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    Why do we have laws in society? Laws are rules that keep stability in our community. These laws provide social cohesion‚ which attempts to create an atmosphere of social harmony and social change. Laws are put in place to ensure safety to the general public. In Celtic times society’s structure was based on clans. Rules were made and enforced by the Druid’s. If someone was to go against these rules they would be punished no matter the nature of the crime. In Elizabethan times society was structured

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    Why should we have good manners? Good manners are important to live happily among people. Without good manners we are only slightly better than animals. The modern society consists of more people than it did in the past. These people are of various cultural‚ racial‚ religious and professional backgrounds. It therefore requires great powers of endurance and abilities of mixing with people. Good manners enable one to tolerate the disagreeable attitudes of others to a great extent. They also help

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    Many people have questioned whether they would ever consider to buy a wildlife animal as a pet. Although owning a wildlife animal would seem out of this world‚ it’s not worth risking the lives of these poor animals who are meant to be out in the wild. Wildlife animals are not as domesticated as dogs. They have wildlife instincts even when they are in captivity; this is very dangerous for us humans who would own one of these exotic animals. By owning a wildlife animal it’s hard to have all of the resources

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    stressful enough with all the school work‚ plus needing to take care of responsibilities at home. Adding more hours would be agitating for kids. I strongly believe adding hours to school would be completely pointless. To begin with‚ kids have chores at home to do. They are responsible for completing them as well as homework. Also‚ children can be severely stressed and overwhelmed of all the school work. Finally‚ if the school board adds more hours to a school day‚ kids will have less time to enjoy life

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    What is a Leap Year? A leap year is a year that has one extra day in it. A leap year occurs roughly every four years. Most years have 365 days‚ but a leap year has 366 days. The extra day is added onto the end of the shortest month‚ February; in a leap year‚ February has 29 days (instead of its usual 28 days). February 29 is called leap day. Why Do We Have Leap Years? A year is defined as the time it takes for the Earth to orbit around the sun once. It takes the Earth about 365 1/4 days to make

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    Why do we have rods and cones? Light falling on photoreceptors is transformed by retinal circuitry into a pattern of action potentials that ganglion cell axons convey to the visual centres in the brain. Two systems of photoreceptors exist – rods and cones – allowing the visual system to meet the conflicting demands of sensitivity and acuity‚ respectively. Rods and cones are distinguished by shape‚ type of photopigment they contain‚ distribution across the retina‚ and pattern of synaptic connections

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    Chez Evans KSP 220W Reflection We Shall Remain The film We Shall Remain explained what happened after the first Thanksgiving feast. In southeastern Massachusetts a leader of the Wampanoag tribe by the name of Massasoit Negotiates a friendship with new English settlers. Due to the sickness of the english Massasoit decided to help them survive through the winter‚ as the settlers started to bring more of their people to this new land the Wampanoag

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    the Great Wall of China on a Christmas Holiday three years ago. It was winter and the beautiful white snow poured down on the frozen ground. The chilling wind seeped into the thick layers of my jacket and touched my body with its cold slender fingers. We used the cable car to reach the top of The Great Wall. Sitting in the cable car was a frightening experience because it sways heavily due to the strong wind blowing on the cold metal surface. The cable cars were forced to stop very often because of

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    We Talk about When We Talk About Love Literary Analysis Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” uses past relationships and experiences to exemplify the true meaning of love. Nick‚ the narrator‚ sits back and observes the feedback from Mel who is confused and lost. The way Mel and his friends try to figure out what love truly means becomes far more perplexed from when the sun is shining brightly to when it goes down and the conversation reaches silence. The sun is shining

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    In the beginning of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‚” Mel’s talk about spiritual love meant the most to me. I have always been very strong spiritually‚ and very strong in my faith and love with God. Throughout the conversations in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‚” there are three main types of love discussed. Mel has stories trying to pinpoint true love‚ Nick and Laura are newlyweds that think they are in love‚ and Terri looks at love from an abusive standpoint. Mel makes

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