forces. The Moon has been the subject of many works of art and literature and the inspiration for

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    “Advertising has gone too far and is now a necessary evil.” This essay will discuss the topic “advertising has gone too far and is now a necessary evil”‚ especially referring to advertising directed at children. For the sake of this essay‚ “advertising” is defined as any public promotion of something‚ mainly products directed at children. “Gone too far” is defined as crossing the line of moral values and is now harming the safety and welfare of society. “Necessary” is defined as needed and inevitable

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    Television Though john Logie – aird started selling television sets in 1930‚ Germany gets the credit for creating the first device to send pictures through a wire in 1884. In 1884 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow‚ a 23-year-old university student in Germany‚ patented the first electromechanical television system which produced 4000 pixels per second that took on the shape of a picture made of 18 parallel lines The television camera tube‚ called the iconoscope tube was made by ValdimirZworykin

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    Big Brother Has Gone Too Far ?If you have nothing to hide‚ you have nothing to fear‚? some people claim about the National Security Agency (NSA)(?Surveillance?). The Fourth Amendment protects United States citizens against ?unwarranted searches and seizures? (Jefferson). However‚ a short history of laws‚ including the Patriot Act‚ takes away many of these protections. The government has more freedom to spy on people than ever‚ even people that have no hard evidence linking them to crimes. The

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    So many TV shows are also very good for teens to watch and also have messages in them that really do get across than someone shouting at them. Lots of shows are not good for young children but in all honestly shows are becoming more and more about everyday life and what goes on in the world so I would say yes but at the same time it’s a shame for parents they are to be careful. I think more shows need to be aimed at children not just 17 right up to 40‚ but I can think of a few shows that are okay

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    Does Reality Television Have an Impact on Society? British philosopher James Allen once said that “circumstances don ’t make a man‚ they only reveal him.” With that being known‚ reality television is simply a mirror image of what our society has become; a judge mental driven society where the passion for power and money overcomes the power of love. It ’s an overview of a society that is not only weak economically‚ but is also separated from unworldly roots. It ’s also a culture that lives by

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    raised up. It is no doubt that these rules bring to young people some beneficial things. On the contrary‚ the negative aspects that cause damage to young people are much more than these rules benefits. So as far as I am concerned‚ I agree with the following statement that the rules are too strict to children. First and foremost‚ the strict rules cannot help young to plan for their social work skills. Today’s society requires young people to adapt to social work and masters all kinds of skills

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