media has a tendency to “dumb” down societies. Whether you believe this idea is solely based on your discretion‚ but there is one man who took the time to analyze this collective supposition deeply. Steven Johnson and his written work Everything Bad Is Good For You looked at the effects from popular media from an alternative perspective. Looking past the arguments of morality‚ Johnson calls attention to the progressive complexity in cultures seen in the past thirty years through elements such as
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The article The Good‚ the Bad and the Airborne: Levitation and the History of Impossible in Early Modern Europe‚ author Carlos M. N. Eire makes a myriad of claims about the historical prevalence of holy levitation. The physical impossibility of holy levitation is irrelevant to study; understanding levitation will aid in the understanding of people who believed it was possible. In this way Eire favours synchrony over a traditional diachronic narrative. Furthermore‚ he infers that it is the job of
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Fracking can be both good and bad in today’s world. Fracking can be good in many ways such as its an alternative use for fuel because we use so much each day. This means that we have more gas and oil to use for cooking‚ heating and powering out cars‚ for instance. Also‚ it reduces the amount of toxic chemicals in the earth’s surface because it uses so much water. With oil and gas being pumped from the ground locally then the energy cost around the country will be cheaper instead of having them shipped
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Cholesterol‚ the good‚ the bad and the ugly! Lipids are a forgotten and unreferenced building block in the human body. Why is it when we talk about healthy lifestyles‚ that lipid’s and the major functions it provides for us is not mentioned. Sure some of its lower members are recounted daily like proteins and fats‚ but there is so much more to learn and understand. In the next developing paragraphs I will be discussing and explaining the functionality of lipids‚ fats‚ cholesterol‚ and how it all
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as hardened criminals. That’s not a good thing.” That is what Pat Robertson‚ the televangelist who once ran for president‚ said on his show “The 700 Club” while mentioning how thought marijuana being legalized can be a good thing. I am a 41 year old wife and mother who has had her fair share of life experiences. My past experiences include using marijuana from time to time when I was younger. I never became an avid user and only remember having a good time when I used. I distinctively remember
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conference. Additionally‚ according to NPD research‚ consumer spending in the game industry in 2012 has reached $20.77 billion‚ the amount slightly more than the total Afghanistan production in the same year. Now the debate continues: are video games good or not? The first yell against video games is about the amount of violence in our video-game contents. The California law defines violent video games as “a video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing‚ maiming
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References: Anthony W. Hager. (September 10‚ 2013). Christopher Columbus: The Good‚ the Bad and the Ugly. Available: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/christopher_columbus_the_good.html. Last accessed 12 Nov 2013. BBC. (2013). Christopher Columbus . Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/christopher_columbus/
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Video Games: Good or Bad? Spending hours upon hours playing video games‚ one would think that they would start to influence the day to day life. This controversy is brought up in the article “Defending Video Games: Breeding Evil?” written by the editor of Ecomunist.com. The article argues that violent video games do not necessarily make viewers violent‚ but may in fact be beneficial to the user’s health. The main topic is proving games do not influence their audience to the extent of behavioral
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Good Food/Bad Food School lunch is an issue in schools throughout our country. Many parents‚ teachers‚ as well as students tried to tackle this problem; but it still remains an issue. Dana Woldow‚ who’s been involved with this school lunch problem since 2002 once said to congress “Try school cafeteria food in your district. Then see if you continue to make the same decisions about how you fund the program.”(Dana Woldow) Schools serve lunches that lack all the nutrients we need as children for
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Wal-Mart: Good or Bad? The largest corporation in America with $378‚799 million in revenues and employing 2‚055‚000 employees‚ Wal-Mart has become one of the greatest success stories in American history‚ but also one of the most controversial stories since Standard Oil (Fortune). But with all big business comes critics. Today’s critics suggest Wal-Mart unfairly uses it power of size‚ which is goliath‚ to exploit employees and impoverish nations‚ ruin competition‚ and place undue pressure on the
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